1. Introduction
The Cambodian Blogger Awards is a pioneering initiative in Cambodia which aims to select and recognize exemplary initiatives of bloggers and to inspire their possible replication. The Awards is given to initiatives which have shown accessibility to information and technology innovativeness in responding to emerging development challenges affecting life of people in context of open democracy. It is an initiative for good blog practices that motivates, and instills in blog a passion to perform their best.

By promoting information access and technology innovations through recognition, documentation and dissemination of best or innovative practices, the Blogger Awards hopes to contribute to strengthening open democracy in Cambodia. It hopes to generate a spirit of optimism and consciousness that bloggers, together with civil society organizations, youth and women, can make positive things happen.

2. Awards Objectives 
The Blogger Awards aims to institute a process of selecting and recognizing bloggers’ initiatives that resulted to freedom of thoughts and information. Moreover, it provides capacity building of blog, Khmer Unicode and writing skills to target groups such as NGOs, youth and women, by translating award-winning initiatives into documents which tell the best or good practices of bloggers.

3. Awards Eligibility Criteria
1.    The Blogger Awards is a major national competition which recognizes and celebrates excellence in information access and technology innovations. It is open to bloggers’ initiatives planned and implemented that provide information/news of their own lives and/or societies.
2.    To qualify for the awards, blog initiatives must be implemented by Cambodian nationals within the country and should be continuing or functional up to the present.
3.    A Blogger may submit more than one blog initiatives to the Cambodian Blogger Awards Secretariat.
4.    More importantly, the blog initiative should show results that are verifiable.