Abstract
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a young country which has become independent from Australia in 1975. There are a lot of difficulties in this country. These difficulties usually come from the lack of social infrastructure of the country. This country has started the school system reformation in 1994. The reforms include the primary and secondary educational systems. With the reformation, a large number of new classes were opened and therefore it was necessary to supply a lot of new and high quality teachers. It is indeed very difficult to produce new teachers in a short time and it is also very hard to level up the teachers in their own major fields in a short period. The information and communication technology (ICT) has been introduced in order to solve these difficulties in the field of primary and secondary education. The ICT which would be used in a distance education consists of new technology such as computers, networks, and satellite TV broadcast and receiving systems. The present paper will describe such a distance education project held in this country in a pilot form. Technical difficulties exist in this project were described. The project plays an important role in a development of the educational fields in this country.
