"Digital Divide Data provides high-quality, cost-effective data-entry & digitization services. We also provide for the social, human & economic development of our Cambodian staff". This is the message that first greets visitors to the DDD website. DDD are as far as I'm aware Cambodia's first company whose primary function is to undertake outsourced IT work and after the successes of India and more recently Vietnam in this field who is to say that Cambodia can't be the next outsourcing new kid on the block.

Cambodia seems to have similar demographics to India and Vietnam, in as much as it has a very young population and far more graduates than there are jobs to accommodate this ambitious generation. Although it appear DDD are at present only involved in data entry which is the bottom run of the outsourcing ladder, if India and Vietnam are anything to go by, this type of industry is a self fulfilling prophecy, with students joining professional well managed companies to perform trivial work such as data entry, whilst their employers invest in their education in the hope to posses a more skilled work force who could then be utilized in more profitable undertakings such as software testing or business process outsourcing.

Check out the BBC news article here