Announcements

 The Mekong State of Land Report, which presents a comprehensive review of land resources, distribution and governance conditions in the Mekong region, was launched yesterday at Second Regional Land Forum. The report has been produced by the Centre for Development and Environment of the University of ...

This forum will examine the draft Mekong State of Land Report to solicit suggestions for revisions for final publication and get feedback on critical issues highlighted in the SOL draft.The authors will use the feedback to improve the data and analysis prior to final publication ...

World Bank has just released the 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals. With over 180 maps and charts, the new publication shows the progress societies are making towards the 17 SDGs. It’s filled with annotated data visualizations, which can be reproducibly built from source code and data. You can view the SDG Atlas ...

The Mission of Canada to ASEAN has announced its Call for Proposals under the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) program 2018 – 2019.  CFLI offers funding assistance from the Government of Canada that supports projects that are modest in scope, scale and cost, and contribute ...

Open Development Mekong (ODM) will host a user engagement session, to walk participants through new features of the platform and seek feedback on the platform, tools and content offered (please bring a laptop to this parallel session). The Data & Technology Showcase Event will be held ...

Barcamp Bangkok 2018 will be held at TK Park, Central World, on Sunday, August 5th 2018.  Registration for the Barcamp will be opened shortly. For detail ...

Mekong Institute (MI) will be organizing a series of safe food courses this year as part of the New Zealand Aid Programme-funded Food Safety Project. These regional training programs comprise a major component of the five-year food safety project to be implemented in Cambodia, Lao PDR, ...

A discussion on the Implementation of the Joint Project “Lao-Thai Safety Regulations for Navigation” will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 21, 2018. The meeting will bring together officials from the MRC Member Countries and representatives from the Secretariat to discuss the harmonization of navigation ...

Our Myanmar partner Phandeeyar is looking to hire a talented new team to support their Tech for change program which includes their Open Data portfolio. Please see full job descriptions here.  ...

The writeshop will bring together writers and researchers to build capacity to think critically, and produce a written story on current environmental and development issues in the Mekong region. Less experienced writers especially will be provided help to plan and write their articles. Up to 10 ...