It is not weird for me, while I go to countryside without electricity. People living in remote rural areas uses kerosene lamp, generators and so on. Some districts have electricity owned by private business. What I did not expect to happen was that there was no electricity. While I, my colleague and a man from other organization reached area in Kandal province, about 60 km from Phnom Penh.
When we arrived, we saw all students waiting for us in School. We planned to arrange training in class room but there was not electricity. And then we moved to pagoda, where we thought that there was generator belonging to pagoda. It was bad day, the generator did not function. Finally, we could not show slide to students, who were sitting on the floor in pagoda. in the afternoon, we hired generator, charged 30,000 Reil using nearly 3 hours.
I asked them, and they said that they did not know what ICT is; some of them have been learning computer such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel…etc. one of schoolgirl said that her teacher used to tell her that the usage of internet is very important for searching information. But she added that she does not know how to use internet and computer at all.
All the students are sitting on the floor in ThomPhreah pagoda in Kandal province, carefully listening to trainer telling information related to ICT.
 Trainers are showing advantage of usage of ICT in education sector without showing slide due to the lack of electricity in Pagoda.
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Poor cambodia!!! Then, in my district Serey sophorn of Banteay Mean Chey, the electricity per kw costed about 1 $. Unbelievable!!! But we must believe coz it is the truth. The price depends on the private electricity company. From month to month, they increased the price. Fortunately, now, the price desirable has been offered by Electricite du Cambodge. 24 h/24 h, only 800 riel per kw. Some parts of Banteay Mean Chey still meets the problems you meentioned above.:( one good news, more internet shops gradually can be found in my province..
Hello Vutha.
You are right, electricity poses a major problem in Cambodia. Imagine our project, we are slowly putting in place ICT infrastructures, only to find out that these could not work because the electricity supply in the pilot areas are not enough to sustain it. We can only think of alternatives, such as solar panel (but very expensive). Still we are hoping that this problem will be solved sooner.
P.S. It was great to meet you in person. I was lurking here in your blog for a long time now.
It is because of lack of infrastructure like Electricity supply, high price of internet, which make ICT sector in Cambodia to run forward slowly, especially in rural areas.
if you need to use Solar panel, whether you think that it will be sustainable for project or not.
Once again, I now found out who is lurking my blog, hahaha. Thanks for interesting in my blog. and thanks for meeting in person with u and your staff. I hope one day we will work together.