Cambodia Digital Awards 2025

Remains committed to recognizing and celebrating outstanding digital innovations that drive
Cambodia’s digital transformation and fostering global competitiveness.

History of CDA

Cambodia Digital Awards (CDA) reward yearly the best digital innovation achievements in Cambodia, founded since 2015.​

CDA is a re-envision of the former Cambodia ICT Awards (CICTA), oriented toward the expanding scope of ICT to Digital at both regional and national levels.​

Cambodia Digital Awards (CDA) 2025 Continues its mission to recognize and celebrate outstanding digital innovations that drive Cambodia’s digital transformation and Compete Globally.

Explore the categories

15,000 USD

Minister’s Startup

Digital start-ups at an early stage of inception..

7,500
USD

Digital Research and Innovation

Digital products, services which promote…

2,500
USD

Digital Content​

This consists of digital products and…

2,500
USD

Private Sector

This consists of digital products, services…

2,500
USD

Digital Inclusion

Digital products, services or programmes which..

CDA25 Timeline

09 JUN 2025 20 OCT 2025 NOV 2025 NOV 2025 DEC 2025

CDA2025 Award Winners

Our Award Milestone

426 Teams in 6 Award Categories
7 Gold Medals & 1 Silver Medal ASEAN ICT Awards
109 Judges & 60+ Organizations
1600+ Guests & 350+ Companies Joint award ceremonies

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Criteria

The company’s owner must be a Cambodian citizen or have a permanent residence in the Kingdom of Cambodia.

For the Minister’s Startup Award, the application does not require business registration; however, if the applicant has a business registration, it must be no older than three years.

For the Digital Research and Innovation Award, it’s open to all individuals and institutions.

Q&A

Ministries, organizations, local NGOs, private companies, and universities, that are officially registered and licensed in accordance with the laws of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Students or an individual can also apply if his or her work/product is about “Digital R&D” or “Digital Startup”.

The application or service to be submitted must be owned by the company/institution, and developed using at least 51% of resource (human and financial) in Cambodia.

For the Minister’s Startup Award, the application does not require business registration; however, if the applicant has a business registration, it must be no older than three years.

For the Digital Research and Innovation Award, it’s open to all individuals and institutions

Applicants’ names and details are not shown public, only the names of the winners will be published. All candidates’ details are kept confidential. Only the committee and judges in charge of the case have the right to see the information to study, evaluate and select the winners. Judges may request additional information from the candidate if necessary.

The winners’ names will be widely disseminated with the opportunity to participate in other regional and global awards through the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

Members of the judging panel are appointed from representatives of ministries, institutions, public sector, educational institutions and civil society who have at least 5 years of ICT knowledge and/or related field experience.

Each judge will review each candidate’s information and then evaluate the selection. Judges have the right to select the winners in accordance with the terms of this national award. The selection of each winner will be based on the overall evaluation results by the judging panel. The judging panel may request a face to face presentation from the candidate if necessary.

The evaluation and selection criteria are:
A. Tech Innovation
Innovation is something that comes with a new approach. Bringing innovation into your business can save you time and money and give you a competitive advantage to develop and adapt your business in the market.
B. Problem Solving
Refers to new discoveries using digital technology to solve specific problems more effectively than ever before, saving time, money and other resources.
C. Efficiency of Operation
The ability of an enterprise, company or institution to deliver products or services to its customers effectively, at the least cost possible and still ensure the highest quality of products, services, and support.
D. Marketing Strategy
Any activity that a company or business does to attract customers and to establish a good connection with them, with the aim of linking products and services with customers in order to earn their income and interest.