Internet Party 2008

The Internet Party 2008 was held at Phnom Penh’s newest mall, Sovanna Shopping Center, last weekend. Organized by Manich Enterprise, the two-day weekend expo brought together dozens of technology companies and organizations from around Cambodia and abroad. As seen in this picture, the Party was teemed with hundreds of young Cambodians, representing a new tech-savvy generation of the twenty-first-century Cambodia.

Also there was a big group of enthusiastic Cambodian bloggers, aka Cloggers. Sponsored by the Open Institute and CIDC, they set up a booth in one of the corners to promote blogging and the use of Khmer Unicode and other open source softwares to the public. Kudos to everyone for the great work!

Chantra Be, aka Trajoke, was the big man behind the Cloggers’ Corner initiative. With several other bloggers, he’s also been organizing workshops on blogging and personal technology at various government institutions, universities and colleges across Cambodia. Please watch out for his next series of workshops at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) and the University of Health Sciences later this month.

With the help of a blogger volunteer, a man is setting up and publishing his first blog post! An exciting moment for a bloggie newbie.

Two Cambodian boys are checking out services offered by Sabay, Cambodia’s first online gaming company.

John Weeks (Jinja), one of Cambodia’s very first expat bloggers, is interviewing a new Clogger on his first blog experience.

Who said the Cloggers’ Corner was only newbies? Even veteran bloggers such as ThaRum Bun and Vutha Morn had their presence there to enjoy the free wi-fi and to do live blogging.

A party can’t be a party until music begins. That’s why our growingly popular DJ Ada went upstage to rock the scene.

Another major highlight that day was the Srey Sros Pros Sa’art (ស្រី​ស្រស់​ប្រុស​ស្អាត)​ Contest. ពិត​ជា​ស្អាតៗ​របស់​គេ​មែន​! Anyone knows which ones of these guys won? I missed the last part!