Hi and welcome to the Masalai blog. A blog by someone from the country of Papua New Guinea (or PNG for short).

First a little about us. Masalai Communications was started in 2001 by Emmanuel Narokobi, Amaechi Nwokolo and Olerawanju (Brown) Omotosho. Amaechi and Brown have since gone their own ways. Amaechi is based in london as a lawyer now, but Brown is still in PNG running his network cabling and electrical company Nichtosh. Emmanuel and Brown still work jointly on projects from time to time and still keep in touch with each other. A big thanks however must go to Amaechi for introducing Brown to Emmanuel and kick starting Masalai Communications.

Masalai with Brown’s experience and skills started off as a network cabling company, however after Brown’s departure Masalai has become primarily a website development company. This multiskilled exposure from Masalai’s beginning has allowed Masalai as a company to keep an open door to pontential opportunities in related IT areas. And so although Masalai’s bread and butter is website development, we have dabbled in other services such as network cabling, software development, sms services and now the Digital Posters service.

At Masalai we are always on the look out for new technologies and business opportunities that will be applicable to PNG. Some have not gained traction on the market while others have. One example was the Email to SMS service which never really took off.

More recently the blog has served the additional benefit of providing an experimental place for Masalai to see how the PNG market interacts with PNG content on the web in it’s various forms be it sound, text or video. It’s been interesting to see what topics people respond more too and also to see what else is being done on the web by PNG’eans and South Pacific islanders.

So this blog is basically a place where we can share our ideas, our thoughts and comments on what is going on around us and what we think may or may not work. Obviously we will get things wrong but just as long as we are looking forward and are getting some feedback on what we’re doing.

Thanks for visiting and happy reading!

{You can also see our pics on our Flickr account}