Advancing entrepreneurship in Papua New Guinea

One of the members of Pacific Connect Business Network Dialogue, Winifred Kula Amini, talks about the recent launch of the PNG Digital ICT Cluster and an SME Accelerator Program in Port Moresby.

Strengthening Pacific partnerships

The Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop delivered a comprehensive summary of Australia’s step up in engagement in the Pacific to a large audience in Brisbane on 9 July.

We should speak for ourselves in the Asia-Pacific

The Australian government’s rethink on Asia–Pacific journalism must be matched by a revived and renewed ABC focus on international broadcasting in its widest sense.

China looks under the sea to exploit the Pacific

China has scoured the world for land-based mineral deposits to fuel its economic development since the 1990s and Beijing is now devoting growing attention to seabed mining in the Pacific.

Pacific Connect-USP Academic Dialogue discusses digital innovation

23 representatives from Australian and Pacific universities and international organisations discussed innovative digital solutions for tertiary education at a network dialogue organised by the International Centre for Democratic Partnerships in Suva in Fiji on the 19th of June.

Rough ride ahead in Timor-Leste?

More than a month after elections in May, Taur Matan Ruak has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Timor-Leste. But how much policy room will he have to take action on the serious issues facing the country?

3D images offer clues to the loss of Australia’s first submarine

Australia’s first submarine, HMAS AE1, was lost at sea for over 100 years, but advanced 3D processing of new photographs of the wreck may offer clues towards understanding its fate.

Pacific report card highlights threats from climate change

The first Pacific Marine Climate Change Report Card outlines the worrying effects which global warming, sea level rises and ocean acidification are wreaking on fragile ocean ecosystems and the island nations which rely on them.  

Hello, 21st century, Australia calling

Reviving shortwave should be one part of a much bigger project: to revive the ABC as an international broadcaster and to create a 21st-century voice for Australia across the Asia–Pacific.

The First Pacific Connect Business Network Dialogue – Communiqué to key stakeholders

The Communiqué from the initial Pacific Connect Business Network Dialogue, held in March in Port Moresby, has been released, outlining new projects in PNG based on blockchain and digital identity.

Resources curse PNG communities’ future

Two recent reports on the massive ExxonMobil-led PNG LNG project have brought renewed attention to the undesirable economic and social impacts of Papua New Guinea’s largest-ever resource extraction enterprise.

ICDP and Pacific Connect join ‘Together for a Digital Pacific 2018’ Conference

Members of the International Centre for Democratic Partnerships recently travelled to Apia in Samoa to attend the ‘Together for a Digital Pacific 2018’ conference co-sponsored by the Samoan Government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).