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 [...]

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 [...]

Road Safety

I had an interesting morning today. Got out of bed… and decided to head straight for work without breakfast… well, thats ma usual anyway. So I was sitting in this bus for going Ela Beach and heading towards down… the bus was going on a crawl and I was getting edggy as I was standing [...]

PNG Amini cricket team?

I watched the game between PNG and India last week. This was the first match between Papua New Guinea and India. Naturally, I supported the Papua New Guinea team…. India started batting and made a very big run score…. it was PNG’s turn to bat and made less then 100 runs.
I was utterly disappointed but [...]

Youths in PNG learning Social Media

 
Young People in Papua New Guinea are taking on a Social Media Course. Thanks to Media Snackers, Pacifikayouth, Youth Action for Change and Yu Tok Oragnization, these youths are being taugh basic media tools via an online training. This training course started yesterday, 13th February and will run for 5 weeks.
The facilitators from Media Snackers [...]

Kevin Rudd says “Sorry”

 
“Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history.
 
We reflect on their past mistreatment.
 
We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were stolen generations - this blemished chapter in our nation’s history.
 
The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia’s [...]

Danger on Air

Papua New Guinea with its geographical challenged landscape has made traveling for its citizens and visitors to the country more difficult. Most towns in Papua New Guinea are accessible only via air while others can be accessed by sea or by road. 
Whilst Papua New Guinean government is doing a lot in terms of road maintenance [...]

Central Bank issues Inflation Warning!

The Bank of Papua New Guinea (BPNG) is concerned increasing fuel prices could trigger inflationary pressures in the economy.
 
Speaking in the bank’s Spetember 2007 quarterly economic bulletin published recently, PNG Governor Wilson Kamit said whole the country’s macroeconomic conditions generally remained favourable the fuel prices increase was a concern.
 
He added that the Somare government [...]

Digicel Executives ordered out of PNG

Kevin O’Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer for Digicel was ordered to leave the country immediately by David Tibu because he did not have a proper working permit to be in Papua New Guinea. Mr. O’Sullivan and 4 of his colleague where asked to depart PNG by the Secretary of Labour and Industrial Relations.
 
Now, I am not [...]