Full coverage: Thailand

06.07.2007 Kolme Etelä-Thaimaan yhteisöä on saamassa langattoman telelääketieteen laitteistoja tukemaan tiedonvälitystä. Julkinen-yksityinen kumppanuuden avulla tuotetut palvelut yhdistävät syrjäisiä terveydenhuoltokeskuksia sairaaloiden kanssa, mikä mahdollistaa reaaliaikaisen informaation hyödyntämisen.

05.07.2007 Leading developer of advanced wireless technologies, QUALCOMMÂ’s Wireless Reach Initiative will fulfill the medical and educational needs of communities in southern Thailand. Plans include wireless connectivity to hospitals and telecentres in public libraries.

25.09.2006 The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology sought cooperation from broadcasters to temporarily stop activities of political expression via short-messaging or phone-in.

01.09.2006 Creative solutions are helping get kids in school and improve the quality of education.

05.01.2006 The egov Asia 2006, the Asian government conference is being held at Bangkok, Thailand in April 2006. The conference would provide a knowledge-sharing platform and a forum for policymakers, practitioners, industry leaders and academicians of Asia-Pacific nations to carry forward the e-Government vision of the region and consolidate them into actionable program, through collaborative learning and partnerships.

04.01.2006 A website is offering comprehensive details of how much money has poured into Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Maldives, as against the billions of dollars pledged by the international community in response to the unprecedented natural disaster.

20.12.2005 As part of the “Strengthening ICT Use in Schools and SchoolNet” project, UNESCO will convene a five-day workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand from12 to 16 December 2005. The workshop aims to enhance teachers’ understanding of telecollaboration and enable them to coordinate UNESCO SchoolNet online activities effectively.

21.11.2005 Thaksin Shinawatra, prime minister of Thailand, has invited Huawei Technologies Co. to help Thailand modernize its government.

26.10.2005 APDIP and the UNDP Asia-Pacific Gender Mainstreaming Programme will be hosting a one-day workshop titled “Mapping Gender in the Information Society: From Reality to Discourse”. The event will be held on 31 October 2005 at the Menam Riverside Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

28.09.2005 From 24 October to 2 December 2005 the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) will hold an internet discussion forum on open course content. The forum will explore the concept of open course content, its context, current initiatives, and issues and implications of its use.

27.09.2005 The UNESCO “ICT in Education Toolkit Training Workshop”, held between 5 and 10 September 2005 in Chiang Mai, Thailand, successfully introduced a newly-developed policy-makers’ toolkit, which is designed to assist in improving decision-making with regard to the integration of ICT in education.

27.09.2005 APDIP's Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance initiative zooms in on the Internet governance issues, priorities and challenges faced by five countries in Asia.The report results are drawn from extensive consultations and a survey involving all stakeholders (government, the private sector and civil society), and region-wide research undertaken over the past year, as part of the Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance (ORDIG).

07.09.2005 The ambitious e-literacy project, “Akshaya”, operating in the southern Indian State of Kerala, has been selected for the Prix Ars Electronica “Digital Community” award.

06.09.2005 UNESCO in cooperation with Japanese-Funds-In-Trust (JFIT),inaugurated a 6-day ICT in education training workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 5 September 2005.

06.09.2005 The Houkeng Timber-Arched Corridor Bridge in Qingyuan County, Zhejiang Province, China and Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai, India have both been honoured with Awards of Excellence in the UNESCO 2005 Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation.

26.08.2005 UNESCO Bangkok's Assessment, Information Systems, Monitoring and Statistics (AIMS) Unit hosted and trained officials from the Nepal Ministry of Education (MoE) as part of the Flash Report Method on conducting annual school census at the AIMS office, UNESCO Bangkok.

22.06.2005 4 - 19 July 2005 Bangkok, Thailand Regional Workshop on Accessible Web-based Information Networking

19.05.2004 VCD modules that promote learning and reflection have been developed for migrant girls crossing the Mekong River into Thailand, as well as other groups of at-risk youth. This pilot, developed under a project of the US-based Education Development Center, seeks to demonstrate how VCD
technology - already very popular in the region - can help these girls before they find themselves in compromising situations.

18.05.2004 An eight-day media workshop in Bangkok will focus on the use of ICTs to communicate effectively to the people on HIV/AIDS. The workshop being organised by UNESCO and SciDev.net, from July 6 to 13 will conicide with the International AIDS Conference being held in Bangkok.

05.04.2004 The use of ICT in non-formal education programmes to foster participation of disadvantaged people in literacy, basic education and continuing education activities is at the centre of projects in Indonesia, Lao PDR, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Uzbekistan that UNESCO's Asia-Pacific Programme of Education for All has launched with funds from Japan.