Phnom Penh Lab Blog

Village Volunteers Were trained on how to use TB Lab Result Alert System

2011-12-14T22:30:08-08:00

After finished training to 5HCs(Speu, Sopheas, Chamka Kaosou, Daun Thy, Chamka Andong) + 1 Lab (Chamkarleu Laboratory) and 10 HCs (Krala, Kien Chrey, Koh Samrong, VihearThom, Peam Chylaing, Koh Roka, Koh Sotin, Peam Prathnous, Moha Khnoung, PreakKak) + 3 Labs (Peam Prathnous, Preak Kak,Kampong Cham), All the village volunteers(DOTs) under the supervisor of 5 health center in Chamkarleu OD were trained on 11th - 13th October 2011.

TB Result Alert System TOT & HC Pilot training

2011-12-14T22:32:37-08:00

The current turnaround time for Health Center to submit smear to laboratory and gettingresult back is within 1-2 weeks. The delay of receiving lab result can be developedto 2 problems.

Malaria Day Zero Alert System Pilot Training

2011-12-14T22:37:12-08:00

As day-3 reporting model has proved to be an effective mechanism for reporting cases by SMS, and in light of the move towards the elimination of malaria in Cambodia, it has been decided to scale up the system day-0 reporting of all Pf cases from VMWs and health facilities. As the number of cases will be higher for day-0 than day-3 and given the probable need for more widespread implementation it has been decided to move to a more robust internet based platform.

GeoChat used by PSI in Laos

2011-12-14T22:38:17-08:00

PSI had been using SMS communication way to disseminate health messages to their target group about 1000 members. The used to contracted to local telco in Lao telecom to disseminate message for them. Difficulties they encountered were:

Dynamic Resource Mapping

2011-12-14T22:38:42-08:00

iLab team started working on project “Dynamic Resource Mapping” . This project is aim to provide mapping of any facility or resource and be able to update and query the resource availability via SMS, Web interface. The scope of this project is:Read more »

January Developer Camp

2011-12-14T22:39:09-08:00

Developer Camp is a new group activity initiated by ShareVision team for local developer community to have a monthly meeting for sharing knowledge and idea.

This group is similar to BarCamp but targeted audience is developer and do it monthly. This activity was running since the last two month at InSTEDD iLab(iLab provided venue for the event). The event is schedule to do for every end of the month. Read more »

InSTEDD at Phnom Penh Barcamp

2009-10-21T03:21:36-07:00

Phnom Penh Barcamp was done on 3rd and 4th of October 2009. there ware approximately 600 participants.

Picture of participants

InSTEDD banner

All participants could choose topics and do the presentation. At that time InSTEDD had two topics, one is GeoChat which was done by Mann, and another one is Mesh4X which was done by Sopheap.

Mann was doing GeoChat presentation at BarCamp

Sopheap and Sergio were doing Mesh4x presentation

Participants was testing Mesh4x

I found a good picture of InSTEDD(Channe, Mann and Kakada) and ShareVision team together, but why in front of the toilet?

Survey at Koh Kong

2009-10-21T03:29:17-07:00

We are doing the survey translation.

We provided the technology for Khmer CDC in order to use for outbreak detection.
During the meeting between the RRT from the 24 provinces at Koh Kong, we created questionnaire for those RRTs and also we created interview survey question for interviewing them.

Our goal of the trip to Koh Kong is to get the InSTEDD technology usage feedback from all of them.

Channe is doing the GeoChat presentation

The RRTs who joined the confference

Share Vision - Bridging gap between university/school and work

2009-08-31T00:45:10-07:00

A month ago a group of IT people from InSTEDD and Yoolk started sharing their interest of finding way to use their skill and experience to help Cambodia society. They have ambition to improve the standard of IT capacity in Cambodia.

Finally they come with the conclusion to form a volunteer group name Share Vision to share their experience and skill to student at university/school based on the fact that There is big gap between university/school education and the work reality . Share Vision team goal is to welcome volunteer from any fields to share what they know that is need at work, what is a good practice so that student could have expose to those skills that they might not have in their curriculum. In that student can improve their skill and more ready with job market competition.

On August 27th, the team gave a first talk to BBU student. There are about 60 students attending, almost all of them are in 3rd and 4th year and majority coming from IT field. No one among them got job yet, most of them are actually looking for job.

