Building Bridges across Papua New Guinea's Digital Divide in Growing the ICT Industry
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| author | Cheong, Marc Abuzo, Sankwi Hata, Hideaki Kevin, Priscilla Kula, Winifred Mirou, Benson Treude, Christoph Wang, Dong Kula, Raula Gaikovina |
| author_facet | Cheong, Marc Abuzo, Sankwi Hata, Hideaki Kevin, Priscilla Kula, Winifred Mirou, Benson Treude, Christoph Wang, Dong Kula, Raula Gaikovina |
| contents | Papua New Guinea (PNG) is an emerging tech society with an opportunity to overcome geographic and social boundaries, in order to engage with the global market. However, the current tech landscape, dominated by Big Tech in Silicon Valley and other multinational companies in the Global North, tends to overlook the requirements of emerging economies such as PNG. This is becoming more obvious as issues such as algorithmic bias (in tech product deployments) and the digital divide (as in the case of non-affordable commercial software) are affecting PNG users. The Open Source Software (OSS) movement, based on extant research, is seen as a way to level the playing field in the digitalization and adoption of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in PNG. This perspectives paper documents the outcome of the second International Workshop on BRIdging the Divides with Globally Engineered Software} (BRIDGES2023) in the hopes of proposing ideas for future research into ICT education, uplifting software engineering (SE) capability, and OSS adoption in promoting a more equitable digital future for PNG. |
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| spellingShingle | Building Bridges across Papua New Guinea's Digital Divide in Growing the ICT Industry Cheong, Marc Abuzo, Sankwi Hata, Hideaki Kevin, Priscilla Kula, Winifred Mirou, Benson Treude, Christoph Wang, Dong Kula, Raula Gaikovina Computers and Society Papua New Guinea (PNG) is an emerging tech society with an opportunity to overcome geographic and social boundaries, in order to engage with the global market. However, the current tech landscape, dominated by Big Tech in Silicon Valley and other multinational companies in the Global North, tends to overlook the requirements of emerging economies such as PNG. This is becoming more obvious as issues such as algorithmic bias (in tech product deployments) and the digital divide (as in the case of non-affordable commercial software) are affecting PNG users. The Open Source Software (OSS) movement, based on extant research, is seen as a way to level the playing field in the digitalization and adoption of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in PNG. This perspectives paper documents the outcome of the second International Workshop on BRIdging the Divides with Globally Engineered Software} (BRIDGES2023) in the hopes of proposing ideas for future research into ICT education, uplifting software engineering (SE) capability, and OSS adoption in promoting a more equitable digital future for PNG. |
| title | Building Bridges across Papua New Guinea's Digital Divide in Growing the ICT Industry |
| topic | Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09482 |