This article explores the ways in which 5G networks are imagined in the Pacific Islands
nations of Fiji and Papua New Guinea. What promises, anxieties and futures have the …

This article examines use of a Papua New Guinea (PNG) Facebook group, Fly River Forum,
with reference to the COVID‐19 global pandemic. From about mid‐March 2020, when the …

This article examines how the use of mobile phones and associated software creates and
sustains regionally diverse urban communities. There is an interdependent connection …

This paper addresses what Akhil Gupta calls the 'temporality of infrastructure'or
'infrastructure as an open-ended process' by examining changes in the spatiotemporal …

The telecommunication sector in the Pacific consists of companies that provide services and
governments that legislate relevant rules, often with an independent regulator that sells …

Recent work in anthropology proposes that the ethnographic study of infrastructure offers a
productive way to think about how states and corporations, citizens and consumers, all …

Web-based multilingual tools to facilitate communication between Local and Indigenous
Communities is an environmental technology approach emerging under the United Nations …

This article outlines mobile internet speeds experienced by 15 smartphone users in the
Pacific region. It presents new quantitative data collected over a six-month-long period. The …

A road being built in north-western Western Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG), addresses
local desires for mobility, for development, and for establishing materially beneficial …

This study investigates the multifaceted dynamics of rural development in Haryana,
emphasizing the interconnections between gender, infrastructure, agriculture, and …