Why ‘Thailand 4.0’ Ambitions Are No Laughing Matter

[webfact]

Why ‘Thailand 4.0’ Ambitions Are No Laughing Matter

By Dana Blouin, Correspondent

 

  

BANGKOK — The term “Thailand 4.0” emerged about a year or so ago and has since been thrown around in a number of different contexts with little explanation.

 

Thailand 4.0 is an economic plan that must first be understood it in the context of overall Thai economic development. The government likes to spin this as the fourth iteration of an economic growth plan which progressed from 1.0 to 2.0 and 3.0 to the current plan of 4.0 – a term that dovetails nicely with the popular tech and Internet of Things interconnectivity term “Industry 4.0,” which is about automating smart manufacturing.

 

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[alant]

At least the clip gives an idea of what is supposed to be the direction in 4.0

Just how this is to be accomplished with paper and photocopies plus procedures from the ark I am not sure but lets hope.

[farcanell]

Lol.... an economic plan progressing from 1 to 2 to 3 to 4.... glad to see the economists can count ???

[Aussie69]

Internet of Things is not about automating manufacturing, that has been going on for decades. IoT is about automating our houses, cars, devices, appliances.

[Lupatria]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Why ‘Thailand 4.0’ Ambitions Are No Laughing Matter

Ambitions? It's more the results that gives you a laugh...

[williamgeorgeallen]

only going forward because we cant find reverse. cant wait for 5.0, thought it would have been announced by now. i'll be back in a few months and am looking forward to seeing the difference.

[Cadbury]

They speak grandly of Thailand 4.0 as if it is some master plan conceived and developed by the Thai military leaders. In fact the concept was created some years ago in Europe. It has long ago been taken up and progressed and well advanced by some other countries throughout Asia.

 

Some of Thailand's ASEAN partners are now well ahead of Thailand and have more capable and skilled workforces and higher education practices and standards. They are in a position to be able to move their own 4.0 much faster and more efficiently than Thailand ever can ever hope.

 

Thailand's biggest handicap is their quality of their education system and that subject has been flogged to death over and over and still all they do is tinker around the edges. Their priority is to ensure the education corruption system is not disturbed even if it means they turn out students only partially or poorly educated.

[yellowboat]

1.  Many of the wireless technologies used in IoT are illegal in Thailand. 

2. Thais are good at doing the electronic development, but they lack software skills. 

3. The educational system, among other things, is holding Thailand back. 

[maewang99]

17 minutes ago, yellowboat said:

1.  Many of the wireless technologies used in IoT are illegal in Thailand. 

2. Thais are good at doing the electronic development, but they lack software skills. 

3. The educational system, among other things, is holding Thailand back. 

 

oh yeah!

 

Bill Gates

Mark Zuckerberg
Elon Musk

all 3 software guys... Microsoft, Facebook, & Tesla....
all 3 famous as avid book and journal readers....  

you can't code a damn thing without a stack of technical manuals.. having at least a cursory knowledge of what's in them.... so you know what and where to look to get it done... you can't be verbally fed and memorize everything you need to know (unless you are in medicine)...

all 3.... not just successful in business, eh?

 

and not just technical manuals.... for sure... that's my point!
 

and quite a shared common thread.... Elon openly credits reading books, and basic physics (ahem) for SpaceX in particular..... and certainly Paypal is subsumed in there too.

with Bill Gates at the top of that list.


 

 

Edited July 24, 2017 by maewang99

[Redline]

I wish it would happen, but with one of the worst education systems in Asia, and the anti-foreign help attitude, 4.0 will never go anywhere.  No skills or analytical thinking, and no expert training=failure

[hansnl]

3 minutes ago, Redline said:

I wish it would happen, but with one of the worst education systems in Asia, and the anti-foreign help attitude, 4.0 will never go anywhere.  No skills or analytical thinking, and no expert training=failure

Anti foreign help?

Anti foreign......period!