National Smart City Development Orientation Workshop

The Ministry of Interior of Cambodia has organized an orientation workshop on smart city development in Kampot on December 5 and 6, 2023 and in Siem Reap on December 12 and 13, 2023.

This series of the workshop aimed at establishment an institutional framework for smart cities policy throughout Cambodia. The events are planned by the Task Force Smart City Cambodia, headed by the Ministry of Interior of Cambodia, with the participation of experts from UNOPS, UN Habitat, GIZ, and the JICA Smart City Project.

This workshop was attended primarily by government officials responsible for smart cities. There were 87 participants from 12 provinces/cities in Kampot and 78 participants from 16 provinces/cities in Siem Reap.

On the first day of the workshop in Siem Reap, the representatives briefly described their organization's activities and expressed their feelings about smart city development. Then, a GIZ consultant explained the concept of smart city in detail and demonstrated many case studies from around the world. In the afternoon of the first day, the participants were asked to participate in group discussions where they had to choose some important topics and discuss problems and solutions.

On the second day, representatives from each group presented the contents of their group discussions. In many groups, environmental issues (especially waste management) seemed to be of high interest. This was followed by an overview of smart city development in Siem Reap by a smart city expert from JICA. At the end of the workshop, a representative from the Ministry of Interior spoke about the prospects for smart cities at the national level.