Allow sometime to let it arrived your inbox (also check your ‘Trash’, sometimes it can goes there).
For those who didn’t make the cut, it may not mean you are not good enough. We just have limited seats, and try to scope the selection to focused on the theme of this year Camp. We looking forward to see your applications again in Mekong ICT Camp 2012.
Thank you every applicants and thank you our selection committee for their dedicated job.
Update on the application processing.
We received almost 200 applications from almost all around the world.
A lesson learned here that, with this amount of applications, it is very laborious to handle all of them using e-mail. As every form has to be copied into a single well-formed database/document for committee to review. (and, again, even we already said in the form that please return it in plain text, almost everybody do attachment. which means more clicks and work to do).
Next time, we should use a more automated system, like an online form that applicants can directly put things into database. Committee can also access and make suggestions directly thru this database.
Selection process is expected to start by this Monday. Sorry for this delayed.
Yesterday, The World Bank Group has made available more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics. The public can access all these data for free.
Access method for the moment is by manually downloading each data set. But by this mid 2010 these data will be programmatically accessible thru web API.
Data like these can be processes in a number of ways and for many purposes, from public education to policy making. Many local governments and organizations around the world now moving towards a more transparent, more efficient, and more participating governance thru this kind of open data initiatives.
From World Bank press release:
The decision─part of a larger effort to increase access to information at the World Bank─means that researchers, journalists, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), entrepreneurs and school children alike will be able to tap into the World Bank’s databases via a new website, data.worldbank.org.
Experts say the Bank’s open data initiative has the potential to stimulate more evidence-based policymaking in developing countries by bringing more researchers and innovative analysis into the development process. The move is also likely to stimulate demand for data and increase countries’ capacity to produce it, they say.
And, for the first time, data will be available in languages other than English, with an initial 330 indicators translated into French, Spanish and Arabic.
“It’s important to make the data and knowledge of the World Bank available to everyone,” World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick said. “Statistics tell the story of people in developing and emerging countries and can play an important part in helping to overcome poverty.”
The World Bank Open Data website can be access at http://data.worldbank.org.
Example: Data of Lao PDR, with indicator figures and charts (below)
There’re situations where you can’t access your favourite website because your ISP ‘accidentally’ blacklisted it somehow. Most of the time, a proxy service is an easy way to get around.
Anyway, find a nice public proxy server is difficult. And once you got it, it’s possible that it will gone away very soon. So it’s a good idea to set up your own. And it will be even better if you can have it FOR FREE 
This video tutorial by Digital Inspiration, shows you how to create a free proxy server with Google App Engine. In short, App Engine is a Google’s service that let you run a computer code on its server, for free. So we just put a code for proxy service into our App Engine space, and we will got our very own personal proxy server.
Want to run a web server but can’t find any power socket? No problem … if you have some potatoes.
Spud is the name for the world’s lowest power consuming web server that runs on raw potato power. That’s right Spud uses potatoes for power, about 5-6 of them and serving around 0.2 hits/sec, which means it will not survive any kind of digg effect unless it uses toothpicks
The instructions for making one are here. It uses Microchip PIC16F876 as a CPU.
via !space mailing list
Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution, by Christopher Marsden, School of Law, University of Essex.
Abstract: Chris Marsden argues for a ‘Middle Way’ on net neutrality, a problem of consumer and media policy without easy answers that cannot be left to self-regulated market actors. His holistic solution considers ISPs’ roles in the round, including their ‘Three Wise Monkeys’ legal liabilities for content filtering. Co-regulation is an awkward compromise between state and private regulation, with constitutionally uncertain protection for end-users and the appearance of a solution with only partial remedy against private censorship.
Keywords: network neutrality, Internet policy, co-regulation, self-regulation, media policy, law and economics, censorship
The book is released under Creative Commons license, and can be downloaded for free.
Kannel is a compact and very powerful open source WAP and SMS gateway, used widely across the globe both for serving trillions of short messages (SMS), WAP Push service indications and mobile internet connectivity.
Kannel works on Linux free software platform.
Photos tagged “mekongictcamp” from Klaikong’s Flickr.
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 immediately. Visa application process may takes long time.
