Video Blogging in Rural Cambodian Province
Photo by MeanLux
Last August, I was invited organizers of the Cambodian Bloggers Summit to give a keynote and teach Web2.0 and video blogging workshops in Cambodia. I launched a personal fundraising campaign so I could help be a sponsor for the conference and get over there with video cameras, shwag (t-shirts and stickers donated by nonprofits and tech companies) and teaching resources. Folks from the video blogging community - like Jay Dedman, Ryanne Hodson and Coffee With Doug came up with the idea of video blogging kits and donated some cameras.
Mean Lux emailed to let me know that they had taken the cameras up to a Youth Festival and Training in a remote corner of Cambodia called Pursat! Viirak (the guy behind the stickered laptop) and Be Chantra were there to help. Mean Lux wrote a blog post, but it is in Khmer can't translate fully. May Mean Lux will drop a comment in english?
Videos to come shortly! Meanwhile, enjoy these photos. I am thinking now that Flickr 90 second video would be awesome, although I'm sure the Internet access in that remote province is definitely cell and slow ..
It's so awesome that this is beginning.
Sometimes it feels slow getting technology and communication to spread to places we don't usually hear about. But then I got to remember that it's a process. Keep pushing!
Posted by: jay dedman | May 06, 2008 at 09:45 AM
that's a nice experience !
( news from Cambodia on : http://www.netvibes.com/cambodia )
Posted by: Cambodia | May 15, 2008 at 05:17 AM