Women ICT Frontier Initiative (WIFI) in Cambodia launched by UN-APCICT

The Asian and Pacific Training Centre for ICT for Development (UN-APCICT) in collaboration with the National One Village One Product Committee under the Council for Agricultural and Rural Development, and with support from the Ministry of Women’s Affairs of Cambodia, co-organized the national launch of Women ICT Frontier Initiative (WIFI) on 19-21 December 2016 at the Office of the Council of Ministers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

UN-APCICT is a regional institute of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and is located in Incheon, Republic of Korea. The Centre’s mission is to strengthen the efforts of the member countries of ESCAP to use ICT in their socio-economic development through human and institutional capacity building.

UN-APCICT's Women ICT Frontier Initiative (WIFI) flagship programme aims to promote women’s entrepreneurship in Asia and the Pacific through enhancing capabilities of women entrepreneurs in ICT and entrepreneurship so that they and their enterprises can become more productive, and hopefully grow and be sustainable so that they can actively contribute to community development as well as to the local and national economy.

The inaugural launch of WIFI in Cambodia, which took place on 21 December 2016, was attended by around 150 representatives from government ministries, training institutes, civil society, women entrepreneur associations, international organizations, media and other relevant stakeholders in entrepreneurship and women’s empowerment. For more information, read the news article posted by UN-APCICT.