Divine Word Uni to go paper less

By KEVIN PAMBA
DIVINE Word University (DWU) in Madang aims to be a “paperless university” by next year as its contribution to fight global warming.
It had been progressively reducing the use of paper with information and communication technologies (ICT) and by next year, the “paperless university” policy would be fully operational, DWU president Fr Jan Czuba said last Friday.
He said all academic and administration activities would be done through the use of ICT while the use of paper would be limited to unavoidable circumstances only.
“There is no way back. The paperless university policy will be implemented next year,” Fr Czuba told staff at the close of the week-long staff induction programme.
He said the university had a moral obligation to help fight global warming and it must reduce the use of paper, printing, photocopying and the waste that was produced.
The new policy would require lecturers, tutors and students to carry out all academic work through the networked computers via chat lecture rooms, laboratories and auditoriums that had progressively been fitted with the ICT capability.
Students had already been accessing the networked computers with email and internet access and they each received a free 128 megabyte flash drive upon enrolment.

NB. Lot of Universities and hospitals in Australia and elsewhere have aimed for that but still there is lot of paper involved. At least that is a good start.