Cambodia and Timor-Leste have deepened their collaboration in digital transformation, focusing on the implementation of Cambodia’s innovative document verification platform, verify.gov, in Timor-Leste.
H.E. Keo Sothie, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC), led a delegation to attend the International Conference on “Harnessing Digital Transformation to Strengthen Public Services: Advancing Transparency, Efficiency, and Effectiveness,” according to a joint press release issued on Mar. 25.
The event was presided over by H.E. Francisco Kalbuadi Lay, Vice-Prime Minister and Minister Coordinator for Economic Affairs and Minister of Tourism and Environment, in Dili, Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.
H.E. Keo Sothie, along with senior officials from the General Secretariat of Digital Government Committee (DGC), presented Cambodia’s Digital Transformation Journey and Cambodia’s document verification platform, verify.gov.kh, to H.E. Miguel Marques Gonçalves Manetelu, leadership from various government entities and speakers from other countries such Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam and other regional partners.
The MPTC and MTC of Timor-Leste signed on Jan. 20 in Siem Reap province the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the Cooperation in the Fields of Post, Telecommunications, Information and Communications Technology, and Digital Transformation, and has collaborated on the implementation of the verify.gov document verification platform in the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.
During the official visit, technical leads from MPTC, MTC, and relevant stakeholders convened to discuss and study the details of implementing the verify.gov.tl document verification platform.
Following thorough discussions and assessments of the requirements for the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, MTC has decided to implement the verify.gov.tl platform for verifying the authenticity of driver’s licences and vehicle registration certificates issued by MTC.
MTC is coordinating with relevant ministries to further explore expanding the use of the verify.gov.tl platform to verify the authenticity of high school diplomas issued by the Ministry of Education and university certificates issued by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.
The verify.gov.kh platform has been recognised as the new Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) globally. International institutions, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, the Co-Develop Fund, the Digital Public Goods Alliance, and the 50-In-5 Campaign, have encouraged other countries to adopt the platform to enhance efficiency and transparency in providing public services to businesses and citizens.
This recognition has made the platform increasingly appealing to other countries; MPTC is willing to collaborate with interested nations to support the implementation of the verify.gov platform in a federated manner.
The verify.gov.kh platform is the government’s official platform developed by MPTC. It is designed to eliminate falsified documents, provide user convenience, and verify document authenticity.
The platform also builds trust, saves time, reduces cost, and drives digital transformation in alignment with international best practices.
Document verification on the verify.gov.kh platform is carried out through the integration of standard QR codes, utilising Blockchain technology to provide high security for each document. Furthermore, documents embedded with standard QR codes eliminate the need for paper copy verification.
