Dear All,<div><br></div><div>I thought I would share this here after reading Norbert's news about the regulatory approach in Cambodia. I was shocked and somewhat disappointed. Technology can be harnessed to teach students to be more responsible and to learn about their world. Even how we facilitate traditional curriculum has to be revamped. <div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://www.brightpathfoundation.org/perspectives/education-2-0-technology-enabled-learning-for-the-digital-age/">http://www.brightpathfoundation.org/perspectives/education-2-0-technology-enabled-learning-for-the-digital-age/</a> is an article written by Bevil Wooding, the Executive Director of BrightPath Foundation.</div>
<div><br></div><div><b><u>About the Youth TechCamp</u></b></div><div><br></div><div>We recently hosted a 7 day Youth Tech Camp see: <a href="http://youthtechcamp.brightpathfoundation.org/">http://youthtechcamp.brightpathfoundation.org/</a> where the first Module was on Introduction to ICT and Internet Governance and we had excellent facilitation from the likes of APNIC and a guest speaker from ICANN. Benjamin Mathews and I took the youth through critical building blocks and we organised learning from a Pacific perspective. These youth which included high school students, tertiary students and professionals under 35, I must admit the oldest one was 55 (it showed that people could not be kept away as they were equally eager to learn) developed key policy considerations on various challenges for 7 countries. 100 participants came from around 8 countries from around the Pacific. The material they developed will be sent to the various countries. This is part of a long term development strategy to build capacity so they can be active contributors in their countries, the Pacific region and global forums as well.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Module 2 was a Mobile App Development Training where youth were encouraged to harness local content and whilst the youth made lots of pitches, they settled for 5 and the youth worked on creating them and we had an awesome and fantastic time. The Apps were all civic apps (that was how the youth wanted it) :):) We had 80 participants in this Module.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The camp was also covered by the national and regional news, see: <a href="http://www.pasifikanexus.nu/media/press/">http://www.pasifikanexus.nu/media/press/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Warm Regards,</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sala<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Norbert Klein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nhklein@gmx.net" target="_blank">nhklein@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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According to <i>The Cambodia Daily</i> of
Friday, 7 December 2012, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications
has recently issued a decree that says, among other points:<b>
</b>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><b>No Internet Cafe is allowed to
operate
within an area closer than 500 meters from any school.
</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Given the fact that Phnom Penh, the
capital city of Cambodia, has many schools, it has to be assumed
that
not many regions remain outside of these 500-m-circles around all
schools; it also has to be assumed that the majority of already
existing
Internet Cafes, located in areas of social activities including
schools, will have to close down.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">This order is issued to supposedly
protect young people from bad influences: Violating “traditions”,
exposing them to pornography, preventing them from playing
prohibited
games – but none of these issues has any clear definition. And
there is no clarity about the legal authority to interpret and
enforce these measures.<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">The regulation is also to protect
users
from using drugs, doing money laundering, kidnapping, and human
trafficking – all these activities are anyway illegal – their
prohibiting is covered by different laws – why include these in
the
new order on to Internet Cafes?<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">As for some context: according to a
recent survey, there are more than 600,000 Facebook users in
Cambodia. Many of them do not have computers, but access the
Internet from Internet Cafes.<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">=</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Of course I know that the Dubai
conference is dealing with many important issues on a different
level. But I find it really surprising that these regulations come
forward while – I assume – also Cambodian government
representatives are attending the ITU conference in Dubai.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">I wanted to share this information –
shocking in its general scope, and at the same time extremely
vague. I would of course appreciate to receive comments, which I
then might share locally. </p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Norbert Klein<br>
Phnom Penh<br>
Cambodia</p>
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