The 3rd Mekong Information Communication Technology (ICT)
Location: The Sirindhorn Environment Park Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
On 06-10 May 2013
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| Mekong ICT Participants |
On 06-10 May 2013 Ms. Ork Samang, a member of Cambodian Young Women Activist on ASEAN (CYWA) joined the 3rd Mekong ICT at Sirindhon International Environment Park Cham-am, Thailand. There were 72 participants representing various countries such as Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, India, Berlin Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, United States.
The training workshop was designed as a platform that would facilitate the sharing learning of the most innovative information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong sub-region. The workshop was co-sponsored by Thai Fund Foundation, Opendream, Thai Citizen Network, Open Society Institute, SIPA, Fur Die Freiheit, Petronas, (PTT), Beyond Access, Techsoup Asia, and Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau (TCEB).
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| Mekong ICT in Cultural Dinner |
On the 1st day, the participants were asked to give a brief introductory presentation of themselves and which country they represented. Subsequently, the session began with welcoming remarks by Pissmai Khanobdee, Chair of Thai Fund Foundation, Dr. Rainer Adam, Mr. Nattapong Setavorarat, Advisor to the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Thailand. In their opening speech they are notable mentioned that this was the 3rd Mekong ICT Training Workshop. Having previously taken place twice before back in 2008 and again in 2010, all shared their enthusiasm for the success of this year’s Mekong ICT Workshop. Waltraut Ritter from Knowledge Dialogues presented “Open Data Developments across the Asia Pacific Region” which closed the morning session.
Follow a brief one hour lunch break, participant broke into two groups later joining one of two parallel workshops, “Introduction to Data” and “Community Cloud- sourcing”. Samang and eight other participants from Cambodia participated in the various workshops. One of which was presented by Patipat Susumpow, Arthit Suriyawongkul,Pirapa Sirawuttinaon from Open Dream which delved into the idea of open data and how access/download it from the online source. The first training sessions ran smoothly and all participants were keen on the topic and paid close attentions to the presentations and subsequent discussions.
The afternoon session was followed by a sharing session took place shortly after the parallel training sessions that afternoon during which participants were asked to share experiences and skills with their fellow participants. The Cambodian participants shared their experiences in organizing successful bar camps in rural areas.
Overall, in hindsight the workshop was a success and proved to be a good opportunity for the all of participants to discuss with other countries. The training was good for planning and deciding what to do next. There was a lot the be learned a lot from this training, such as an abundance of information on ICT and it was beneficial to share learning experiences among the various countries especially learning how each other overcame the adversity. And much was learned from others in the discussion group from people that come from other countries. In looking back, participants have built good relationship between each other and especially to share ideas with each other. Moreover, they have to learn and study properly and ask for what they want.
See the attach file: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6kPk4ncgDNyQ3FzdEdnQXlXOGM/edit
