Cambodian ICT Masterplan 2020 8. ICT Standards 8.1. Introduction Nowadays, Standards become more and more important around the world. It is due to the agreement on technical barriers to trade (TBT) of World Trade Organization (WTO). The TBT agreement recognizes the important contribution that international standards and conformity assessment systems can make in this regard by improving efficiency of production and facilitating the conduct of international trade and also it desires therefore to encourage the development of such international standards and conformity assessment systems 8.2. Objectives Increasing the number of participation on standardization activity must be considered first: o-member and continuous participation in the plenary meetings, and then p-member and step to participating in the working group meeting. After long run, Editor and Convener for development of standard activity. 8.3 Developing National Standardization Body For the standardization on ICT are mainly established by JTC1 (ISO) and ITU-T. Cambodia now initiates the standard body by Law on Standards at June 24, 2007. Cambodia is an early stage for the industrialization. The planning for human resource development (HRD) is strongly requested. The other aspect of ICT standardization is accomplished by ITU-T. ITU-T is in general connected to Ministry of Communications or ICT or similar names. 8.3.1 Building-up Independent Standard Body Standards are important because of its power to penetrate the market. Due to the agreement on TBT of WTO, standard becomes the strong tool against the regulations, technical barriers. After surveys on ISC and MPTC, Cambodia’s situation is the beginning stage of understanding the standards and its usefulness. Thus, Cambodia has a white paper to draw all kind of technical forms with minimum trial and errors under the guidance of experienced country like Korea. 8.3.2 Building-up Independent Standard Policy Most important policy in this time is to plan the training and technical assistant for the officers on standard organizations. Based on Korea’s experience on standards teaching, Cambodia will learn the standardization process and will strengthen the human resources. 23