I am most indebted to the people of Solomon Islands and especially the villagers of
Gwou'ulu who welcomed me into their lives as a friend. We shared life together and all the …

This article presents the attitudinal response of rural villagers in Papua New Guinea to
mobile telephony, based on a threshold study made during the early stages of its adoption …

This chapter presents the results of a project that integrated mobile phone technology and
multimedia to provide a solution for reaching students from urban to rural and Indigenous …

In late 2019, the people of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea
voted in a referendum that offered two choices: greater autonomy or independence. The …

The chapter focuses on the use of mobile phones in Pacific Island countries for government
service delivery. The chapter argues that mobile telephone technology is worthy of attention …

The 10th OURMedia conference was held from 21-25 July 2014 at the University of Goroka
(UOG) in Papua New Guinea. The Centre for Social and Creative Media (CSCM), a media …

The conclusion brings everything together through an ethnographic approach to theory
generation wherein I present my concept of smartphones as kinship technologies and …

Mobile digital technologies have been spreading across the world for over 40 years, starting
with the simple telephonic mobile phone in the late 1980s and developing into the …

There is presently much economic activity and growth in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
However, these increasing resources face considerable capacity gaps at national and …

The flourishing of community mural art in South Africa at the beginning of the 1990s was
prompted directly by the demise of the apartheid regime. It was associated with-and spurred …