Ryan Donegan (Palau, Ministry of Education) Palau’s Ministry of Education is responsible for developing, evaluating and advancing Palau’s public education system, serving a network of sixteen elementary schools and one high school. The educators are required to complete daily lesson plans for every class that they teach. Ryan spent the summer designing and developing initial MOE lesson planning applications for tablets and integrating curriculum data into CSV format for English and Math while establishing a framework to integrate other learning targets as well. Ryan was able to train MOE specialists to support and maintain the tablet application and presented the application to a group of t
Ben Junker (Palau, Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)) When he wasn’t kayaking around the Rock Islands in Palau, Ben was working closely with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). The FIU achieves its goal of combatting money laundering and terrorist financing by collecting and analyzing reports to identify possibly illegal behavior. Similar to the Banking Commission in the Marshall Islands, the FIU receives these reports from three banks in the area. Ben worked with the FIU to assist the reporting banks with electronic filing versus paper submissions; provide training on the existing database functionality (database implemented by TCinGC students in 2015); provide training and implementatio
Jibby Ayo-Ani and Matias Quintana (Republic of Marshall Islands, Banking Commission) The responsibility of the Banking Commission in the Marshall Islands is to “regulate the financial system for safety soundness and to deter money laundering and terrorist financing and secure access to the global financial system.” Prior to Jibby and Matias, the Commission was receiving all of their information from two financial entities though a paper-based submission process which would then be entered into a single Excel spreadsheet. This process was tedious and took time away from the analysis of anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism. JIbby and Matias created a process for entities
