

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


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


Tour Boat, Tour Boat, Tour Boat
Abhiram Devarapalli (Palau, Bureau of Tourism) Abhi deployed a new database application that tracks boat and tour operator licenses for...


Freeing Banking Records: From Locked Cells to Data Analysis
Mehak Sikka (Palau, Financial Institutions Commission, FIC) Mehak converted a complex excel spreadsheet application into a MySQL database...


Resilience in the Face of Ransomware
Vipasha Awasthi (Palau, National Development Bank of Palau, NDBP) Vipasha automated monthly reports and proposed a business continuity...


Digital Document Submission and Storage
Max Kornyev ( Palau, Foreign Investment Board, FIB) Max installed a new document management solution (DMS) for the Foreign Investment...


Automating the Risk Assessment Process
Sudipto Das (Palau, Financial Intelligence Unit, FIU) Sudipto worked on the systems that analyze suspicious or illegal financial activity...


Improving Bank Record Accuracy
Apoorva Havanur (Palau, Financial Intelligence Unit, FIU) The FIU detects, disrupts and deters money laundering and terrorist financing...


Preparing for a New System and Automating Data Entry
Yuanhan Liu (Palau, Financial Institutions Commission (FIC) The FIC establishes and maintains a financial and regulatory and supervisory...


