Welcome to the iREACH Project Blog. This blog, along with our other web-based communication system, will serve to document and record project communications and processes and methodologies employed in the project.
What is the iREACH Project all about?
The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) has been awarded a three year grant of US$1.2 million by the IDRC to conduct a pilot project called the Informatics for Rural Empowerment and Community Health (i-REACH) in the field of information and communications technology (ICT).
The project runs from May 1st 2006 to April 30th 2009.Three sangkat (communes) of Kamchai Mear district in Prey Veng and another three in Damnak Chang’eur district in the municipality of Kep were selected as pilot areas.
The MoC has contracted the Maharishi Vedic University (MVU) and the Center for Social Development (CSD), to run the pilots in Kamchai Mear and Kep, respectively.
The overall objective of iREACH is to build evidence and capacities to help inform Cambodia’s ICT and telecommunications policies and to mainstream the ICT project to all provinces throughout Cambodia. The specific objectives are:
(i) to establish and nurture the pilot e-communities in the rural locality of Kep and Kamchai Mear,
(ii) to pilot-test a community-driven system of blended technologies as contributing to social, economic and cultural development by deploying wireless technology, solar energy, wind power and community radio,
(iii) to facilitate community capacity-building by training in ICT use, developing service content and enterprise, and
(iv) to document in details the activities and process for research purposes.
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