Where is my blogspot?

By Albeiro Rodas - I see Cambodia »

It is more than 50 hours already that no blog hosted in the free website blogspot.com is accessible in the Cambodian territory. Alexa, the web information company on ranks, shows blogspot in the 5th position of the top 100 sites in Cambodia. According to the media, there’s the probability of a blockage in order to silence KI-media, a high critic blogger to the government, although officials contacted byThe Phnom Penh Post denied it.

Blogging has taken a very important development in modern Cambodia. While computers and Internet enter into the lives of Cambodians and their developing country and young people get higher levels of education, Internet becomes more and more popular through websites, blogs, social networks, vlogs and forums.

The creation and development of KhmerOS font to open the possibility to Cambodians to access to the Internet without the need to change their native language, has been a great contribution of an organization like Open Institute.

Blogging, for example, is a way of communication, information and improving the skill of young people and, at the same time, spaces for democracy, human rights formation and others.

It is quit astonishing that last week we were setting our virtual library (khmerinternational.blogspot.com), where I published with my students the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Royal Constitution of Cambodia as a tool for the Cambodian community and some days after we suffered a possible action against freedom of information.

You can find media in US talking against president Barack Obama. You can find thousands of web and printed pages talking against Queen Elizabeth of England, but none of them considered that those media should be closed for it.

We hope that it is a technical issue and the several blogs hosted in blogspot will be accessible soon in the Cambodian territory, a nation that is ruled by a beautiful Constitution with all the guarantees for human rights, democracy and equal opportunities for its people and leaded by intelligent and courageous leaders who work every moment to develop their nation and are not afraid of strong critics if they are convinced of their principles and goals. Several organizations, groups, intellectuals, youth, cultural manifestations, are using blogspot.com. It became an important media in our country and it is worthy of appreciation by all of us.