Archive for 2013

Mekong ICT Camp 2013

[Note: This is a 'placeholder' post until I have more time to web up my day-by-day notes.] Mekong ICT Camp: this year's  theme was 'Data Data' and held at the Srindhorn Environmental park in Cha-Am, Thailand. (Geeks at the beach!) I'd never expected to return and was gratified to share about ...

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I was tired. I was hungry. I had lots of other things to do. But wild horses couldn’t have kept me away from this year’s FilmCamp. Like the label says: it’s a meeting of film enthusiasts. In Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I’d first encountered the organizers ‘Kon Khmer Koun Khmer’ at their amazing ‘Golden ...

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Some very brief tidbits from Cambodia's first TechCamp! http://techcampphnompenh.wordpress.com So pleased to see the Open Development Cambodia team 'walk their talk'! That's my team! Above: US Ambassador Todd asked us to 'like' his Facebook page. (Not what I would ordinarily expect in a diplomatic intro. :D ) Yrs truly w/host (and blogger) Soma Norodom.  ...

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Some of the pre-war covers in an earlier post were mis-attributed to Hul Sophon, who set me straight in an interview not too long ago. http://jinja.apsara.org/2007/11/pulp-cambodia-novel-covers-hul-sophon/ He notes that both he and Uth Roeun had friendly competition with a locally based cover artist of Chinese background, called Ung Yuksuy.  Little is known ...

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‘The Last One’

It's a very small world. It seems that where ever I go,  Marin seems to turn up sooner or later. I first met him during a brief stint grant-writing at United Cambodian Community in Long Beach. Years later, after I moved to Cambodia, we both ended up working in Siem Reap. ...

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