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Tuesday 10 March 2015

US Science Envoy Sees Tech Potential in Students

U.S. Science Envoy Dr. Geraldine Richmond in Cambodia as part of a trip in Southeast Asia in support of President Obama’s initiative to strengthen science and education in Southeast Asia. (Courtesy of US Embassy Phnom Penh)
U.S. Science Envoy Dr. Geraldine Richmond in Cambodia as part of a trip in Southeast Asia in support of President Obama’s initiative to strengthen science and education in Southeast Asia. (Courtesy of US Embassy Phnom Penh)
Neou Vannarin, VOA Khmer 09 March 2015 

PHNOM PENH—Cambodia has much potential in the growth of science and technology, particularly given the motivation of young students, a US official says.
In a visit to Cambodia last week, Geraldine Richmond, the US science envoy to Southeast Asia, told VOA Khmer she was surprised to see how much passion and talent young Cambodian students have in developing technology, particularly in the design of computer apps.
During her six-day visit, which ended Sunday, Richmond gave a number of lectures on science and history to students in universities in Phnom Penh and the provinces of Kampong Cham and Siem Reap.
She encouraged the government to build more skills in the technology and telecom sectors, in order to attract more investment.
“What Cambodia needs right now is the technical workforces that can atract companies that want to be here to raise the economy,” she said. “That is not necessarily to the PhD level, but it is those people, who get out of [vocational-technical] school, get out of colleges in engineering, that can go directly to the workforce.”
Otherwise, countries can be taken by surprise when jobs do come. Vietnam, for example, lacked thousands of technology workers when the American computer company Intel opened there in 2006, she said.
Cambodia should embrace information and communications technology education from high school on, to encourage more interest in more students, she said.
Government spokesman Phay Siphan said the administration has a vision to develop the ICT sector. “Our hope is that America will sincerely help the countries in the lower Mekong region to fill-in technological gaps and have similar ‘e-systems,’ such as those being used in developed countries,” he said.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Begin of Drgunzet's comment.

In the article: "Otherwise, countries can be taken by surprise when jobs do come. Vietnam, for example, lacked thousands of technology workers when the American computer company Intel opened there in 2006, she said."

I read an article, when Intel had 500 High-tech openings in the new plant, 3000 Vietnamese new grad applied. Only 100 of those got hired. So, Vietnamese Universities taught the students obsolete theory and no practical experiences.

But soon Intel realized the 100 original hires are super faster learners, Intel deduced the others might be fast learners as well. So Intel begun to hire more and retrained the Vietnamese. Intel also sent 150 Vietnamese students to go to American University for one year before hiring them.

As the result, last year, the most complicated chips, Haswell, was qualified in record setting by the Vietnamese engineers in Vietnam.

Khmer race will never stand a chance. I used to tutor the Khmer students in school and they were so dense, slow and strange... I wonder if they were the same human specie with me.

Perhaps I got it wrong. Let's try again on this forum. Khmer, want to challenge me?

-Drgunzet-

Anonymous said...

Begin of Drgunzet's comment.

I suggest the Khmer folks to do the followings:

1. Stop all the fighting and troubles against Mr. Hun Sen. Get stabilized, get more jobs in to Cambodia so that the children can be fed better.

2. Cambodian society is showing its animalism. Go to Youtube and see the rampant vicious fights in Cambodian schools. It's sick. When I was a kid, I used to smash rocks on the dark-skinned Asian kids. I don't think they will grow up smart, especially the ones who suffered brain concussions.

3. You must admit you are stupid then find a superior race to learn from. I suggest the superior German race. I bowed down to the German American elites and learned a great deal from them. Clearly you have been seeing my German superiority on the forum.

-Drgunzet-