Analyzing the Evolution of a Digital Technology Intervention: One Laptop Per Child in a Remote Papua New Guinea Community

Geoffrey B. Saxe; Kenton de Kirby

doi:10.1111/aeq.12263

Analyzing the Evolution of a Digital Technology Intervention: One Laptop Per Child in a Remote Papua New Guinea Community

Anthropology & Education Quarterly ◽

10.1111/aeq.12263 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 49 (4) ◽

pp. 394-412 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Geoffrey B. Saxe ◽

Kenton de Kirby

Keyword(s):

Papua New Guinea ◽

Digital Technology ◽

New Guinea ◽

One Laptop Per Child ◽

Technology Intervention

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Digital Change and Organizational Development: Views from the Public Sector in Papua New Guinea

South Pacific Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1017/s0257543400000079 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 16 ◽

pp. 48-58

Author(s):

James Mosan

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Organizational Development ◽

Papua New Guinea ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Service Sector ◽

Civil Service ◽

Computer Mediated Communication ◽

New Guinea ◽

Mediated Communication

AbstractThis study explores the potential of Internet-based technology to change the nature of work in the civil service sector in Papua New Guinea (PNG, specifically to contribute towards Organisational Development (OD). Immediately following and one year after an awareness-raising civil service conference on computer-mediated communication and its potential to help develop the workplace, 23 PNG public sector employees who had attended the conference responded to a range of closed and open-ended attitude questions regarding Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). On balance, they reported that in their experience, ICT following the conference had been relatively empowering, had enhanced organisational communication and accountability, and had helped to improve the flow of knowledge within and between public sector groups. In PNG, digital technology might help to facilitate the development of intra- and inter-organisational unit teamwork. To that extent, digital technology in the longer-term may assist not only in OD, but also in the development of capacity more generally.

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