{"name":"Applied AI in Cambodia — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Cambodia, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/cambodia","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Cambodia","slug":"cambodia","iso2":"KH","region":"Asia-Pacific"},"counts":{"entries":16,"deployments":9,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":5,"regulation":2,"industries":5,"countries":1,"linked":16},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cambodia","role":"Policy analyst","org":"Ministry of Economy and Finance (General Department of Digital Economy)","text":"Plain-language queries from Cambodia's finance staff now return instant tables, charts and summaries from 600-plus datasets on the Data EF Portal, via Data EF AI Agent, a government data query AI agent. The General Department of Digital Economy built this AI-assisted dataset search tool, cutting wait times to 10-15 seconds in trials, live per OECD since August 2026.","date":"2026-08-05","source":"https://oecd.ai/en/dashboards/policy-initiatives/data-ef-ai-agent"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Cambodia","org":"Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology","text":"143 Club of Cambodian Journalists members, pulled from 82 outlets, sat an AI training for journalists course the Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology ran jointly with the club, titled Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Digital Journalism. Organisers pitched the newsroom AI skills session as a productivity boost for the national digital-news trade, per the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.","date":"2026-07-28","source":"https://mptc.gov.kh/en/2026/07/members-of-the-club-of-cambodian-journalists-received-a-capacity-building-training-on-digital-skills-and-artificial-intelligence-to-boost-productivity-and-work-efficiency-in-cambodias-digital-journa/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cambodia","role":"Tax officer","org":"General Department of Digital Economy, Ministry of Economy and Finance","text":"Cambodia's General Department of Digital Economy has deployed an AI chatbot for e-invoicing on Telegram, an AI-powered invoicing helper on Telegram covering the Cambodian Electronic Invoicing System (CEIS). Called CamInvoice Chatbot, it sits under the Ministry of Economy and Finance to ease CEIS support.","date":"2026-07-23","source":"https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/announcement-on-the-official-launch-of-the-caminvoice-chatbot-on-telegram/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cambodia","role":"Police officer","org":"Ministry of Interior","text":"487 AI-equipped CCTV cameras now watch Phnom Penh, an AI policing push the Ministry of Interior calls its Lancang-Mekong Regional Smart Policing Development project, unveiled at a ceremony Deputy Prime Minister Sar Sokha turned up for. Footage streams into one command hub for quicker emergencies and non-stop watchfulness, powered by facial recognition cameras and instant number-plate capture. Secretary-General You Xiaowen of the Lancang-Mekong Integrated Law Enforcement and Security Cooperation Centre built it, vowing coaching for Cambodian officers and a wider grid.","date":"2026-06-17","source":"https://www.akp.gov.kh/post/detail/373304"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Agriculture & Food","region":"Cambodia","role":"Conservation biologist","org":"Conservation International","text":"An AI wildlife monitoring effort from the US-headquartered nonprofit Conservation International now picks up pileated-gibbon calls through listening devices at 10 spots in Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains, a south-western rainforest topping a million hectares. No camera reliably spotted the treetop-dwelling species, so researchers spent three months schooling a machine-learning species detection tool in the sound, tagging roughly half the nearly 800 calls in one six-week stretch. A parallel count of almost 150 units runs again this year.","date":"2026-06","source":"https://phys.org/news/2026-06-secret-cameras-mics-ai-reveal.html"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cambodia","org":"Ministry of Post and Telecommunications","text":"993 people — ministry leaders and rank-and-file staff together — got through an AI training for civil servants course the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications titled Using Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Work Efficiency on the Journey Toward Digital Transformation, wrapped at a Phnom Penh event under Minister Chea Vandeth. Generative AI and large language models, he told the room, have stopped being distant scientific ideas and now reshape public-sector AI skilling and daily work alike.","date":"2026-06-11","source":"https://mptc.gov.kh/en/2026/06/minister-chea-vandeth-presided-over-the-closing-ceremony-of-the-artificial-intelligence-ai-training-program-for-ministry-leadership-and-civil-servants/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cambodia","org":"Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC)","text":"Cambodia's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications delivered AI training for civil servants across 11 groups at CADT's Digital Government Institute, 28 May to 11 June 2026. Sessions covered AI basics, the national AI ecosystem, ethical risks, and tasks like document summaries, data analysis and content creation, building government-wide AI literacy.","date":"2026-06-04","source":"https://mptc.gov.kh/en/2026/06/all-leaders-and-civil-servants-of-the-ministry-of-post-and-telecommunications-participated-in-the-training-on-using-artificial-intelligence-to-enhance-work-efficiency-on-the-journey-toward-di-2/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cambodia","org":"Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology (CADT)","text":"The Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology (CADT) and Phnom Penh Capital Administration