Information and Communications Technology sleeping giant in PNG
With the information and communications technology (ITC) growing in Papua New Guinea, more businesses are relying on such technology services to improve their services and products.
The Papua New Guinea Computer Society held their third quarter seminar for this year last week where members of high calibre IT companies such as Veeam and IBM attended.
Planning and operations executive officer, Auis Babalu said the society has been organising such symposiums and seminars to assist local ICT specialists network with other professionals abroad by airing and sharing ideas through discussions.
"We are still establishing links with other ICT organisations and groups like UN. It has been quiet for a while but I believe it is a sleeping giant," said Ms Babalu.
Veeam Software’s Matthew Harrison said the ICT environment in PNG is growing quickly, and many of the companies they have met are looking to providers like Datec and Veeam to improve their business continuity, backup and disaster recovery options.
"I think the PNG Computer Society does a great job at keeping ICT professionals updated with the latest developments in the industry, and I found it very worthwhile to network with a wide range of people from a variety of PNG organisations," said Mr Harrison.
Topics presented and discussed included back up and replication, end point management, business intelligence, software solutions and data centres, commonly known as servers and storage.
Newer software applications have been developed, while others are in development, for faster, cheaper and efficient running of data server management for business houses in PNG.
The PNG Computer Society has been running for over eight years and its vision is to be the voice of ICT in the country, updating ICT professionals with the fast moving technology in the virtual world in this world.
The society currently has over 200 members of ICT local professionals and is still growing.
To help stimulate the ICT growth in PNG and the Pacific, the European Union has taken the initiative to establish business clusters across PNG, in line with the country’s aim to become the Silicon Valley of the Pacific.
The ICT cluster industry is said to be a sector crucial to PNG in terms of providing opportunities for developing future pathway for the cluster’s progress, and is believed to play an important part in the economy of our country
The Papua New Guinea Computer Society held their third quarter seminar for this year last week where members of high calibre IT companies such as Veeam and IBM attended.
Planning and operations executive officer, Auis Babalu said the society has been organising such symposiums and seminars to assist local ICT specialists network with other professionals abroad by airing and sharing ideas through discussions.
"We are still establishing links with other ICT organisations and groups like UN. It has been quiet for a while but I believe it is a sleeping giant," said Ms Babalu.
Veeam Software’s Matthew Harrison said the ICT environment in PNG is growing quickly, and many of the companies they have met are looking to providers like Datec and Veeam to improve their business continuity, backup and disaster recovery options.
"I think the PNG Computer Society does a great job at keeping ICT professionals updated with the latest developments in the industry, and I found it very worthwhile to network with a wide range of people from a variety of PNG organisations," said Mr Harrison.
Topics presented and discussed included back up and replication, end point management, business intelligence, software solutions and data centres, commonly known as servers and storage.
Newer software applications have been developed, while others are in development, for faster, cheaper and efficient running of data server management for business houses in PNG.
The PNG Computer Society has been running for over eight years and its vision is to be the voice of ICT in the country, updating ICT professionals with the fast moving technology in the virtual world in this world.
The society currently has over 200 members of ICT local professionals and is still growing.
To help stimulate the ICT growth in PNG and the Pacific, the European Union has taken the initiative to establish business clusters across PNG, in line with the country’s aim to become the Silicon Valley of the Pacific.
The ICT cluster industry is said to be a sector crucial to PNG in terms of providing opportunities for developing future pathway for the cluster’s progress, and is believed to play an important part in the economy of our country
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