24/07/2026
Port Moresby, 23 July 2026
The Pacific Islands Forum ICT Senior Officials and inaugural Ministers meeting convened in Port Moresby from 22 to 23 July 2026.
The Fiji delegation was headed by the Minister for Policing and Communications, Honourable Ioane Naivalurua. He was accompanied by the Director-General for Digital Government Transformation, Cybersecurity, and Communications, Ms. Tupou Baravilala, alongside other senior government officials.
The two-day event concluded with discussions on reviewing the Forum ICT Ministers Meeting (FICTMM) Governance Framework and aligning governance instruments with the Pacific Architecture, particularly noting the significant rise of Artificial Intelligence and its implications for the future of the Pacific.
The Forum also presented strategic considerations and pathways to address the negative impacts of social media platforms on Pacific children, linking these concerns to the Pacific Youth Development Framework, the revitalised Pacific Leaders Gender Equality Declaration, the Lagatoi and Boe Declaration as a cross-cutting security challenge that demands regional cooperation and online safety.
The Pacific ICT and Digital Transformation Action Plan 2024 – 2030 (PIDTAP) provides the operational framework for the implementation of the Lagatoi Declaration and proposed regional approaches to monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the PIDTAP through a PIDTAP Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework.
Honourable Naivalurua also paid a courtesy visit to the Fiji High Commission where the Mission hosted a ‘Talanoa’ session with the Fiji diaspora in PNG. He also held meetings with Australia’s Special Envoy for the Pacific and Regional Affairs and High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, His Excellency Mr Ewen McDonald, and the Vodafone PNG Executive Team.