Official Publication of Siem Reap Smart City Roadmap
On 4th October 2023, Siem Reap Provincial Administration (SRPA) published both Khmer and English versions of the Siem Reap Smart City Roadmap, which JICA helped to for the documentation, onto the Siem Reap Administration official homepage and, they will be shared across different social networking sites to the public.
You can assess the roadmap at the link below.
https://siemreap.gov.kh/detail/36833?fbclid=IwAR1b5ijpP5lygcmNNA3ptE2CXK9ZWtb0WaplMkdPW3iYbyP5TnZmSQmDBZs
The history of the publication is as followings.
- In 2018, Siem Reap was chosen as one of the members of the ASEAN Smart City Network in ASEAN summit in Singapore.
- In 2019, SRPA requested for JICA support to develop the smart city initiative in Siem Reap.
- From 2020 to the end of 2021, despite the outbreak of COVID-19, JICA and SRPA tried to conduct a data collection survey and formulated the draft smart city roadmap for Siem Reap.
- From May 2022 to 2nd March 2023, there were numerous meetings and discussions among all stakeholders to revise and update the roadmap in order to make it as a usable and practical document and ensure consistency with the government policies.
- On the 2nd March 2023, in the 3rd JCC meeting, the Provincial Governor approved the roadmap to be an official document for Siem Reap.
- Through the necessary official process, the roadmap was published on 4th October.
Although the roadmap is published this time, as the roadmap is essentially living document, the content will be updated when necessary.