gave AI training for civil servants to 518 staff. Three sessions on ethical AI use, prompt engineering, large language models and generative AI targeted work efficiency. Five civil service AI upskilling rounds have reached 1442.","date":"2026-01-29","source":"https://cadt.edu.kh/cadt-collaborates-with-phnom-penh-capital-administration-to-train-518-officials-on-ai-for-work-efficiency/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Cambodia","role":"Eye-care worker","org":"Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Center","text":"Kong Pisei Hospital and Techo Sen Koh Thom Hospital in Cambodia are the first sites outside China to get an AI eye screening system, Vision Health Intelligent Management Centres from the Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Center. Big data analytics and the Internet of Things join the artificial intelligence behind this digital vision health management approach, spotting eye disorders sooner and keeping patients on tiered care, while Shanghai teams coach local staff on the kit. Patients topped 100 in month one and passed 500 by May.","date":"2026-01","source":"https://www.iapb.org/blog/china-cambodia-digital-eye-health-cooperation-takes-off/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cambodia","role":"Tax officer","org":"General Department of Taxation (GDT)","text":"Cambodia's General Department of Taxation has deployed Beauramei, an AI tax chatbot answering queries on tax laws in Khmer, cutting manual enquiries and office visits. GDT ties the rollout to a wider modernisation drive for public services and stronger domestic revenue mobilisation, with further AI-powered tax services upgrades to follow.","date":"2026-01-03","source":"https://www.khmersme.gov.kh/en/news/gdt-goes-ai-launches-beauramei-to-boost-taxpayer-services/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cambodia","role":"Translator","org":"Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications","text":"A free AI translation app, TranslateKH 2.0, went live from Cambodia's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, letting anyone switch text between Khmer and English via the Play Store, the App Store or a fresh site, www.translate.kh. Powered by deep learning and a large language model, the second-generation machine translation service reads whole passages for meaning instead of parsing sentence by sentence, which the ministry credits with sharper results than its predecessor.","date":"2026-01-02","source":"https://akp.gov.kh/post/detail/358056"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cambodia","org":"Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation (MISTI)","text":"MISTI trained roughly 400 staff in AI for public sector innovation. The Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation session built skills in applying artificial intelligence in government operations, covering core concepts, ethics and hands-on public-service use cases, while pushing a proactive, adoption-ready outlook among attendees.","date":"2025-08-28","source":"https://thebettercambodia.com/misti-launches-training-programme-on-ai-for-public-innovation/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Cambodia","role":"Lawyer","org":"Tilleke & Gibbins","text":"Harvey, an enterprise-grade legal AI platform, now runs firm-wide at Tilleke & Gibbins, extending AI in legal services across Southeast Asia. Teams in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam use it for drafting, research, document review. Custom agentic workflows for legal practice are planned, tailored to core practices and Southeast Asian markets.","date":"2025-08-21","source":"https://www.tilleke.com/insights/tilleke-adopts-harvey-to-accelerate-ai-powered-legal-services-across-southeast-asia/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cambodia","org":"Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC)","text":"The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications opened its draft National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025–2030 to public consultation in June 2025; over 300 participants refined it at a national workshop. This Cambodia AI policy has six priorities: ethical and responsible AI, human resource development, sectoral adoption, digital government, data and infrastructure, and collaboration, research and innovation. The national AI plan awaits approval from the Digital Government Committee and National Digital Economy and Society Council.","date":"2025-07-02","source":"https://mptc.gov.kh/en/2025/07/secretary-of-state-keo-sothie-presided-over-the-closing-ceremony-of-the-national-workshop-on-the-draft-national-artificial-intelligence-strategy-and-the-official-launch-of-the/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cambodia","org":"Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC)","text":"Cambodia's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has drafted a National Artificial Intelligence Governance Framework, an early step in shaping Cambodia AI regulation alongside the National AI Strategy. The AI governance framework plan sets expert consultations for July–August 2025, ministry talks from September 2025, and submission to the Digital Government Committee in November 2025.","date":"2025-04","source":"https://ai.gov.kh/press-release-on-process-of-artificial-intelligence-governance/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cambodia","role":"Civil servant, Citizen","org":"Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC)","text":"A single pilot, DG SuperApp, now folds AI in government services together for Cambodia's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications. DG ChatGPT, pitched as GPT-4's equal, sits beside TranslateKH's Khmer-English converter, go.gov.kh's file store, FormKH's builder, QR codes and Flow.gov.kh's tracker. Still ahead: an AI government platform upgrade bringing DG DeepSeek and DG Gemini.","date":"2025-04-03","source":"https://www.kampucheathmey.com/local-news/886948"}]}