Channe Suy, Product Manager for InSTEDD, focuses mainly on capturing user requirements for all aspects that affect the quality of their products. In addition, she also does software usability design and testing and provides on-going support to the clients/partners. Channe believes, “Many of us in Cambodia might have different opportunity to learn something new but most of us also tend to be isolated from each other… The knowledge sharing from each individual is important contribution to build the future of Cambodia…” At TEDxPhnomPenh, she used this presentation to share with TEDxPhnom Penh her ideas on sustainability through building local capacity.

1. TED
IDEAWORTHSPREADING
By building the capacity of local communities
through knowledge sharing, we can develop
sustainable solutions to improve our future.

2. Culture Shock

4. ASSUMPTION

5. good intentions =
sustainable solutions

6. Yes, an accessible nutritious food can save lives...
... but adoption depends on local culture.

7. A software system that is successful in one country...

8. ...does not mean it will work everywhere.

9. Who can best understand the local needs?

10. The locals themselves.

11. But how can development be successful when
there is such limited local capacity?

12. If you give a man a fish...
... he can eat for a day

13. If you teach a man a fish...
... he can eat for a lifetime

14. sustainable development requires a new way
of thinking

15. Understand the Context

16. Build Local Capacity

17. Develop Appropriate Technologies

18. Serve the Need

20. Welcome to the iLab:
Early Detection & Response from
Grassroots Level

21. Health Center:
First Disease Case Detected

22. The diseases can spread faster than the report information

23. Early detection & response
is crucial in outbreak situations of diseases like H5N1, H1N1,
Cholera

24. Paper based reporting takes days

25. Phone call reporting is costly for grass root level workers

26. Low cost, real time group
communication is essential

27. Understanding the
field requirements
and resources
available is what the
design is built on.

28. Group SMS Reporting is low cost and works in Khmer

29. On going support and training by local team

30. The ultimate goal is better healthcare for the people

31. A MODEL FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Understand the Context
Develop Appropriate Tech
Build Local Capacity
Serve the Real Need

32. Spreading knowledge through independent
groups in Cambodia is the way forward

33. the movement is growing...

34. Sharing experiences and knowledge to improve
capacity building to bridge the gap between the
academic world and real work.

35. Sharing knowledge among professionals

37. Building
Public
Sustainable Private
Solutions
Individual
This Starts With You!

38. a question

39. Are you willing to take as little as
one hour of your time to pass on
your knowledge and inspire the
next generation?

40. the wheel is in your hands...

41. Help create the next generation of leaders...
... the ones you wish to have.

42. Channe Suy
Product Manager
Channe@instedd.org