Welcome to ISOC Vietnam
ISOC´s Mission Statement:
To assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet
for the benefit of all people throughout the world
As the Vietnamese Members of the Internet Society (ISOC) we try to contribute
our part that the Internet benefits the people of and in Vietnam.
If you want to help out with translations you can contact the webmaster
and/or go to our
W3C website and pic a document to translate.
Support for Free and Open Source!
It is possible to have a full functional PC with all features that you
want legal and free. But Free and OpenSource is not all about Linux. Most
applications are able to run under Microsoft Windows. See more at our
link site.
We have set up an e-mail list to discuss the development of Free and Open
source in Vietnam. You could also join and contribute! Just go to the
Join ISOC Vietnam page
and subscribe
to the OSS mailing list.
We are looking for Sponsors and translators!
We are looking for sponsors to help out with our activities. You can
sponsor ISOC Vietnam
in any way you like.
If you would like to help out or sponsor the activities within ISOC Vietnam
please contact our office or webmaster!
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Upcoming and recent events:
Saturday 14 September, 09:00 to 10:30 am
UNDP Conference
Room (3rd Floor Building B)
Hanoi (Ly Thuong Kiet, corner to Phan Boi Chau)
Vietnamese
Text-to-speech and its application to the internet:
Presented by UNDP in conjunction with ISOC.
Saturday 20 April, 09:00 to 11:00 am
UNDP Conference
Room (3rd Floor Building B)
Hanoi (Ly Thuong Kiet, corner to Phan Boi Chau)
Web Accessibility Seminar:
Accessibility, particularly with respect to Information Technology and
web
Speaker: Mr. Joakim Lofkvist (ISOC Vietnam)
Presented by ISOC in conjunction with UNDP.
Latest News:
September 14, 2002
Internet Society of Vietnam held a seminare regarding the development
of Vietnamese screenreaders. Read more about it in the translated article
by Ms Hai Yen (reporter of VASC-Online)
Vietnamese
screenreader- a big opportunity for the blind to access Internet or
the Vietnamese
original.
May 19, 2002
On the occasion of beloved Uncle Ho's 112th birthday (May 19, 1890 - May
19, 2002), Tien Phong Newspaper, Information Center (Central Science and
Education department) and NetNam Company (IT Institute) jointly organize
a Webdesign contest.
Read more
about this contest on our Website page or at http://home.Netnam.vn
April 3, 2002
The W3C QuickTips
to a more accessible web site and the document Getting Started:
Making a Web Site Accessible is now translated into Vietnamese. Many
thanks to Mr. Van Binh who did all the work.
Read more about
the W3C translations on the newspage!
January 9, 2002
The Unicode work group has put up a testpage for Unicode. Everyone are
invited to contribute with there own testing. The result of this test
will be published on our site later on.
Read more about the Unicode test at the Unicode work group page!
December 26, 2001
Professor Tran Luu Chuong presented information from MOSTE (Unicode group) about
Vietnam and the use of UNICODE.
Mr. Dang Minh Tuan presented his Vietkey tool for Vietnamese fonts and
Unicode.
Read more about
the Vietnam and Unicode presentation!
December 10, 2001
ISOC Vietnam is launching its new webdesign.
Read more about
the new design!
December 1, 2001
ISOC and UNDP held a Round table discussion about the Government decree
no. 55 on Internet.
Read more about
the discussion and decree 55!
November 22, 2001
Stefan Probst delivered a presentation during the "Asia IT & C Roadshow"
on 22.11.01 in Hanoi (VCCI building):
Read more about
the presentation!
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