Information systems students help Tari parent
July 28, 2010
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Tari businessman and parent, George Tagobe (second from left) with the 4th year Bachelor of Information Systems students inside the GMT Enterprises Ltd office in Tari, Southern Highlands Province. The students are from left Nehemiah Sakare, Grace Asanu, Roselyne Irabu, Miriam Taule and Paul Senkai, who was also the project team leader. |
Third year Information Systems student, Danny Pumuye helping to pack the computers and peripherals at the Datec shop in Lae. |
Roselyne Irabu (right) and Danny Pumuye in Mount Hagen with hire car driver before Danny left the group. |
Parents and guardians who work hard to raise their children and pay the ever-increasing educational fees expect their off springs to return the favour by doing well in studies and become responsible members of society.
A businessman from Tari in Southern Highlands Province, George Tagobe is one proud parent whose many years of looking after and paying the fees of his daughter, Roselyne Irabu, has not been a waste.
Roselyne, a final year student in the Bachelor in Information Systems program at Divine Word University (DWU) in Madang has returned the favor early by going home to set up office computer network for her dad’s business over the first semester break in the second week of June, 2010.
She is now planning to set up the data inventory system during the end of year holidays.
Roselyne invited her class-mates to set up an office network for Mr Tagobe’s GMT Enterprise Ltd in Tari, and four of them willingly volunteered. The students who volunteered help were Paul Senkai who was appointed as team leader, Grace Asunu, Miriam Taule and Nehemiah Sakare.
Roselyne and three of her class-mates, Grace Asunu, Paul Senkai and Nehemiah Sakare travelled to Tari by road via Lae where they collected four computers and peripherals that Mr Tagobe bought for the project. They and the computer equipment were driven up from Lae to Mount Hagen by third year IS student and President of the Southern Highlands student association, Danny Pumuye on a vehicle hired by Mr Tagobe. From Hagen the driver of the hire car company drove the students to Tari. The fifth student, Miriam Taule, flew into Tari from Tabubil where she had gone to spend the first few days of the semester break.
Roselyne had seen her dad struggle with managing his records where he and his staff manually transferred files on a flash drive from one computer to another and decided to help him with the knowledge she is receiving in information systems management at DWU.
For work that a major IT distributor quoted Mr Tagobe over K90,000 Roselyne and her class-mates did it for free during the first semester holidays. Mr Tagobe met only the travel, board and lodging and per diem for each student and the cost of the computers and peripherals.
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Project team leader Paul Senkai hard at work at the GMT Enterprise Ltd in Tari. |
Miriam Taule is a story of full concentration at the GMT Enterprise Ltd. |
Grace Asunu doing her bit for GMT Enterprise along with Paul Senkai in the background. |
Mr Tagobe said he is very thankful for the DWU students who would use their skills and semester holidays to help set up a database for his business.
He also praised the University and its Information Systems Department for grooming young Papua New Guineans in niche areas such as information systems management.
“In the age of rapid technological innovation, it is important to keep up with the changes and I am pleased that DWU continues to come up with programs such as those in IT that meet growing demand,” said Mr Tagobe.
“I am very pleased and thankful for Roselyne for coming up with the idea and implementing it with her classmates.
“My heartfelt gratitude also goes out to the four students that accepted the invitation from Roselyne to come to Tari to set up a computer network for my business.
“I am impressed with Roselyne that my many years of looking after her and paying her educational fees have not been a waste,” Mr Tagobe added. The students spent a week in Tari setting up the network and database. Apart from Roselyne, the rest of the students were mostly from the maritime provinces who have never been to the depths of the resource-rich Highlands and were amazed by the beauty of the place and vibrancy of the culture in Helas in Tari and surrounding areas. They did take time off to see natural scenery of Hela land including at the famous Ambua Lodge and Tari Gap and the LNG Project developments taking place at nearby Hides and surrounding areas.
