| | Contributing
authors | | Norbert
Klein | | Born
in Yugoslavia in 1934, expelled to Germany in 1945, lived in Japan from 1962 to
1972, before returning to Germany, Norbert Klein has lived in Cambodia since 1990.
He created the first dial-up Internet connection from Cambodia in 1994, established
the ".kh" country domain in 1996 and administered it until 1998, all
this while experiencing the digital divide -- often "falling through the
Net". In 1999, he joined the Non-Commercial Constituency in ICANN. Since
2000, he has been involved in the standardisation of the Khmer script on computers,
and since early 2004 in the creation of a Khmer open source software initiative
to develop Khmer Unicode-based free software. He is at present advisor to the
director of the non-governmental Open Forum of Cambodia and the editor of a weekly
press review of the Khmer-language press, which is circulated in English and Khmer. |  |
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