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

Posted by: Hort Sroeu Posted date: July 27, 2012

Picture from KOICA Cambodia Office

Phnom Penh: Upon the request from Cambodia, the Government of Republic of Korea will provide 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.

In line with the requesting from the Cambodian government, the project is aiming to establish the ICT Master Plan to contribute to the sustainable socioeconomic development of Cambodia through improving informatization status. Consequently, this project is estimated to take 18 months for the completion after the Record Discussion has been signed.

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.

In this regard, the Record Discussion of the project for Cambodia’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Master Plan was signed by KOICA with the Council of Minister on July 27th, 2012 at the Office of Council of Minister, Phnom Penh to initiate the project implementation phase in which NiDA is the implementation partner of the project.