Kingdom set for IT growth over next decade

Cambodia’s information technology sector is looking to leapfrog its current capacities in the next decade as the Kingdom chases other countries in the region, industry experts say. As much as 40 per cent of the country could be online within 10 years, Dell general manager of Indochina Anothai Wettayakorn told the Post last week. World Bank figures show about 0.5 per cent of Cambodians, or 78,000 people, used the internet in 2009, the most recent year for which data is available. Industry insiders have confirmed that number, saying it is still below one per cent. An increasingly young demographic, coupled with rising income and a previous dearth of investment in the sector, would carry Cambodia’s information technology industry toward regional standards on a par with Thailand and Vietnam, Anothai said…

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