More ICT investment needed: businessmen

22 March 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Economy and commerce / Investment
Debasish Pattnaik / Dinesh Patnaik / ICT / ICT investment / Indian Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia / Information and communications technology / International Data Corporation / National Information Technology Development Authority / Phnom Penh / Phuong Samnang

CAMBODIA’S economy can “leapfrog” by developing its information and communications technology (ICT) industry, but the government is not spending enough on ICT infrastructure to attract private investments, business leaders said at a seminar in Phnom Penh yesterday. “What has been seen over the last 20 years is that countries can leapfrog from a very low end of development to a very high end by using ICT, without going through the normal [development] process,” said India’s Ambassador to Cambodia, Dinesh Patnaik. …

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