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Mekong ICT Camp - Fire Poi via from the horizon March 1st, 2008 at 15:30

One of the other great things about the camp is that it gave me the opportunity to play with the new Fire Pois which I brought myself when I was back home in New Zealand - with some really good photographers around to take photos!   Share......

Mekong ICT Camp - Day 5 via from the horizon March 1st, 2008 at 15:00

On the final day, we presented our Information Management track project. It was decided that our project would look into social networking at the camp, so a questionnaire was prepared and distributed, asking various questions about the number of friendship people had before during and after the camp, and the best activities for making [...]...

Mekong ICT Camp - Day 4 via from the horizon February 29th, 2008 at 15:00

On the fourth day I ran my session on Database Design. As I was only asked to present this session three days previously, I hadn’t had any spare time to put together anything other than an outline and make rough notes. Fortunately this is a topic which I’ve spent far too much time thinking about, [...]...

Mekong ICT Camp - Day 2 via from the horizon February 27th, 2008 at 15:00

I don’t know how people live-blog from conferences and workshops. When I haven’t been in the various sessions, I’m talking interesting people, and when I’m not doing that I’m exhausted. Hence this rest of the posts about the camp are several days late! I have also been trying to get some work sorted out, and [...]...

Mekong ICT Camp - Day 3 via from the horizon February 28th, 2008 at 15:00

Day 3 became more interesting, but also further increased my information overload, not only from all the new material which I was being exposed to, but from all the new ideas which it was spawning! The first session introduced the Visualizing Information for Advocacy booklet, which covered different ways to design information. The booklet was [...]...

Mekong ICT Camp - Day 1 via from the horizon February 25th, 2008 at 14:30

Today was the first day of the Mekong ICT (Information Communication Technology) Camp which I am attending in Thailand. The camp is for people from Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, and despite that I am neither from this region, nor working in the region, I felt that Indonesia was close enough, and it sounded [...]...