Do you have kids under 7 years of age or know someone that does?
Bring them down to the Kindy Club Open Haus this Sunday November 23....
from 3.00 -6.00 pm
Free entry, free popcorn and a whole lot of fun...
You really dont want to miss out on this....
See the attachment for more details or call telephone 324 5200 ext. 3373
By RUSSEL DEKE HARADA
Hello Malum,
Long time no hear from you.
This morning, our University Of Goroka-ICT department had an informal ICT workshop for graduating students. (16 attendance)
We hosted this workshop at the new open computer Lab called STAR Room in our treasure Library building.
Our university has the new satellite broad-band system called PNGARNet (Academic Research Network) but only providing for the staff.
Today we allowed students access the Internet and they have their own web-mail account.
After they graduate from UOG, almost all will become teachers of secondary/high schools.
Now they can contact to us if they have any technical ICT problems after they start work at the schools.
Also we introduced your blog site to upload their own information to use the blog.
We understand that the most secondary/high schools in PNG do not have the Internet connection but in the future our university wants to provide
better internet connection to them through wireless technology.
We introduced
Almost 100% of PCs in PNG is running Windows but we would like to show the other operating system to the students.
This is because Windows software is not free and so many PC viruses infected.
We introduced edubuntu (ubuntu8.04) desktop and this is enough function to use some basic instructions.
This workshop is a big mile-stone for teacher's using the Internet facility and
This is the one of the comments from the students.
Mandy Aaron said:I wish to thank you and your team for facilitating this workshop. I now have a fair idea on some of the things that I never understood.
For example, I never understood the concept of virus and why certain email addresses are created the way they are, until now.
The workshop was quite informative and well understood because you spoke my own language which is Tok Pisin.
There should be more of this type of workshop be carried out by you because there are lots of basic IT skills some of us do not know.
Also I appreciate your generousity in supplying the other software which is a bonus for me for attending this workshop.
I will contact you if I my school needs you in the near future.
Arigato!
Thank you!
Tenk yu!
Regards,
Russell Deka HARADA
ICT Manager
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By Justice Mark S. Sevua
TWO prominent and senior writers of the print media recently have insinuated, implied and accused me and my colleague Justice Bernard Sakora of lobbying for the post of chief justice.
On page 14 of the Sunday Chronicle, Susuve Laumaea in his commentary, “Judicial ‘bad vibes’ not good for PNG” (Nov 9), accused us of open lobbying for appointment as chief justice.
He said: “Judicial squabbles among brother judges … and purported lobbying for appointment as chief justice …”
This is not the first time that Mr Laumaea has written on judiciary issues.
He has suddenly become an expert on judiciary matters and I question his qualification.
I do not stop him from writing what he likes, but I do not accept as professional journalism, the fact that he fails to obtain or seek views from people he is attacking in his articles.
This is not only very poor journalism but unprofessional journalism and the lowest form of public writing that a man of his standing can write.
It is simply “gutter journalism”.
I ask Mr Laumaea to prove his allegation of my lobbying for the post of chief justice and if he has no evidence to substantiate his wild allegation, then I suggest that he shuts his loud mouth.
In The National, Frank Kolma, in his focus article on page 32 entitled “Allegation by Sakora serious” (Thursday, Nov 13), accused Justice Sakora and I of making statements which could influence the appointment of the chief justice.
He said: “On yet another level, since the position of the chief justice is open presently, reasonable people can infer that this kind of public comments have some bearing on that aspect too.”
Since he has used the test of reasonable man, I say that reasonable people will also infer that he is accusing us of lobbying for the position of chief justice and this is far from the truth.
Where is your evidence, Mr Kolma?
I have not lobbied for the position of chief justice and I categorically deny outright any imputation that I have lobbied or campaigned for the position of chief justice.
I have not been seen in Parliament to gather support for appointment as chief justice.
I have not used prominent lawyers and prominent Manus people to lobby for my appointment as chief justice.
I know for a fact that the other two senior judges, Justices (Gibbs) Salika and Sakora, who had been named in the newspapers, have not done so either.
I deny all these allegations and any inference to be drawn that I have been lobbying for the post of chief justice.
