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I just want to bring to everyone’s attention a couple of websites that I think are very useful to the Khmer online community.

Khmer Software Initiative promotes Khmer computer usage and online presence by developing software to allow web browsing and publishing in Khmer language. You can download Khmer Unicode, which allows you to read Khmer characters on many websites, including www.oudam.com. If you’re seeing blocks and funny characters in the song titles on this site, it means that Khmer Unicode is not properly installed on your computer. The site also offer free downloads of a Khmer e-mail application, web browser, word processor, and more.

Khmer IT for you is another site you should know about. Written almost entirely in Khmer (you’ll need Khmer Unicode to read it), the site offers tips and instructions on Khmer web applications and other IT-related topics. Khmer IT for you is the work of Chhor Ran (spelling?).

As a Cambodian American web developer who has made a living exclusively on the internet for the last ten years, I am thrilled to witness the growing interest in the internet by the Khmer community.

The web is an extremely powerful tool to inform, educate, entertain, exchange ideas, conduct business, and interact with one another. Oudam.com offers just a glimpse of what is possible through this medium. Thanks to word-of-mouth advertising by you, the visitor, this site continues to grow by leaps and bounds, in both traffic and content. We are currently receiving over 60,000 visits a month accounting for over half a million page views.

As we are living in an information age, it’s essential that our people keep up with this new technology to successfully compete with the rest of the world. Knowledge is power. Spending about 10 to 12 hours a day online, I am convinced that at least 90% of the entire body of human knowledge is accessible through the internet. Ultimately, it’s those who have access to and control the flow of information that thrive in new information-dependent global economy.

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Since its inception in last year, blogging training aka Personal Information Technology Workshop has introduced basic use of IT skills to more than 2000 students from 10 Cambodia’s universities.

After a few months of preparation, the workshop of Personal Information Technology has come to the stage. The first one was held at International University (IU) on Aug 21 with some 50 participants and the second was at Pannasastra University of Cambodia (PUC) with more than 400 students…

In August 2006, Mean Lux, the blogger advocate who introduced the term Clog and Clogger for Cambodia blog and Cambodia blogger, launched a workshop named Personal Information Technology to provide training that include several sessions such as: how to use email, browse the Web, and more importantly how to create and maintain blog. Up till now, more than 2000 university students participated in the organized workshops.

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** Oudam’s Comments **

As a Cambodian American blogger, I am very proud to hear about the expansion of blogging in my native country.

Awareness about blogging is essential to empowering the internet as a tool for the exchange of ideas and information and for building a stronger Cambodian community worldwide.

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