Cambodian ICT Masterplan 2020 And the Royal Government inaugurates the following five strategies in order to successfully enhance the national ICT infrastructure: - S1: The ICT environment needs to be initiated by Royal Government of Cambodia. - S2: The opportunity to access ICT for all the people needs to be provided. - S3: The environment where private sector actively participates for national ICT development needs to be established. - S4: The circumstance to easily adopt new ICT and create added value needs to be provided. - S5: The direction for development of ICT infrastructure needs to be decided in consideration with the worldwide ICT trend. 4.3 Founding the National Backbone Network This program is to upgrade bandwidth of the national backbone network run by state-owned company such as TC and expand service coverage. The objective is building a base environment to provide broadband service with speeds of at least 10Mbps by 2020. To achieve the objective, RGC will upgrade the bandwidth of the current national backbone network in the first stage. Also, RGC will complete coverage expansion plans according to Public Investment Program (PPP) of TC in the second stage. 4.4 Accelerating the National Information Network This program is to install the separate network according to the national policy purpose such as administration, finance and education & research. Firstly, for the national administration information network, the RGC will strengthen NII network in order to connect all offices of each capital city of 25 provinces. Also, the RGC will set up a base to isolate internet from intranet network. Moreover, the RGC will establish standards and institutional base for the administration network in order to improve usage efficiency of the network. Secondly, for financial network, the RGC will enhance the information connection between banks in 25 provinces with priority. And then, the RGC will establish and operate a single financial network that can be used by banks, security and insurance companies as well as investment firms. Furthermore, the RGC will build an operation environment for a single financial network by formulating national standards and a shared usage structure for financial data. Lastly, for education and research network, the RGC will establish university and school networks within main capital cities. Also, the RGC will build and operate pilot research networks in main cities including Phnom Penh. 14