At the Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association (PITA) Strategy Forum 2024, held in Sydney, Australia from 29th to 31st October 2024, Cenerva Partner Phil Dunglinson provided an update on a joint PITA-Cenerva initiative to over 250 participants from across the Pacific region.
Under the event’s theme “Collaborate Innovate Grow,” Dunglinson outlined a four-market regional project to implement regulatory and commercial activities that will improve resilience and better prepare each country’s telecoms sector for future natural disasters. The Telecommunications Emergency Readiness Masterplan (TERM) framework will be implemented in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and Vanuatu once funding is approved by the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure’s (CDRI) Infrastructure for Resilient Island States (IRIS) programme.
“We are excited to work with PITA to bring real change to the region and help save lives,” Dunglinson stated. “By bringing together key stakeholders in each of the four markets, we will create working groups that will collaboratively implement the TERM framework and better utilize the critical assets already in place for national emergency response.”
The event also provided an opportunity for face-to-face discussions with representatives from the GSMA and the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC), both of whom expressed interest in participating in the PITA-Cenerva project implementation.
CDRI/IRIS will announce the project’s funding status during the COP29 event in Baku in mid-November 2024.
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