Thailand's village chiefs to get smart phones

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POLITICS
Village chiefs to get smart phones
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- The government is to provide all state officers with smart phones within the next three months to ensure improved communication.

Deputy interior minister Visarn Techateerawat said that the smart phones would be used for better and quicker communication and reporting of significant problems, such as the haze problem in the north and the unrest in the south.

The smart phones will be given to village chiefs, who will be responsible for reporting problems to deputy provincial governors, provincial governors or even the prime minister.

A smart phone is convenient to carry around and the Android system has applications that are both easy to use and understand. The overall budget will be about Bt50millon.

Visarn said that he had discussed with ICT minister Anudith Nakornthap the use of TOT numbers. He believes the Interior Ministry will be able to deliver all the smart phones within three months.


-- The Nation 2013-07-19

[nachiket]

What they will do with it?

Play games and watch porn with 3G speed.

[GirlDrinkDrunk]

jesus wept, as if most of them dont have the damn things already

[Huayrat]

what do they mean village chiefs??? Do they mean in the government office or all the pu yai in the villages??

[Redhawk]

Another deal which spoils the taxes, almost everyone has already one, besides two or three cars and the ones hasn't do not need one because they are incompetent with IT at all and reports a normal mobile phone slower than these smart phones, ! This government is better than any soap opera!

[slapout]

The on going and predictable examples used as reasoning for purchase of smart phones for 'all state officers' is a very long reach, for a short rake off of funds.The tablets, computers, smart phones, etc has about been run into the ground when handing in budget requests.

[scorecard]

alt=clap2.gif width=31 height=25> Another deal which spoils the taxes, almost everyone has already one, besides two or three cars and the ones hasn't do not need one because they are incompetent with IT at all and reports a normal mobile phone slower than these smart phones, alt=cheesy.gif width=32 height=20> ! This government is better than any soap opera! alt=burp.gif width=42 height=36>

Bottom line:

1. Another budget for the trough players to get their noses into.

2. Vote buying at work.

3. We have a kumnan in our extended family, nice person, salt of the earth,

highly respected for sorting out local village problems. Her knowledge of the picture

is close to zero, she will welcome a smart phone like a broken leg.

[ginjag]

what do they mean village chiefs??? Do they mean in the government office or all the pu yai in the villages??

Pu Yai as he will answer to the Tambon-Amper-Jangwat- and even the PM 555hahaha, Can you imagine the farm working Pu yai, calling Yingluck. He will only use his phone for village calls--and he will get an android, Ho Ho Ho hahaha--imagine rice field to P.M. are you there???

get them a new nokia 599 bht.

[reiltin]

Wasn't the granny providing the saffron Chester her daughter a Village chief?-the monk was returning a 12 year old girl at 4am to her.Perhaps if they had smart people rather than smart phones....

[soi41]

"used to reporting significant problems, like the haze in the north and the unrest in the south"

So without the village chiefs reporting, it will go unnoticed ??

I you tell people not living here, about the measures by this government, they will think you are lying!

Wonder, who got the contracts for the phones? (No I don't really wonder, know already")

[sjjmmi]

Wow new scam

[Payboy]

Hope they have the Skype app preloaded.

[sjjmmi]

Hope they have the Skype app preloaded.

+1

[ginjag]

Another hand out for the red shirt village chief--gotta keep him happy, so he has a stronghold on the village.

[Huayrat]

The MIL will be Happy then as she never has any credit on her phone ha

[worgeordie]

Is there an Election on the horizon ?, better get all the village heads

on side,

regards Worgeordie

[Robby nz]

Would seem there is a good chance of an election on the horizon.

First more credit cards for farmers with better terms, now phones for village chiefs.

Would be better if they spent the money on schools but that would not win as many votes.

[lee b]

What they will do with it?

Play games and watch porn with 3G speed.

No most probs sell them for 400 THB old nokia phones and pocket the rest !

[Bluespunk]

"POLITICS

Village chiefs to get smart phones"

Though, unfortunately, their govt will continue not to be.

[kimincm]

Responsibility to spend tax Baht wisely,responsibility to prioritise spending the same tax Baht.Tot that out your toot.

I hope they are supplied with the red colour scheme,if not we could have a problem.

[trainman34014]

All the Pu Yai in the villages around here are all filthy rich, being the owners of rice warehouses and having their fingers in a lot of other pies so i wouldn't think they don't already have smart phones. No doubt they will still take the money though !

[retell]

as far as i know most got em allready you do not get to be village chief by being a poor worker

they are mostly the ones with the many rai with sugarcane ,rice ,rubber

offcourse there is a village somewhere in the bush that has nothing

but as far as "civilisation " stretches they are all doing pretty well

[NongKhaiKid]

All those years ago when Mr. T was the in house PM he did exactly the same thing and issued the then basic mobile phones to all village heads BUT no such thing as a free lunch

[GentlemanJim]

I am sure that somewhere it will be written that this is a blatant and illegal use of tax payers money. A smart phone does not make a call any quicker than a phone costing 300 baht. This is vote buying at its worse. The budget of 50 million must be a lie. Even a basic low end smart phone at 10 000 baht would mean 5000 phones, and that is nowhere near enough for 'all the village chiefs'! These lot could be used to redefine the term 'scumbags' in the Oxford English Dictionary.

[LuckyLew]

do smart phones make dumb people smarter?

[GentlemanJim]

do smart phones make dumb people smarter?

A good question, but they definitely seem to make smart people dumber.

[ratcatcher]

I am sure that somewhere it will be written that this is a blatant and illegal use of tax payers money. A smart phone does not make a call any quicker than a phone costing 300 baht. This is vote buying at its worse. The budget of 50 million must be a lie. Even a basic low end smart phone at 10 000 baht would mean 5000 phones, and that is nowhere near enough for 'all the village chiefs'! These lot could be used to redefine the term 'scumbags' in the Oxford English Dictionary.

GJ, apparently, the word "scumbag" is not in the OED.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/search/words/?multi=1&q=scumbag

However, it may possibly be submitted as a "new" definition of a particular type of politician or someone of similar low character?

[Shagz]

I would be very surprised if our village chief got one, we live in a very small village of 42 houses in the district of Mahachanachai from the Yasothon province, everything they promise never reaches us or surrounding schools.

[jbrain]

What they will do with it?

Play games and watch porn with 3G speed.

No, they can connect it directly to the Village speaker system, so the red propaganda can be spawned more accurately to the uneducated

[ginjag]

What they will do with it?

Play games and watch porn with 3G speed.

No, they can connect it directly to the Village speaker system, so the red propaganda can be spawned more accurately to the uneducated

6am loud and clear.