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Solomon Islands' ICT for Education Master Plan 2026-2030 — A National AI-Governance and Safeguards Framework

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Solomon Islands' Ministry of Education launched a national ICT for Education Master Plan 2026-2030 in April 2026, explicitly requiring AI ethics, child-protection and cyber-safety safeguards alongside connectivity and teacher-digital-skills goals for outer-island schools.

Details

Promoter
Solomon Islands Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development (MEHRD)
Period
2026-2030 (launched April 2026)
Keywords
education policy, ICT governance, AI safeguards, teacher digital skills

Context

In April 2026, the Solomon Islands Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development (MEHRD) launched the ICT for Education Master Plan 2026-2030, a five-year national strategy developed with technical advisers Andrew Ebbs and Peter Suiramo and co-funded by the Global Partnership for Education, UNICEF, New Zealand's MFAT and Australia's DFAT.

Objectives

Ensure 'every learner in Solomon Islands, regardless of geography, background, or circumstance' has access to technology-enabled learning by 2030, addressing the country's scattered geography, uneven connectivity and teacher shortages.

Activities

The plan is built around four pillars — iKonnect (ICT infrastructure), iManage (information systems), iTeach (teacher digital skills) and iResources (digital learning resources) — and explicitly calls for AI-governance safeguards around ethics, child protection, equity, cyber safety and responsible social-media use. MEHRD held a validation workshop for the plan later in 2026.

Conclusions

As a strategic framework rather than a classroom deployment, the plan does not yet report school-, teacher- or student-level rollout numbers, and implementation of its AI-governance provisions had not been independently audited at the time of writing.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — No published budget figure; funded jointly by the Global Partnership for Education, UNICEF, New Zealand's MFAT and Australia's DFAT over the plan's five-year span.
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — Five-year national strategy launched April 2026, running through 2030; a validation workshop followed later in 2026.
Staffing & skills
Solomon Islands Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development (MEHRD), Technical advisers Andrew Ebbs and Peter Suiramo, Co-funders: Global Partnership for Education, UNICEF, New Zealand's MFAT, Australia's DFAT

Conditions for success

  • Multi-donor co-funding (GPE, UNICEF, MFAT, DFAT) underpinning a five-year national strategy
  • An explicit AI-governance clause (ethics, child protection, equity, cyber safety) built into the plan from the outset, ahead of several regional peer plans

Common failure modes

  • No rollout, participation or outcome data published yet
  • Implementation of the AI-governance provisions has not been independently audited

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