SOCIAL NETWORKS AND WEB2.0 AMONG THE YOUTH IN THE PICS D eogratias HARORIMANA, SENIOR FELLOW; USP. DOWNLOAD AND LEARN MORE ABOUT ME HERE:

STRUCTURE OF THE PRESENTATION  WHAT IS SOCIAL NETWORKING & WEB 2  BACKGROUND- REVIEW ON SN  RESEARCH FINDINGS  LESSIONS TO BE LEARNT &OPPORTUNITIES  CONCLUSION

WHAT IS SOCIAL NETWORKING What are they? Tool for: Communication Expressing interests “Nodes and Ties” Recent phenomena Twitter, 2006 You tube, 2005 Blogs, 1999 Facebook, 2004

Before  Forums, meetings, news letters, telephones When there was no SNS  Having a hard time starting a conversation  People don’t trust you  Anonymous person and hide ourselves After social network sites are born  Profiles- show your identity  Network building  Self publishing  Self confidence/self discovery/entertainment THE TIME BEFORE AND AFTER SNS

BACKGROUND OF 4 SNS BACKGROUND 14 th Feb 2005 USA Google Investor (30%) – 1.65 billion USERS 1 billion YouTube videos shown in 1 day MARKET VALUE USD 1 billion QUESTION: WHAT IS PICs SHARE IN THIS? Chad Hurley Steve Chen Jawed Karim

BACKGROUND OF 4 SNS BACKGROUND March 2006 USERS 300 million, 2011 Biz Stone Evans Williams Jack Dorsey

BACKGROUND OF 4 SNS BACKGROUND 17 th December 1997 John Barger MARKET VALUE Depends on the blog Personal Corporate Organization Genre USERS research shows156 million public blogs 16th Feb 2011

BACKGROUND OF FOR SNS BACKGROUND Feb 4, 2004 Mark Zuckerberg USERS 500 million MARKET VALUE USD 800 million Fiji - ranked 127, in terms of FB users 162,880 as of 3 January New Caledonia – ,420, Tonga 8,940, Vanuatu 7,200 Tuvalu Population Penetration

PROS  Stay in Touch With Friends & Families  Communication in Real Time  Engaging People With Similar Interests  Developing and Maintaining Business Connections  Global Exposure to World Issues  Positive Impact on World BASELINE FROM THE LITERATURE CONS  Cyber Bullying  Time Waster  Addiction  Stalking  Inappropriate Grammar

Characteristics of the sample challenges : SN Users between 16 October January Users participate anonymously and if they wish A simple questionnaire posted to their Facebook User location the users are between years old (as per user acc. info) New Caledonia –145 87,420, (14587) Tonga 8,940 (89), Vanuatu 7,200 (72) Tuvalu (174) Fiji 162,880 (1628) Challenges of research- Members are not necessarily living in the country of origin and therefore bias can happen-e.g. diaspora, Maybe some level of control on basis of (difficult to define) TIE STRENGTHS of members with PICs SAMPLE OF RESEARCH

RESEARCH FINDINGS

REASONS FOR USAGE BY PACIFIC YOUTHS

LESSONS LEARNT FOR PACIFIC YOUTHS Political Statements Learning Tool Global Exposure VALUABLE LESSIONS CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES Awareness on Cyber Bullying / Stalking Usage of Proper Grammar Time Waster Addiction / Romance Pornography / No Privacy

POSSIBLE LESSONS Empowerment Used for Economic development Political updates, Government’s views, plans and actions “real time” Awareness of Social Networking at Government / Parents / Tertiary levels Educational programmes Cultural erosion?

CONCLUSION User base for Social networking is fast growing Social Networking is a Good Tool for economic development in PICsSocial Networking is a Good Tool for economic development in PICs Full potential and benefits to be explored and implementedFull potential and benefits to be explored and implemented Awareness is importance

 Download the full presentation from here   The paper will be following shortly after peer review Acknowledgements  MBA Management Information Systems Summer flexi Class 2011, particularly a group of students who helped in the pilot phase including: Elina Nailatikau, Ravinesh Kumar, Vuniwai Tupou,Hirdesh N Shukla.  Colleagues who offered helpful critiques on the paper especially the sampling and implementation END AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS