Australia has thrown its support behind the smart city development in Preah Sihanouk. This statement was made on a Facebook post of the Australian Embassy on June 30.
In the recent “Smart City Initiative Prioritisation Workshop” organized by Australia’s flagship AU$ 49 million Investing in Infrastructure (3i) programme, with the Preah Sihanouk provincial administration, the Second Secretary of the Australian Embassy, Mr. Anthony Samson, said, “The smart city project selection is a crucial step in our smart city cooperation, as well as in Australia’s efforts
Weiterlesen: KH: Australia backs Sihanoukville’s smart city development
The UN in Cambodia held a virtual conference with Preah Sihanouk provincial officials on February 23 to promote the project Sihanoukville for All: Promoting a Smart, Sustainable, and Inclusive City.
The project was planned in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and UN-Habitat.
Weiterlesen: KH: UN forum promotes Preah Sihanouk ‘Smart City’
Cambodia is launching a distributed ledger technology network for the country's payment system and cutting down the use of the US dollar.
Cambodia is launching a blockchain network for the country’s payment system. The new distributed ledger technology network is aimed at boosting the use of the local fiat currency and cutting down the US dollar use. It will facilitate real-time payments, and the country hopes to bring down the cost of payments drastically. The payment system will have several benefits, but the main goal is to reduce the use of US dollar.
Weiterlesen: Cambodia is launching a blockchain network for the country’s payment system
- With dozens of smart cities in Asia, how many are powered by the use of blockchain?
- The upside of blockchain-enabled smart cities is that businesses, retail shops, and consumers can interact with each other in a smarter and more effective manner.
In a smart city, traffic, public services, and document circulation can be fully automated, integrated by big data and the internet of things (IoT). Applying blockchain is not as common in smart cities as these other tech, but that’s exactly what this project in Cambodia is doing.
Weiterlesen: How blockchain changes the game for Cambodia’s smart cities
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications urged a working group to draft a digital government policy framework in line with digital economy policy.
Minister Chea Vandeth said on Tuesday during a meeting at the ministry that it is working on drafting the framework to further study trends at the regional and global level, and collect input from key experts who have expertise in the preparation of such policies.
Weiterlesen: KH: Ministry to prepare the country for digitalisation