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Archive for the 'Land Issues' Category

Boeung Kak Unchained

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Some 250 Boeung Kak Lake residents, 5 of them chained together, and accompanied by a number of residents from the evicted Borei Keila community, walked all the way from the lake to the Japanese Embassy via the US Embassy and the Senate to deliver yet another petition requesting that the authorities clearly mark the 12,44 […]

Guinea Pigs 5 and 1

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

I continue showing around the ‘Quest for Land’ for iPad before submitting it to Apple. People never having used an iPad don’t seem to be lost in the navigation. We might have scored some good points here… Guinea Pig Nr 5: François was an editor at the now defunct ‘Cambodge Soir’, left for France and […]

Guinea Pig 3

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

Ben Woods swiping and tapping ‘Quest for Land‘ on my iPad… Ben takes photographs too. He saw a lot of Reds (Thai Reds) the previous W.E. in Siem Reap for the Cambodia Daily.

Guinea Pig 2

Friday, April 27th, 2012

This time Chris Kelly has been going through the moves: swiping, tapping and scrolling through ‘Quest for Land‘ like a pro for his first confrontation with an iPad. Chris is a documentary filmmaker and he has been working on the same issues about land grabbings here in Cambodia for the last 3 years. We often […]

The Guinea Pigs

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

‘Quest for Land’ is running on my iPad. I’m picking out people to show it to so they can test it before it will be submitted to Apple for approval. If you’re in Phnom Penh let me know and we can arrange a testing session.

Boeung Kak Beach is scared from the dark

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

The Boeung Kak residents are scared at night. They staged a press conference to denounce a deteriorating security situation in the neighbourhood. They claim that on the one hand there are no more police patrols which makes it easy for unoccupied buildings to be used by drug addicts or thieves, and on the other hand […]

Development Landscapes updated

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

I updated the story ‘Cambodia Development Landscapes‘ with recent photographs.

‘The Quest’ for iPad: navigation and interface

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

See also: ‘The Quest’ for iPad: why?, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: the team, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: organising content, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: about editing, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: some more editing considerations and organising it, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: additional content and first hints on navigation Right from the early stages when we started […]