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H.E. Sothie Keo
Secretary of State
Ministry of Post and Telecommunications
H.E. Keo Sothie serves as Secretary of State of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications of the Kingdom of Cambodia. He oversees the Ministry’s legal, policy, and strategy work and its international and ASEAN affairs. In this capacity he has advised on, advanced, and supported reforms across the telecommunications, postal, and ICT sectors within the Ministry’s mandate. He leads the drafting of key laws and policies, including the Draft Law on Cybersecurity, the Draft Law on Personal Data Protection, the Draft Cloud First Policy, and the Draft National Artificial Intelligence Strategy. He also serves as Deputy Secretary of the General Secretariats of the National Council for Digital Economy and Society and of the Digital Security Committee.
He is a licensed lawyer in both the Kingdom of Cambodia and the State of Colorado. He received his Juris Doctor and Master of Laws from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Washington.
Speaking at the summit
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9:10–9:15amSun 15 NovOpen
Others
Ministerial Remarks: MPTC
About this session
Emerging markets have long imported the infrastructure their economies run on, and with it someone else's terms, costs and priorities. Cambodia built its own: a national payment network that connects banks and e-wallets behind a single QR code, designed as a foundation others can extend. The remarks argue that public technology has become a measure of national strength, and ask what it takes for an emerging economy to own digital public infrastructure that stays within reach on cost, ready for what comes next, and open to the banks, founders and neighbouring countries that will grow on top of it.
