Building BRIDGES across Papua New Guinea's Digital Divide in Growing the ICT Industry
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 (BRIDGES) 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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11:00 - 12:30 | SEIGS Session 2Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South (SEiGS) at 201 Chair(s): Michel Chaudron Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands | ||
11:00 18mTalk | Assessing the effectiveness of GPT-Engineer with OpenAI GPT models in Improving Software Engineering Processes Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South (SEiGS) | ||
11:18 18mTalk | Building BRIDGES across Papua New Guinea's Digital Divide in Growing the ICT Industry Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South (SEiGS) Marc Cheong the University of Melbourne, Sankwi Abuzo PNG University of Technology, Hideaki Hata Shinshu University, Priscilla Kevin PNG Digital ICT Cluster, Raula Gaikovina Kula The University of Osaka, Winifred Kula PNG Digital ICT Cluster, Benson Mirou PNG University of Technology, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Dong Wang Tianjin University DOI Pre-print | ||
11:36 18mTalk | Challenges of Conducting Research in Software Engineering: A case of graduate students in low resource contexts Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South (SEiGS) Rashidah Kasauli Makerere University Kampala, Hawa Nyende Makerere University Kampala, Halimu Chongomweru Makerere University Kampala, Nasser Kimbugwe Makerere University Kampala | ||
11:54 18mTalk | INTEGRATING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS INTO DHIS2 TO IMPROVE HEALTH DATA UTILIZATION Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South (SEiGS) Angella NABASIRYE makerere university, Irene Wanyana Ssali makerere university, John M Ssenkusu, PhD makerere university, Moses Kizito , Baker lwasampijja | ||
12:12 18mOther | General discussion 1 Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South (SEiGS) |