A village Princess
Remember Mr and Mrs Oink or Prof and Princess – the two pig beings that put me on the Papua New Guinea “Big man” map?
Originally a gift from Uncle Joel, we looked after the two piglets during our time at UNITECH in 2006. Kau-kau twice a day, the before sunrise “oink-oinks” – please feed me wake up calls, how could one ever forget?. We both grew fond of our two little babies and looked after them like one would there own kids…
The Keto-Tapasi Progress Association is born
After almost 15 months of hard and persistent work we have finally received our certificate of registration from the Investment Promotion Authority (IPA). After a visit to Goroka Post Office a couple of weeks ago I was overjoyed to find an official looking envelope in my PO Box. It’s been tough going and the monthly meetings in the village with the representatives from the eight clans is finally starting to show results…
Open Source and potential savings for Papua New Guinea
The following article was published in today’s issue of The National and written by PNG journalist Malum Nalu. The article is based on a white paper I wrote some months ago titled: “An Open Source Software (OSS) Initiative in a PNG Hospital”…
