Commerce Ministry Cooperates with a University to Implement Microsoft Project

Commerce Ministry Cooperates with a University to Implement Microsoft Project

AKP Phnom Penh, September 27, 2016 –

The Ministry of Commerce reached here yesterday afternoon a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the American University of Phnom Penh (AUPP) to implement Microsoft’s Translator Hub-Khmer project.

H.E. Sok Sopheak, Under Secretary of State for Commerce, said that the collaboration will help promote the national information technology sector and provide many great benefits to Cambodian people.

“The Ministry of Commerce has seen the AUPP is the only university that can provide quality human resources for this work and it is also the opportunity for the students to work with Microsoft company through the ministry,” he added.

Professor Dr. Nial Farrell, Vice President for the academic and student affairs of the AUPP, said it is an honour for the AUPP to partner with the Ministry of Commerce for the Translation Hub-Khmer project, as well as other projects.

According to the MoU, the AUPP is tasked to provide human resources, expertise, and other resources to input data in the form of words and sentences of at least 100,000 phrases (in Khmer and English), which will be used for translation in computer systems and other Microsoft programmes. It then has to collaborate with the Ministry of Commerce to design and conduct training programmes to officials of the ministry and other relevant institutions.

By Khan Sophirom