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"Smart Thailand" to be materialised in four years
BANGKOK, September 5 (TNA) - The new Thai government has set a target to develop the Kingdom to become "Smart Thailand" over the next four years.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Minister Anudith Nakornthap announced the plan this morning when inaugurating a seminar on "Smart Thailand": Modern Public Services through High Speed Internet--in which executives and senior officials of all ministries and government agencies took part.
Group Captain Anudith said that the new Pheu Thai Party-led administration will utilise high-speed Internet to upgrade and modernise public services, targeting to cover some 80-85 per cent of the country's total areas in the due course.
Group Captain Anudith acknowledged that the e-public services mainly include those facilitating district offices' workloads on issuing identity cards for Thai nationals, household registrations and population census, as well as e-education, e-health and e-agriculture services, and that the public will initially access to the government's e-public services within one year.
The new ICT minister said that his ministry will work together with all agencies concerned to develop a common public database needed for launching the e-services for people in all Thai regions, noting that provinces where the e-public services will be implemented as the pilot project will be designated over the next couple of months.
According to the ICT minister, once the e-public services are launched, people seeking public health services, for example, can access to the services in their respective areas through high-speed online programs, particularly those in remote areas, instead of travelling to hospitals located far away. (TNA)
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Minister Anudith Nakornthap announced the plan this morning when inaugurating a seminar on "Smart Thailand": Modern Public Services through High Speed Internet--in which executives and senior officials of all ministries and government agencies took part.
Group Captain Anudith said that the new Pheu Thai Party-led administration will utilise high-speed Internet to upgrade and modernise public services, targeting to cover some 80-85 per cent of the country's total areas in the due course.
Group Captain Anudith acknowledged that the e-public services mainly include those facilitating district offices' workloads on issuing identity cards for Thai nationals, household registrations and population census, as well as e-education, e-health and e-agriculture services, and that the public will initially access to the government's e-public services within one year.
The new ICT minister said that his ministry will work together with all agencies concerned to develop a common public database needed for launching the e-services for people in all Thai regions, noting that provinces where the e-public services will be implemented as the pilot project will be designated over the next couple of months.
According to the ICT minister, once the e-public services are launched, people seeking public health services, for example, can access to the services in their respective areas through high-speed online programs, particularly those in remote areas, instead of travelling to hospitals located far away. (TNA)
