The Information and Communications Technology Ministry plans to launch an E-Government Road Map, as a framework for e-government developments over the five years from 2010 to 2014.
Deputy Permanent Secretary Angsumal Sumalai said a draft of the road map would be submitted to the Cabinet early next month for approval before being sent to all government agencies.
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The development of information and communication technology in Thailand in the next five years will help the country become "Smart Thailand" equipped with "Smart People" and a "Smart Government".
This is the goal of the country's second ICT master plan - for 2009 to 2013 - drafted by the National Electronic and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec).
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Raymond Chong, managing director and chief executive officer of the hospital, said the hospital would utilise AVR technology to send automatic voice messages to ODP patients over their mobile phones to advise them on the status of their appointments.
Speaking recently at the ICT SME Summit 2007, Abhisit said human resource development was also a top priority and the party would put more focus on ICT education initiatives.
To accelerate the development of electronic government, the Office of Computer Clustering Programme (CCP) under the National Science and Technology Development Agency has initiated a project called New Enhanced Application Tools for e-Government (NEAT-G) to set interoperability standards for application software for electronic government.
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