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size=2>Dear members of the PICISOC,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=384014112-07062005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Wishing you a very interesting and successful meeting the
Pacific Islands ISOC Chapter. I am so glad that Vint Cerf is Kiribati
with you all.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=384014112-07062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>All the best / </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=384014112-07062005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Rosa</FONT> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=384014112-07062005> </SPAN>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
Franck Martin [mailto:franck@sopac.org] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, 7 June 2005
13:05<BR><B>To:</B> franck@sopac.org; chapter-delegates@lists.isoc.org; Pacific
Islands Chapter of ISOC<BR><B>Subject:</B> [chapter-delegates] Press Release:
New PICISOC board and PacINET 2005<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><B>For Immediate
Release:</B><BR> <BR><I><B>The Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet
Society (PICISOC) would like to present its new board and its
upcoming annual event PacINET 2005. </B></I><BR><BR>Members of the Pacific
Islands Chapter have just elected their new board. It is composed of the
following people: <BR><BR>Hon.
Chairman:
Rajnesh Dhirendra Singh <BR>Hon.
Vice-Chairman: Franck Martin
<BR>Hon.
Treasurer: Les
Allinson <BR>Hon.
Secretary: Anju
Mangal <BR>Hon. Board
Member: Tenanoia Simona Taupo
<BR>Hon. Board Member: Christina G
(Kuper) Wini <BR>Hon. Board
Member: Titeem Auatabu
<BR><BR><BR>PICISOC is an organisation encompassing 22 Pacific Islands
Countries and Territories with the goal of promoting
“Internet is for Everyone” and fostering ICT development in the region.
As such the board reflects this philosophy with people from 5 different
countries and from the government and private sector. <BR><BR>PICISOC has
around 300 individual members throughout the Pacific
Islands, representing the diversity of this geographical
area. <BR><BR>The PICISOC web site is located at <A
href="http://www.picisoc.org/">www.picisoc.org</A> and is a Chapter of
the Internet Society (<A href="http://www.isoc.org/">www.isoc.org</A>) which
is the organisation in charge of the Public Internet Registry (.org domain
names), which also provides support and a legal framework to the Internet
Engineering Task Force (<A href="http://www.ietf.org/">www.ietf.org</A>), the
organisation in charge of making open Internet Standards. <BR><BR>PICISOC is
organising its annual meeting, <B>PacINET 2005, in Kiribati from 22-27
August 2005</B>. The theme for this year is "Rural Technologies: Connecting
& Advancing Remote Communities through ICT". We have the great honour of
having as guest speaker, <B>Dr Vinton G. Cerf</B>. His name is not well
known to the general public but his achievements are. He
co-invented (with Dr Robert E. Kahn) TCP/IP, or in
simple terms the Internet. He deployed the first e-mail system run by a
commercial entity on the Internet, he co-founded ISOC and he is the current
chairman of ICANN, the organisation in charge of distributing and regulating
domain names, and is also often referred to as one of the "founding
fathers of the internet". Dr Vinton G. Cerf will also give a public lecture in
Suva, Fiji just after PacINET 2005. We are all excited about this unique
opportunity for the Pacific Islands. <BR><BR>
<DIV>PacINET 2005 will be held at the Kiribati Parliament. As a gesture
of goodwill to the People and Government of Kiribati for their support, a
wireless network system will be installed and handed over to the Government of
Kiribati at the conclusion of PacINET 2005. This will be one of the first
parliaments in the world to be fully connected. It is hoped this
technology will allow Members of Parliament to have instantaneous access to
reference and documents on any subject via the Internet. They will be able to
be in touch via e-mail with their electorate, as well as their respective
Departments and Ministries, and it is hoped this will enhance parliamentary
proceedings.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>The complete
agenda and registration details for PacINET 2005 have been posted on the
PICISOC web site: <A href="http://www.picisoc.org/">www.picisoc.org</A>
<BR><BR>This meeting is possible with the help of our current sponsors:
<BR>PATARA, Telecom Kiribati (TSKL), Directions Magazine, The Internet
Users Society of Niue and Vodafone Fiji. <BR><BR>PacINET 2005 is open to all,
members or non-members and features international speakers
and presenters. There is no registration fee. However if you would
like to help us in any way it will be appreciated. Please contact us if you
want to sponsor this great event.<BR><BR>For further information, questions or
comments contact: Rajnesh D. Singh, PICISOC Chair, <A
class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
href="mailto:rajnesh.singh@gmail.com">rajnesh.singh@gmail.com</A><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>