Social Networking Website

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Rex

 
Dear Readers
I have been neglecting this blog for a long time now…… gosh I can’t even remember when I last posted here.
The reason being that I have been working on a new Social Networking site in Asia Pacific Region. The social networking site is similar to Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, MySpace and the list goes on… [...]

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Vodcasting key to Media Development

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Rex

My media training class where asked to do podcasting. So what is vodcasting??
According to Wikipedia “Video podcast (sometimes shortened to vidcast or vodcast) is a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures. The term is an evolution specialized for video, coming from the [...]

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Traveling in PNG

Posted on March 8, 2008 by Rex

The youth social media training with MediaSnackers have introduced me to a new site called Animoto. This is site is a place where you can upload your pictures and it will create a video of them. It can also factor in music for your folders so you can have a slide-show of pictures with music.
 Anyway… [...]

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Youths in PNG learning Social Media

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Rex

 
Young People in Papua New Guinea are taking on a Social Media Course. Thanks to Media Snackers, Pacifikayouth, Youth Action for Change and Yu Tok Oragnization, these youths are being taugh basic media tools via an online training. This training course started yesterday, 13th February and will run for 5 weeks.
The facilitators from Media Snackers [...]

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Digicel Executives ordered out of PNG

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Rex

Kevin O’Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer for Digicel was ordered to leave the country immediately by David Tibu because he did not have a proper working permit to be in Papua New Guinea. Mr. O’Sullivan and 4 of his colleague where asked to depart PNG by the Secretary of Labour and Industrial Relations.
 
Now, I am not [...]

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Importance of Distance Learning

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Rex

You can make a good thing better. With three successful deliveries its credit, the fourth series of the Microfinance Training of Trainers course opened on August 16 at the Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC), with 653 participants in 52 countries. It it the first time that the course incorporates Moodle, an open-source learning management system [...]

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Why is GreenCom in shades?

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Rex

Now that GreenCom is ready to play soccer, it be good now. I was trying to look up GreenCom on Google but I couldn’t locate them on the web this was earlier in the year when Digicel and Telikom was playing football.Anyway, my search ends today as I finally found Greencom on the web. But [...]

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Is Papua New Guinea really on a Break-through in Technology?

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Rex

Accessing Broadband Internet via HF Radio has stirred a lot of interesting companies in Papua New Guinea and the World. Interest in the new technology has given Telikom the run for its money especially with the looming competition with GreenCom and Digicel.
A good friend of mine pointed out something that arouses my interest so I [...]

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Broadband Internet via HF Radio

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Rex

Last time I posted something about accessing Email on HF Radio. Well, things have now changed. No longer can you just access email on HF Radio but you can also access broadband internet via the HF Radio. You can surf the net, watch TV, do Video Conference and so much more. This is all thanks [...]

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World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Rex

A year ago, I had the opportunity to attend the launching of the World Development Report for 2007 in Singapore. This launching coincided with the IMF/World Bank annual meeting for the year 2007. The Report was focused on young people and is titled Development and the Next Generation. This particular report is interesting as it [...]

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