A sustainable roadmap for digital transformation in the Pacific Islands

| The project is responsive to the following SDGs of the United Nations: 8– 9– 16– 17 |

Technological development offers a unique opportunity to public actors in the developing world. It provides useful tools for a sustainable, all-encompassing strategy to improve population management and the local business environment.

It’s not unusual, then, that e-governance-inspired projects become an integral part of the development aid and neighbouring policies of major geopolitical actors on the global arena. In the Pacific region, we are teaming up with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute to sketch out a roadmap for digital transformation for Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.

Hannes Astok, Director for Development and Strategy at e-Governance Academy, has spent three months in Oceania in the first half of 2019. Here, he outlines the necessary points for roadmap development in the Pacific Islands, from knowing your citizens to modern public service delivery.