Govt teams up with tech giant to develop Thailand for digital economy

[webfact]

Govt teams up with tech giant to develop Thailand for digital economy

 

 

BANGKOK, 2 June 2017 (NNT) - The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society and a world’s leading technology firm have collaborated to make an in-depth report to prepare the country for the digital economy in line with the government’s Thailand 4.0 policy. 

The report, focusing on digital technology for the aging society; agriculture and tourism, is made by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, the Ministry of Science and Technology with cooperation from Huawei. It will be used as a guideline for the development of digital strategic plans by the government. 

The report suggests that Thailand should adopt digital technology to develop the country by leaps and bounds, particularly in the aging society; agricultural and tourism sectors that the government has included in the national agenda. At the same time, Thailand must develop the infrastructure of broadband technology, innovation and human resources, the report notes. 

Minister of Digital Technology and Society Durongkaveroj said the ministry and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission are urgently setting up broadband networks in all 75,000 villages nationwide by the end of 2018 in preparation for trade and investment. It is also necessary for the country to prepare personnel in the field for the nationwide broadband network expansion, said the minister. 

Huawei has provided support for Thailand by sending foreign specialists to train Thai digital personnel, the minister said. However, Mr. Pichet said the government is open for all companies, not only Huawei, since it has a plan to produce as many as 500,000 digital personnel within five years. The ministry is considering the use of the “Startup Visa” for foreign specialists and developing a mobile application to increase digital skills of Thai people, the minister added.

 

-- nnt 2017-06-02

 

[kannot]

got to know how to utilise those phones to their  full time  sapping potential eh

[wakeupplease]

14 minutes ago, kannot said:

got to know how to utilise those phones to their  full time  sapping potential eh

500.000 more happy snappers for Facebook then

[mok199]

hi tech comes to bedrock...WILLMAAA

[Tilacme]

Sounds lovely, important report which will rightly cost a lot, not saying how much but money well spent.

[kotsak]

As usual all that bandwidth will be used for uploading FB photos of the latest dish, trips to the WC and browsing nonsense..

[clockman]

Look they cannot even understand basic physics, like water flows downhill! Remember science minister Plod. And his boat propellers!

Edited June 2, 2017 by clockman

[yellowboat]

16 hours ago, webfact said:

Huawei

They have links to the Chinese military.  That will be convenient.  Big government loves big business. 

[YetAnother]

this report doesnt seem some giant leap; just find another 3rd world country's same report, copy it and change the country names

[maewang99]

aha... Mannie was talking about Thailand.


MVP has been saying the last few days that PLDT..... Philippine Long Distance.. is gonna be expanding in "two ASEAN countries".

 

they organized it under a subsidiary named "Voyager Innovations". they already have a successful app in Makati called "Makatizen".
and Thailand is in the AEC, right? yeah, AEC 2015. I remember that... well.... here we go.

now I know.... just maybe.... to take this "digital Thailand" thing.... somewhat seriously... maybe. thank you Thai visa/The Nation, sometimes the news isn't fake at all. a little incomplete and ya gotta fill in the blanks but.... it works.

 

Edited June 3, 2017 by maewang99

[Fulwell53]

Governments in the west partner up with business all the time. It has been going on for decades.

Thailand does it and it becomes an excuse for more demonisation and denigration. 

[Beats56]

Maybe they will be able to get the 90 day reporting to work.