There probably aren't many visitors to the itT site that need to look up words in Khmer, Thai, Burmese or Lao. Especially since you can't view Unicoded web-pages in those languages on a Nokia Internet Tablet. (Drat!)

But as I've noted my adventures in programming a Firefox extension here, I will point to my blog at the Khmer Software Initiative site, khmeros.info.

There, Click SEAlang beta 0.6.8 is officially announced. (Anyone can download it from SEAlang.net/download/.)

Without the work done to establish a Unicode version of Khmer, without the beautiful Khmer Unicode fonts, without the evangelizing of standards and open software in Khmer, without the literally millions of "messages" translated to localize Firefox (Mekhala), Thunderbird (Moyura), OpenOffice and openSUSE for Khmer users, all performed by Khmer Software Initiative, there would be no use at all for the dictionary extension I've worked on.

So I am glad to see today that KhmerOS has been selected as one of the nine finalists worldwide in the Stockholm Challenge (one of the two finalists in the economic development category). Recognition for this work is made by the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP), which promotes innovation and advancement in the acronymic areas of K4D (Knowledge for Development) and ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development). Congratulations to the developers at KhmerOS! You've done great work!