Category: Tech
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NHAM24: Ordering food online in Cambodia is totally possible
I’m on a mission to experience Cambodia’s recent innovation. In Silicon Valley, I rely on technology to solve everything from transportation to banking. My phone has become one of my most important possessions as it enables me to manage almost all aspects of my life with just a few taps. In Cambodia, I don’t often turn…
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Wikipedia Meetup Hits Town
The third Wikipedia meet-up will be organized this Saturday at 2pm at Emerald Hub at Phnom Penh International University (tentative). Greater Mekong Research Centre led byExecutive Director Anirudh Singh Bhati is behind this event. Since this will be about the English Wikipedia and how to create English Wikipedia articles, this event requires participants to have an Intermediate…
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Tech Ladies Bring Silicon Valley to Phnom Penh
Author: Chav An Chin Cambodians in Tech, just as it sounds, aims to increase the number of Cambodians in the tech industry through community, education, and inspiration. Thought it was set up in the Silicon Valley in the US, it is also a community which encourages a Cambodian in Tech to meet another Cambodian in Tech. Besides its…
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Maya Gilliss-Chapman on connecting Phnom Penh with Silicon Valley
Maya Gilliss-Chapman, a Cambodian-born American, came to our attention when she recently hosted a hackathon and challenge “Silicon Valley to Phnom Penh” in which more than 10 groups of young Cambodians in Phnom Penh participated by coming up with the best innovative idea. Back in Silicon Valley, the organization she founded a few years ago, Cambodians in Tech, aims at…
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What are Cambodia’s local mobile apps?
If you look at impacts of smartphones on Cambodian society, undeniably they have become tools close to the heart of those users. They can access important information or news on social media or the Internet (that might be censored in the mainstream media.) Academically and professionally, people can now carry their light-weight smartphone anywhere they go…
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Sovichet’s Take on Social Media in Cambodia
We’re living in a modern society and, absolutely, with technology. Internet, part of technology, is the most important thing now, and as some people put it, has become one of the basic needs. It has helped human beings create sort of a new society. Sometimes we find ourselves living in a very virtual society which…
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iPhone-Taken Photos of Phnom Penh
Nowadays, my favourite paste time is taking pictures with my iPhone 5S. I used two Nokia phones (feature phones) which dropped out of my pocket unknowingly, and a Samsung S3 phone which cost me $515 but a year later dropped to $315. T_T I was told that the cost of Android phones depreciates fast. That’s…