

Cash Crime Catcher: Data-driven Defense Against Dirty Money
Yang Pan, working with the Palau FIU, created a method to digitize PDF bank record, created an AI-powered solution for reviewing compliance reports, added e-forms for banks reporting their information and configured a newly-adopted database system. The Republic of Palau Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is an independent agency established in 2001 to detect, disrupt, and deter money laundering, terrorism financing, and related transnational crime. The TCinGC program has worke


Scholarship Stats & Snapshots: A Smart Solution for Speedy Reporting
Fatou worked with the Development Department of SENATI to automatically transform financial data on scholarships and create all tables and charts needed for monthly report preparation. The time to prepare the report was reduced significantly from several hours to less than an hour. In addition, she audited, corrected and updated a PowerBI dashboard presenting live data on scholarships and students. SENATI is Peru’s leading technical and vocational training institute headquart


Streamline Tourism Data Collection and Grant Tracking
Working with the Palau Bureau of Tourism (BoT) Preksha designed and launched a new system called Destination Information Management System (DIMS) to bring information on tour-operator licences, visitor-attraction status, and state project updates into a single system. The Bureau of Tourism (BoT) sits within Palau’s Ministry of Human Resources, Culture, Tourism & Development and serves as the national steward of sustainable tourism. Preksha Goyal worked with the BoT to address


ASYV Alumni Analytics Adventure
Jiatong and Kajal worked with ASYV (Agahozo Shalom Youth Village) in Rwanda, Africa to refactor their Alumni Management System (AMS) allowing them to better track alumni outcomes and connect the ASYV community online. Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village (ASYV) is a nonprofit in Rwanda founded in 2008 by Anne Heyman and inspired by the Israeli youth village model. Their mission is to empower orphaned and vulnerable Rwandan youth to build lives of dignity and contribute to a better wo


From Chaos to Clarity: A Legal Tech Transformation
Jonathan worked with the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic of Palau to transform their case management database from a single MS Access table to a robust relational database with added functionality. The Office of the Attorney General in the Republic of Palau serves as the country’s primary legal authority, responsible for prosecuting all criminal cases and providing public legal counsel. Jonathan Lindstrom, working with Palau’s Attorney General, Ernestine Rengill, co


Modernizing Manuals and Enabling AI-Powered Compliance
Michelle & Carter worked on a project with the Republic of Palau Social Security Administration (ROPSSA) and the Health Care Fund (HCF) to revise and digitize their employee manuals, applying modern AI technologies—specifically retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and large language models (LLMs)—to automate parts of the compliance-checking and drafting process. The Republic of Palau Social Security Administration (ROPSSA) is a self-supporting government corporation hea


Excel Exodus: Elevating Education Economics
Alondra worked with the Finance Department of SENATI to create a Power BI dashboard showing student enrollment trends, dropout rates and their tuition payment status. This allowed for improved financial forecasting with a clearer view of yearly enrollment changes. She also created a Power BI dashboard for budgeting; showing income by category, costs, operating results and net operating cost. SENATI is Peru’s leading technical and vocational training institute headquartered in


Streamlined Stevedore Solutions
Kailan and Victhakorn worked on a project with the Majuro Stevedores to streamline their container delivery and return, enhance their reporting, update their website, and automate the process for tracking refrigerated containers and plug-in fees. Majuro Stevedore and Terminal Co. (MSTCo) is a cargo handling and delivery company located in Majuro, Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI). Established in 1974, the company handles all cargo containers that are shipped in and out of th


Palau's Paper-to-Portal Pivot
Joyce worked with Palau’s FIB to modernize its processes through digital transformation. By leveraging cloud-based tools and lightweight automation, the FIB improved the handling of FIAC applications and Quarterly Reports. The Foreign Investment Board (FIB) of Palau is responsible for overseeing the approval and monitoring of Foreign Investment Approval Certificates (FIACs). Its mission is to facilitate responsible foreign investment while safeguarding national interests and


