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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

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Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?" (He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0 Development Conference in Rome last September). Ping him over at his blog.

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BlogHers, Gender Blogging, and Linux Chix in Cambodia!

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Click To Play Here a round up of some the fabulous women Bloghers in Cambodia and Linux Chix that I met. It had nothing to do with saving the world or strengthening Cambodia???s Some points that DeeDee made that perfectly illustrate the usefulness of blogs in educational context: Blogging helped her English improve.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

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Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper. to track personal fundraising campaigns.

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

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In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty. It isn’t perfect.

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Interview with Lux Mean: Teaching Cambodians in Rural Areas To Blog

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He is currently training young people in Cambodia's provincial areas how to blog. Mean was only recently introduced to blogs and the organization got the idea of doing a blog projects from one of Cambodia's better known bloggers, Ex-King. How can other bloggers who are interested in Cambodia encourage or support your project?

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

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Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. It's an open source free web meeting service. It isn't dumb dumb. You can read more about the campaign on their blog.

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Penguin Day Reflections: OS as FairTrade, OS Feminism, and OS - the Next Generation

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Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. " (Interesting that KhmerOS had a table at the Cambodia Fair Trade Expo ). Penguin Days. What are the best practices?