Are Wearable Technologies and Mobile Apps Improving Health in Cambodia?

Do you remember, years ago, when the gadget on your wrists just told the time? That seems like a lifetime ago, as in the current day, people are learning about their heart rate, counting calories, and being motivated to exercise. Devices like the Apple Watch and Fitbits are helping people track their health. And for many more, so is the smartphone in their pocket.

Why fixed scope contracts might freeze your innovation

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. — Mark Twain” Developing software systems -and I’d dare to say all systems– implies mastering the arts of uncertainty and complexity. Uncertainty, because it is...

Partnership Perspective: SPIDER & iLabSEA – ICT4D

Six years ago, in 2011, the Swedish Program for ICT4D in Developing Regions Program (SPIDER) began a multi-year technology, research, design, development and deployment collaboration with the InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia office (iLab SEA). The common shared goal between the organizations was to assist efforts in Cambodia around knowledge sharing and innovative implementation of information communication technology for development (ICT4D).

New App Teaches Children in Khmer Writing

Recent research from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has shown that students in Grade 3 struggle with writing proficiency in their native language, with a 65% failure rate at writing sentences correctly. Their vocabulary is limited, and their dictation...