PowerPoint presentation of Open Development Cambodia website.

1. Open Development Cambodia
a ‘one-stop shop’ for free economic
data

2. Open Source

3. ‘Creative Commons’
• What do you share on your Open Source computer?
– Open Content
– Open Data.

4. Open… everything!
• Open Source is part of a much larger area of ‘open’ activity.

5. Open Data
• Data of public interest should be
– freely available to everyone to use
– republish as they wish.

6. Data.Gov
• The USA’s public data portal
– Raw and organized data
– Collected by the government using tax money

7. Open Data – World Bank Site
• Open Data sites and movements take a broad approach
• They are not political
• Open Data sites are emerging everywhere: The World Bank

8. Open Data is spreading to…
• The United Kingdom, Hong Kong, India, Kenya

9. Open Data Kenya

10. • Most Open Data projects cooperate and assist each other in their efforts.
Our project takes inspiration from: FutureGov.Asia,

11. • the leading edge in exploring these efforts, the Peer To Peer Foundation.

12. Open Development Cambodia
• A small attempt to bring the idea of Open Data to Cambodia
• Sponsored by East-West Management Institute
• Funded by USAID

13. Open Development Cambodia
• Focuses on providing information about one of Southeast
Asia’s fastest growing economies
• Key features are
– an interactive map,
– a current news feed
• Cambodia just opened a stock market so ‘transparency’ is
becoming increasingly important.

15. • The map is assembled using publicly available legal documents.

16. Open Development Cambodia

17. Open Development Cambodia
• Protected Areas and Community Forests

18. Open Development Cambodia
• Census Data from 1998 and 2008

19. Open Development Cambodia
• Village Chart
– Compare year 1998 to 2008

20. Open Development Cambodia
• All map data (and News) is Freely downloadable
• Referenced from public sources
• No credit is needed

21. • All news articles are archived and tagged for easy reference

22. Open Development Cambodia
• For better understanding, briefings include

23. Open Development Cambodia
• A growing list of laws in English and Khmer
• Next step is to translate the site into Khmer

24. Open Development Cambodia
• Follow us on Twitter, or Facebook for weekly updates.

25. Open Development Cambodia

26. Open Development Cambodia
• Works with a growing number of partners to grow and cross-
reference data
– Business groups
– Community groups
– Institutions
– Legal experts
• Your comments, criticism and engagement are welcome

28. http://OpenDevCam.net