March 10 Newsletter: Pangaea ring - Mr. Gary Loh Chee Wyai
This month Pangaea Ring writer is Gary, from the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
He helped us a lot to open Bario in this January and he is keen to enhance
interaction among children not only internationally but also locally, within
Malaysia.
Greetings from Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia!
My name is Gary Loh Chee Wyai and I am the IT Project Manager for COERI, UNIMAS. I guess I am the one who running around with Dr Fitri at the beginning to get the local school children to participate in this program. This is how my first encounter with Pangaea activities.
The day when my Director, Assoc. Professor Dr. Alvin told me that we will going to run this program at UNIMAS, I knew it will be an interesting program as we do not have any encounter working with local school children before. What I know is going to the remote places(deep jungle) in Sarawak and Sabah planting Telecentre for the remote communities! It is a new experience for me to work with Pangaea where I can work together with the staff from different faculties and also our own faculty's staffs.
Besides that, working with Yumi and Toshi also open my eyes in learning how to be very details in getting things done, which both of them are extremely details! The idea of peace engineering really can happen in Pangaea. I can see from the children who came and joint the Pangaea activities become friendlier among each other besides getting to know friends from Japan, Austria, Kenya and South Korea.
Now we are trying to run Pangaea in our remote places where we had planted our telecentres. The first is Bario where Yumi and Toshi are so fearful of getting there at the beginning. I hope after the first trip, both of them are getting more excited to travel to our remote sites. I hope there will be more to learn and happiness to share by bringing Pangaea to all these places as we are not only bridging the digital divide gap between urban and rural children but bringing peace and harmony to the rest of the country.
Let us not give up in giving hope and touching lives for peace and harmony. Be a volunteer for Pangaea!
Gary Loh Chee Wyai
Centre of Excellence for Rural Informatics
Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
http://www.unimas.my
My name is Gary Loh Chee Wyai and I am the IT Project Manager for COERI, UNIMAS. I guess I am the one who running around with Dr Fitri at the beginning to get the local school children to participate in this program. This is how my first encounter with Pangaea activities.
The day when my Director, Assoc. Professor Dr. Alvin told me that we will going to run this program at UNIMAS, I knew it will be an interesting program as we do not have any encounter working with local school children before. What I know is going to the remote places(deep jungle) in Sarawak and Sabah planting Telecentre for the remote communities! It is a new experience for me to work with Pangaea where I can work together with the staff from different faculties and also our own faculty's staffs.
Besides that, working with Yumi and Toshi also open my eyes in learning how to be very details in getting things done, which both of them are extremely details! The idea of peace engineering really can happen in Pangaea. I can see from the children who came and joint the Pangaea activities become friendlier among each other besides getting to know friends from Japan, Austria, Kenya and South Korea.
Now we are trying to run Pangaea in our remote places where we had planted our telecentres. The first is Bario where Yumi and Toshi are so fearful of getting there at the beginning. I hope after the first trip, both of them are getting more excited to travel to our remote sites. I hope there will be more to learn and happiness to share by bringing Pangaea to all these places as we are not only bridging the digital divide gap between urban and rural children but bringing peace and harmony to the rest of the country.
Let us not give up in giving hope and touching lives for peace and harmony. Be a volunteer for Pangaea!
Gary Loh Chee Wyai
Centre of Excellence for Rural Informatics
Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
http://www.unimas.my
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