The Rise of Pacific Islander Entrepreneurship
For decades, Pacific Islanders have been overlooked in conversations about business and innovation. Often lumped into broad demographic categories or left out of economic data entirely, they’ve had to build their own lanes from the ground up. But that’s changing. From the shores of Samoa...
Qaqi Mai: Fiji’s First Public Rental Bike Service
In 2019, amidst the daily struggles of long traffic jams in Suva, one man dared to ask a simple yet groundbreaking question: Why can’t Fiji have a bike-sharing system? That man was Eliki Dakuitoga, the founder of Qaqi Mai: Bike Share. What started as an...
Meet the Founder
Akanesi Kaufusi, also known as Akanesi Tohotoa, a Tongan native, embodies resilience and vision, having transformed her personal challenges into a pioneering business venture. Akanesi moved from Tonga to New Zealand to further her studies, where she earned degrees in Business and Theology. During this period, she faced difficulties locating Pacific Island-owned businesses in her vicinity. This struggle planted the seed for what would become her groundbreaking initiative.
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