6th COEXISTSEA WORKSHOP

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• 6th CO-EXIST-SEA WORKSHOP
• 7 8 December 2004
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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• Thailand Status Report
• ICT Application at Community Level
• Nalinee Wongtanachai
• National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) 

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ICT Policy 2001-2010

• Human resources development to be a
  knowledge-based society.
• Strengthening the competency and readiness of the
  country for the competitiveness of the new
  economic system.

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ICT Strategic Development

• E-Government Technology for governmental
  development
• E-Commerce Technology for commercial
• development
• E-Industry Technology for industrial
• development
• E-Education Technology for educational
• development
• E-Society Technology for social
• development

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Examples

• The distant education via satellite project.
• The project on telecenters for communities.
• The database on marine shrimp research in
  Thailand.

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The Distant Education via Satellite Project

• Problem
• Three million students from 37,000 primary
  schools could not continue the 12 year compulsory
  education.
• insufficient secondary schools
• lack of teachers in the border areas.
• lack of teachers, in numbers and in difficult
  subjects.

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The Distant Education via Satellite Project

• Since 1996, the Distant Education via
  Satellite Project has been implemented the live
  secondary curriculum broadcast to 3,000
  destination schools throughout Thailand.
• free of charge.
• same standard quality education
• same quality teachers and tutors.
• same period of study.

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The Joining Agencies

• The Distant Education via Satellite Foundation
  operates the live satellite broadcast of the
  basic education curriculum from the Distance
  Learning Television Station at Wang Klaikangwon
  School.
• sends the instruction handbook and
  learning schedule to the destination schools
  before the opening of the courses.

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The Joining Agencies

• Ministry of Education
• provides teachers to give live broadcast
  in various subjects on secondary
  curriculum.
• The Institute for the Promotion of Teaching
  Science and Technology
• produces curriculums, teaching media on
  science, mathematics and technology.
• organizes training courses for the
  teachers.

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The Joining Agencies

• Other community education agencies
• helpes in increasing the technical and
  vocational knowledge to improve the
  quality of life.
• Other facilitating agencies
•      The Royal Thai Army installs the
  distant
• learning equipments at the
  destination schools around the country
  free of charge.

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The Joining Agencies

•    The TOT Corporation Public Co. Ltd. provides
  four toll free telephone lines to enable the
  two-way interactive communication via TV
  conference system.
•      The Telecom Public Co. Ltd. provides
  international telephones and faxes to connect
  with the neighboring countries for the English
  courses.

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The Joining Agencies

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• The Provincial Electricity Authority
• The private sector, i.e.
• Advance Vision System Co.,Ltd.
• Telesat Corporation Co.,Ltd.
• Cisco Systems (Thailand) Inc.
• etc.
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The Joining Agencies

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• International cooperation
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• UN agencies, i.e. UNESCO, FAO
• Various universities in the Mekhong River
  Area within the framework of SEAMEO covering
  six countries China (Kunming), Cambodia, Laos,
  Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
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Elearning Services

• In 2002, the elearning services was introduced to
  the general public at http//www.dlf.ac.th.
• In 2004, the full cycle distant education, Grade
  1 to Grade 12, on 12 channels is broadcast to
  7,500 primary and secondary schools throughout
  the country 24 hours a day, with one channel in
  English for the neighboring countries.

     
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The Project on Telecenters for Communities

• The Telecenter
• A cooperative project of community, public and
  private sectors in the rural areas, aiming to
•        equalize the accessibility to IT between
  rural and urban areas.
•       support the community to use IT as a tool
  to enhance its potential and to develop the
  quality of life.
•        enable the community to manage the center
  by itself, according to the concept of
  sustainable development.

     
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The Project on Telecenters for Communities 

• A project is based on the differences of
  operational concepts, patterns of support, and
  also patterns of communitys service.
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• A successful Telecenter
•      has cooperative members.
•        has leaders with a vision.
•        understands the benefits of IT.
•      closely supported and supervised by
  local organizations.

     
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An example Ban Samkha

•    Problems
•         Debts.
•          Drug addicts.
•          HIV infections.
•          Inadequate supply of ICT, etc.
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•   Realizing the importance of ICT in
•       searching useful information.
•        publicizing the village products to
  the outside world.
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An example Ban Samkha

• The community
•    sets up a forum to brainstorm and find
  out the solutions.
•      raises various funds to operate
  activities to solve the problems.
•    operates the center by volunteer youths
  with computer skills.  
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An example Ban Samkha

• The Office of the Non-Formal Education
  Commission, Northern Branch
•        provides training courses for the
  volunteers and teachers to solve basic
  problems.
•         gives a helping hand for difficult
  problems.

     
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The Database on Marine Shrimp Research

• Problem
• The culturing of the marine shrimp has been
  promoted for exportation, and caused
•      unsystematic expansion of culturing areas.
  
•      encroachment of the mangrove forests.
•      polluted water resources.
•     epidemics and infections from bacteria
  and virus.
• rapid decrease in the productivity.

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The Database on Marine Shrimp Research

•   Few of research works are used
•          kept in different libraries and
  organizations.
•        kept in different storing systems.
•       the technical terms too difficult
  to understand.
•         most of the experiments has never
  been confirmed in the real farm situations.
         

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The Database on Marine Shrimp Research

•   Serious damage caused by the residues
•        incorrect use of anti-biotic.
•         lack of understanding on the drug
  usage lack of proper management.
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The Database on Marine Shrimp Research

• A project to set up a database on shrimp research
• Granted by NRCT in 2003.
•   The goal is to collect research works,
  analyze, synthesize, and disseminate
  information to the public at
  http//www.nrct.net.
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The Database on Marine Shrimp Research

• Outline of the database
•         Collecting research reports and
  theses during 1987-2003.
•         Classifying a total of 993 collected
  research papers.
• Analyzing and synthesizing data by the
  specialists.
•          Preparing bibliographies, abstracts
  and keywords.
• Setting up a database by the
  programmers.
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The Database on Marine Shrimp Research

• Input data consists of
• Author / Co-Author
•       Title
•         Source (Journal / Conference /
  Technical paper)
•      Year
•        Place of Publication
•           Pages
•          Keywords
•        Language
•          Subject categories
•         Abstract
•          Full-text

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The Database on Marine Shrimp Research

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•  Users can search the database by
•         Authors.
•        Subjects.
•         Keywords.
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•  The display of the search results consisted of
•         Bibliographies.
•          Thai and English abstracts
  or in either language.
•           Full-text.