Browsing Posts in Niue – 2009

Tweet So, since I have been on the island and have been spending some free time trying to surf on the Internet and look at possible options for good ICT facilities in the country, I stumbled upon a deal O3b networks made with Google and HSBC (I guess) recently. They planned to setup a massive [...]

Tweet If you have read the part 1 of this post, I guess you would realize I have become lazy with writing these posts and now I believe “less is more”. I know, crappy excuse for an unusually small post! So we needed to address the key challenges we had identified by coming up with [...]

Tweet In the battle between ICT Challenges vs. TCinGC Student Consultants, in the match being broadcast live and exclusive from Niue, the score at half-time (end of five weeks) remains 0-0. The game seems to be tight, with none of the two teams being able to take a lead in the early part of the [...]

Tweet Hello Everyone, and sorry, it’s my first time writing here. My name is Eunice, sitting inside the office of the Department of Education in Niue with another blogger here, Varun Arora. Don’t worry, I am not procrastinating from my work. Today is like an unofficial holiday for schools-it’s a sports day and no one [...]

Tweet And although we like to work really hard on the weekdays, we make sure our weekends are a fun experience. I am a workaholic, and continue to work in weekends, as the image above shows. While on weekdays I am a “Student Consultant”, my weekends are usually occupied by doing part-time work to earn [...]

Tweet So this is the first post from Niue about what we are going to be doing. Eunice and myself (Varun) have been sent to Niue to work for the Department/Ministry (its the same here) of Education in order to maximize potential of the OLPC pilot project deployment which begun in July 2008. It was [...]

Tweet Let me introduce myself to the readers of this blog. I am Varun, a “Student Consultant” and yep, a new blogger on the TCinGC blog. I have been selected for the program to work in Niue. Yeah, I know the title says something else. That’s because I want to make sure you get the [...]