This document outlines a new plan to enhance Thailand's competitiveness through information and communication technology (ICT). The plan focuses on four key areas: 1) enhancing competitiveness by ensuring ICT supports all government functions and addresses cultural issues, 2) prioritizing local solutions by leveraging technologies like mobile apps, 3) setting clear and simplified goals through bottom-up project planning and performance metrics, and 4) venturing differences through public education initiatives and challenges. The document calls for industry input, collective efforts to accelerate the plan's implementation, and key performance indicators to measure progress.

1. Pravit Chattalada
3 September 2013

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4. • Enhancing competitiveness
• Giving priority to localness
• Clearer & simplified goals
• Venturing differences
• Living & result-driven
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5. Enhancing competitiveness
• MICT services cut across all administrative
functions. Does plan grow the need of MICT?
• The pace of being competitive depends on culture
and leadership not technology . Does plan address
this issue?
• Global Competitiveness Index ranking is the
summation of all ministries performance. Does
plan integrate & complement other plans?
• Competitiveness needs sense of urgency and decisive
actions. How does plan help?
• Set up advisory body from the industry for
competitiveness improvement

6. Giving priority to localness
• Leveraging mobile apps
-Kenya mobile money transfer, Afghan police, Bangladesh
farming, India missed call
• Israel farming system
• Nomura Research Institute survey Web 2.0
readiness, vendors, workforce, technologies,
users
• Build strong Thailand IT research &
survey businesses
• Bridging technological and information lag gaps

7. Clear & simplified goals
• Soliciting bottom-up goals to converge at the
top
- Project based performance measurement for all CIO
• Singapore-Government computerization
Taiwan-Component manufacturing
Korea-Hard disk assembly
India-Software coding
• Clear goal not only makes easier to achieve
but better performance measurement
• Planning does not make one smart,
practicing does
- Focusing Reverse Implementation

8. Venturing differences
- Campaigning “Give Information, not Money“
- Values to business sector and citizen
- Initiating IT forum series to mass educate
public and build better understanding of the
intricate IT mediated world
• Initiating Pubic Sector IT Solution challenges
and awards
• Exploring fast track solutions that are not
constrained by bureaucracy and regulations
• Beefing up public communication

9. Living & result-driven
• Government goal “Building confidence in
government and business”
• Creating Listening Pool for plan improvement
• Introducing and distributing the plan to
the industry
• Soliciting collective efforts to speed up plan
achievement
• Aligning plan hard numbers measurement
with management measurement
- ATCI Demand Generation program

10. Balancing KPI equation
- UNDP Tech Achievement Index
- Increase 30% of labor force to be knowledge worker
- 50% increase in value of knowledge-based industries to GDP
- Corresponding KPI for responsible
persons to make the above happen

11. • MICT’s new directions
• Highlighting differences from previous plan
• Collective efforts for competitiveness
• New plan’s added values
• How the plan benefits them
Tell all the
of new plan

12. The eye of the beholder

13. How best
How fast
WHAT HOW

14. INDECISION
The silent killer

15. The pride of your contributions