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Announcement: deadline extended – applications accepted til April 10. Last call.

We would like to announce that the application period is extended to Saturday, April 10. Information on applying for Mekong ICT Camp. Also if you need invitation letter for visa application to visit Thailand, please do contact neriga [at] tff.or.th … Continue reading

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TechCrunch: Build Engaging Facebook Fan Pages

TechCrunch just published a nice article on “How to Build Engaging One-of-Kind Facebook Fan Pages”. It shows limitations of Facebook, and techniques and tools to get around and make use the full potential from Facebook. TechCrunch is a blog company … Continue reading

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Culture jamming: make believe, make disbelieve

Social change is usually starts with the questions to the norm, the typical, the status quo, the non-question parts, the ‘normal’. One of the interesting techniques that we can use to spark the question is culture jamming. Culture jamming, a … Continue reading

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Geek events in SE Asia around June 2010

FYI, and for your itinerary planning around Southeast Asia during June 2010: Centre for Internet and Society (India) May 22-23 -BarCamp Bangkok 4 May 22 – BarCamp Bangkok 3.5 June 1-2 – Echelon 2010, Singapore (web technology startups) June 7-11 … Continue reading

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Media Arts and Design space: a venue for BarCamp Chiang Mai 3+Mekong?

Last week we went to Chiang Mai surveying venues for BarCamp Chiang Mai 3+Mekong. Here are the photos from Media Arts and Design space, Chiang Mai University, in which we are under investigation if it possible to use this as … Continue reading

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Flyer Flyer Flyer: spread the words about Mekong ICT with this flyer :)

Help spread the words about the camp to your local hacker-, journalist-, and social worker communities, with this handy A4 flyer (PDF) hashtag: #mekongict

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DATE CHANGED: Mekong ICT Camp — June 7-12, 2010

With a confirmation from the venue, SCB Training Center in Chiang Mai, we now confirmed the date for Mekong ICT Camp 2010 and BarCamp Mekong 2010. Mekong ICT Camp 2010: June 7-11 (Monday-Friday) at SCB Training Center. BarCamp Mekong/Chiang Mai: … Continue reading

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UPDATE: Participants from outside Mekong is very welcome

With a lot of requests, we decided to make the application criteria more open geographically. Participants are now welcome from EVERY countries and territories. We believe that experiences from participants outside Mekong will further benefits Mekong campers. On proportion, about … Continue reading

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Advocate the rights, including rights for equal access. Think Universal Design.

Building a very beautiful website or a very cool community space that very few people can access to is of no point. That’s why we have to have universal design in mind from the start. From Wikipedia: Universal design refers … Continue reading

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IT and Universal Access: It’s not only about technology. Appropriate policy and legal framework are needed.

A good piece on universal access to information and information technology, as fundamental rights, from the Center for Internet and Society India: India Needs Policy Formulation for IT and Web Accessibility. While some measures are already deployed by the Indian … Continue reading

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