Nabilah S
While the PNG Department of ICT, Business Council of PNG, and the University of Technology focused on the Digital Transformation Officers’ Conference and Workshop, Amazon Web Services (AWS) quietly delivered an incredibly important technology event at the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG).
The ‘Immersion Days’ program, coordinated by the AWS team in collaboration with UPNG, provided students from various educational institutions with hands-on exposure to multiple tools, resources, and workshop content produced by the AWS Solutions Architects.
Mr Wilfred Amai, a visiting lecturer at the UPNG Physics Department and Coordinator of the UPNG-AWS Immersion Days Program, said that the university hopes to have 70–75% of its content online by 2025 so that people can learn from it online.
Mr Amai said that the AWS tools gave students from UPNG, UOG, PAU, and DWU a chance to use the platform’s different tools to build websites and learn how to use various learning tools to help with school projects.
Mr Amai also said that the program is the first in the country and the South Pacific and that the people who take part are the first to have access to Amazon’s cloud platform, which is the most complete, advanced, and widely used in the world.
In addition to students, people from the business world also took part in the program. This allowed them to learn how to use the AWS platform to unlock business potential and meet critical goals in their field.
