Congratulations Helen

Helen Samilou, famous for her bravery towards discrimination due to her status as living with HIV/AIDS has been awarded the Papua New Guinea 2008 Award for International Women of Courage. 
This remarkable woman has defied all odds and has come out publicly with her status. She not only told everyone about her status but she has [...]

Vodcasting key to Media Development

My media training class where asked to do podcasting. So what is vodcasting??
According to Wikipedia “Video podcast (sometimes shortened to vidcast or vodcast) is a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures. The term is an evolution specialized for video, coming from the [...]

Need for Improvement in Women Soccer

I was one of the many Papua New Guinean die-hards of soccer at the Loyd Robson oval to watch our Woman National Team take on the might of New Zealand ferns. The winner of the two teams will be representing Oceania at the Woman’s World Cup.
We cheered and screamed and shout to push and support [...]

Traveling in PNG

The youth social media training with MediaSnackers have introduced me to a new site called Animoto. This is site is a place where you can upload your pictures and it will create a video of them. It can also factor in music for your folders so you can have a slide-show of pictures with music.
 Anyway… [...]

Call for Proposal - 2008 Global Development Marketplace

Following my post on the Tingim Yut Kompetisen on a national level, http://yutok.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/world-bank-launched-grant-competition/, the global competition is also calling for applications. It’s theme is on sustainable agriculture. I have copied and paste the information for you all to read.
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/OPPORTUNITIES/GRANTS/DEVMARKETPLACE/0,,contentMDK:21617862~pagePK:180691~piPK:174492~theSitePK:205098,00.html
What is DM2008? 

The 2008 Global Development Marketplace competition (DM200 seeks proposals on the theme of [...]