Title: AfricaCom: Africa’s mobile industry needs to re-invent itself to meet tomorrow’s challenges
Author:
Source:Issue no 529
Publisher:Balancing Act
Date (published):05/11/2010
Date (accessed):09/11/2010
Type of information:aricle
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
„Four thousand people are slated to attend the industry’s biggest continent-wide talk-fest AfricaCom next week, which has been given the upbeat title of Driving the Next Stage of Telecoms Growth in African Telecoms. However, the mobile masters of the universe face tough challenges ahead with growing competition and the levelling off of market growth. Operators face a slalom of obstacles that will begin to separate those who have the skills from those who have simply been lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Russell Southwood looks at whether the mobile operators have the courage to re-invent themselves and if and when an insurgent challenger will come to market with a disruptive business model.”

Title: A 'smarter' Thailand through ICT
Authors: Lay Cheng Tan and Rojana Manowalailao
Source: Bangkok Post
Publisher: The Post Publishing Public Company Limited
Date published: 28/07/2009
Date accessed: 09/08/2009
Type of information: newspaper article
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
"A "Smarter Thailand" with "Smarter People" and a "Smarter Government" - this is the main goal of Thailand's second Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Master Plan for 2009-2013, drafted by the National Electronic and Computer Technology Center (Nectec).

Progress in the use of ICT in education has been very slow and uneven.

ICT literacy as a goal

The plan aims to increase Thailand's ICT readiness to enable the country to become a major competitor in the global market.

One of its objectives is to encourage 50 percent of the population above 15 years old to be ICT-literate and able to use computers in all areas of their lives.

Human resource development and capacity building will be a major strategy for meeting this target. "

See also:
Second National ICT Master Plan 2552-2556 (2009-2013)
Some further information based on the rough translation of the original document.