This project funded the development of a digital literacy assessment tool for the Total Reading Approach for Children (TRAC) project's Continuous Assessment System (CAS). The assessment app promoted teacher understanding and used of the CAS as a diagnostic tool for student learning. The CAS App also facilitated teacher and student use and understand of technology in the classroom.

• Education
• Mobile App

Success Story: TEST Application Cultivates Reading Culture for Young Cambodians

This project funded the development of a mobile phone-based Interactive Voice Response (IVR) tool to bring pre-recorded messages about maternal and child care directly to pregnant women and new mothers through curated voice-messages.

• Content Development
• Health
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

Success Story: Scaling Up Mobile Health Services to Expectant and New Mothers in Cambodia

A research project with Open Institute to define the priorities, the strategy, the tools and the work that needs to be done to achieve high quality Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology for Khmer. OCR technology would enable indexation of large amounts of information in Khmer language and make scanned documents searchable.

• ICT Research

This project focused on the development of a mobile application by social enterprise ALiEN DEV to improve speed of typing in Khmer script. The app allows more Cambodians to communicate via mobile phones in their native language.

• Mobile App

Success Story: Giving Cambodians a Digital Voice

The project funded a safe and reliable digital storage solution for DC-Cam’s digital archive of historical materials. The archive includes photos (20,000 historical photos & 157,000 field trip photos), videos (108 Khmer Rouge regime videos & 318 interview videos with Khmer Rouge cadres & survivors), audio (4,499 interview audio with Khmer Rouge cadres & survivors) and written documentation (14,567 documents equal to a total of 100,503 pages) from the Khmer Rouge period.

• Democracy & Governance
• Digital Archive

Success Story: Public-Private Partnership Safeguards Digital History

This project funded the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) to develop online interactive content for its Human Rights Education Platform to help increase knowledge among Cambodian urban youths on key rights issues in Cambodia. The first module was on land rights: www.sithi.org/landrights.

• Content Development
• Democracy & Governance
• Facebook
• Website

Success Story: Land Rights Platform Delivers Accessible Educational Tools and Quizzes

This project supported the design and development of a tool for Cambodian Center for Independent Media's citizen journalists (CJs) to collect, report, and track local issues from around the country. The reporting tool aimed to increase coverage of these local issues by linking Cambodian and international media outlets to these stories quickly and efficiently.

• Democracy & Governance
• Mobile App

This project funded the development of TosFund, meaning Let's Fund in Khmer, an online fundraising and crowdfunding platform for Cambodia. The funding tool built campaigning capacities for development initiatives (especially for Cambodian CSOs), provided practical payment outlets for civic fundraising efforts, and helped test online fundraising tools through Cambodia-based payment systems.

• Crowdfunding
• Democracy & Governance

Success Story: Crowdfunding Platform Boosts Shrinking Budgets for Civic Projects

Blog Post: Online Fundraising Gains Popularity and Delivers Results for Phare Ponleu Selpak

This project funded a platform to track citizen issues and government response online, and tested the development of a digital tool to track and share information about citizens' priorities at the commune level.

• Democracy & Governance
• Digital Data Collection

This project funded Rotati Consulting to create CamboSearch.org, a go-to online directory and resource where organizations can search for and find relevant technology and service companies that can help with their technology needs. The directory lists service providers that produce technology (i.e. websites, apps, databases), create content and conduct training on new technologies.

• Mobile App
• Online Directory
• Website

Success Story: Hands-on Training and Internship Deliver Job and Fill Workforce Gap

This project funded a website to provide educational resources for teachers, school directors, District and Provincial offices of Education (PoE/DoE) and parents. Through Facebook's Free Basics platform, the site aims to reach marginalized and out of school children, and connect them to online resources and school-based resources.

• Education
• Facebook
• Free Basics

Pilot: This project designed a child care information system that will help NGO Children In Families' social workers and local authorities provide high quality care for children in adversity. The system helps users track how the children are being cared for across the country, and provides an electronic mechanism for anonymous feedback relating to care conditions and issues with local authorities.

Expanding and Scaling: This grant supports NGO Children in Families (CIF) to expand and scale their Childcare Information System. This project aims to help build in the functionality that will allow CIF to host and adapt this software for other NGOs as a revenue source.

• Case Management System
• Open Source

This project created a cohort of young Cambodian product designers and entrepreneurs with the confidence and ability to take their ideas from concept to market. After the training, the students have built quality product prototypes in 3D and CAD design and have the confidence to become design entrepreneurs.

• 3D Printing
• Product Design Training

Success Story: DoyDoy: The Story of A Startup

Feature Story: Think Global, Make Local and 3D Printing Propels Young Cambodians into the Future

This project tested a tool to make public service prices more available through interactive voice response technology (IVR), which enabled access to audio information files offline without incurring data charges. Initially, it makes available the prices of public services and then expand over time to provide additional information based on citizen priorities.

• Democracy & Governance
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
• Mobile App

Success Story: Hotline and Mobile App Improve Access to Public Service

The project funded the update of a paper-based citizen concern system to promote mobile reporting. The reporting tool provided faster feedback about interventions and updates and allowed MEDIA One to integrate community concerns and questions their radio show topics according to citizen input in near real-time.

• Democracy & Governance
• Digital Data Collection
• Open Source
• Radio

Success Story: Using Digital Data Collection Tools to Maximize Impact

This grant supports CCC’s implementation of the Digital Data Collection and Visualization for M&E project. This program was developed to design and pilot a replicable and sustainable Digital M&E Support Package that equips organizations with the ability to efficiently collect, manage, and conduct basic visualization of M&E data with mobile and cloud-based data management systems.