Those of us who were named as possible candidates for the chief justice position by the Post-Courier recently were never told and our views were not sought by the journalist who printed those stories and put our names in the newspaper.
All the speculations that were going on in the print media were perpetrated by journalists including Mr Laumaea and Mr Kolma, not me or Justices Salika and Sakora.
We have never authorised any journalist to use our names in their stories.
One begins to wonder whether these scribes were taught the art of balanced reporting.
I am not going to sit down and read anymore garbage from these so-called media reporters.
If Mr Laumaea and Mr Kolma have evidence that Justice Sakora and I have been lobbying and campaigning for appointment as chief justice, I demand that they make that public now otherwise they should shut up and stop making unfounded and unsubstantiated allegations because what they, and their newspapers, have done have bordered on defamation.
It is a very serious allegation to make against a judge who is innocent of any of the accusations that these two journalists have made against us.
The issues that were raised by Justice Sakora and supported by me were constitutional issues intended for the benefit of the public.
The public who reposes their trust in the judiciary have the right to know about these constitutional issues and to be alerted to what is becoming a dangerous trend in this institution.
After all, it has always been held, like Mr Kolma said in his article, “the high pedestal we have put in on by our public trust”.
That is the context in which these statements were uttered.
I reiterate and emphasise that the statements were not for the purpose of canvassing the support of the Prime Minister or Cabinet ministers to appoint one of us as chief justice.
In relation to the many speculations mainly instigated by the print media, we have remained silent because we respect the constitutional process of appointing a chief justice.
Those Mr Know-it-all should provide the evidence of judges seen walking the corridors of Parliament and lobbying for support and, if they do not have that, they should shut up and stop implicating us.
Whilst everyone has the constitutional right of expression, that right does not confer upon the rumour mongers and busybodies the right to smear our names with mud by making stupid, spurious and unsubstantiated allegations.
I can’t speak for Justice Sakora, but as far as I am concerned, I did not come here to be the chief justice and I have never aspired to be chief justice.
I was appointed on merit 16 years ago. I did not apply for this job.
I had intended to leave after serving my first 10-year term; however, due to the urging of my people, including lawyers and the small people on the street, I decided to seek another term and was granted that in August 2003.
Judges have made statements in the media in the past because the traditional protectors of the judiciary have abandoned the judiciary.
As is evident, the Attorney-General, the secretary for Justice, the president of the local bar have never been keen on fighting for judges or the judiciary and if judges, by their own judgment, feel they should express themselves publicly, so be it!
I repeat that the recent statements that have been the subject of these cheap write-ups were intended for the benefit of the public.
The public has the right to know and judges have an obligation to raise serious constitutional issues that affect people’s rights.
In any event, now that the National Executive Council has appointed a new chief justice, there should no longer be any discussion in the media on that issue and Mr Laumaea and Mr Kolma would do well to take heed that they are treading on dangerous grounds if they persist to make unsubstantiated allegations against Justice Sakora and myself.
Whilst on the issue of public statements, let me say that serious allegations of corruption have been levelled against the judiciary in the recent past and this should be of interest to Mr Laumaea and Mr Kolma instead of wasting their time on unsubstantiated allegations.
Justice Mark S. Sevua
I received an interesting email from 43-year-old
He is editor of ANA, avaiki nius agency, a one-man micro-agency providing analysis service from pacific islands perspectives.
Jason founded avaiki news agency in Rarotonga, Cook Islands in 1999, going online from there in 2004.
Coincidentally, our online conversation came about after the very-well received presentation Emmanuel Narakobi and I did on digital media at the 2008 PNG media conference at the Hideaway Hotel in
Jason’s blog is http://avaiki.blogspot.com/.
e malum, no worries!
Ashamed to admit that this is the first proper look I have had at the PNG blogging scene.
I wholeheartedly support your idea of a blogging conference. Or maybe even call it a web2 forum - I have encountered an extraordinary amount of resistance to the word "blogs" on this side of the Pacific, so I am well impressed to see blogs take off over there.
But to answer your other question: Me make money? From my blog? Ha ha ha!
Not a bloody cent.
