I also had a session with a number of Thai journalists. Here are some articles or excerpts from those interviews. The first is with Bangkok Post (an English language daily), and the other a Thai language paper Krungthep Turakij.
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Article 1: Bangkok Post (17 June 2009)
Article 2: Krungthep Turakij (2 June 2009)
For the article in Thai, I am told by our PR manager that the gist of the content is as follows:
Headline: E-Government: the ‘government’ highway to stimulus the Thai economy.
Synopsis:
- ICT can play an crucial role to stimulate the economy & increase GDP especially during economic crisis situation
- The Thai Government should leverage its ICT budget to build the readiness to support the future growth ie. investment in development of the Government Network in order for all Thai people to access into information. This will help improve human resources development, create new business opportunities, pull in the more foreign investment and help stimulate economy recovery.
- The Government has an important role, which falls into 2 parts: (1) Create a good environment around National Broadband Network to be able to leverage and develop opportunities in the future and (2) improve the Government Information Network (GIN) to enable all government agencies to connect, access, share information and be able to provide ‘one-stop’ service faster, easier and more securely.
- Cisco's SONA (Services Oriented Network Architecture) is a sound framework to leverage on.
- The Government Information Network should be open, standardized, scalable and secure.
- Common people should be able to use the service through single portal and support all business organizations to be able to improve their competitiveness and launch new services to the market speedily.
- It was suggested to leverage ‘cloud’ computing technology to make most of the resources of the Government Network to achieve maximum benefit.
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