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.
Read more: KH: UN forum promotes Preah Sihanouk ‘Smart City’
- 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.
Read more: 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.
Read more: KH: Ministry to prepare the country for digitalisation
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.
Read more: Cambodia is launching a blockchain network for the country’s payment system
On March 16, Cambodia published a directive for the closure of all academic institutes across the Kingdom in a bid to contain the spread of the coronavirus. However, as the number of infected patients continue to soar by the day, reopening of the schools remains uncertain. Caught in a limbo are students and teachers who struggle to adjust with the limited alternatives presented before them.
In an effort to keep students on track with the academic curriculum, the educational sector has brought in reforms to digitalise traditional pedagogy. While the public has seen the government’s initiative to launch e-learning materials for Mathematics, History, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Khmer literature, teachers and students alike admit navigation of the new system has been challenging.