The Open Institute is a non-governmental not-for-profit organization that envisions Cambodia a country where people have equal access to knowledge, information and technology. Its mission is to facilitate communication and knowledge sharing for social development. At present, the Open Institute runs six programs: Khmer Software Initiative, Women Empowerment for Social Change, Open Schools Program, Open Learning, Publications and Lexicography. Our outstanding expertise is the strategic use of Information Communication Technology for Social Development.

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The Queen of Spain visits the Open Schools Program - Press release

The Queen of Spain visits the Open Schools Program, a joint initiative of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and the Open Institute to use ICT to improve the quality of Education in Cambodia.

SofĂ­a, Queen of Spain, visited today the National Institute of Education (NIE), entity of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport in charge of training all the upper secondary school teachers in Cambodia.

At NIE the Queen visited the installations of the Open Schools Program, an initiative to integrate ICT in Khmer language in the education system.

 

Cambodian Education System Changes to Khmer Language Free and Open Source Software

At a massive ceremony that took place on 22 January 2008, the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport presented its new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Textbook for all schools that have computers, all universities and all teacher training facilities.

The new textbook teaches the use of Khmer language Free and Open Source applications, such as OpenOffice, Mekhala (Firefox) and Moyura (Thunderbird), which have been fully translated to Khmer language (Cambodian). It follows eight months of intensive training during which all new upper secondary school ICT teachers, all ICT teachers at upper secondary schools that have computers, and all ICT Master Trainers from teacher training facilities have been trained to teach this type of software, as well as to maintain their computer facilities. The books are distributed together with a letter from the Ministry indicating that from now on this should be the materials to be taught.

 

KhmerOS: Cambodian project selected as one the two best development project that uses Information Technology to improve economic

The KhmerOS/Open Schools Program initiative - a Cambodian multi-stakeholder project - was selected as a finalist to the Stockholm Challenge/GKP Award, nominating it as one the two projects that best use ICT to produce economic development. The Sweden-based Stockholm Challenge Award is the most prestigious award for projects that use technology to support development in developing countries.