Government Supports Cambodia's 'Digital Government Comprehensive Plan'... Korea-Cambodia Memorandum of Understanding Signed

Support for Implementation of 26 Tasks in Cambodia's Digital Government Comprehensive Plan

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Korean government and companies are jointly supporting Cambodia's 'Digital Government Comprehensive Plan.'

On the 8th, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Cambodia's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to establish the 'Korea-Cambodia Digital Government Cooperation Center.'

Korea and Cambodia agreed to expand cooperation in the digital government sector during the 'Korea-ASEAN Special Summit' held in 2019. Last year, at the request of the Cambodian government focusing on digital government, they jointly established the 'Cambodia Digital Government Comprehensive Plan.'

This MOU was signed to support the actual implementation of 26 action tasks derived from the Cambodia Digital Government Comprehensive Plan. According to the MOU, from 2021 to 2023, a Digital Government Cooperation Center will be established at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications building in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety will cooperate with the National Information Society Agency to dispatch digital government experts to the cooperation center and support the implementation of Cambodia's Digital Government Comprehensive Plan.

In particular, in the first year of establishing the cooperation center, this year, joint cooperation projects will be promoted reflecting the demands of the Cambodian government, including preparing guidelines for business process redesign and information strategy planning, devising plans for integrated and linked public services, and conducting feasibility studies for the introduction of an open cloud platform.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety plans to transfer its experience across various fields from digital government planning to actual implementation and operation to Cambodia, and actively support Korean companies' entry into Cambodia in connection with the local introduction of Korean-style digital government services.

Minister Jeon Hae-cheol emphasized, "Korea's digital government, ranked first in the OECD digital government evaluation and second in the UN e-government evaluation, is receiving significant attention from the international community," adding, "We will actively support Cambodia's digital government to succeed, thereby once again proving the excellence of Korea's digital government to the world, and nurture the Digital Government Cooperation Center as an advanced base for our companies to expand overseas."

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