Tablets Made in Thailand. About computers Design and manufacture of tablets in Thailand, the important first step towards local R&D and technological self-sufficiency?
Photo above shows the R&D director of Forth Corporation Sawat Erbchokchai showing off the components of a tablet that the Thai company believes it can build cheaply. Read the full version of today's article here. Also read about SVOA's plan to focus on the market for low-end computers in Thailand (Read article). Click button to listen to Tablet Technology Made In Thailand to download The tablet challenge, Some may be sceptical about Pheu Thai's pledge to put a tablet in the hands of every school child, but IT industry sees a golden opportunity to step up R&D by Suchit Leesa-nguansuk The Pheu Thai Party's promise of One Tablet per Child for primary school students nationwide has touched off a lively debate about cost and practicality...
He said only a few months would be needed to adapt the controller board for this purpose... Educational tablet - Made in Thailand. About technology Getting closer to becoming a reality, 800,000 tablets at 3,000 baht each could jumpstart Thai-language content such as ebooks and learning games.
Read the previous article about Tablets Made in Thailand here. Click button to listen to Thai Made Tablet to download TECHNOLOGY & EDUCATION: Forth ready to offer 3,000-baht tablet by Suchit Leesa-nguansuk Forth Corporation has introduced the first Thai-made educational tablet computer priced at 3,000 baht in a bid to join the government's 4-billion-baht One Tablet per Child programme. Mr Sawat says controls on the tablet help ensure only appropriate content can be used. The SET-listed electronic equipment manufacturer spent three months redesigning its controller board to integrate it with a base to reduce size and bring the cost down from 5,000 baht earlier, said R&D director Sawat Erbchokchai. (Source: Bangkok Post, TECHNOLOGY & EDUCATION, Forth ready to offer 3,000-baht tablet, 16/09/2011, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, link)
ICT resources and Thailand's competitiveness - Nationmultimedia.com. By Peter Fischbach Published on April 28, 2009 Peter Fischbach is president of ISM Technology Recruitment.
In addition, because so many ICT projects are designed and implemented on a regional or even a global scale, not only are specific technical skills required but English-language proficiency is essential. This makes Thailand's shortage even more acute. Five-year e-government road map - Nationmultimedia.com. By Asina Pornwasin The Nation Published on April 21, 2009 The Information and Communications Technology Ministry plans to launch an E-Government Road Map, as a framework for e-government developments over the five years from 2010 to 2014.
Deputy Permanent Secretary Angsumal Sumalai said a draft of the road map would be submitted to the Cabinet early next month for approval before being sent to all government agencies. Thailand launches 'one-stop' e-government website. Thailand to offer all government services online by 2015. E-Government By Adrienne Valdez | 18 August 2011 | Views: 2584 The Electronic Government Agency (EGA) is exploring emerging technologies such as cloud computing and mobile development, and is now making its way towards better government IT infrastructure.
“The goal is for Thailand to offer universal government services online by 2015, allowing public access via any device around the clock,” said Sak Segknoonthod, EGA Director. The EGA is already playing an important role as technology adviser to state agencies while coordinating efforts among them. All e-government services will be assessed this year while encouraging greater use of information technology and IT professionals in government agencies. As a start, the EGA will introduce its first e-service this year, the “national single window”, allowing citizens to access electronic data and share and integrate information among 35 state agencies and private organisations in the areas of import, export and logistics. Thailand to Provide Transformed-Government Services by 2016. Thailand to lay down strategies to connect government.
Connected Government By Pia Rufino | 21 February 2011 | Views: 2234 Thailand’s ICT Ministry will establish a government information network infrastructure to connect more than 1,000 government offices and agencies across the country.
The Government Information Technology Services (GITS), which will soon be renamed the e-Government Agency (eGA), is planning to rent network infrastructure to have all government agencies covered by the GIN within four years. GITS Director Sak Segkhoonthod said the eGA will provide common applications such as video conferencing and data back-up based on a national broadband network to lessen the difficulty of information sharing among government organisations.
Thailand lures SMEs onto the cloud. Government Cloud By Xinghui Guo | 27 January 2011 | Views: 2206 Small and Medium Enterprises in Thailand can look forward to funds worth 200,000 to 400,000 baht (US$6500 to US$13,000) to adopt cloud computing, according to the Deputy Director General and CIO, Department of Industrial Promotion.
Veerapol Srilert, Deputy Director General and CIO, Department of Industrial Promotion (DIP), Ministry of Industry (MOI), told FutureGov Asia Pacific: “We want to promote the use of cloud computing to them because it helps solve many problems. “With cloud computing, the IT investment cost is low because there is no need to invest in a server and the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions or applications can all be hosted on the cloud.” While the Enhancing SMEs’ Competitiveness through IT (ECIT) programme has been around since 1999, this scheme to encourage cloud adoption only started in 2010, said Srilert.
“The funds come from a government budget. Thailand's race to ICT literacy. Education IT By Xinghui Guo | 18 January 2011 | Views: 4378 A decade since Asia’s 10th most populous country launched its first ICT Master Plan, the Ministry of Education has successfully improved the computer-student ratio to 1:20 on average.
“The past five years have been focused on setting up the basic IT infrastructure in schools,” Keartisak Sensai (pictured), Senior Advisor (ICT for Education), MOE, said to FutureGov Asia Pacific. Integration to drive a Smart Thailand. E-Government By Xinghui Guo | 26 January 2011 | Views: 3411 Thailand has laid out a 2020 ICT Masterplan to create a Smart Thailand by transforming e-government to i-government, focussing on the integration of government agencies and public and private sector services.
Jirawan Boonperm, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT), said today that this i-government stands for “intelligence, integration and inclusion” and the plan will “respond to the development goals laid out in the national economic and social development plans”. Underlying the masterplan is a key goal of integration. How ICT will change Thailand. Public hearings are under way in Bangkok and elsewhere in Thailand to consider a draft framework for national policy on information and communications technology covering the next decade.
The draft framework, called ICT 2020, has been developed by the Information and Communications Technology Ministry and the National Electronic and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec). It aims to establish the directions in which information and communications technologies (ICT) will develop in Thailand from 2011 to 2020. It has the concept and goal "Smart Government 2020".