Did it Intern out OK?

My last posts left you with as much of a cliff hanger as my current lifestyle could muster - I was contemplating staying in Cambodia to work with a human rights group called LICADHO. Did I stay?

The charity documents and photographs human rights violations and demonstrations and ends up wth 100's of photos which need to be effectively cataloged for future use within the international NGO community and world press.

The idea presented to me was to write a proposal for a new system for managing these images. It would allow other organisations to upload their own images to a central web based library and also have a secure way of managing who could download them. This could end up as a fund raising scheme and also raise the profile of the organisation.

Well I spoke to a bunch of people in the organisation and in the NGO community and I actually ended up talking my self out of a job in the process!! In reality the project could have worked in a different environment but for LICADHO we agreed it would not return the benefits that would make the project worthwhile!

So there was the internship back off the table by my own doing! Oh well!

Despite this minor setback, LICADHO, and in particular their Director Naly Pilorage were extremely helpful during my stay. We worked together on a couple of stories during my Cambodia trip and I was able to cover them with my camera.

I will write a little about these other stories in my next couple of posts.