A Micronesian information system: An application of EATPUT model

✍ Scribed by Wang, Chih

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 776 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199210)43:9<594::aid-asi2>3.0.co;2-h

✦ Synopsis

This article attempts to sketch a model of Micronesian information system with two purposes in mind. First, based on this model, an actual system can be developed in the Micronesian region in the near future. Second, the description of the model also illustrates how a theoretical information model can be applied to the real world. With this in mind, the sketched model certainly can be modified for developing information systems to serve remote islands or locations in other geographic regions. 0 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

The Pacific and Micronesia

The Pacific Ocean occupies an area of 69,364,200 square miles (179,700,OOO square kilometers) that is more than one-third of the globe's surface and greater than all of the world's land areas combined. Situated in the vast ocean are about 30,000 islands (Groves & Hunt, 1980) divided into four geographical areas: Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia (Lin, 1961). Indonesia, "Indos Nesos" or "Indian Islands," formerly known as the Netherlands East Indies, is an archipelago lying across the equator for one-eighth of the earth's circumference, off the coast of the Southeast Asian mainland. It is composed of 13,667 islands with a total of about 741,000 square miles (1,919,400 square kilometers) in area (Vlekke, 1945).

Melanesia means "dark islands." It refers to a group of islands located north and northeast of Australia, from Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Anchipelago to the Solomons, New Hebrides, and Torres Straits Islands, through New Caledonia and Fiji (Brookfield,