Thailand ICT Master Plan (2002-2006). - Nectec

(2) Accelerating liberalization of telecommunication services, which will be regulatedby an independent organization in order to achieve the first objective.(3) Bringing the laws on telecommunication business conduct – namely, TheFrequency Allocation Act. B.E. 2543 (2000) and the TelecommunicationBusiness Operation Act B.E. 2544 (2001) -- into effect as soon as possible inorder to achieve the second objective.2.2 To materialize the National Information Infrastructure Law which is a by-law underArticle 78 of the 1997 Constitution, by urgently undertaking the followings:(1) Having the draft of the National Information Infrastructure Law undergoingthe legal process and coming into effect by the end of 2003.(2) Setting up an organization in accordance with the law once this law comeinto effect in order to have in place the infrastructure for social developmentand public administration, as required under Article 78 of the Constitution.(3) Having the organization under this legislation to coordinate with the NationalTelecommunications Commission (NTC) in order to enforce thetelecommunication operators to provide services to communities nationwide.(4) Promoting ICT applications to serve social development, such as healthcare,education, community learning, services for disadvantaged groups, publicsafety, and to generate economic value from indigenous knowledge.(5) Transforming the role of post offices to serve as community telecenter.2.3 To apply ICT in the development of education, content creation and learning activities.(1) Supporting the private sector and academic institutes in producing highquality electronic-media, and supporting human resources in local educationinstitutes to create local-knowledge content in the form of electronic media.(2) Providing training courses to enable education personnel to efficiently useelectronic media for teaching.(3) Creating the collaborative network to share IT resources and experiencesamong academic institutes.(4) Expanding and developing learning through ICT media, such as distancelearning via satellite and the Internet.(5) The government to establish a data center for educational courseware, hostingthe online content of academic institutes free of charge, and to organize thecontests on courseware and teaching/learning manual development.Thailand ICT Master Plan (2002-2006) 11