Artificial Intelligence (AI) (including Deep
Learning), Big Data, 5G mobile services
and others for social and economic
benefits.
Financial Services
xxvi) INTERNET BANKING ESTABLISHED
Establish Internet banking so that all
customers can make payments, check
account balances and make international
transfers wherever they may be. (Note
that EFTPOS services are already
potentially available to any merchant with
an Internet connection.)
xxvii) UNIVERSAL COVERAGE OF MOBILE SERVICES
Mobile money and similar services to be
available throughout Kiribati.
8. Development and Strategies
This section details the main current strategies and plans as the next steps to achieving
the goals detailed in the previous section.
8.1 Outer Islands Project
Progress the project that will provide Government-owned infrastructure (through
BwebwerikiNet Ltd (BNL)) on the Outer Islands for the delivery of mobile and Internet
services.
Implement the PPP arrangement with the winner of the tender to provide these
services.
8.2 East Micronesia and Kiritimati Submarine Cables
Implement the projects for the construction of international submarine
fibre-optic cables linking Tarawa and Kiritimati to the global submarine
cable network. The East Micronesia Submarine Cable (EMSC) will link
Tarawa and Nauru to an international gateway on Pohnpei Island in the
Federated States of Micronesia or Guam. Kiritimati will have a spur on the
Southern Cross NEXT cable.
The new company, BwebwerikiNET Ltd (BNL), established in 2017 will own these
facilities on behalf of the Government of Kiribati.
8.3 E-Government Project and Government ICT
Establishment of Government Network (GWAN)
Establishment of a government data centre and disaster recovery solution
Develop ICT applications for socio-economic development, over and beyond the
development of supporting infrastructure for those applications
Provide beneficial ICT applications such as e-Governance, e-Health, e-Education and
e-Agriculture, among others
Exploit the untapped potential of information technologies to transform our
government services, making them more user-friendly, more effective, more efficient,
more dependable and more readily accessible to the entire population of Kiribati.
Kiribati National ICT Policy 2019
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