Curious about who is working to build capacity in IT. Found some organizations/projects in the country and hope to speak with people involved.
Bar Camp, Oct 3-4, 2009
(http://barcampphnompenh.org) was held at Pannasasstra University (PUC); there are 1100+ people registered on the site as attending; sponsored by local and international companies.
Conical Hat Software
(http://www.conicalhat.com) Based in Phnom [...]
Some other groups working on capacity building. Kaushal recommended a few more groups to look into who are focused on IT capacity building in developing economies. Turns out Kasima and Alex will be coming to Uganda to work, in part, with Samasource, helping with trainings, I think in Lira (a few hours drive [...]
My work this summer is to find potential partners in Uganda with whom to develop technological projects to help with agricultural development. I think it was assumed we’d be developing the ICT parts in Berkeley over the next year. We are working in loose partnership with AppLab with the notion that we might have a [...]
Jon Gosier spoke with us about the current projects at Appfrica (http://appfrica.net), including among many, Question Box, a sort of 411 service, and Status Ug, a mobile social networking portal for Ugandans. We had all read papers about Question Box in various classes at Berkeley, so hearing about and seeing Question Box in [...]