The overall theme of our programs is to facilitate communication, knowledge sharing and gender equity through strategic use of ICT and the use of Khmer language.
At present, the Open Institute runs six programs:

• Khmer Software Initiative
• Open Schools Program
• Women Empowerment for Social Change
• Open Learning
• Publications
• Lexicography

Facilitating the technological development of the country in an egalitarian way through the use of the local language and Free and Open Source Software in ICT. Allowing the teaching of ICT in NGOs, schools, and its use in Small and Medium Enterprises and the government. Reducing the digital divide by giving access to jobs that require the use of computer to people who have not had access to learning a foreign language.
We also participate in the development of Open Source tools and methodology to facilitate localization of software in developing countries (WordForge project)
For more information and regular update, please visit KhmerOS

The Open Schools Program - Cambodia is a joint project of the the Open Institute and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Royal Government of Cambodia, who are working together to use ICT to improve the quality of education.

Networking, through the strategic use of ICT, of all organizations working on women’s issues and gender equality in Cambodia. Its program activities include:

• To provide a women’s web portal as a channel for Cambodian women’s organizations to share their information, introduce their activities to other organizations, and network.
  • To organize editorial advisory group meetings​​​​ to review different aspects of women’s issues, and propose the direction on which the portal will develop, or the information that it should include, and the guidelines for the editorials.
  • To provide electronic tools such as mailing lists, blogs, forums, and to actively promote and encourage women and men to share their thoughts, opinions, and experiences related to their life styles and to gender equity issues.
• To organize women’s forums, as free spaces for open discussion on women-related topics.
• To provide training courses for women on the use of Information Communication and Technologies (ICTs). The training also will provide female participants knowledge on the rights related to ICT.

Providing the necessary e-learning know-how and free local language tool for Cambodian training institutions to be able to produce and manage their own e-learning courses.

An open space on the internet with weekly editorial and news from Cambodia to encourage social and political discussion and the habit of communication.
The publication is accessible on the Internet at cambodiamirror.wordpress.com