In 2011 Officience welcomed two young entrepreneurs to its incubator: Grégory Schlomoff for his BetterInbox project and Nathanaël Lamellière for Worketer. Why did they choose Vietnam and Officience?
Grégory: geographic arbitrage
Greg always wanted to create a start-up but was worried by the thought of [...]
Founded in 2006, VNTelecom has become a leading forum on ICT (Information and communications technology) with over 24,000 members, including professors, PhDs, engineers, consultants, researchers and students from the Vietnamese community working in the Telco industry.
On November 26 was held the 4th annual VNTelecom seminar on Innovation and Creativity in ICT. This one-day [...]
The French Association against Myopathy (AFM) kicked off their 25th Telethon on Friday 2nd December. 30 hours of viewing was broadcast on the six French public TV channels in addition to many simulcasts, all to launch the biggest charity marathon in France. The aim: raising money to finance research into rare genetic diseases. [...]
A portrait of Linh-Dan Pham, a French actress of Vietnamese origin.
From Saigon to London, via Paris, Singapore, New York and more, we discover a woman of many talents.
Linh Dan Pham made a big impression with her role in the wonderful film by Jacques Audiard “The beat my heart skipped”. [...]
Renewable energy is in fashion in South-East Asia! This is clear from several events organised here in the last few weeks, particularly in Vietnam and Singapore:
– The 3rd CEEA (Clean Energy Expo Asia) event at the start of November
– The 4th SIEW (Singapore International Energy Week) event [...]
We’re taking a look at ‘Digital Gateways’ (‘Passerelles Numériques’ or PN), an organisation represented in Cambodia, the Philippines and in Vietnam!
Launched in 2006, PN aims to improve access to information and communication technology (ICT) for disadvantaged communities, mainly via education. It helps young people to find a skilled job in computing [...]
Yes, just like you, we are fan of him. Here at Officience, we want everybody to truly live their life, live their dream.
The speech transcription here: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
A month ago we published an article on the TEDxMekong event that took place in Ho Chi Minh City. But how prevalent is TED in Vietnam?
TED in Vietnam – some numbers
- 2256 members on the site
– 515 TED Talks already subtitled in Vietnamese – of which 41 were done [...]
For a long time, Vietnam was thought of as a country at war, closed off to the outside world, but it welcomed its first tourists in the 1990s. More recently the country was still considered to be a ‘backpacker’ tourist destination (because of the lack of hotel infrastructure), or reserved for organised tours.
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In our article on the Mua he xanh project, which takes place each year in Vietnam, we promised we would report on how it went for the UJ members and Officience staff once they returned from taking part. A promise made is a promise kept – here is a short [...]
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