PDN Team

Sachindra Singh - System Developer

Fane Ravula - Junior Researcher / Cataloger

Responsible for retrieving Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management materials for the Pacific Islands to be made available on the web based portal.
My work mainly involves:

• Prepare, enhance and catalogue materials into PDN.

• Updating the calendar, events, on the latest meetings, workshops, conferences, trainings.

• Updating the latest contacts details of people in the disaster risk management field.

• Provide support to meetings, workshops, conferences and other activities as required.

I joined SOPAC in May 2007 as a Temporary Junior Researcher and as of November 2007 I am a Junior Researcher/Cataloger for Pacific Disaster Net.

As of November 2008, I completed my Diploma in Library Information Studies at the University of the South Pacific.

Sereima Kalouniviti - Researcher

Responsible for retrieving Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management materials for the  Pacific Islands to  be  made available on the web based portal.
This mainly involves

• downloading and enhancing documents or materials that are relevant and maybe important as information for the Pacific Islands region that will serve as readily available information for users of pacific disaster net when preparing for or responding to natural disasters in the region.

• to receive and follow up on the latest available information from relevant sites and organisations

• updating the events database as it happens.

• at times updating the calender events on the latest meetings, workshops, conferences, trainings etc.

• a bit of cataloguing when the need arises or if there are priority materials that needed to be uploaded on PDN.

I joined SOPAC on the 28th of January 2008 as a research assistant.

Before joining SOPAC I was a student at the Fiji Institute of Technology and had worked as a research assistant for the Institute on Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment to produce an assessment kit for Fiji now known as the SHMACK Kit. Holding a Diploma in Environmental Science from the Fiji Institute of Technology and a Bachelors in Applied Science ( majoring in Environment) under the Auckland University of Technology.

Shainaz Ali - Junior Researcher / Cataloger

Responsible for retrieving Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management materials for the Pacific Islands to be made available on the web based portal. 

Which mainly involves:

• Researching relevant documents for Pacific Disaster Net

• Preparing, enhancing documents  - i.e. converting to pdf format, checking file size, renaming, resizing etc

• Cataloging documents – which means collecting and applying all the bibliographic information for each document, abiding by the International Standard rules of a Library (AACR2) Anglo American Cataloging Rules and uploading them on Pacific Disaster Net

• Updating calendar- adding of any meetings, conferences, courses and trainings relating to Disaster Management / Disaster Risk Reduction / Climate Change

• Events - set up event documents from the Alerts and other sources

• Contacts - adding of new contacts, editing of contacts already in the list, if needed

• Provide support to meetings, conferences, workshops

• Scanning documents

• Burning of local edition

I joined SOPAC on the 10th July 2008 as a junior researcher. 

Before I joined SOPAC, I worked at Caines Photofast Services in Ba. I was in charge of Ba Branch; my duties included taking photographs, handling cash, banking, customer service etc. In 1994 I moved to Suva branch and worked as a sales assistant. I resigned in 1998 due to family commitments.
I have a Certificate in Basic Skills in Library/Information Studies from University of the South Pacific and Certificate of Accomplishment in Office Assistant from APTEC Worldwide.