We just finished our, not so good, fuzzy and messy, barcamp phnom penh presention about SMS usability. With minimum efford of slide preparation, I followed the golden rule of barcamp, prepare your presentation on site.

I'm not sure that the imagicharacters are invented by someone yet, Orange or True Move?

The interesting thing is we could adopt this kind "imaginative" method would be helpful for non-english languages. For example, Khmer people might not familiar with a shape of characters, but phonetics. We might be able to represent each key pad with tones.

Our experience while implementing GeoChat in Mukdahan, we found that 90% of users are not familiar with Thai input and that turns out to a low quality data. By the way, this is still a huge challenge. QWERTY keyboard is more popular than DVORAK keyboard, which is invented to improve QWERTY user hands' workload, even DVORAK is better.

We've an interesting discussion with our technology partner, InSTEDD, about prototyping this "imaginative" input method, and it will be prototyped soon!

We're at Mukdahan, Thailand with InSTEDD for implementing a mobile collaboration messaging platform, GeoChat.

We'd a great hacking night last night. Our team and InSTEDD developers have made sure that every bits of GeoChat is workable, properly and perfect, therefore Mukdahan's Public Health team can continue use GeoChat as their toll for communication and reporting. Faster getting information from the field means faster disease outbreak response.

This month, we opendreamers welcome Cies Breijs from Rotterdam to our Opendream base in Bangkok.

Cies is an information visionary and a veteran coder. He is the founder of The Truetopia Project and an active contributor to several free software projects, like KDE. Cies travels places around the world and has been involved in social innovative projects like micro-finance and health care sector. He will be part of our team until the end of September to share his experiences and foresights.

Opendreamers also would like thank Michel Bauwens, of P2P Foundation and Asian Foresight Institute at Dhurakij Pundit University, for this 'matchmaking' :) Here at Opendream, we always actively looking forward to collaborate with local and global social innovators and visionaries.