CONNECTIVITY ISSUES FOR PACIFIC SIDS – OPTIONS FOR PARTNERSHIPS P3a Conference – From Ideas to Reality Public Private Partnership for Small Islands Aruba, 23 March 2016

 Design – Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development  Multi-stakeholder P-SIDS&T Platform for The Green and Blue Economies  Inclusivity (High Level Political Forum – UN) PIDF - DEFINITION & UNIQUENESS Multi-sector Multi-stakeholder Multi-Level

PIDF - MISSION Inclusive Strategies Green/Blue Pacific Economics Multi- Stakeholder Governance Genuine Partnership Enabling green-blue Pacific economies through inclusive strategies, multi-stakeholder governance, and genuine partnerships IMPACT

GENUINE PARTNERSHIPS

PIDF - GOVERNANCE

CONNECTIVITY ISSUES – PACIFIC Size, isolation and remoteness Airline routes are north-south Limited inter-island transport Reliance on shipping costs/GHG (70%) Different date line High ITC costs/low speed

CONNECTIVITY ISSUES – ITC PACIFIC

Bridging the digital divide in promoting more accessible Information, Communication and Telecommunications technologies; CONNECTIVITY – PIDF PRIORITIES

OPTIONS – SMART PACIFIC ISLANDS Involves connecting the Pacific through a project called SMART PACIFIC ISLANDS that will deliver e-commerce, e-life and e- government to the Pacific; Regional PPP between PIDF and a Chinese company partner China Communication Services; Funding: sought to fund the project under China's USD$2 billion aid package for the Pacific announced at Guangzhou in 2013; The MOU with PIDF was signed in July 2014; Fully integrated ITC system across Pacific Islands using combinations of existing satellite, broadband, optical cables technologies.

OPTIONS – MARITIME SILK ROAD Maritime Silk Road. Project by French Polynesia with Huawei linking the Pacific through an underwater cable from South America to China.

OPTIONS – MARITIME SILK ROAD

REGIONAL PPP – PACIFIC EXCHANGE

PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT EXCHANGE

REGIONAL PPP – PACIFIC EXCHANGE

ELEMENTS OF SOLUTIONS Take a regional approach to Pacific connectivity issues but ensure national priorities are addressed through multi- stakeholder National Sustainable Development Boards Focus on addressing the quagmire of transport/airline access Use the big elephant in the room (GCF funding for climate resilience to vulnerable SIDS) to complement Private investment in ITCs development Support a virtual/regional Pacific Environmental and Climate exchange matching partnerships for grass-root sustainable development

CLIMATE RESILIENCE - ITC Entering the Cyclone 5 era- less frequency – Higher intensity Climate-proofing through adapted solutions (GCF) including ITC Climate Insurance to cover PPP in ITC SDG13 – key

VINAKA, FA’AFETAI, MERCI, THANK YOU