Cambodia’s Q3 2021 tech news
• July, August and September of 2021
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July 2021 | August 2021 | September 2021
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September 2021
- Cambodia’s central bank digital currency: “…more than 1.4 million Bakong transactions were recorded in the first half of 2021 alone, with a total value of around $500 million.”
- Cambodia: Angkor 500 Programme is seeking a trainer/mentor based in the capital, Phnom Penh
- Cambodia: National Economic and Digital Society Council established with goal to build ‘a foundation of a digital society to drive new economic growth’
- Cambodia: DakDam Incubator Season 2 preps for launch, a 9-month agriculture incubation program for early-stage entrepreneurs
- Cambodian Association of Finance and Technology and American Chamber of Commerce ink MOU, aiming to streamline and facilitate collaboration
- Cambodia: Jalat Logistics, an Angkor 500 graduate, gains pre-seed funding with all-in-one logistics portal using AI to connect parcel centres, drivers and customers
- Cambodia: An overview of government moves to both limit and surveil digital communications, from a proposed ‘national internet gateway’ to listening in on opposition Zoom meetings
August 2021
- National Bank of Cambodia and Malaysia’s Maybank launch mobile cross-border remittances built on Bakong, Cambodia’s central bank digital currency project
- Download: Developing Cambodia’s Digital Economy – Youth’s Perspective (pdf)
- Cambodia: Production of MVL e-tuktuks to start in December, with bookings via TADA ride-hailing app and using Mass Vehicle Ledger blockchain to record mobility data
- e-news, latest issue: Cambodia’s e-tuktuks, NZ VC funding, Vietnam’s NextUP, Google’s undersea net cables…
- Cambodia: Digital SMEs Accelerator programme launches, a partnership between Techo Startup Center and United Nations Industrial Development Organization
- Cambodia ICT Awards 2021 applications close today, 25th August, across 6 categories
July 2021
- Cambodia: Phase II of its Businesses Registration Platform to be deployed in August, consolidating processes for 6 ministries and state-run institutions
- Cambodia: Techo Startup Center and Cambodian Ass’n of Finance and Tech ink MoU around development of digital framework for financial and other technologies
- Cambodia Digital Economy and Social Policy Framework 2021-2035 launched, aiming to direct and speed moves towards digital economy for the Kingdom
- Cambodia: Angkor 500 Globalization Accelerator Programme applications closed June 12th, a program run by the gov’t Khmer Enterprise and 500 Startups
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