Open Development Cambodia

Your ‘one-stop shop’ for open data in Cambodia

Open Development Cambodia

• Focused on economic development and attendant issues• Objective: collect and share data• Project of East-West Management Institute • Funded by USAID with in-kind contributions; seeking diverse

donors

Key Features

Interactive map • heavily referenced from legal findings• including concessions , hydropower infrastructure,

protected area, radio stations and census data (with more to come)

Current news feed• summarizing news from diverse local and international

sources• Includes tracking of recently opened stock marketBriefing papers Relevant laws and regulationsArchive of reports (in development)

The map’s primary reference is government-released, publicly available data

Open Dev Cam• Census Data from 1998 and 2008

• View Detail– Comparing 1998 to 2008

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• Village Chart– Comparing 1998 to 2008

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Government protected areas (community forests & fisheries mapped separately

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Open Dev Cam• All map data (and news) is Freely downloadable• Referenced from public sources• No credit is needed

All news articles are archived and tagged for easy reference.

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Briefings provide quick comprehensive overviews of key sectoral issues

Open Dev CamA growing list of laws in English and Khmer

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Open Dev Cam• Follow us on Twitter and Facebook• ‘ODC’ posts weekly updates

NEXT STEPS

- Enable dual language (Khmer-English) functionality- Expand research - Expand criteria and standards for mapping‘Institutionalize’ project as legal entity

Open Development Project Team

- the team has participated in numerous IT community meetings, including

‘Open Cambodia’, Barcamp Phnom Penh, and regular GIS mapping meetups.

THANKS

• Your comments, criticism and engagement are welcome