The main topic talked in that day is "Version Control", the team chose that topic because they see that almost every work place nowadays using version control. And surprisingly non of the student attended have heard about Version Control before. Student have shown their interest to share vision and they have requested team to

Arrange the talk for other field as well such "Civil Engineering", "Banking" ...etc

Suggesting to have other topic talk on "Website design", "Database design" ...

Suggesting to have this kind of sharing to the high school student as well, to helping them having clear goal for their future

Share Vision team is very proud with their first talk and hoping to have to have more contribution from other volunteers.

Mini barcamp at iLab on 1st August

2009-08-04T04:39:02-07:00

The events at InSTEDD on that Saturday having about 24 Participants.

These are the topic that had been presented and discussed.

1. GeoChat (Mann, Channe)
2. Google App (Thomas)
3. Tweet Cambodia (John)
4. Prezi - another way of doing presentation (Makara)
5. Khmer Blooging
6. Barcamp Phnom Penh Update

A GeoChat Group bcpp was created in that sessions and have participants join the group and messaging to each other.

The same event will happen in next Saturday, same time and place.

Second mini barcamp at iLab

2009-07-28T20:50:24-07:00

Phnom Penh barcamp organizers arranged second mini barcamp 2h on 25th July, 2009 and InSTEDD provide iLab office for the event. There are about 30 participants coming.

Topics in the event are:

1. Introduction about Agile methodology (Samnang)
2. Introduction to Solaris (Paul)
3. Twitter (Virak)
4. ICANN (Norbert)
5. Discussion about Mobile Application (by Mann)
6. Discussion about IT community knowledge sharing to student(Long)
7. Sharing life expereriece during study in Japan (Sopheap)
8. Overal discussion about how to improve barcamp (Chetra)

Mini Barcamp campaign at iLab

2009-07-28T20:36:04-07:00

Barcamp organizers have set up a first mini barcamp campaign on July 18th, 2009 at InSTEDD iLab for 2 hours and there are about 17 participants.

First hour is go to the introduction to those who new to Barcamp to know about what barcamp is and show the last year barcamp event. After that all participants have a brief talk about the technology that they or their company/organizaton doing. the end is about general discuss about organizing barcamp event.

(below is the photos from the event)

Channe's view of America

2009-05-13T19:15:22-07:00

I work with InSTEDD as the lead engineer at our Innovation Lab in Phnom Penh. I just spent one month in an IT training in the United States. My colleague, Mary Jane, asked me to share some of my observations as a Cambodian visiting the United States for the first time.

It was a great opportunity to learn about a democratic country. I had the chance to meet with many people and share experiences with them and learn from them about America culture and living.

America is a very disciplined country from my point of view. Government officers and the people obey the law. Police are everywhere to protect people and penalize the one’s who break the law.

I met with many Cambodian families there, including my colleagues’ relatives in Long Beach. They took us sightseeing and we had dinner then several times outside and at their home. Those Cambodian Americans are very friendly and they made us feel like we are one big family. One auntie we met works in US government social work. She told us that the US government oversees all the citizen employment by a citizen security number. This allows the government to know many people are unemployed all the time and help them financially during their jobless. To me, this kind of government service is excellent; it shows the government is taking care of their own people, and that the employed can pay their salary tax so the government can still keep supporting those who need help. That is the culture of sharing and generosity, I hope that in the near future Cambodia can also adopt this system.

I also noticed that when you purchase anything, from food to clothing to electronics, all are taxed and recorded in a system. That’s amazing! Your government has an very effective system in collecting tax.

As like every country, beside the amazing services and environment, there are still some areas in America which are unsecure. I hope you enjoyed my reflections on America. I hope you come to visit Cambodia and share your impressions.

First Hello world of the month

2008-12-09T02:44:37-08:00

On the last Friday morning the team here in Cambodia voted for Web Feed as the topic of our first hello world of the month. We had spent half day google around the web where we find the definition, types, and specifications of syndicated feed. More exciting time actually started at the afternoon of the day when we begin applying the concept into coding. Reading RSS Feed from other sites and generating RSS Feed for our site are the objectives of the day.

We had read:

What is web feed? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed
RSS 2.0 specification http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html
Atom syndication introduction http://www.atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/#whatIsAtom
RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 Compared http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared
Atomic RSS http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/07/27/Atomic-RSS
Create RSS feed reader http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial147_Creating-an-RSS-feed-reader-in-Csharp.html