Cambodia MoCFA Presentation: Heritage Digital Twin, Smart City, and AI Training
On 24 June 2026, Parandurume visited Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts (MoCFA) and delivered the Heritage Digital Twin Initiative presentation under the theme “Connecting Cambodia’s Cultural Legacy to the AI Era.”
The visit covered three connected directions for Cambodia’s digital transformation: cultural heritage digital twins, Wat Phnom smart-city potential, and AI-powered training for Cambodian public officers and young students.
Heritage Digital Twin Initiative for Cambodian cultural heritage
The presentation introduced a cultural heritage digital twin strategy for preservation, restoration, sustainable tourism, and sovereign AI development. It emphasized that a digital twin is more than a static 3D model: it is a living, queryable system that combines precise 3D spatial data, IoT sensor layers, AI analytics, and interactive interfaces for conservation and site management.
The initiative framed digital twins as a practical cultural technology for the AI era. By connecting physical heritage sites with continuously updated digital records, cultural institutions can move from static archives to systems that support monitoring, simulation, and data-driven decision-making.
Key topics included:
- Preservation: Creating permanent, loss-resistant digital archives of heritage sites and artifacts
- Restoration: Using precise 3D data as an evidence-based reference for repair, reconstruction, and conservation planning
- Sustainable tourism: Extending access through immersive, projection-mapped, and walk-through digital experiences without adding physical pressure to fragile sites
- Sovereign AI data: Building spatial datasets owned and governed by Cambodia for research, education, and responsible innovation partnerships
AI-powered training for Cambodian public officers and young students
The Cambodian government also expressed strong interest in training Cambodian public officers and young students. In response, Parandurume is expanding the initiative to include AI-powered training and capacity building as a core collaboration area.
This training direction is designed to help public institutions and future talent understand, adopt, and operate emerging technologies in practical public-sector contexts. Potential training themes include:
- AI literacy for public officers: Understanding generative AI, responsible AI use, and productivity workflows for government work
- Digital twin and smart-city operations: Applying spatial data, IoT, dashboards, and AI analytics to public services and site management
- Cultural heritage technology education: Training students and young professionals in 3D scanning, digital archives, immersive content, and cultural data governance
- Hands-on AI project learning: Building practical prototypes and workflows that connect public administration, education, tourism, and cultural heritage
By connecting AI training with heritage digital twins and smart-city use cases, Parandurume aims to support Cambodia’s long-term digital capability, not only individual technology deployment.
Wat Phnom site survey and smart-city potential
During the same Cambodia visit on 24 June 2026, Parandurume also surveyed Wat Phnom as a possible application site. The field review indicated that Wat Phnom may be better suited to a Smart City project than to the Heritage Digital Twin Initiative alone.
Because Wat Phnom sits within an active urban context, future opportunities may include visitor-flow awareness, urban safety, public-space monitoring, mobility and accessibility insights, environmental sensing, and data-informed city operations. Parandurume will continue reviewing how digital twin, computer vision, IoT, AI automation, and AI-powered public-sector training can support a smart-city model that respects the site’s cultural and civic role.
Cambodia-focused heritage pilot concept
For the Heritage Digital Twin Initiative, the presentation also proposed how the approach could be applied to Cambodian heritage contexts, including a pilot concept for Banteay Srei Temple in Siem Reap. The site was highlighted for its extraordinary pink sandstone bas-relief carvings, global cultural recognition, and well-defined pilot scope.
Parandurume shared its own heritage digital twin case studies from Korea and demonstrated how similar pipelines can be extended to overseas cultural heritage projects.
Parandurume’s contribution
Parandurume introduced its AI·XR convergence capabilities across Digital Twin, Computer Vision, Immersive XR, AI Automation, and AI-powered training. Building on Duru Twin, XR Solution, and 3D Interactive technologies, the company will continue exploring collaboration opportunities that help cultural heritage institutions protect irreplaceable assets, support smart-city innovation where appropriate, and build practical AI capability for Cambodian public officers and young students.