ASEAN journalists share digital newsrooms management experience
The International Press Workshop “Digital Newsrooms Management: Theory, Practice, Experience in the ASEAN Region” was held by the Vietnam Journalists’ Association in Hanoi on December 7. The event drew the participation of delegates from the Confederation of ASEAN Journalists who discussed and shared measures to ...
Application Open for the 6th Youth Leadership Workshop on GCED
The Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) will organize the 6th Youth Leadership Workshop on GCED (Global Citizenship Education) from 25 to 31 May 2020.The one-week Workshop aims to build capacity of dynamic youth leaders around the world to identify strategies to achieve ...
UNESCO-APCEIU
Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, are universal targets designed to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity in each UN member state by 2030. They are intended to continue the progress made ...
CALL FOR OPEN DATA SUBMISSION
Mekong Environment Forum – MEF 2017Building Community Capacity in Response to Mekong Delta Environmental ChangesCan Tho University, 28 December 2017OverviewAs part of the MEF and Can Tho University upcoming workshop on Building Community Capacity the East-West Management Institute Open Development Initiative is sponsoring a call ...
The food and culture of Ethnic minorities in Vietnam
Vietnam is ethnically diverse, with 54 ethnic groups living in different regions. Of these ethnic groups, the Kinh is the most populous, making up 85.3% of the population (around 82 million people). The remaining 53 ethnic groups account for 14.6% of the population and are ...
Free incubation program for social entrepreneurs
Established in 2011, Makesense is an international NGO whose vision is to solve today’s social and environmental issues by providing incubation and capacity building activities for individuals, social entrepreneurs, and forward-thinking organizations.Act4Impact is one of Makesense Asia’s premiere social innovation program, catering to citizen-advocates who ...
CSIP
WB's 51.5-million-USD payment helping Vietnam reduce emissions
Vietnam has received a 51.5-million-USD payment for verified emissions reductions (carbon credits) for reducing deforestation and forest degradation (commonly known as REDD+) and for enhancing carbon stored in forests through reforestation and afforestation.This makes Vietnam the first country in the East Asia-Pacific to receive a ...
Deputy PM approves project to build National Statistical Database
The project aims to build, manage, use and update the National Statistical Database (NSD) in order to provide complete, accurate and timely statistical information to meet management and direction requirements of the Party, National Assembly and Government, ministries, sectors and localities as well as meeting ...
Nominations Open: Journalism for an Equitable Asia Award 2020-21 - Theme: Inequality crisis and the pandemic
Asia, just like the rest of the world, is grappling with COVID-19. Despite tremendous economic growth and advances in healthcare, technology, and elsewhere during the preceding decades, we are struggling to overcome the pandemic and the resultant economic and social fallouts. Journalism for an Equitable Asia ...
Oxfam VietnamSDG
Rivers and lakes
Vietnam surface water system includes all of the water in rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, and wetlands, as well as the ocean, in which river water resources are the most important that are widely used in livelihood and production. River near Sa Pa, Vietnam, a frontier town and ...
Building carbon credit management mechanisms crucial: PM
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasised the urgent need to develop a carbon market and carbon credit management mechanisms in his recently-issued directive.In Vietnam, since the mid-2000s, many businesses have rolled out carbon credit programmes and projects, notably those under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). ...
Ethnic minorities and indigenous people
IntroductionVietnam is considered a multi-ethnic country, made up of 54 ethnic groups. The Kinh ethnic group makes up 85.4% of Vietnam’s population, or 78.32 million people. The remaining 53 ethnic groups make up only 14.6% of the country’s population (see Table 1).80Although Vietnam voted in ...
Ethnic minorities and indigenous people policy and rights
IntroductionThe Vietnamese Government recognizes 53 ethnic minorities163 Other counts suggest the existence of more than 90 groups, amounting to approximately 10 million people, or nearly 10% of Vietnam’s population.164 Most ethnic minorities inhabit remote areas of Vietnam and have their own belief systems which are ...
Open Development Initiative seeks National IT Officer
Open Development Initiative is looking to hire a National (from any of the Lower Mekong Countries) to help support the ongoing maintenance and development of the opendevelopmentmekong.net (ODM) platform and country sites. Application: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until filled.Email: recruitment@opendevmekong.netCommencement: As soon ...
ODI
Leadership 4.0 in Development and Disaster Resilience
The Asian Institute of Management – Stephen Zuellig Graduate School of Development Management will conduct the Leadership 4.0 in Development and Disaster Resilience masterclass, for the AIM Roadshow in Vietnam where leadership masterclasses on business, development, innovation, and data science will be presented. The program will ...
Forests and Forestry
The Government of Vietnam considers forests an important ecological resource, valuable for the socio-economic development and well-being of communities throughout the country. Forests play a major role in adapting to climate change as well as in regular environmental functions such as preventing erosion and maintaining ...
About us
Open Development Vietnam (ODV) is part of the Open Development Network, a coalition of organizations co-managing a common open data and open knowledge platform aggregating and sharing information, maps and data to illuminate development trends in the Mekong region at country and regional levels. The ...
Data literacy training
IntroductionData literacy is the ability to read, understand, work with, analyze, and argue with data. It is also the ability to derive meaningful information from data. Data literacy is not simply the ability to read the text since it requires quantitative and analytical skills (for ...
Open Development Vietnam
Women in Open Data
What keeps Mekong women from accessing open data?Mekong Women in Data: Understanding barriers to women’s access to open data in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and VietnamPhoto by Mimi Thian on Unsplash. Licensed freely on Unsplash.Gender inequality underscores the lives of women all over the world. ...
Climate Change
Climate Change (CC) is the change in weather, and related patterns of oceans, land, surface, and ice sheets such as temperature, ice melt, and sea level rise. While CC has historically been a natural occurrence, current CC is believed to be caused by human activities ...