The one-day NEXTGEN ICT School Exposition was a success!
Close to 500 hundred, participants, including students & teachers, exhibitors, sponsors, host and general public shared information on the dynamics of telecommunications in the country.
Information on connectivity, accessibility, infrastructure, all that that is to know about telecommunications, how it happens and why it happens were shared with expo attendees, especially the curios minds.
Exhibition booths covered the sector, from the regulator, NICTA and PNG Department of Information and Communications Technology including all industry players, Vodafone Papua New Guinea, Datec PNG Limited, Digicel, PNG Dataco ,@NBC News PNG and many more.
When opening the Expo, National ICT Authority (NICTA) Chief Executive Officer, Kila Gulo-Vui , highlighted the need to having a digitally aware society. The CEO emphasized on NICTA’s ongoing ICT education programs.
He called on schools and education institutions in the country to partner with the regulator to have a more digitally informed and educated society.
“It is important we make special efforts to accommodate the changes are happening in ICT.NICTA has been on the forefront supporting this agenda. Our flagship, Girls in ICT Scholarship has been running since 2016. NICTA has also gone to the underserved communities, providing connectivity & accessibility to schools through NICTA’s Connect the School Program funded through the Universal Access and Services Fund. These and all other education programs are given by that one agenda”, said the CEO.
More than 200 students from 15 primary and secondary schools in National Capital District and Central Province plus another 20 from Western Pacific University participated in the expo.
