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Young Women and Girls Living with HIV and Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Claim Their Rights
Project background orientation by program managerBattambang: 27 April, 2015Photo: Open Institute OI :Young women leaders, women living with HIV, and LGBTs expressed happiness when they learned there is a law that saves them from discrimination. “In the past, I did not know that there is a law to protect the rights of people living with HIV in our society or a policy platform to protect the rights of Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (LBTs). Now, we know and we can share this information with other affected people in my village,” said a young women living with HIV, 24 years old, from Roka commune, S...
Rights of Young Women, Young Women and Girls Living with HIV, and Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgender Persons Should Be Respected
Group discussion among YW/GLHIV of partner engagement. Date: April 11, 2015Photo: Open Institute OI : The common advocacy message of Young Women and Girl Living with HIV (YW/GLHIV) and Lesbian Bisexuals and Transgender (LBT) groups in Battambang province is to stop all forms of discrimination against YW/GLHIV and LBTs. Another message is that YW/GLHIV and LBTs have the same human rights as other people.  Why do we want to strengthen the capacity of young women leaders, especially young women and girls living with HIV and Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender persons in Cambodia? This is what Mr....
Annual report - 1 October 2013 - 30 September 2014
As the leading organization in Cambodia to use technology for development, this last year the Open Institute continued its work of applying viable and sustainable technological solutions that promote change towards a more just Cambodian society. The Open Institute believes in the potential of these technological solutions to increase access to high quality education, information, and communication in both urban and rural communities, leading to advances in social development and gender equality. The largest program run by the Open Institute during this period is the USAID-funded SPICE program,...
Access to Technology for minorities - Cambodia's Cham minority GOES mobile
Besides Khmer, the national language of Cambodia, the country has several minorities who have and speak their own languages. The Cham, present in Cambodia and Vietnam, are a significant minority, and the only one to have its own traditional script to write its language. As part of ongoing work to improve access to information for minority groups, the USAID-funded SPICE program has collaborated with the company BREOGAN to ensure that the Cham script can be used on more and more in computers, and has paid special attention to make it available in smart phones. This development makes possible, fo...
BarCamp Kampong Cham 2014 July 19 - 20
BarCamp Kampong Cham 2014, is a free and open social event that bring together IT professionals, innovators, businesses, NGOs and students under their own agenda to network, create synergies and catch up the state-of-the-art of technology. It has taken place on this Saturday 19 and Sunday 20, July 2014, which attracts 457 participants include 149 female participants from different universities, high schools, NGOs and private sectors.At BarCamp Kampong Cham participants decide their own agenda including tech innovations, entrepreneurship, e-commerce, and what they want to hear about. The agenda...
Promoting Transparency through Increased Access to Information
Panelist at the seminar on Promoting Transparency through Increased Access to Information at Sunway Hotel.Date: 3 July, 2014 Photo by Open Institute The seminar on “Promoting Transparency through Increased Access to Information” was held on 3rd July 2014 at Sunway Hotel, Phnom Penh. The purpose of this seminar was to promote the critical use of ICT to achieve information transparency and to encourage citizen's to be active participants in the use of and dissemination of information. Those in attendance included representatives of the Youth, Commune Councilors, Non-Government Organizations, and...
Roadshow training campaigns on Internet and Mobile telephony
This week, a roadshow for the training campaigns on Internet and Mobile Telephony and Mobile installation campaigns at 9 high schools for students in grade 11 & 12 and promotion campaigns at nearby phone shops. The campaigns will take place in 45 high schools in 18 different provinces that will show a 35-minutes educational video on understanding about the correct way of using Internet, trustworthiness information and what should be avoid to post. After this, students will discuss on 6 different case stories related to privacy, trustworthiness information, blackmail story, believes, hassra...
Citizen Journalist and Information Communication Technology
Citizen Journalist and Information Communication Technology training was conducted at Governance Resource Learning Center, Ministry of Interior for three days between 04 -06 March, 2014. The purpose of the training was to build the awareness of Commune council members and target youth in the use of computers with Khmer language and to have the ability to use  Internet   tools for researching, writing, sharing and discussing information openly and effectively This would help participants understand media ethics, law and policy. The participants were councilors from both municipalities and provi...
Students from Panhasastra University learned about Media Monitoring-Ending Violence Against Women' s project
Violence against women (in short as VAW) is a technical term used to collectively refer to violent acts that are primarily or exclusively committed against women. Violence Against Women (VAW) is prevalent in Cambodia despite being under-reported. There are many kinds of VAW such as domestic violence, trafficking, etc. Rape is among the most serious problem in Cambodia. It appears in almost every issue of the newspapers. Most victims don't dare to speak out, to denounce their abusers because they are afraid of being stigmatized. Ms. Chim Manavy, Executive Director of the Open Institute talked t...
Capacity Building Training on Media Monitoring-Ending Violence Against Women
The Open Institute is a non-governmental and not-for-profit organization that envisions Cambodia as a country in which widespread access to high quality education, information, communication, and technology lead to a more developed and just society. Currently, Open Institute has received funding support from UN Women to study on the Media Monitoring for Ending Violence Against Women in Cambodia.The project will gather and record quantitative and qualitative data about VAW to form a base of evidence that can be used in the future. Three local print media, three radio stations and three TV stati...

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