Open Development Cambodia ran a workshop on "Digital Governance and E-Commerce Technology in Small-Midsized Enterprises (SMEs)"
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A workshop on “Digital Governance and E-Commerce Technology in Small-Midsized Enterprises (SMEs)” was held on June 29, 2023, by Open Development Cambodia (ODC). 10 participants (four of which were women) representing various industries attended. The workshop’s main goals are to disseminate the research study’s findings ...
Call for national researchers for the Global Data Barometer – Asia Region
Open Data for Development Asia Hub (D4DAsia) is currently seeking independent, country-level researchers (individual or institution) for the following 14 countries:Indonesia; Philippines; Singapore; Cambodia; Lao PDR; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam; Sri Lanka; India; Nepal; Bangladesh; Taiwan; and Japan.Selected researchers will act as national researchers for the ...
2018 AODP Dialogue and International Open Data Conference
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The Asia Open Data Partnership is an regional event launched since 2015 with 8 partners from 6 countries in Asia. The 2018 AODP Dialogue is the 4th Dialogue that is organized by Korean partner, the National Information Society Agency (NIA), and hosted by Ministry of ...
Biofuel crops
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Biofuel crops have a significant potential for contributing to future energy requirements worldwide. Agricultural lands offer energy farming as an alternative to their usual role of food production. Biofuel crops are an environmentally valuable means of sustainable energy production.1 The demand for transport fuels in ...
Communal land
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Though there are multiple forms of communal property, the rights associated with indigenous communal property are subject to significant legal and socio-economic issues. Indigenous communities are culturally very different from the rest of Cambodia, and the law provides them with the opportunity to obtain collective ...
Anti-corruption
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Anti-Corruption Unit, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo by Michael Coghlan, taken on 9 January 2014. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0In the 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International, released in January 2017, Cambodia ranked 156th out of 176 countries.55 Cambodia has the lowest score of all ...
Open Data Day 2018: Open contracting for sustainable development
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From Cape Town to Helsinki, between Wellington and Sao Paulo: Some 400 events took place during this year’s Open Data Day. Of course, Open Development Cambodia was part of the global event. For the Cambodian edition of the annual celebration of the international open data, ...
Bar association legal aid services
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The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (the Association) is a non-governmental institution for Cambodia’s lawyers. In keeping with Article 24 of the United Nations Basic Principle on the Role of Lawyers, the Association represents lawyers’ interests, promotes their continuing education and training, and ...
Columbia SIPA
In October 2013, ODC and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs established a collaborative partnership to aggregate data and describe trends regarding Cambodia’s donors and development assistance. This partnership is tied to SIPA’s Workshop in Development Practice, a course for second-year, Master’s degree ...
SMEs policy and regulation
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The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a major economic shock in Cambodia, having a spillover on Cambodian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and small household farmers’ survival and business continuity.96 Digital technologies are crucial during the pandemic, in which the owners of SMEs should focus ...
Special economic zones
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A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a defined area within a country that is subject to different laws and regulations than other areas of the country. These comprehensive industrial areas provide preferential incentives to investors and offer government import-export administrative support to facilitate trade. Though ...
Partnerships and collaborations
Ministry of PlanningODC and the Ministry of Planning has formed a collaborative partnership with an effort to engage CSOs in and strengthen the implementation and review process of the country-specific goals of the UN 2030 agenda for sustainable development.Read moreMinistry of Education, Youth and SportOpen ...
Response to COVID-19: Cambodia's economic policy and administration
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The emergence and spread of COVID-19 have brought significant economic pressure on nations around the globe. The pressures on Cambodia are evident in multiple aspects of the country’s economy. The country’s administration has halted certain operations within its economy since confirming its first case in ...
Pandemics
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Pandemics are disease epidemics that spread from person to person as a result of human-to-human transmission. Many medical texts do not define the term “pandemic”. However, some key characteristics of pandemics, including wide geographic spread, disease movement, novelty, severity, high attack rates and explosiveness, minimal ...
Higher education
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Higher education, in general, refers to education beyond the secondary level. Higher education institutions (HEIs) in Cambodia can be classified into three categories: The Royal Academy, university, and college. Cambodia’s higher education consists of an associate degree, four years of undergraduate education, two years of ...
Poverty policy and regulation
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As a fast-developing nation, Cambodia has always found poverty one of its main challenges. The Rectangular Strategy states that eradicating poverty has long been one of the Royal Government of Cambodia’s (RGC’s) highest priorities.288 Since the country’s first major post-civil war election in 1993, Cambodia ...
SDG 5 Gender equality
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The Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) is initiated to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. The global SDG 5 consists of 9 targets (3 targets as means of implementation) and 14 indicators. The objectives of SDG 5 are expressed in terms ...
Securities exchange (stock market)
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Starting from 2001, work began on promoting the formation of a Cambodian Stock Exchange (CSE or CSX) as a means of supporting the economic system in Cambodia’s development. A stock exchange facilitates the buying and selling of stocks among investors. Dr. Bit Seanglim, Chairman of ...
Australian aid
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Prime Minister of Australia, The Hon Anthony Albanese MP, and Prime Minister Hun Sen at Gala Dinner for ASEAN Heads of State/Government/Delegation and Spouses, dated 12 November 2022. Photo from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia.Cambodia and Australia established their diplomatic ties ...