Government To Push Digital Empowerment

30 April 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Economy and commerce / Investment
Deputy Prime Minister Sok An / ICT / Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Sector / Information and Communication Technology / ITU Asia-Pacific Regional Development Forum / Ministry of Post and Telecommunication / Mobile Phones / Phnom Penh / socio-economic development / Sok An

Senior government officials yesterday were promoting the development of the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector in the Kingdom, particularly the concept of digital empowerment among young people.

Deputy Prime Minister Sok An, who presided over the opening of ITU Asia-Pacific Regional Development Forum, held in Phnom Penh, said Cambodia is a country that has more mobile phone subscriptions than the entire size of the population. …

The growth of mobile phones has been considerable in Cambodian over the last few years: in 2012 numbers of mobile and fixed-line phones was 19.7 million; while the year before the numbers were 16.2 million, according to report of Ministry of Post and Telecommunication for 2012. …

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