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Cambodia’s Coming AI Revolution
October 25, 2018
October 20 saw the launch of KOOMPI, a Cambodian “home-grown” laptop, at BarCamp ASEAN 2018, the annual regional expo for tech start-ups. The laptop is distinctive for running entirely on Open Source platforms so that production costs are kept low and the device is affordable, and so that owners without a background in computing can “hack” the platforms and become “super-users.” KOOMPI is already doing market testing in Myanmar and exploring bringing the product to other regional markets such as Japan, Brunei, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Laos, and the Philippines.

KOOMPI may be a regional first, but it’s not the only exciting local tech innovation coming out of Cambodia. Just a couple of months previously, Cambodia.AI was launched by regional start-up Slash.co, fostering a community of coders in Cambodia working on Open Source algorithms and pro bono projects.
One such project is developing AI capability for the country’s EWS1294 flood detection system, managed by People In Need, to potentially identify “false positive” alarms and predict flood risk too. The timing is apposite: Just last month the World Economic Forum ASEAN summit focused on the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” of the enterprise economy and data-enabled digital technologies such as AI, and its implications for the region.

These are exciting developments in a country that for many years has been defined by its humanitarian crises. “‘NGO World’ had taken over the Cambodian brand,” KOOMPI’s co-founder, 31-year-old Rithy Thul, said to me, “but in the last decade the country has moved away from that.”

“For a long time, the narrative around Cambodia was around textile sweatshops and tourism,” Andries De Vos, CEO of Slash.co, told me. “But that’s something the younger generation are changing.”

In fact some of Cambodia’s structural features, which might have been weaknesses in traditional industrial models, might actually be strengths when it comes to adapting to the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” But what could this mean for the key players that will shape how data, AI and digital technologies are developed, and the values that will shape their global governance?
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February 4, 2019
SomJot wins SmartStart Cycle 2

After impressing a panel of judges at the grand final on Thursday evening, SomJot, an app that helps drivers find parking space, was selected as the winner of the SmartStart Young Innovator Programme Cycle 2 and was awarded a trip to Singapore.

Smart Axiata CEO Thomas Hundt said, “Congratulations to SomJot, for making substantial progress in the last six months, once again raising the bar for SmartStart in terms of output quality. Their pitch made us all proud of the tremendous efforts put into the programme.

“Such an initiative proves that the Kingdom’s startup ecosystem is growing and being stimulated by great talent – it’s a positive sign for our shared vision of Cambodia’s sustained digital economy,” Mr Hundt said.
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The four other teams in the final were Homex, a mobile application that connects users with household needs to reliable technicians, Haystome, a digital platform that connects tourists with local artists, Malis, a digital solution facilitating appointments at beauty salons, and Tos Rean, an online platform matching tutors and students.

All five teams had received $4,000 and a six-month incubator programme with Impact Hub in June 2018, and battled it out yesterday at Impact Hub Phnom Penh for a fully-funded Singapore “tech trip” to visit the likes of Facebook, Google and Microsoft.
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