• Digital Data Collection
• Mobile App
• Open Source

The project funded the development of an online platform which allows youth to debate key topics digitally. Through this, youth voices are strongly joined for advocating for what they actually demand from main actors, especially the government.

• Democracy & Governance
• Website

Success Story: Cambodian Youth Groups Take Their Debates Digital

This project tested a digital tool to help improve the efficiency of service delivery for the rural sanitation supply chain for WASH product suppliers (toilets, pipes, latrines, concrete, etc.). The app centralized outreach planning, inventory management, invoice and payment tracking, income and expenditure summary and outstanding delivery schedule and location information for toilet sales and distribution.

• Mobile App
• Supply Chain Management
• WASH

Success Story: Leveraging Mobiles to Boost Efficiencies in the Rural Sanitation Market

This project aimed to test whether a consumer awareness campaign, delivered via Facebook and targeted at Cambodia’s youth, can be effective in stimulating dialogue within poor Cambodian households on financial decision making and ultimately contribute to building financial awareness and consumer confidence.

• Education
• Facebook
• Video

Success Story: Social Media Campaign Builds Awareness about Financial Management

This partnership pilots a sustainable, replicable and scalable one year social enterprise incubator program. The incubator program identifies and select 5 teams of outstanding entrepreneurs and assists them in transforming their ICT-based business ideas into sustainable businesses.

• Social Entrepreneurship
• Tech Startups

Blog Post: EPIC Showcase – a Grand Finale

Feature Story: Edemy Makes Quality English Classes Accessible and Affordable for Rural Students

This partnership equips Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC) with the skills and capacity to deliver effective ICT related services to its members and other target customers through technical and capacity building support over 18 months.

• Digital Data Collection
• ICT Research
• Social Media
• Video

This grant supported Media One in their efforts to implement the project entitled Cambodian Natural Heritage Awareness Initiative. The overall goal of this proposal is to raise awareness about Cambodia’s natural heritage through diverse media platforms like social media, radio and SMS, complemented by direct community engagement activities. Throughout the activity, MEDIA One adjusted based on audience and community feedback, and analyzed social media findings for the Facebook campaign.

• Biodiversity
• Content Development
• Facebook

Blog Post: Grandfather Prey Lang Connects People to the Jungle

This grant supports SHE Investments to develop an online business information portal which is accessible and user-friendly to provide information in Khmer for women entrepreneurs on how to start their business. This project will market this portal across other womens entrepreneurship networks and use social media for a targeted outreach and marketing campaign.

• Business Information Portal
• Content Development
• Facebook
• Website

Blog Post: Retrospective: Launch of Business Information Platform by SHE Investments

This grant supports Cambodian Disabled People's Organization (CDPO) to conduct a survey of their users, develop a social media strategy and Facebook campaign, and develop digital content to highlight people with disabilities' rights under Cambodian law.

• Content Development
• Facebook
• ICT Research

Success Story: Promoting Awareness of People with Disabilities’ Rights with Technologies

This grant supports the Lake Clinic to translate and implement a popular, open-source clinic management system. The project will help tested whether the CRM system works for Cambodian clinics and patients and helps improve service delivery. Following the pilot, The Lake Clinic will present this model to the Ministry of Health.

• Clinic Management System
• Health

This project empowered Prey Lang communities to tell their stories through community-based media production activities, and BPO collected these stories and created content from people from five communes to broadcast online. Ultimately, these stories helped raise awareness about citizens' issues in Prey Lang at the local and national level through social media and online radio.

• Biodiversity
• Democracy & Governance
• Facebook
• Mobile App
• Radio
• Website

This project developed a website that serve as an online directory of social enterprises and information resource for developing social enterprises in Cambodia. The website provided practical resources and information about social entrepreneurship, highlighted and promoted innovative solutions to social/ environmental problems, and provided a directory of social enterprises for potential investors and donors.

• Online Directory
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Website

Success Story: Web Platform Enabling and Connecting Social Enterprises in Cambodia

This project funded the improvement of an online mental health information and virtual counseling resource for young people through Facebook's Free Basics platform. The main format for the My Tree of Life (MyTOL) website included mental health information postings and discussions, and online Q&A sessions.

• Facebook
• Free Basics
• Health

This project is a collaboration between People In Need & DAI Maker Lab, with technical assistance funding from Development Innovations to support the development of an open-source flood early warning tool. This pilot project had two goals - 1) to develop a viable open source design suitable for scaling to other key locations around Cambodia to establish a national flood information network, and 2) to introduce the principle of open source hardware for development to stakeholders in Cambodia and build some basic skillsets for participating practitioners.

The device, called Tepmachcha (https://github.com/DAI-Maker-Lab/tepmachcha/wiki), is a sonar stream gauge that, mounted on a fixed point over a stream such as a bridge, can determine the water’s height and send that information over a mobile phone network to the cloud for logging (http://ews1294.info/sensormap). If the stream’s height exceeds a warning level, Tepmachcha triggers an alert on PIN’s IVR system. The tens of thousands of IVR subscribers in the Tepmachcha pilot area will get a voice telephone call within a matter of minutes alerting them of the flood condition.

• Emergency Warning System

Success Story: Simple & Affordable Technology for Civil Society: Flood Warning Tool

Feature Story: Tepmachcha: An Open-Source, Ultrasonic Stream Gauge Flood Warning System