Joint Development Effort for Software in Society Project
Written by Admin on Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Joint Development Effort for Software in Society Project
By Jirapan Boonnoon
The Nation
Published on August 14, 2008
To promote and support Thai people and organizations to use local software in order to improve their productivity and information technology literacy skill, Software Park Thailand cooperate with nine local software companies create Software for Society project provide software free of charge to 80 schools, nongovernment organization, healthcare local hospital, local healthcare as well as municipal government, and government sectors, totally worth Bt27 million.
Suwipa Wanasathop, director of Software Park Thailand said that the Software for Society project which is corporate society responsibility (CSR) is aims to promote local software usage as well as contribute local software system and solutions to support government, nongovernment (NGO), healthcare, and education sectors free of charge which cost around Bt27 million.
“This is the first time in Thailand which distributes software development to support public free of charge and leverage usage of local software in the future. I think that the project will have good effect to society, government sector and education sector as a whole,” said Suwipa.
For the government, NGO and healthcare sectors, the project offer enterprise resource planning (GERP), Collaborative WebBased Application, Hospital Informatics System named Hospital OS, and Multimedia Contact Center Solution or call center in order to enhance their operation process, management process so that information technology will able to boost their productivity organization and management as a whole.
Meanwhile, the education sector, the corporation will provide education software development such as Saijai which is Internet Parental Control software package, iDictionary, and 3D Mixed Reality Learning, Boost life motion capture game, and online education tools to 80 schools nationwide.
Jumrud Sawangsamud, chief executive officer of International Research Company (IRC) said that the project will enable organizations utilize information technology apply to adopt their organizations conduct their productivity of government organizations and government sector as a whole. As a result, they can create good governance and knowledge information based in their organization.
Pongskorn Saipetch, managing director of Atrium Technology said that the firm distribute Saijai, which is Internet Parental Control to support the project so that parent will have tools able to monitor their children to access the Internet in order to protect their children away from unsecured situation and capture Internet access of their children.
The one year project comes with the corporation of Software Park Thailand and another nine local partners including IRCP Group, Thai Software Enterprise, CT Asia , Picsoft, LarnGear Technology, TeamWork, Open Source Technology, Atrium Technology, and Suranaree University of Technology.
