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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/18/2013 4:00 AM, Ilda Simao wrote:<br>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font size="2" face="Arial">Dear
Norbert,</font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">As I am cleaning up the Community
Grants data base, I noticed that the project "Khmer OS
Software Initiative", for which the Cambodia Chapter received
a grant in 2005 has an incomplete status. I believe from
previous discussions that this project was completed, however
the final reports are missing and that may explain this
status. Would you mind checking if you still have the project
final report and send it to me, so that I can change this
status.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">We have recently changed the
Community Grants Rules, and anyone (Chapter or Individual
member) with an incomplete project status, is not eligible to
receive a new Community grant. I would like to prevent this
situation in case the Cambodia Chapter decides to apply for a
new grant.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I look forward to hearing from
you.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Kind regards,</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Ilda Simao</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Community Grants Coordinator</font></div>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Dear Ilda,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">thanks for your mail – it is
interesting that this question comes up just now – in 2013
relating
to a grant towards the Khmer OS Software Initiative in 2005, for
which I had asked in the name of the ISOC Cambodia Chapter in the
early stages of its formation: not for an ISOC program, but to
support something important for the whole country. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">I take note of your information that
no
chapter and no individual member (?can these also receive ISOC
grants?) is eligible to receive a new grant that has an incomplete
project status - “ in case the Cambodia Chapter decides to apply
for a new grant” as you informed me.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Had ISOC HQ informed me sooner after
2005 that you have incomplete records, we surely would have tried
to
clarify this earlier.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">As the records at your office surely
show, our Chapter had our Inaugural Assembly only in 2010.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Let me give a detailed report,
including the context and subsequent developments, as the original
seems to be missing. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">I write from memory (while traveling
to
a place where I have Internet access – where I live now there is
none, because all “line of sight” signals are prevented to come
in by the surrounding mountains).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">At that time I was working in the Open
Forum of Cambodia, where we had achieved already in 1994 to create
the first access to the Internet in Cambodia – only via UUCP with
slow and expensive international phone line connections to San
Francisco, then in 1996 I created the ccTLD .kh and administered
it
for three years before handing it to the Ministry of Post and
Telecommunications. Then in 1998 or so, I took the initiative and
was
for a long time the only person in Cambodia trying to get the
Unicode
consortium to work with native Cambodian speakers, and in
Cambodia,
and not only with outside experts, in codifying the Khmer script.
After Khmer was codified (in a way which disregarded the - by then
created - Cambodian government commission's opinion), a new
competent
colleague – Javier Solá formerly active in the Spanish Internet
Users Association - joined the Open Forum of Cambodia as a
volunteer,
and early in 2004 we started to create Unicode based, localized,
Khmer Open Source software, which could run both on the Microsoft
Windows and on the SuSE Linux platforms. By now, also Ubuntu Linux
software has been localized in Khmer. A wide variety of localized
applications in the Khmer language for office use and for
communication is available since several years. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The grant you refer to now was helpful
in addition to the personal and institutional resources with which
this care for the use of the Khmer script and language had begun
earlier on, and continues until today.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">In 2008 the Ministry of Education
Youth
and Sports of Cambodia was happy to accept what we had done over
the
years, and it is now the official software for the Ministry, the
teacher training colleges, and of course for the schools under the
Ministry that have computers, and the same software basis is used
widely in government, industry, commerce, and NGOs.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Have a look here at the Ministry's
website:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><a href="http://moeys.gov.kh/">http://moeys.gov.kh/</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The<b> </b><span style="font-weight:
normal">site
for the </span><span style="font-weight: normal">E</span><span
style="font-weight: normal">n</span><span style="font-weight:
normal">glish
version</span><span style="font-weight: normal"> </span><span
style="font-weight: normal">of
the </span><b>Master Plan for Information and Communication
Technology in Education, 2009 to 2013 </b><b>(</b><span
style="font-weight: normal">
downloadable</span><span style="font-weight: normal">) says:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><a
href="http://moeys.gov.kh/en/policies-and-strategies/73-policies/92-master-plan-on-ict-in-education.html">http://moeys.gov.kh/en/policies-and-strategies/73-policies/92-master-plan-on-ict-in-education.html</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.49in; margin-bottom: 0in"><b>In alignment
with its Education Strategic Plan 2009-2013, MoEYS is
introducing
various initiatives to make better use of information and
communication technologies (ICT)... to produce a workforce for
the
country both technologically productive and able to think
critically.</b></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.49in; margin-bottom: 0in"><br>
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The software in this Master Plan is
based on the software development by the Open Institute (the Open
Forum had come to an end in 2006 – I doubt that any documents of
this defunct organization are left), but the relevant staff moved on
into the newly created Open Institute, and we continued the work
there.
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">I point to some sections of the
English
translation of the <b>Master Plan for Information and
Communication
Technology in Education</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> </span><span
style="font-weight: normal">of
the Ministry of Education which may be of interest also to
others,
where </span><span style="font-weight: normal">there are </span><span
style="font-weight: normal">concerns,
shared by Civil Society in many countries, which are important
to
make information and communication technology tools easily
available
where economic resources are scarce. </span><span
style="font-weight: normal">So
I share this report also with the Chapter-delegates list. The
detailed Maser Plan says among others:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.49in; margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font
color="#000000"><font face="tima-Regular, serif"><font size="3">-
Students will learn to recognize which software they can use
freely
and share (as in the case of Free and Open Source Software),
and
which software is proprietary, requires payment for the use
of a
license, and cannot be shared with others...</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.49in; margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font
color="#000000"><font face="tima-Regular, serif"><font size="3">-
Only applications that have been legally procured will be
taught in
the education system, and manufacturers must show that their
software
cannot be easily attacked by viruses or malware.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.49in; margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font
size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="tima-Regular, serif"><span
lang="en-US">-
Software will be licensed either through the GNU General
Public
License (GPL) or the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL).
Content will
be licensed through a Creative Common Attribution License,
allowing
commercial use of the materials (to encourage private
development of
better materials...</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="tima-Regular, serif"><span
lang="en-US">)</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.49in; margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font
color="#000000"><font face="tima-Regular, serif"><font size="3">-
The use of standards is the key to scaling the use of ICT.
National
and international standards will be used in the deployment
of this
Master Plan. These include the Unicode character encoding
standard
(ISO 10646). The NiDA Standard Unicode Keyboard V1 defined
by the
National ICT Development Authority in 2005, or later
standards, but
only if they are fully compatible with the prior one. The
Open
Document international (ODF) standard (ISO 26300:2006) will
be used
for office documents</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.49in; margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font
color="#000000"><font face="tima-Regular, serif"><font size="3">-
The Ministry will tend to use Open Source Software whenever
possible
for its own databases and back-office.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.49in; margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><br>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="tima-Regular, serif"><font
size="3">Let
me say in closing that the Khmer OS Initiative became
operational
before it received support from ISOC for it expansion, and, as
it had
during several years about 20 full time staff, the ISOC
support was
important during an early stage, but it covered only a small
portion
of the finances applied over the years. </font></font></font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#000000"><font
face="tima-Regular, serif"><font size="3">If
there are any further questions, please let me know.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#000000"><font
face="tima-Regular, serif"><font size="3">Norbert
Klei<font size="3">n<br>
</font></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="tima-Regular, serif"><font size="3">at
present a member of the ISOC-KH Chapter Executive Committee</font></font></font>
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