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What we can do is suggest you an accom nearby, Baan Plaidoi (reservation), it’s 15 mins drive to the Camp.

Or an accom in the city: Holiday Garden (reservation) and Chiang Mai Flora (info [at] chiangmaiflora.com). Or any place in that Huay Keaw or Nimmanhemin areas). Some instructors stay in Holiday Garden. Chiang Mai Flora is near BarCamp venue on June 12.

We will provide local transportation between these accommodations and the Camp daily.

See this map to make your decisions: Mekong ICT Camp map.

Timetable for 2010 Camp is now available [pdf]. While we say it’s a draft version, the actual one, that we going to have during June 7-12, will be more or less identical to this version.

Noted that while in the timetable stated that we have three tracks (information-management, communication-advocacy, technology-infrastructure) in three rooms, this 2010 Camp will have one spare room for any ad-hoc session. So in total we will actually have four rooms, three planned and one ad-hoc.

As always emphasized, we encouraged everybody to present their ideas or host their own sessions during Mekong ICT Camp and also in BarCamp Chiang Mai a day after. Some of the BarCampers always registered are include those from Sierra Leone, Hong Kong, Kolkata, Yangon, Hamburg, Knaresborough, and Chittagong. This is YOUR international chance.

The Camp will be held on June 7-12, 2010, in Chiang Mai.

Situation in Bangkok is calmed down. Chiang Mai is safe. Camp venue and transportation are unaffected. We continue our plan for the camp — no change.

Of your interest, news about general situation in Thailand can be read from many news outlets, for English-language ones they include CNN – Thailand, BBC Asia-Pacific, The Independent [UK] – Asia, Times Online [UK] – Asia, and Aljazeera – Asia-Pacific. You can also follow this “bangkok-redshirt-protest” list by @timokl1, a German lives in Bangkok, and this “conflict-in-bangkok” list by @emjacobi of Digital Democracy.

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.

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.

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.

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