Cases of Local Language Content Development and Dissemination across Developing Asia: Examples from PAN L10n project 15 th January 2009 NGUON Taing Leang National Ict Development Authority Cambodia

NIDA EDOCUMENT Start from June 2008

Language Content Development Objective Applications Benefit of available tools Issues

Some stair inside Phnom Penh buildings, the highest step is made higher than the others to catch the level of the upper floor

Objective Provide useful information Produce knowledge totally in Khmer language Priority on livelihood content Reach large population Chat in Khmer: improve their communication between Cambodian

Applications Totally in Khmer language Website using open source Joomla CMS and MySql Chat developing in Java

Website with search feature

Website content Home Page: Temple Environment Health: –Lady Health Care –Baby Health Care History Politic –Cambodia Structure –National Constitution –Province and Town Structure Social: –Minority People in Cambodia Tourist: –24 Provinces and Town –Weather in the main tourist site –Animal Guard Areas –National Park –Bird Protected Areas

Chat

Chat architecture Client Serve r Client Chat Databases Client

Benefits Unicode Khmer Word processing, Excel or Database are available with Unicode Search, sort features Useful Joomla CMS to publish our website Pan Localization network

Issues Technical –Lack OCR in Khmer –Embedded Khmer Font not supported by Firefox browser –Trouble with some tools –Lack of automatic translation Content –Very limited existing content in Cambodia –Inadequate skill –Lack of human resource Behavior –Unwilling to publish online –Imprecision on information –Traditional way: write by hand first and type by another

Thank you NGUON Taing Leang Deputy Secretary General In Charge of Content and Application National Ict Development Authority Cambodia