South Korea and Canada lauded as public service model for Thailand

BANGKOK, August 18 (TNA) - The Thai public sector has now learned from its South Korean and Canadian counterparts on the practical and efficient development of public services.

Thailand Productivity Institute's executive director Panich Laosirirat suggested in a recent seminar in Bangkok that the efficient public services are essential for driving forward economic developments and sustaining competitiveness of a country.

Former Thai deputy industry ministry Piyabutr Cholvijarn, on the other hand, urged the new Pheu Thai Party-led government to heighten the capacity of Thailand's public services through the effective utilisation of information technology (IT) to ensure better services for the public in a swift and economically-practical manner.

Meanwhile, a Canadian former deputy permanent secretary from the Ontario State, Arthur Daniels, said that the Canadian government, with the cooperation from all parties concerned namely banks, accountants, chambers of commerce and the parliament, has successfully adopted IT to facilitate business operations in the Northern American country, through which paperwork required for official business procedures were reduced from five categories to only a comprehensive sheet within three months and the time frame required for submitting various documents was also reduced from six weeks to one day. (TNA)