The Yegiora Files

At the moment, the news about the second case in East New Britain Province is causing panic and anxiety among citizens. I am anxious as I ponder about the possibility of the virus spreading in Madang and the future of my nuclear and extended family members. Stephanie Lawson talked about the 7 human security issues in her book titled 'International relations' . In 2018, I wrote 2 blog articles to help my students develop a basic understanding of human security. The first article talked about the first 3 human security issues, and the second article talked about the last 4 human security issues. Her discussions were derived from the Human Development Report published by the UNDP in 1994. The Report outlined the changing trend in security studies where security was no longer an issue of states defending themselves against other states evident in the Cold War. The traditional state-centric approach was replaced by a human centric conceptualization of security. The 7 hu...

The extension to the State of Emergency (SOE) for another 2 months has opened the door for higher learning institutions around the country to consider using electronic Learning Management Systems. Moodle is an open source learning platform that can be used by any higher learning institution with good internet connection. Work on the Kumul Submarine Cable will enable higher learning institutions to have access to high speed internet. The COVID-19 pandemic might act as a catalyst to increase the pace of the work done by PNG Dataco at the moment. The Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (DHERST) has already done the ground work by signing an MOU with PNG Dataco to provide internet to all higher learning institutions in PNG. Apart from having access to online data bases for research purposes, the most important thing at this point in time is the use Moodle to facilitate learning and teaching by other higher learning institutions. Divi...