ICT In Cambodia

There are many important roles of ICT in development of Cambodia, particularly at a community level. There also progress and challenges of how ICT has been used in Cambodia for Development. ICT4D refers to the use of ICT for the development of social, economic and human right specially to work with poor people in developing countries. The Executive Director of the Open Institute, Ms. ChimManavy states that greater access to information and communications brings greater social progress. She also talked about e-ASEAN framework and the Cambodian integration. Since Cambodia is an agriculture country, their government create e-Agriculture for the use of farmers. The farmers can use it to know information about the price they produced, the markets

It is an approach of using various forms of communication technologies in development work to improve the life by closing the big gap between populations in the developed and developing world in terms of access to and skills in the use of ICT. It also aims to not only use new technology but providing information and training capacity to use ICT in developing countries. The ICT4D Cambodia Network is a group that allows organizations experienced in technology, work together to share knowledge, exchange experiences, and promote discussion to solve the various needs of society in Cambodia. The Network aims are first, to encourage collaboration, support and sharing of information. Next, to increase the level of impact and sustainability and lastly to increase the visibility of

E-Administration refers to improving government processes and internal affairs of the public sector with new ICTs executed information processes. E-Services is a way to improve delivery of public services to citizens. Meanwhile, E-Democracy implies greater and more active citizen participation and involvement enabled by ICTs in the decision making processes. The benefit of this is that it can increase transparency, corruption-free governance, greater convenience, revenue growth and cost reductions. The example improvement of using E-Governance in Cambodia is first, Electronic Approval System where it allows government ministries to exchange document internally and externally, lower the use of office equipment, and make administrative affairs easy and fast. Secondly, they can keep track real asset transaction including price and tax paid using Real Estate Registration. Next, by using Resident Registration, they can keep trace and record of resident, family composition, education for school age children and collecting income tax of Cambodian. Vehicle Registration is in charge in keeping trace of vehicle ownership, tax paid and safety inspection. Lastly the presence of Government on the World Wide Web which is the National homepage of the government provides information about government of Cambodia, King, Prime Minister, Senate, National Assembly, organizations, and other news or