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No business will
succeed unless investment in staff, and their needs, matches, or exceeds, that
of the investment in the business itself. Although not employed directly by
WomPom.news, the following are some of the staff without whom the WomPom.news
project would not have succeeded . |
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia office |
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The
Phnom Penh office is a document capture conversion project in which images
of documents are captured/scanned, subjected to Optical
Character Recognition and the output saved to disc. The
output data is then spell-checked and then a word-by-word comparison is
made between the original document and the computer output. This work is
frequently done for libraries and corporations wanting to make aged text
documents available on-line.
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The
Khmer language used in Cambodia is symbol based, that is to say it does
not use Roman characters, and we have found that the throughput to be far
higher than in locations where they were used to the characters.
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The
lack of infrastructure within Cambodia makes commercial operations there
difficult. All electrical power is provided through battery based power
units that are continually charged.
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Personal
security is also a concern here, so we provide accommodation for employee's and
their children, easing any transition surrounding employees
personal circumstances. |
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The
Cambodia project provides employment to both single-parent families and
those injured by abandoned war munitions and landmines.
'Junior'
is our office' neighbour's child who wanted to be photographed. She is continually
captivated by our computers and what she can do with them. She is a
'Paint' program specialist.
She calls this web
page 'her' web page and she checks it daily. |
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Bangkok, Thailand office
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Bangkok
is the location of staff who work predominantly in the Thai language, a symbol based language, as well as Chinese and English. |
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The server that employs Chinese and Thai based
languages is located in Bangkok, with another in Singapore. E-mail is also
transmitted from this location in these two languages. |
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Translation is also done in this office, both
into and from, Burmese, Chinese, English, Khmer and Thai languages - both
written and aural. This allows us to properly share the news without linguistic
barriers. |
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Thailand's infrastructure is generally good,
with broadband fibre-optic communications to key parts of the world-wide
communications network. The biggest problem is water, as in flooding, so we
again have to provide auxiliary power generators, water purifiers and large
pumps. |
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VietNam offices
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VietNam is an enigma to most living in the West. |
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After
routing the French and the American regimes, followed by a period
of extreme turbulence underan
interim government prior to reunification, VietNam is now a power to be
recognised. |
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The majority of the Vietnamese population is
under 28 years of age, and an literacy rate nearing 92% - which is higher than
many Developed Countries. Most urban Vietnamese know basic English, many
completely fluent in both spoken and written English, and a thirst to learn
unmatched in many countries, except perhaps Greece.
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This linguistic capability, coupled with a
generally high level of education, increasingly good air and road transportation
systems, coupled with a improving communications infrastructure makes VietNam an
ideal location for regional offices. |
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WomPom
has two offices in VietNam, one chosen for it's temperate climate high up
on the plains of the Central Highland in the historically significant town of Buon Ma Thuot, Dac Lak Province, and the other having similar benefits as
well as good communication and road transport facilities - it being Da
Lat. Your on-line editor resides at the former location. |
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It is contemplated that the Da Lat office will be transferred to Da Nang,
which is the location of the original InterNet gateway for VietNam, which
offers even more reliable communications although being a large naval town
has plenty of detractions. Close by are some very attractive areas. It
also boasts a huge natural harbour which is ideal for sailing or
simply 'messing around in a boat'. |
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Both
offices are involved in low-cost, fast delivery, web authoring activities
for sales people operating in Europe and North America. The automatic
calculation/production of faresheets, and other travel related e-mail
material, is executed at these offices and transmitted for many carriers
around the world, as well as consolidators and bucket-shops. |
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Correspondents and Editorial staff
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The
On-Line editorial staff is deployed around the globe. In HongKong our
correspondent is employed in travel-related Information Technology by a
sizeable corporate entity.
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London,
England is home to WomPom.uk who is a electronics technician employed 'at
a large airport' close to London, and therefore has 'hands on' knowledge
of what he reports. |
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New
York, USA is where our US correspondent resides, employed by a GDS/CRS,
and the reports submitted by WomPom.us provide view points of the
beta software trials and the 'battle field' that exists between GDS/CRS
systems, as well as the perspective of very large travel agencies. |
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Toronto,
Canada is where Sabre's nemesis, WomPom.ca, occasionally hangs his hat,
with the $1,000,000 Statement of Claim framed on his office wall! He is
involved in electronic and InterNet based activities and travels most of
the time. His 'friend' we call Jamie, of Sabre, lives close by, too, in the suburb
of Unionville, Markham. |
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Last, and certainly important to the success of
WomPom.news, are the legions of people who have sent us 'plain brown envelope'
information on the many things that large travel industry entities would rather
be suppressed.
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