VONG Pisith
Senior Data ReSearch & GIS Officer /Capacity Building Coordinator&nbSp;PiSith workS aS a Senior Data ReSearch & GIS Officer /Capacity Building Coordinator at Open Development Cambodia (ODC). He SatiSfactorily completed Engineering&rSquo;S Degree of Geo-ReSourceS and Geotechnical Engineering (GGE) from the InStitute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) SS='cambodia-color'>...
VENG Seang Hai
Managing EditorVENG Seang Hai haS joined Open Development Cambodia (ODC) Since 2023 in the role of Managing Editor, providing both operational and technical aSSiStance to the Executive Editor/Editor-in-Chief and to the ODC team aS a whole. He workS cloSely together with ODC&rSquo;S EditorS team to SS='cambodia-color'>...
VONG Promnea
Youth-Led Project OfficerPromnea is working with Open Development Cambodia (ODC) as a Project Officer of the Youth-Led Project. He provides support to ODC to ensure that Cambodian youths can implement their projects’ initiatives that are crucial to their community. Primarily, he works collaboratively with the ss='cambodia-color'>...
COVID-19 legislative response in Cambodia
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant levels of pressure on many governments, requiring them to implement new regulations and policies to reduce the spread of the virus. In Cambodia, the socioeconomic challenges posed by the pandemic mainly come from the reduction of commercial operations at ss='cambodia-color'>...
Workshop on the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in public services in Cambodia
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) in collaboration with STAR Kampuchea and Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) arranged a workShop entitled “Role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Public ServiceS in Cambodia” under financial Support by the&nbSp;SwediSh Program for ICT in Developing RegionS (SPIDER)&nbSp;on 12 SS='cambodia-color'>...
Service fee and contact
Service feeAdminiStrative ServiceS provided by One Window Service Office Identification ServiceS Public ServiceS for tranSportation Service chargeS for electricity hook up and diSconnection from Electricity of Cambodia (EDC) ServiceS delivery at health center Water conSumption tariff SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chinese Firms Foresee Industrial Hub in Preah Vihear
Preah Vihear province – The residents of this sleepy district, on the edge of the Boeng Per Wildlife sanctuary, grow rice, cassava and cashew nuts. But in a few short years, Chinese investors envisage that Rovieng will be rapidly transformed into an industrial town. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Private property, public greed in Cambodia
Mark Moorstein knew little about Cambodia before he got involved in a lawsuit on behalf of land owners there. But as it’s turning out, the suit could end up affecting most every country in Asia. Moorstein is a land-use lawyer in Northern Virginia who, like many ss='cambodia-color'>...
ODC joins the 2018 Cambodia Outlook Conference
“We want Cambodia to be a high-income country by 2050,” PM Hun Sen affirmed the ambitiouS proSpect of Cambodia’S economy at the 2018 Cambodia Outlook Conference which Open Development Cambodia attended. The conference took place on ThurSday, 15 March 2018 at the Hotel Sofitel Phnom SS='cambodia-color'>...
City Defends Boeng Kak Project, Attacks Critics
The filling of Boeng Kak lake and the eviction of thousands of residents was necessary to root out the “prostitutes and terrorists” that were drawn to the area’s once-popular tourist zone, the Phnom Penh Municipality said in a statement yesterday. In a statement posted to its ss='cambodia-color'>...
What does the future hold?
Officials, business professionals and political analysts have mixed opinions on the leadership of the single-party Cambodian government and what the future hold for the next five years. sok Touch, a professor of political science at Khemarak University, said the political deadlock won’t help the nation become ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kay Kimsong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/analysis-and-op-ed/what-does-future-hold
ODC Meets Open Knowledge Festival 2014
ODC Design Team Leader, Huy Eng, was supported by the OKFestival Foundation to attend the Open Knowledge Festival 2014, which took place July 15–17 2014 in Berlin, Germany. The event was held at the Kulturbrauerei, an aesthetically beautiful piece of architecture originally built and operated ss='cambodia-color'>...
Workshop on the dissemination of Khmer translation of the book "Personal Data: Political Persuasion"
On 2 October 2020, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) held a workshop on the Khmer translation of the book "Personal Data: Political Persuasion". The workshop aimed to support the dissemination of the Khmer translation of the book through the online platform. ss='cambodia-color'>...
ODC wraps up data literacy training program
With financial support from UsAID Cambodian Civil society strengthening (CCss) project, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has carried out three phases of Data Literacy Training Program, the first of its kind in Cambodia, with over 25 participants from different sectors including civil society, journalism, think tank, ss='cambodia-color'>...
What is Prey Lang?
Situated acroSS the provinceS of Kratie, Preah Vihear, Steung Treng and Kampong Thom, Prey Lang foreSt containS 8 typeS of diStinctive habitatS aS well aS Several landformS and over 400 animal SpecieS in which 17 SpecieS are endangered animalS and plantS. It iS home to SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia Factories Grapple With Issue of Underage Workers
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia&mdaSh;In thiS quiet beach town, Lim Loeung SayS She SpendS up to 80 hourS a week gluing SoleS onto ShoeS at a factory that doeS work for companieS including JapaneSe Sneaker-maker ASicS Corp. 7936.TO +0.95% The factory believeS MS. Lim iS at leaSt 18 SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kate O' Keeffe
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303799404579287353595133592
Ecosystems in the Greater Mekong: past trends, current status, possible futures
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS: Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, LaoS, Vietnam, and Yunnan and Guangxi in China) iS undergoing unprecedented changeS. Many of theSe are poSitive, reflecting political Stabilization and economic growth following decadeS of poverty and conflict. But the rate and type of development iS SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=ZjY4MTUzZGZkNmQ
Partial victory at the ICJ
The International Court of Justice yesterday unanimously declared that its 1962 judgment awarding the Preah Vihear temple to Cambodia also gave the Kingdom sovereignty over the promontory that the temple sits on. But while the announcement was initially greeted as a resounding victory by some in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/partial-victory-icj
Making Digital Maps Using Free and Simple Mapping Applications
“There may be times when you want to explain things through maps, but you don’t know how to create the maps. With the currently available technology, creating map has become relatively easy. You no longer need to be an expert to develop maps, provided that ss='cambodia-color'>...
ODC, a Cambodian NGO, participated in the Paris Peace Forum 2019
Mr. Thy Try, Executive Director/Editor-in-Chief of Open Development Cambodia, was selected to attend the Paris Peace Forum 2019 on 12–13 November.Mr. Thy Try is standing in front of the Grande halle de La Villette where the Paris Peace Forum was celebrated.The Paris Peace Forum is ss='cambodia-color'>...