Miss Duangkaew Panompai, I am 16 years old, and being the tribe girl in Chaingmai province, High school student at the Girls Development Institute.
I gain scholarship to study in this institute. My family is the farm base family up on the mountain. Orange, lettuce, cabbages, tomato are our main crops. And the additional income is the tribe artisan woven products. Which is our Hmong tribe identity and local wisdom.
My hobby is reading, sport, local north dance, Thai musical instrument, woven works with artisan Hmong tribe heritage.
I am very diligent girls of the family. I want to study more to pursuing more new knowledge.
My dream is to be a teacher In order to teach children at my homeland up to the mountain to let them access and gain more knowledge to develop themselves and their own community.
I believe in working hard, study hard, this will overcome all the difficulties, and even any problem.
Everyone including me curious and want to have our own online shop. We heard about it but we never got the chance to try it. This is so great that we have the expert to train us at our institute. Myself and all my friends are curious to learn and have a dream to set up our own online business.
Besides, we can have the chance to write about our tribe, our community, which many times people miss- understood about our tribe.
ICT can be a tool to empower them to gain more self-knowledge and self-development then expanding to the others in their own community.
We gain more knowledge about the use of technology: ICT to develop our farm business. I wanted to give some basic skills about ICT to my parents too then they can behave more correctly in their farm practices. Then our farm products will gain more recognized in its safety then our family will be proud as well as gaining more income while our environment is also safe and sustained.
We can create more PR and advertisement about our family products, our community products, then relay to the other community media such as the community radio, the loudspeaker in the villages besides from only the online media.
We can create our own online web / blog as well as our online social media then we all can sell more and be seen more to the public. We still have less background in this online business. So, we need to practices more and be sure that we can do it and make it real to be used with my family and my community.
New Technologies is a challenge because many people may consider themselves to run to keep up with all kinds of technologies. But in fact, I think no need to follow up all new technologies, we just literate about it and make use from it. Then we can also save our money, and time. And especially can apply to our real life.
The technology is a dream You can put that knowledge to further use in everyday life. And Education. Learning technologies make it open wider. And be cognizant society Do not be a victim of bad things. And can apply what they learn to develop better homeland.
But anyhow ICT is the great tool for us to let us access to all knowledge and necessary information and knowledge that is useful to our life and our community. We can cope up with the changing world instead of being blind as before.
I want to learn more and get back to develop my homeland, my people, and my mountain.