The Phnom Penh Post

Thai gov’t ready to open data sets

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NEXT year will be the year of data for the public sector amid expectatio­ns for the announceme­nt of 300-500 national data sets for people and data analysis for businesses, who could use them for innovative creation in terms of the economy, society and living, Thailand’s deputy premier said.

Opening the event “Readiness for developmen­t towards Thailand 4.0”, Deputy Prime MinisterWi­ssanu Krea-ngam said that people could use these national data sets for their innovation, and the private sector could use them to analyse data including e-commerce and social media in the digital economy.

All data will be connected to help business extension, which could boost the economy, he said.

The government has establishe­d a sharing system for joint use of resources, while sharing and connecting data to save billions of baht in its annual budget, he said.

The government will not only shift its disclosure of existing data from the analog system to the digital system, but also establish a new culture of data disclosure to the general public, he said, adding such data included all work procedures of state agencies.

This is the most diverse ever for the Thai government, he said.

According to the Cabinet resolution on October 10, the Electronic Government Agency (EGA) would be moved to the Digital Government Developmen­t Agency (DGA), which would directly report to the Office of prime minister in order to be more flexible in driving the digital government.

Next year, the agency’s new projects will cover Government Data Exchange, Government Data Centre, Government Data Analytics Centre and Government Secure Intranet with open data platform for linkages of large data base.

EGA chief Sak Segkhoonth­od said the survey on Thailand’s readiness for developmen­t of the digital government in 2017 would be announced in the “Digital Government Summit 2017: Disclosure, Linkage and Transforma­tion towards the Digital Government” at CentralWor­ld. The event began on Friday and was to conclude yesterday.

Initially, based on the survey, Thailand’s state department­al level scored 57.2 with the highest in digital state staff’s digital capability, and the provincial level marked 36.9 with the highest in internal management in the form of .

 ?? THE NATION ?? Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam (left) visits the Smart Government booth at the Digital Government Summit 2017 forum yesterday in Bangkok.
THE NATION Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam (left) visits the Smart Government booth at the Digital Government Summit 2017 forum yesterday in Bangkok.

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