Blogs
Presidential Hackathon 2019 in Taiwan
From 18 to 21 July, Open Development (ODC) team has been attending the Presidential Hackathon 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan. The Presidential Hackathon is an initiative designed by the Taiwanese government to emphasize the importance of open-source, open data, and related best practices which can be applied to address the needs of the country through social innovations and economic development. ODC is one among the six outstanding teams who have been shortlisted to participate and compete in the Presidential Hackathon 2019. The six teams consist of open data and tech experts from different countries such as Australia, Netherlands, France, the United States of America, Malaysia, Honduras, Sri Lanka, and Cambodia. With the theme: Enabling Sustainable Infrastructure, each team has come up with unique and outstanding innovation including: monitoring construction wastes platform, analysing infrastructure advisory service, open road infrastructure platform, evaluating tool to flag cartel among vendors, identifying suitable location for school and healthcare facilities tool, and evaluating the impact of infrastructure ...
Pilot training on map reading and using with high school teachers
In March 2019, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and the Department of Information Technology (DIT) of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) conducted an assessment workshop to collect inputs from high school teachers to understand the teachers’ knowledge and experience in map using and ...
Environmental impact assessments and the Sihanoukville building collapse
Early in the morning of June 22, disaster struck Sihanoukville as a seven-story condominium building under construction collapsed. According to survivors, around 60 construction workers were on-site, some with their families sleeping.1 The collapse has killed 28 people and injured 25, and led to the ...
Kick off meeting on project "improving public service delivery through the use of ICT"
Cambodia is moving forward with a fast phase development in technology advancement. The country has reached more than 12.5 million internet users in the late 2018 following an increase of mobile operators’ service expansion in rural areas, according to Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC). With ...
ODC was the only project from Cambodia that was selected to present at the Festival of Civic Tech for Democracy
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) was pleased to be part of the 7th edition of the Personal Democracy Forum Central & Eastern Europe (PDF CEE). The three-day event – under this year’s theme “In whom we trust” – was held on April 4-6 at the European ...
National Reading Day at Chea Sim Tbeng MeanChey High School
Cambodia has made March 11 its National Reading Day following a sub-decree issued in September 2015. The date is set to be in line with Master Choun Nath’s, the Khmer literature master, birthday. In 2016, Cambodia has celebrated its first National Reading Day and ever ...
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 Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions (SPIDER) on 12 ...
Assessment workshop on the knowledge of map reading and using
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and the Department of Information Technology (DIT) of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) have successfully conducted an Assessment Workshop on the Knowledge of Map Reading and Using among high school teachers on the 04th to 05th of March, ...
Open Data Day 2019: Tracking public money flows
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 ...
The first Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) portal in Cambodia
Cambodia aims to fasten its economic growth while fully committing to sustainable development. To avoid adverse impacts from the development and promote long term benefits to economic, social and environmental change, the practice of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) shall be enforced. And since EIA has ...
Preliminary meeting on engaging civil society organizations in the Voluntary National Review (VNR) process
Countries worldwide are encouraged to prepare the so-called Voluntary National Review (VNR), which are country-led and country-driven, as they facilitate the follow up of the implementation progress and the effectiveness of the actions and targets adopted to achieve the SDGs. After proving to be a ...
2018 AODP Dialogue and International Open Data Conference
The Asia Open Data Partnership is an regional event launched since 2015 with 8 partners from 6 countries in Asia. The 2018 AODP Dialogue is the 4th Dialogue that is organized by Korean partner, the National Information Society Agency (NIA), and hosted by Ministry of ...
ODC participated in BarCamp ASEAN 2018
Barcamp ASEAN 2018 took place on October 20-21, at Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This BarCamp ASEAN 2018 broke the world’s largest BarCamp record having over 8,000 participants, 60 exhibitors, over 95 speakers on 85 topics and 1,000 companies and organizations. ...
Success story from fundamentals of QGIS trainings with Royal University of Agriculture
A training program on fundamentals of QGIS was organized at geographic information system (GIS) lab of Faculty of Land Management and Land Administration, at Royal University of Agriculture. In the program, land management and environment were considered as the main theme. The participants were trained ...
The training workshop on “Accessing to information of public service”
At the end of last month, on September 29th, Open Development Cambodia organized a training workshop to raise awareness on the access to public services information using ICT tools. Being a government body dedicated to improving public service delivery, representatives of the National Committee for ...
ODC’s attended the process of citizen monitoring, one of the four components of the implementation of social accountability framework
The implementation of social accountability framework (I-SAF) rests on four components: i) access to information and open budgets, ii) citizen monitoring, iii) facilitation and capacity building, iv) learning and monitoring. This blogpost highlight parts of activities of second component 2: citizen monitoring, a process where ...
ODC’s third GIS workshop: GIS application in land management and education
In the second GIS workshop, ODC received 21 participants who successfully attended and awarded in the three-day workshop with theme focusing on “data collection and application of GIS”. This time, “GIS application in land management and education” are in the center.Welcoming remark by Mr. Phy ...
Stakeholder engagement and knowledge sharing workshop
On the morning of July 13, 2018, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) organized a workshop to share the outputs and findings of its project on “The use of Google Earth Engine (GEE) to play a role in gender equality and education in flood-prone areas”. This workshop ...
ODC visit to Information for Citizens (I4Cs)’ meeting in the Romeas Haek district, Svay Rieng province
With the assistant from STAR Kampuchea (SK), at the weekend, 19th May 2018, ODC team visited an implementation activity on the ground. The visit aimed to learn the process of Implementation of Social Accountability Framework in public services.It is a sunny and humid Saturday afternoon ...
Strategic environmental assessment in Cambodia
Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) represents an advanced tool for estimating and evaluating the consequences of specific development plans, programs and policies. In contrast to widely-used environmental impact assessment (EIA) taking place at the end of the decision-making process, SEA is conducted before all major decisions ...
From by-product to premium alcohol: ODC team visits Samai Distillery
Following the tradition to cover the activities of local sustainability champions in Cambodia, on June 21 ODC team visited Samai – a premium rum distillery based in Phnom Penh that breaks stereotypes of conventional alcohol business.ODC team visits the Samai Distillery. Photo by Daniel Aboagye, ...
Networking with our OD colleagues!
From 31 May to 1 June ODC launched a 2-days workshop to network with the Open Development Initiative (ODI) teams from Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos. The aim was to get to know each other better, increase knowledge and deepen skills related to WordPress and CKAN ...
ODC presents at the Kampong Cham BarCamp
On the 22 and 23 of June, the ODC team went to Kampong Cham to present at the BarCamp organized at the Chea Sim University of Kamchaymear. Although the event hosted fewer attendees than the previous one in Bantheay Meanchey, the ODC’s presentation on the ...
Workshop 2: Data-driven journalism
You have found an interesting topic to write about? Support your article with data! To learn more about data-driven journalism Open Development Cambodia, in cooperation with Cambodian Center for Independent Media, hosted the second two-day workshop for journalists and journalism students on May 24-25 2018. ...
ODC presents at the Bantheay Meanchey BarCamp
Participants are having group photo after the presentation.On May 25-26, 2018 the ODC team joined the Banteay Meanchey BarCamp. Being the second BarCamp conference organised in 2018, and the first time the event was taken place at the Meanchey University of the Banteay Meanchey province. ...
