Mobile phones in PNG villages: an island village experience (Part One)

This presentation is about mobile phones in a rural village in Papua New Guinea. The village is a disadvantaged village on Karkar Island in Madang Province. This is the first presentation of findings from a larger research project by Amanda H A Watson into new communication technology in developing countries.

This is the first half of the presentation. The second half is also available on YouTube, at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfQB-NZ2rZc

Presentation details: Mobile phones in PNG villages: an island village experience. A presentation given by Amanda H A Watson at Queensland University of Technology as part of Ignite10! Looking for Trouble? Creative Industries Postgraduate Student Conference, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, 28 Oct 2010.

This research has now been published as a journal article which can be found at: http://www.ejournalist.com.au/v10n2/Watson.pdf

For more information, go to: http://thechook.wordpress.com/the-pecking-order-2/amanda-watson/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• mobile phones
• cell phones
• wireless telephone
• Papua New Guinea
• PNG
• Pacific
• Melanesia
• Madang Province
• Orora
• Karkar Island
• Sumkar District
• emergency
• childbirth
• Digicel

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