Prawit urges New Normal in Smart Cities

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Prawit urges New Normal in Smart Cities

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - Deputy Prime Minsiter Gen Prawit has urged Smart City projects to support New Normal lifestyles after the COVID-19 pandemic, promoting equality, inclusivity, health, safety, and sustainability.

 

Deputy Prime Minsiter Gen Prawit Wongsuwan has chaired the first National Smart City Steering Committee this year at Government House, where he acknowledged the appointment of committee members, and development progress in 2018-2019.

 

The committee has acknowledged candidates for three model Smart City development projects, and one Smart Urban City development project, namely Phaholyothin Transportation Center in Bangkok, the Eastern Economic Corridor in Chonburi, Amata Nakorn Industrial Estate in Chonburi, and Phuket City.

 

The committee has approved the appointment of the Minister of a Digital Economy and Society as the chair of the Project Management Committee, and the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society’s Permanent Secretary as the national representative of the ASEAN Smart City Network’s meeting this year in Hanoi, Vietnam.

 

Gen Prawit urged the committee to urgently push forward smart city developments to promote development, yield benefits to the general public, promote equality and improve quality of life. The development must facilitate New Normal lifestyles emerging from COVID-19 pandemic, in line with the Thailand 4.0 model and the 20-year national strategy.

 

He also urged the Ministry of a Digital Economy and Society and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to pursue ASEAN-related projects planned for this year, expecting concrete outcomes.

 

Source: http://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG200513164144100

 

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[Justgrazing]

Is it just me or is he going for the Darth Vader look .. 

 

[colinneil]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

promoting equality, inclusivity, health, safety, and sustainability.

 

 

Is he serious? Equality here Best joke i have read in a long time.

Safety, just another brain fart, coming out with that comment, alien word here.????

[ThailandRyan]

Just where is all this money to come from. They can not even take care of the people during these Covid-19 times. Yet they spend like they have trillions in the coffers....get f....real Thailand and Prawit. Maybe sell some of your watches....

[jaiyen]

How can they ever have a smart city ? For that you need smart people.  Most Thais cant look left and right, tell green from red and drive on the correct side of the road. And as for reading, writing and lying !!

[nev]

Sorry but why is he wearing a mask sitting there on his own.

[graemeaylward]

Why do all the ideas emanating from Government ignore the fact that there are conurbations in many other parts of Thailand further away from Bangkok that could do with some investment, namely the NE & N of the country! 

[ChrisY1]

Homer Simpson has spoken....

[mrfill]

Interesting that covid-19 was anticipated in the 20 year plan which came out in 2017.

[Hayduke]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Prawit urges New Normal in Smart Cities

 

Are we really seeing the words 'Prawit'...'Normal'...and 'Smart'...in the same sentence?

 

 

[cornishcarlos]

37 minutes ago, jaiyen said:

How can they ever have a smart city ? For that you need smart people.

 

No, if you have a Smart City, you can have stupid people... That's the plan

[BobbyL]

Gen Prawit urged the committee to urgently push forward smart city developments to promote development, yield benefits to the general public, promote equality and improve quality of life. 

 

Urging. Buzz words. Committees etc etc etc. This is all these guys seem to do. 

[mrfill]

28 minutes ago, BobbyL said:

Gen Prawit urged the committee to urgently push forward smart city developments to promote development, yield benefits to the general public, promote equality and improve quality of life. 

 

Urging. Buzz words. Committees etc etc etc. This is all these guys seem to do. 

They're a bit behind. I see no reference to 'ramping up' which seems even more prevalent than the virus...

[madmitch]

Shouldn't a fat old man like that be self-isolating, ideally for a very long time?

[herfiehandbag]

2 hours ago, nev said:

Sorry but why is he wearing a mask sitting there on his own.

It suits him...

[dpcjsr]

My guess is that he wants the contact tracking software on all phones and sees this as a first step. Tracking your every move.

[Phuketshrew]

Looks like he's ready for another dip in the trough. Oink Oink!

[Terek]

as long as there will be entertainment area with go go bars I support Smart Cities

[ThailandRyan]

3 hours ago, nev said:

Sorry but why is he wearing a mask sitting there on his own.

Because the words he was spewing were offensive in nature and he did not want to smell them as they returned .....

[ThailandRyan]

10 minutes ago, Terek said:

as long as there will be entertainment area with go go bars I support Smart Cities

Virtual 3D interactive Go-Go's, yep that will work, just like online poker...

[Number 6]

Thailand will never have smart cities. They will only take on the negative dystopian aspects of technology. Thailand will not be spared quite the opposite.

 

Innerparty members, party members, proles. Thailand will grow more like the Philippines. Desperate city slum dwellers in passive aggressive rebellion. Bucolic countryside producing staples.

 

A page out of any classic novel 1984, Hunger Games, Handmaid's Tale.

 

The government is absolutely addicted to paper and employs armies of shufflers. Whike is innovative thinking at the uppermost levels it will never take hold unless it can be used for command and control. Quality of life? Not so much.

[Pib]

 

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...where he acknowledged the appointment of committee members...

OK, committee members appointed.  Or said another way, this is the last we'll hear of the New Normal in Smart Cities initiative.

[maxcorrigan]

I think it's a one off Rolex toad mask and he simply showing it of, and a very nice mask it is too i might add, i bet it made Collin jealous????

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Deputy Prime Minsiter Gen Prawit has urged Smart City projects to support New Normal lifestyles after the COVID-19 pandemic, promoting equality, inclusivity, health, safety, and sustainability.

Everything that's been ignored in the past then?

[brain150]

Only stupid people need smart cities !

 

Smart people would never even try to get a "Smart City" [Surveillance and Control City would be a better term]

[bodga]

5 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

No, if you have a Smart City, you can have stupid people... That's the plan

And a  stupid  govt!

[stoutfella]

"Gen Prawit urged the committee to urgently push forward smart city developments to promote development, yield benefits to the general public, promote equality and improve quality of life. "

 

Fodder for the masses.

[lamyai3]

8 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Is it just me or is he going for the Darth Vader look .. 

That's his portable commode. 

[Magenta408]

Hair dye was an essential item during the lock-down. Why some people will not age gracefully and with dignity has always amazed me. All set for business now - full facial mask. Now that is serious stuff. 

[Creasy]

At least ToadBoy wears his mask correctly, unlike his superior Pinocchio .