“I have attended Digital skills and e-commerce trainings organised by the ITU in Aitape and Vanimo last year and through knowledge gained on modern digital e-marketplace strategies during the training, I have decided to empower my farmers through trainings in ITU resource center in Aitape,” he said.

“Farmers are very excited to learn about basic computing. For e-commerce in my community, I have created e-marketplace pages for farmers on spice (Turmeric), which complements the three value chains where EU STREIT focuses. By creating an e-marketplace for farmers, I will empower all my value chain to showcase their produce online and get access to proper market. I believe it will bring increased cash right into the village and boost the living standard thereby alleviating poverty and increasing productivity,” he concluded.

To ensure future continuity and enhanced sustainability, ITU and other UN agencies work directly and closely with the government and the private sector/entrepreneurs in designing and implementing project activities.

Within this framework, the ITU has established six resource centres and conducted 19 training sessions since January 2022 on digital skills training, e-commerce, training of trainers’ programme on Network Essentials in partnership with the ITU Digital Transformation Centre located at the University of Technology, Papua New Guinea. Farmers, fishermen, SMEs, teachers, NGOs and government officials across cocoa, vanilla and fisheries value chain industries are benefitting from the digitalization initiatives under the EU STREIT programme that aims to foster digital transformation at community level in the Sepiks.

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