Not yet.
I mostly struggle from week to week, trying to find funding to keep myself going. I also do a lot of volunteer web2 work, like for the Pacific Freedom Forum and Pacific Islands Journalism Online, see links below. Are you and fellow bloggers members yet? You'd be most welcome if not, and I'm a manager on both.
For now, I do not think traditional approaches to making money e.g. selling ads work when a new technology is emerging, as web2 approaches like our blogs are across the region. I mean, it's hard enough to get advertisers to come on board a big traditional web1 site like The National or the Post Courier, let alone onto web2 sites like ours!
Where I do see pioneers like us making money is in joining hands with the “mainstream" media, advocating, explaining, and guiding them through the processes for integrating web2 approaches - or even using web2 engines like blogger as their entire CMS, content management system. I guess I have ' wasted ' a lot of time contributing to policy level debate, but I just can't help myself. I think it so important that the Pacific uses web2 approaches to build a much bigger, more cohesive cyber footprint in cyberspace, and the easiest way to do that is using blogs, RSS and so forth. Yehi and I had a good rave in
One of the things I am doing behind the scenes is slowly rebuilding the Pacific Islands Media Association (NZ) Inc site - ugly as anything! - onto a blog platform. Once it's all copied across, then we will use blogger as the website engine, rather than as a separate blog.
My thoughts for next step: should we web2 this and start a blog to build support towards such a conference or forum? And should it be public, so anyone can contribute and give feedback? It's just a pity that a lot of good, solid behind-the-scenes stuff like this never gets to see the light of day.
I could go on and on about this but enough for now. Thanks for getting back so quickly, look forward to hearing back soon.
manuia,
Jason
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jason brown
editor:
ANA avaiki news agency
http://avaiki.nius.googlepages.com/
project JPK - TVNZ
jabrown@tvnz.co.nz
http://www.jpkupdate.blogspot.com/
contributing editor:
PIJO pacific islands journalism online
http://groups.google.com/group/pacificmedia
PFF pacific freedom forum
http://groups.google.com/group/mediafreedom
http://www.pacificfreedomforum.blogspot.com/
interim secretary:
PIMA pacific islands media association
+64 2102484560 mobile
+649 9167058 office direct
+649 9167552 facsimile
Below are the first three teams that have registered for the 2009 Media Boxing Competition after the first trials at the Hideaway Hotel in Port Moresby last Saturday night:
Mathew Werigi: Hey, guys what a joke!!!Hahahahaha
Kas T: Bratz, tru ah mipela take off early.......na hau kam oli no putim long pepa ol stori long gudpela sait tasol PC - page 3 today.
Susuve Laumaea: This is an absolutely thankless brainless night of shame for those who got involved. I hope Madam Rowe, the
Colin Taimbari: Absolutely disgraceful...
Ronald Bulum: None of those Post-Courier winners can write a proper paragraph, much less an English sentence.
Henry Morabang: It’s certainly a rehearsal for the next media competition, this time it’s BOXING.
It is indeed regretable that such hard work put in by the PNG Media Council was put to utter shame by a group of drunks.I was there when this so called brawl erupted. It should never have happened if the security had stepped in right there and then and ejected the female and male who started it all off. But the security just stood by and waited until punches were thrown before they moved it.For the AAP to suggest that the awards night descended into an allout brawl is another slap in the face - where is the story of the award winners, ambassador Leslie Rowe's speech, Joe Kanekane's speech etc? What is more important here: a well organised first ever media council conference culminating in recognition awards, or just an isolated lousy scrap between alcohol infected brains?This incident happend well after the awards had been completed. The Aussie journos were singing karaoke when the scrap occured. Is this the kind of reports they can conjure just because their karaoke practice was halted for a few seconds? While this incident did happen, it happened well after the awards presentation and the formal part of the evening, it happened outside the building and I take offence to Australian media reporters always reporting on the negative aspects of every little incident rather than looking at the positive side of things.I suggest that next year's media awards night should be alcohol free. and I will personally be the BOUNCER!
Many thanks
A really pissed off Big Pat
Noel Pascoe
Sus.
Mathew Yakai
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