Korea to help Cambodia in establishing the Master Plan for the Information and Communication Technology

KOICA News Release: translation from local newspaper

Koh Santepheap Daily:

Vol.45, #7633, Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Phnom Penh: Upon the request from Cambodia, the Government of Republic of Korea provided the grant aid of 2 million USD through Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in assisting Cambodia to establish the master plan for the project for Cambodia’s information and communication technology (ITC) Master Plan with the aim to promote the e-government, e-economy and e-education for the country as well as to improve the capacity building for the Cambodian officials on ICT sector.

Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) was aiming to establish the ICT Master Plan to contribute to the sustainable socioeconomic development of Cambodia through improving informatization status. 

Within this duration, the Government of Republic of Korea will dispatch a group of Korean ITC experts to Cambodia to work and share their experiences with relevant officials in establishing the legal framework as well as legal institution in order to build the effective ICT infrastructure and industry in Cambodia.  In addition, a numbers of qualified Cambodian officials will be invited to train and study in Korea in order to improve the quality and quantity of Cambodian human resource on ICT sector.

Please note that the document of the document of the project for Cambodia’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Master Plan was signed by KOICA with the Office of the Council of Ministers on July 27th, 2012 at the Office of Council of Ministers, to initiate the project implementation phase in which NiDA was the implementation partner of the project.