Deputy PM Prajin emphasizes need for smart city

[webfact]

Deputy PM Prajin emphasizes need for smart city

 

 

KHON KAEN, 20 February 2017 (NNT) - Deputy Prime Minister ACM Prajin Juntong on Sunday attended the "Isan Industrial Fair 2017" in Khon Kaen province. He delivered a special lecture on the topic of smart city. 

The deputy PM visited booths of Thai and Lao manufacturing factories at the fair held at Khon Kaen University. He met and talked with the entrepreneurs participating in the event. 

After that, the deputy PM delivered the special lecture "Smart City." Khon Kaen is the center of transportation, trade and investment, said ACM Prajin. According to him, a smart city is the city that develops in all dimensions to improve the quality of life and health for the people. 

The deputy premier stressed that Khon Kaen needed to protect the environment and suggested the province build the city for sustainable development.

 

-- nnt 2017-02-20

[jerojero]

Ok. Let's start building sustainability. Dep PM has stated his extraordinary insight and practical advice. So, get at it. Sounds easy, doesn't it.

[Thaiwrath]

50 minutes ago, webfact said:

According to him, a smart city is the city that develops in all dimensions to improve the quality of life and health for the people. 

I would have thought that this was a major aim for most cities around the globe ? 

[rkidlad]

Also,  flying cars will help with traffic and traffic related deaths. Someone get on with that, would they. 

[optad]

In fairness, all governments spout this rhetoric and we let it fly. Just never stops sounding odd here.

[yellowboat]

A large part of smart cities development require wireless networks, which most of are illegal in Thailand.  Don't believe Thailand adheres to any plans of the ITU, a UN organization.  Without wireless, you need to run a lot of cables. 

[Somtamnication]

Can't make a smart city from dumb idiots. Just sayin'. 

[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

The Thais loves big plans and too boost about them, normally they end with failures due to corruption, feudalism and bad planning. 

[ezzra]

In order to build a smart city, you need to start with smart and honest people

to lay the foundations for such undertakings, qualities that are surly

lacking and in short supply at the moment....

[jaywalker]

39 minutes ago, HiSoLowSoNoSo said:

The Thais loves big plans and too boost about them, normally they end with failures due to corruption, feudalism and bad planning. 

Not so much bad planning it is ZERO planning (except how to scrape cash off the project).

[waldroj]

"...Juntong stressed that Khon Kaen needed to protect the environment and suggested the province build the city for sustainable development..."

 

What about the rest of the country ???

 

 

[edwinchester]

Maybe a hint of the new Bangkok when the present one slips beneath the waves.

[NCC1701A]

4 hours ago, rkidlad said:

Also,  flying cars will help with traffic and traffic related deaths. Someone get on with that, would they. 

here you go: 

 

https://www.pal-v.com/en/

[irwinfc]

4 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

I would have thought that this was a major aim for most cities around the globe ? 

right you are! not to mention why we pay taxes.

[brucec64]

In other news, the city emphasized the need for a smart Deputy PM.

[Brer Fox]

Sounds like yet another demonstration of grandiloquence by a pretentious senior armed services officer.

Air Chief Marshals are usually better known for destroying cities rather than building them.

[elgordo38]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Deputy PM Prajin emphasizes need for smart city

Rather an amazing state from a member of a backward looking government. A government that wants to create "in the box" thinking among the populous and students and bottlenecking the internet and creating censorship by passing a government controlled media law. This is hardly a "roadmap" leading to a smart city. 

[Jonmarleesco]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

According to him, a smart city is the city that develops in all dimensions to improve the quality of life and health for the people. 

So it presumably doesn't need whoever's in charge to be smart? Just as well, I suppose. 

[fruitman]

I think it's pretty smart to not show retail prices. save the vendors a lot of time.

 

And shoppingmalls which take 30!! minutes to get out of the parkinglot onto the jammed mainroad is also vely smart....

 

Or driving against traffic, also vely smart....saves a lot of time...