Presentation for Barcamp Battambang, 2013. 'CrowdSource' your life. Links: http://goo.gl/xsDWO

1. Let BarCamp Change Your Life
or…
Jweeks.net

2. CrowdSource Your Life
MekongICT.org

3. Why BarCamp?
• Why CrowdSource?
• Why should I care?

4. Why Not?
• Sometimes life can seem a little
‘FUBAR’.
• So get out of your ‘comfort zone’ and
meet people In Real Life –
‘IRL’

5. The value of IRL:
1st
Cambodia Blogger Meetup, 2005

6. IRL builds community
‘IRL’ is physical networking.
Watch out, you might actually make friends!
Friends care about your work, your life, your
feelings.
Some ‘case studies’ of IRL:

7. ‘Case Studies’
– Personal Information Technology
Workshop
– BarCamp Bangkok Dating Seminar
– Clogger Summit
– Sexy Cambodian Bloggers
– Queen of the Geeks
– ‘Bopha Chiang Mai’

8. Personal Information Technology
Workshop
www.pitw.wordpress.com

9. After the workshop:
• Hundreds of college / high school students trained &
sharing
• For the presenters and associated staff:
– Chantra: BarCamp / Open Institute / private sector work
– Viirak: BarCamp, Cloggers Corner, NGO & private sector
work – now in Kenya!
– Kalyan: scholarship overseas
– Nearirath: scholarship overseas
– Chak Sopheap: scholarship overseas, ‘Global Voices’ work
– Cloggers Corner / Clogger Summit / BarCamps follow

10. Meanwhile, in Bangkok …
Presentation from ‘31o5’

11. Outcomes:
• ‘3105’ becomes ‘geek star’ of
ASEAN BarCamps, coverage on
social media, podcast, radio, TV
• ‘Unconference’ format of ASEAN
BarCamp welcomes sharing
cultural / social / humorous issue
• “barcamp changed my life and
created my daughter”

12. Clogger Summit
BethKanter.org

13. Due to IRL trainings and
meetings:
• EVERYONE wanted to attend
Cambodia’s first social media ‘Clogger
Summit’
• Cambodian and Cambodia based
bloggers met each other and also met
enthused overseas bloggers.

14. Outcomes: Made a LOT of new
friends

15. Outcomes: Enthusiasm for more tech
meetings like ‘Cloggers Corner’ and
‘BarCamp’

16. Outcomes:
• Beth Kanter raised over $4000 for her travel
and the conference – she is now known as an
expert fundraiser and published author.
BethKanter.org

17. Outcomes: Analysis of Khmer
Blogging scene by Global Voices’
Preetam Rai leading to…
BethKanter.org

18. A TED talk

19. Don’t worry, I’ll include links to talks and
videos. :D

20. Why Are Cambodians ‘Unlikely
Diplomats’?
• YOU are in demand for global meetings
and feedback.
• Just don’t be afraid to apply.

21. Examples:
Bloggers Nearirath
and Chharda
present at BarCamp
Saigon on ‘Sexy
Cambodian
Bloggers’
Nearirath Sreng

22. Heng Huy Eng: the only female
Southeast Asian Coder at Open
Knowledge Festival - Finland
Courtesy International Land Coalition

23. CrowdSource Your Life
• No, it’s not about dating, sex …
• or being from Cambodia / Southeast
Asia
• Join BarCamps, Tech Meetings,
Unconferences….
• Share your ideas
• Everywhere you go, you’ll find ‘like
minds’ and new ideas. For example:

24. I Talk About Comics!

25. And wherever I Go (Indonesia)

26. Malaysia

27. Singapore...

28. Thailand…

29. … you’ll find friends.

30. New Ideas:
At Mekong ICT Camp 2010 I barely knew
anyone. I started sketching people.

31. New Ideas
By the end of the conference I was a lot less shy.

32. New Ideas
• During the Camp I learned about ‘Open Data’
from expert Laurence Millar.
• This changed my thinking, and gave me a job
for two years creating ‘Open Development
Cambodia’
• I returned in 2013 to share the results of our
hard-working team. I never expected this.
• Now I’m thinking of MORE projects.
– Open Data, Open Comics, Open Everything.

33. OpenDevCam.net

34. MekongICT.org

35. Conclusion
• Attend BarCamps, UnConferences,
Tech meetings. ‘IRL’ – In Real Life.
• Present on what you like and know.
(Even if you think no one will care.)
• Don’t be shy. :D

36. Thank You!

37. Links:
http://goo.gl/xsDWO
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