Research centre a 'smart' move in development of cities

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Research centre a 'smart' move in development of cities
By Chuleeporn Aramnet 
The Nation 

 

BANGKOK: -- A RESEARCH centre has been set up to facilitate Thailand’s shift in becoming a “smart country”.

 

The Cities Research Centre (SCRC) at King Mongkut Institute Ladkrabang (KMITL) is the country’s first research unit for the development of cities that will utilise information technologies (IT) to improve people’s quality of life. 

“The smart-city concept has provided answers to problems including traffic congestion, pollution, energy over-consumption, waste management, social issues, including overcrowding. These are common in fast-growing cities,” SCRC director Agachai Sumalee said. 

 

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[Kaalle]

It would be smart to have roads without giant potholes plus working street lights. Oh and get rid of the soi dogs also. Doesn't take much technology just some common sense.

[trogers]

Does Smart here means Facebook and chat lines?

[maewang99]

you need, you must have first, a large pool of deeply and genuinely literate people. and literacy is measured by the breadth and depth of reading material read, and thinking and questioning it... it doesn't mean calligraphy skills or converting graphemes into spoken sounds. yet what does the Thai education system excel at? and then there is the culture.... of making jokes about literacy.... "they all must have read from the same book".... and "learning from a TV is much better than learning from a book"... many of which often leave a non-Thai scratching their heads more so than laughing along. SpaceX and Tesla was built by a guy who did nothing but read a book. how do you like that joke? 

Edited November 4, 2016 by maewang99

[SaintLouisBlues]

26 minutes ago, trogers said:

Does Smart here means Facebook and chat lines?

There's an awful lot of dumb people who use "smart" phones

[SaintLouisBlues]

4 minutes ago, maewang99 said:

you need, you must have first, a large pool of literate people ...

Really? Why? The point about "smart" technology is that it's there so that you don't need smart people - the technology does it for you. You might need smart people to create it, but that will be the modern priesthood cult - software developers

[maewang99]

I was a software engineer.  So is or was Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.  They are just as famous today, in my crowd, for their reading lists than they are for Microsoft or Facebook. i.e. I use an open source OS.... and this website is my only social one. I read 2 or 3 books a week too.  And have since high school.  Since 'Cry The Beloved Country'.  Bill Gates famously reads The Economist cover to cover plus several books a week.. and Gates was and Zuckerberg is CEO of a really big company. They have the time to read.... and Elon was asked how did he know so much about rocket science as he never studied it academically.. his answer?

Edited November 4, 2016 by maewang99

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BANGKOK: -- A RESEARCH centre has been set up to facilitate Thailand’s shift in becoming a “smart country”.

 

I can have sooooo much fun with this caption but, I am still on my first cup of coffee...

[Sphere]

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Information could also be obtained from social networks.

 

I once found the motherlode on CamFrog.

[tigermoth]

You need smart people to operate smart technology contrary to popular opinion.

[BKKdreaming]

is there a Maker movment in Thaiand , Or a Techshop where you can go in and rent time on machines ?

 

These are what gets things happening ,  not watching Facebook and Cat videos !

 

and there are 1000s of young Thais that would love to have places like that to go and make things that may turn into the next "big" thing.....

 

And yes Space X is  at the old Northrop Aviation factory.......its good to have a few old engineers around to tell you what they tried and could not get to work........pay it forward......

 

[elgordo38]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

“The smart-city concept has provided answers to problems including traffic congestion, pollution, energy over-consumption, waste management, social issues, including overcrowding. These are common in fast-growing cities,” SCRC director Agachai Sumalee said. 

Well lets score Bangkok as a failure then. I went through the list of problems and was hard pressed to find one issue that they wrestled to the ground. Has provided answers where? Yes the cities are fast growing like here in Chiang Mai but I score failed on any and all of the above mentioned issues here but they get a A+ for talking it up. A Sumalee should get a new speech writer.

Edited November 4, 2016 by elgordo38

[robsamui]

Hmmmm . . . . 

Edited November 4, 2016 by robsamui