Monthly Archives: April 2014
Open Data Handbook Translate-a-thon
Photo Credit: Emanuel Feld (CC BY-SA) A dozen young Cambodians and expatriates gathered in a ground floor meeting space off of Wat Bottum Park in the morning of April 20, 2014. After a round of introductions and snacks, laptops were opened and participants began the task of translating the 9752-word Open Data Handbook from English to Khmer.What is the Open Data Handbook, you ask? It is a widely accessible resource that answers the following questions: 1) what is open data? 2) why open data? 3) how does one go about opening data? 4) and what can one do with data once it has been opened? The Handbook was first written in English by members of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Since 2010, volunteers have organized to translate it into eighteen other languages.The event arose from discussions between Emanuel Feld and Penhleak Chan of Open Development Cambodia, and Vantharith Oum of the local Open Knowledge chapter. Each of us sought an engaging way to build a local community around the concept ...
Introducing ODC website in CRRT meeting
Cambodians for Resource Revenue TransparencyOn April 03, 2014, Mr. Thy Try, ODC Executive Director and Ms Pich Ratana, ODC Editor – Researcher, were invited to deliver a presentation at Cambodians for Resource Revenue Transparency (CRRT). This meeting was organized by CRRT aiming to present on ...