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First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Using mobile technologies to fight climate change in the Pacific

More than 40 development experts from across the Pacific met this week to discuss existing and potential ways to incorporate Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), such as social media and mobile phone technology, into climate change, disaster ... [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 17 2013]

Entities: Hugo Swire, Global Warming/Climate Change, Social Media, collaboration

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Specsavers

Specsavers boss to help bring sight to Pacific

The head honcho of Specsavers New Zealand will be in the Rotorua store this week (May 15) acting as a "store slave" after he was auctioned off in a company fundraiser.The Eruera St store in Rotorua (NZ) won the chance to be the boss of seven members of ... [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 14 2013]

Entities: Specsavers, Rotorua (New Zealand), Fred Hollows

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Experts in Rotorua to discuss public health challenges

New Zealand and Australian nutrition and physical activity experts are in Rotorua to discuss the linked public health challenges of improving our food supply and getting New Zealanders up and moving.Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, science advisor to the ... [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 08 2013]

Entities: Rotorua (New Zealand), New Zealand, Public Health

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Solomon Islands mulls major cocoa strategy

The soaring global demand for cocoa has spurred on the Solomon Islands has launched a new cocoa strategy that could well improve the incomes of some 20,000 cocoa growing households throughout the country.As Pacific Periscope reported in its edition of ... [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 08 2013]

Entities: Cocoa, Solomon Islands, AusAID, Deforestation

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

University of Auckland

Animation Research entrepreneur named Maori Business Leader of the Year

The man who turned television coverage of yacht racing into a high tech spectacle has been named the Māori Business Leader of the Year.Dunedin-based Ian Taylor from Ngāti Kahungunu went from being a musician and children’s television producer to building ... [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 06 2013]

Entities: Entrepreneur, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ian Taylor, University of Auckland

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Tonga re-elected to International Renewable Energy Agency

Tonga has been re-elected for a second term as member of the International Renewable Energy Agency Council (IRENA).The Government of the Kingdom of Tonga has received formal notification from IRENA that it has been re-elected for a second term to represent ... [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 06 2013]

Entities: International Renewable Energy Agency, Tonga, Hugo Swire, Martin Lidegaard, Renewable Energy

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Taking her memories of her Grandfather to Gallipoli

Kohupatiki's Melanie Huata-Lucas couldn't believe it when she was selected to participate in the 2013 Anzac Day services at Gallipoli, Turkey.The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) employee and former sailor was part of the New Zealand Defence Force contingent ... [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 02 2013]

Entities: Anzac, Anzac Day, New Zealand Defence Force, Memory

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

POLITICS Debate over necessity of designated Pacific seats in Parliament

Pacific representatives on New Zealand’s Constitutional Advisory Panel want electoral changes to provide designated seats for Pacific people in Parliament and on some city councils.The Constitutional Advisory Panel was established in 2011 to consult and ... [Published Spasifik Magazine - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Auckland, Arthur Anae, Bernice Mene

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

Pacific Bridge Back Project

Undergraduate student, Sam Taylor Jo Aumua, is currently studying a Bachelor of Communications at AUT University of Technology. She shares with SPASIFIK her story about the , a programme that aims to encourage troubled Pacific youth to get back into ... [Published Spasifik Magazine - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Sam Taylor, Auckland, Education

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

FREE WORKSHOP Free PBT Workshop in Porirua - Developing a Social Media Strategy

Are you unsure about how to use Social Media for your organisation?New Zealand businesses, non-profit and community organisations are constantly being exposed to social media tools. By creating a social media strategy, organisations can focus their efforts ... [Published Spasifik Magazine - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Porirua (New Zealand), Social Media, Business Plan, New Zealand

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

More Pacific students achieving NCEA Level 2

The Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs want Pacific college students to “keep up the good work” following the release of figures showing more of them achieving NCEA Level 2.Ministry Chief Executive Pauline Winter said a 3.5 percent increase in the number ... [Published Spasifik Magazine - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Education, Adoption

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Study predicts trouble for low-lying Pacific Islands facing rising sea levels

Low-lying atolls in the Pacific Ocean will likely be inundated by sea water sooner than previously anticipated as the planet warms, a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey suggests.Researchers that studied Midway Atoll and Laysan Island in the Papahanaumokuakea ... [Published Spasifik Magazine - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: United States Geological Survey, Hugo Swire, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Salt Water

Quotes

"I know that there are Kiwis who struggle to afford exceptional eye care, but my first-hand experience in the islands has shown me that we are actually the lucky ones. One of the major things that The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ does is perform sight-restoring cataract surgery on people who are needlessly blind."

Specsavers boss to help bring sight to Pacific [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 14 2013]

"This will require not just public health and health services but whole community, multi-sector approaches that are informed by and are appropriate for the Pacific context with consideration of Pacific lived realities both in New Zealand and the wider Pacific Islands region."

Experts in Rotorua to discuss public health challenges [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 08 2013]

"We will take the opportunity to help create greater momentum for achieving our collective targets in developing renewable energy in the region. We will also take the opportunity to work together more closely with the Government and the people of the United Arab Emirates and with all IRENA members to pursue goals and objectives that will be of mutual benefits to all concerned, said Pm Tu'ivakano."

Tonga re-elected to International Renewable Energy Agency [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 06 2013]

Miss Huata-Lucas also spent six years serving with the RNZN before she became a "civvy' so she could spend more time concentrating on her singing and song writing."

Taking her memories of her Grandfather to Gallipoli [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 02 2013]

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Using mobile technologies to fight climate chan... [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 17 2013]
Specsavers boss to help bring sight to Pacific [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 14 2013]
Experts in Rotorua to discuss public health cha... [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 08 2013]
Solomon Islands mulls major cocoa strategy [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 08 2013]
Animation Research entrepreneur named Maori Bus... [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 06 2013]
Tonga re-elected to International Renewable Ene... [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 06 2013]
Taking her memories of her Grandfather to Galli... [Published Spasifik Magazine - May 02 2013]
POLITICS Debate over necessity of designated Pa... [Published Spasifik Magazine - Apr 30 2013]
Pacific Bridge Back Project [Published Spasifik Magazine - Apr 24 2013]
FREE WORKSHOP Free PBT Workshop in Porirua - De... [Published Spasifik Magazine - Apr 23 2013]
More Pacific students achieving NCEA Level 2 [Published Spasifik Magazine - Apr 19 2013]
Study predicts trouble for low-lying Pacific Is... [Published Spasifik Magazine - Apr 19 2013]
New Pasifika director appointed [Published Spasifik Magazine - Apr 18 2013]
NEW ZEALAND Maori tribe to create construction ... [Published Spasifik Magazine - Apr 17 2013]
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