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The forum on Increasing Youth awareness of Road Safety through the use of ICT was conducted on 13th November 2013 at Open Institute office. The purpose of this forum was to promote youth engagement in road safety awareness through the use of ICT in order to help them to share the knowledge of road safety within their own community. Participants were councilors from both municipalities and provinces such as Phnom Penh and Battambang, representative of Nation Committee on Road Safety of Cambodia, representative of the Interior Ministry, representatives from various NGOs including the, Asia Inju...
Phnom Penh 21, October, 2013  PRESS RELEASE Interested in advancing the technology at your NGO? The Women Program of the Open Institute (OI) in collaboration with an Indian NGO called the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and Public Interest Registry (.ORG) will be hosting a free one-day eNGO workshop in Phnom Penh on 29 November, 2013 centered on helping NGOs to increase their presence online. The event will provide training for 30-50 grassroots NGOs who have not yet adopted digital and ICT into their work and perhaps may not even have a website or who wish to learn more about the importan...
Job Opportunities Training and Promotional materials developer   The Open Institute is a local Cambodian NGO which supports the social and economic development of Cambodia by working in three major fields: gender equity, development of research capacity and information technology development. In particular, the Open Institute runs the program "Structuring Partnerships for an Innovative Communications Environment" (SPICE) which is an exciting initiative funded by USAID to help raise the technological level of the country through the use of mobile phones. In order to prepare all the training ma...
As promised under the generous support of USAID, Open Institute’s SPICE is expanding BarCamp that brought people in the field of technology, media, and business to share and learn from each other. The fourth Barcamp is organized in Phnom Penh which will be held this weekend, October 19th- 20th at Institute of Technology of Cambodia.   SPICE team will also organize some sessions in the camp. Participants are welcome to attend any of these sessions.   Day 1: 19 October 2013 (for all participants)       Time Topics Presenter 10:00 – 11:00 Introduction to IVR Technology KhengPiseth 1...
Phnom Penh 10 Oct 2013: Four new applications are now available for free at the Google Play Store. These applications allow typing and reading Khmer, sending and receiving SMS in Khmer, consulting the Choun Nath dictionary and reading news in Khmer through RSS feed. They have been developed by the Cambodian NGO Open Institute with support from USAID as part of the SPICE program. These applications can also be used together with the Firefox browser for Android, which can also support Khmer, when the add-on for Khmer is downloaded and installed.   All these applications work on all Android syste...
Youth empowerment through the use of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) is very important. ICT is a tool where youth can access information to upgrade their knowledge and skills that will enable them to fully participate in development. To promote youth participation, a Mini Barcamp was organized at Angkor Khemara University (AKU) located in Kampot Province on 20 September 2013. The main topic of the Mini Barcamp is "Youth Using Information Communication Technology". The purpose of this Mini Barcamp is to build capacity of youth to get knowledge on Information Communication Technol...
Cham Keyboard is created in order to make possibility to encourage Cham language and fonts using to be remaining. Cham Language and Fonts are less and less in uses among Cham community and relevant community. By this keyboard, our team has a strong hope that the use of Cham Language and Fonts would be well used as optional to their national language and fonts from the state that they are living. This keyboard was developed Under the USAID funded SPICE program to support every version of android smart phone. This means that typing in Cham language have never been a barrier for those who loved...
23 Sep 2013 Phnom Penh: The Mini- BarcampKampot took place on Friday 20th September, 2013 (a full day) at University of Angkor Khemara, Kampot province within the topic on "The Youth Using Information Communication Technology for social communication ". The main purpose of the event is to build capacity of youth to have knowledge on ICT and is able to use it for social communication. The SPICE program supports the "Promoting Youth Engagement in Development through the use of ICT" of the Open Institute to conduct a Mini-Barcamp in Kampot province. The event will be co-organized by the Khmer You...
  It has been hard enough to struggle with the default SMS application which supports some languages but not included Khmer. Sar Khmer SMS is the one among the best application which permits you to communicate using our Khmer language, it has come along with Khmer Interface that is easy to use; asides, it should be taken into consideration because of it's own feature of setting the preference, managing the message, and encrypting each message though the communication channel. It support almost all version of android from 2.1(Eclair) to the latest version. Although, it was not coming through th...
  Khmer Choun Nath Dictionary (Unicode) 1.1 allows you to search and find Khmer words' definitions using any Khmer Unicode keyboard. It works in Android version from 2.1 to the latest version.   The definition has zoom-able feature which allow you to zoom in or zoom out and another feature is Hyperlink in definition which allows you to display other definitions from the definition that you are in. These feature supports in almost all Android versions except Android 2.1 and 3.0.   Moreover, If you haven't installed any Khmer Unicode Keyboard in your phone then the application will alert and sug...

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