What's interesting this week...
Tech for Good - Issue 84
Happy Wednesday!
I hope your week is off to a great start! I didn’t end up sending out an email out last week, I was just too swamped with various projects. I did get to participate in the CamTech summit, where I highlighted our Invoice Mouy system and was able to join a panel on blockchain technology. The CamTech summit was a great conference and a huge thank you to Prudential Cambodia for inviting me to participate.
This week I’ve highlighted a few interesting reads from Cambodia as well as some global solutions around digital ID and misinformation.
As always, please let me know if you have something you’d like for me to share with this community!
I hope you have a great week!
Jesse
What’s interesting this week…
Tech Dreams Fuel Disabled Student's Courageous Journey
Tuy Sokdung is determined to be a computer programmer, his dream since he was a little boy. The 22-year-old from Kampong Thom province is now a computer science major at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. His studies are tough. His schedule is tight. Yet, he also faces challenges that far surpass those of many other students — Tuy was born without arms or legs.
Fauna Conservation introduces Non-Fungible Tokens to raise funding for Cambodia’s conservation sector
Fauna Conservation NFT is aiming to revolutionize the way Cambodia’s conservation funds are raised and invested through the use of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Fauna Conservation co-founder Thomas Hesketh feels confident in the future of blockchain technology – telling Cambodia Investment Review “many are rightfully cautious about blockchain projects – the tech is still in its infancy, and many initiatives will fail.”
Digital ID in humanitarian contexts: Lessons learned and what’s next
Digital identity is inevitable. How we design it and use it is up to us. The time is now to get it right for the individuals and our society.
Digital identity is quickly becoming the foundation of our increasingly digital and data-driven society. At the end of 2020, 1.26B Indian residents got their Aadhaar ID (99% of adults), a digital identity that is based on their biometric and demographic data. Earlier this year, the European Union announced a new digital identity framework for the EU, which will allow all citizens to prove their identity, share electronic documents, and access online services from their smartphone through a digital identity wallet. According to Gartner, by 2024, a true global, portable, decentralized identity standard will emerge in the market to address business, personal, social and societal, and identity-invisible use cases.
10 Things to Know About Children and Misinformation and Disinformation
The rapid spread of misinformation and disinformation (mis/ disinformation) online has emerged as a pressing public issue of the 21st century that affects all those accessing online networks, as well as those offline.
As active digital users, mis/disinformation is very much a part of children’s lives. In addition, mis/disinformation among parents, caregivers and educators can have a negative effect on children, even if the children themselves are not directly exposed to it. Children can be targets and objects of mis/disinformation, spreaders or creators of it, and opponents of mis/disinformation in actively seeking to counter falsehoods.
The new rapid analysis report “Digital Misinformation / Disinformation and Children” by the UNICEF Office of Global Insight and Policy outlines what we know about children and mis/disinformation, and the challenges for policymakers, technology companies, educators, and parents and carers in countering mis/ disinformation.
Cambodia’s Unique Version of E-Commerce
“E-commerce in Cambodia is not new. Systems for ordering online, and systems for delivering those items, have developed steadily over the last decade, alongside the rise of social media, particularly the rise of Facebook. Following the pandemic, the evolution and adoption of e-commerce in Cambodia has accelerated. But it was precisely the creative systems that gave rise to Cambodia’s early e-commerce infrastructure that have allowed the sector to thrive, even in the chaos of the pandemic.”