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'>...

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'>...

The rights to freedom of association are protected under Cambodia’s laws. Article 36 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia provides that ‘Khmer citizens of both sexes shall have the rights to create unions and participate as its members’. Thus, under the 1997 Labor ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is a constitutional monarchy. According to the 1993 Constitution, although he is the head of state, the king has very limited powers compared to the prime minister, the head of the government. Unlike the 1947 Constitution, power does not come from the king but ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...

Open​ Development​ Cambodia​ (ODC)​ in​ collaboration​ with​ the​ open​ data​ community​ was​ pleased​ to​ host​ the​ Open​ Data​ Day​ 2019​ on​ March​ 1st​ in​ Phnom​ Penh.​ It​ was​ the​ 4th​ time​ that​ ODC​ joined​ this​ global​ event​ and​ organized​ the​ Open​ Data​ Day​ in​ Phnom​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 17 March 2020, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on the finding of 09 positive COVID-19 cases , six of which are Cambodian-Muslim who recently returned from religious ceremony in Malaysia and three cases are Malaysian males. These include:1. In siem Reap province: ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing on locations of casualties caused by explosive remnants of war (ERW) and mines from 2005 to 2013 across Cambodia in both Khmer and English. Together with the website’s map explorer tool, we provide the ss='cambodia-color'>...

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In March, Internews facilitated a ‘Data scraping’ e-Workshop for the Open Development Cambodia team. The aim of the workshop was to strengthen ODC’s technical capability to collect IsAC-relevant data from government websites, for public sharing on the developing social Accountability web page. The Workshop was conducted ss='cambodia-color'>...

The ODC mapping kit has been created as a low-tech, user-friendly way for viewing and customizing maps and sharing them online or printing them for fieldwork. More advanced functions include uploading geotagged photos and annotated maps so that they can be accessed online. Users should ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is an ‘open data’ website, the first of its kind in southeast Asia. The open data movement is based on the simple premise that data collected for public interest should be publicly available without restrictions. Information or data in the public ss='cambodia-color'>...

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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'>...

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'>...

Cambodia’s forests have seen a significant reduction of total forest and dense forest cover in recent years, the growth of plantations, particularly rubber, and an ongoing problem with illegal logging. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The launch event of a project improving the delivery of public services through ICT in svay Rieng province, Cambodia. Photo by the ODC team, taken on 28 June 2017. Licensed under a CC BY-sA 4.0.Civil society, representing the interests of ordinary citizens, is the part of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Although there is currently no commercial-scale production of gold carried out in Cambodia, exploration by many companies is underway, with some promising find reported. subject to government approval, commercial production could begin in 2016 or 2017. Gold is found in a number of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment workers waiting in line to get food. Photo by International Labour Organisation, taken on 14 July 2015. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Cambodia has the highest labor force participation rate in the southeast Asia/Pacific region, with 82.7 percent of the working population aged 16-64 employed ss='cambodia-color'>...

There is no large industrial-scale extraction of minerals carried out in Cambodia yet, but many exploration licenses have been granted and some mining companies have reported promising finds of minerals such as gold. Today companies from China, Korea, Vietnam, Australia and elsewhere are exploring for ss='cambodia-color'>...