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Cyber Security Training in Cambodia, the Philippines, and Bhutan in cooperation with the International Telecommunication Union

Cyber Security Training in Cambodia, the Philippines, and Bhutan in cooperation with the International Telecommunication Union

Day：2025.09.30

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Target Project:

Cambodia " Project for Improving Cybersecurity Capability " (Technical Cooperation Project)
The Philippines “Capacity Development for Cybersecurity” (Individual Expert)
Bhutan " Project for Strengthening Government Capacity for Using Digital Technology and Data" (Technical Cooperation Project)

Event name, duration, and location:

Cambodia: "Strengthening CII Protection through CIRT Services" (November 5-8, 2024, Phnom Penh)
Philippines: "Strengthening Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) Resilience through National Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) Services" (February 17-20, 2025, Manila)
Bhutan: "Cybersecurity Capacity Building for Bhutan" (February 3-5, 2025, Bangkok) and "Follow-on Activity for Cybersecurity Capacity Building for Bhutan" (May 20-21, 2025, Thimphu) May 20-21, 2025, Thimphu City)

Training was provided to Cambodia, the Philippines, and Bhutan in cooperation with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)¹ to improve cybersecurity capacity of each country.

JICA and ITU signed a Joint Statement in January 2025 to collaborate in the digital field, including cybersecurity, in the Asia-Pacific region. Based on this statement, we are working on technical training opportunities and awareness-raising activities related to cyber security in various countries.

In Cambodia and the Philippines, lecturers dispatched by the ITU from gave lectures and desktop exercises on CSIRT² design, cyber strategy development practices, cyber threat identification, and cyber incident response to counterparts from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Cambodia and the Ministry of Information and Communications of the Philippines, as well as critical information infrastructure operators in each country.

In February 2025, a training course on cybersecurity incident response at the national level, etc. was conducted for senior officials of the Bhutanese government at the ITU Asia Pacific Office in Bangkok. Furthermore, in May 2025, ITU lecturers introduced cybersecurity initiatives and conducted lectures and exercises by ITU lecturers for the management of critical information infrastructure operators in Bhutan, including financial, energy, and telecommunications companies.

Through these activities, JICA will contribute to the capacity building of countries in the digital field, including cybersecurity, and will continue to collaborate with the ITU, a specialized organization in this field, for more effective implementation of these activities.

¹ The Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI), published by the ITU, the United Nations specialized agency on telecommunications, is an important indicator for measuring the maturity of a country's cybersecurity measures.

² CSIRT: Computer Incident Response Team. A specialized team that responds to computer incidents.

Photo: Cambodia