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Listed below are non-exhaustive list of policy
research projects we conducted or participated in (directly or indirectly
under different names):
Examples of intellectual
property policy research projects we conducted or participated in:
-
Intellectual
Property Right Study Tour: USA (1988)
Project
Director and Researcher: Dr. Lerson Tanasugarn
Budget: N.A.
Funding Agency: Thailand's National Center for Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology (NCGEB - later named BIOTECH)
Executing Agency: Chulalongkorn University
A month-long tour covering approximately 30 IP contacts in the US (government,
educational institution, private law firms, and individual experts).
- National
IPR Policy (1989)
Project
Director: Surakiart Satirathai, LDRC.
Researchers: Jaran Paktithanakul, Bovornsak Uvanno, W. Tosanquan, Lerson
Tanasugarn, and Jittrapatr Kruavan.
Budget: US$24,000.00
Funding Agency: Ministry of Commerce
Executing Agency: Law & Development Research Center (LDRC) Faculty of
Law, Chulalongkorn University
This was perhaps the first IP policy research outsourced by the Thai government,
in this case to an educational institution. The results established the foundation
for the pre-TRIPs amendments in the Thai intellectual property laws.
- Pharmaceuticals,
Biotech, and Agricultural Machinery Patent (1990)
Project
Director: Surakiart Satirathai, LDRC.
Researchers: Surakiart Satirathai, Jarumas Pintong, Piset Setsatien, and
Jittrapatr Kruavan.
Project Advisor: Lerson Tanasugarn.
Budget: US$24,000.00
Funding Agency: Department of Commercial Registration, Ministry of Commerce
Executing Agency: Law & Development Research Center (LDRC) Faculty of
Law, Chulalongkorn University
The project was officially named "Impact to Thailand in Case Patent
Protection is Implemented for Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, and Agricultural
Machinery and Format & Substance of Appropriate Law for the Protection
of Such Technologies." This aim of this policy research was to study
the impacts of pharmaceutical and other product patent amendments that the
US government, on behalf of the US drug manufacturers and other US industries,
was forcing down our throat. Recommendations were also made to minimize the
negative consequences in case the Thai government yielded to the US pressure,
which they subsequently did.
- Protection
of Integrated Circuit Layout Design (1991)
Project
Director: Lerson Tanasugarn
Researchers: Lerson Tanasugarn, Choomporn Pachusanond, Bovorn Papasaratorn,
Jittapatr Kruavan, Sudharma Yoonaidharma, and Sakda Thanitkul.
Budget: US$24,000.00
Funding Agency: Department of Commercial Registration, Ministry of Commerce
Executing Agency: Law & Development Research Center (LDRC) Faculty of
Law, Chulalongkorn University
The project, officially named as "Impact to Thailand From the Protection
of Integrated Circuits and Format & Substance of Appropriate Law for
Protection of Integrated Circuits." was the very first attempt at understanding
the protection of integrated circuit layout design and its impact to Thailand.
The Integrated Circuit Layout Design Protection Act drafted during the course
of this project later served as the first draft of the actual law, which
was promulgated a decade later.
- NECTEC
IPR Policy (1992)
Project
Director: Lerson Tanasugarn
Researchers: Lerson Tanasugarn and Jittapatr Kruavan
Funding Agency: National Center for Electronics and Computer Technology (NECTEC)
Executing Agency: Chulalongkorn University
The project was a complete review of the IPR issues, history and status in
Thailand. The study was accompanied by a booklet called "IPR Briefing
for Excecutives" which covered all regimes of IPR.
- Intellectual
Property Right Study Tour: USA (1993)
Project
Director: Lerson Tanasugarn
Researchers: Lerson Tanasugarn and Jittapatr Kruavan
Budget: N.A.
Funding Agency: National Center for Electronics and Computer Technology (NECTEC)
Executing Agency: Chulalongkorn University
This study tour was the sequel of the one conducted in 1988. Many of the
contacts initiated in 1988 were revisited to obtain an update on the IPR
situation. A case study in start-up company was conducted at COR Technology
in San Francisco, CA.
- Intellectual
Property Right Study Tour: Europe (1993)
Project
Director and Researcher: Lerson Tanasugarn
Budget: N.A.
Funding Agency: National Center for Electronics and Computer Technology (NECTEC)
Executing Agency: Chulalongkorn University
This study tour centered around Munich, Germany (European Patent Office and
Max Planck Institute) and Geneva, Switzerland (World Intellectual Property
Organization, WIPO and the International Telecommunication Union, ITU).
- Intellectual
Property Right Study Tour: Asia (1993)
Researchers:
Lerson Tanasugarn and Jittapatr Kruavan
Budget: N.A.
Funding Agency: National Center for Electronics and Computer Technology (NECTEC)
Executing Agency: Chulalongkorn University
This study tour started in Japan then proceeded to Korea, Hong Kong, and
Taiwan. In each country, we visited the national agency responsible for patent
examination and grant (almost always called the Patent Office) and the national
agency responsible for intellectual property matters regarding computer programs
(almost always the Copyright Office attached to the Ministry of Education).
- ESCAP
Patent Review for the Asian and Pacific Countries (1994)
Project
Director: Jittapatr Kruavan
Researchers and Authors: Jittapatr Kruavan and Lerson Tanasugarn
Budget: approx. US$12,000.00
Funding Agency: UNESCAP
Executing
Agency: Chula UNISEARCH
Even before the establishment of the United Nations (UN), the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) was administering most, if not all, intellectual
property conventions. At some point, especially after the Uruguay Round of
GATT, ESCAP realized that intellectual property issues were closely related
to trade and economics issues that were within their turf. They commissioned
Dr. Jittapatr Kruavan and Dr. Lerson Tanasugarn to write a review of the
patent system in the Asia and Pacific region. After a slight editing by their
expert, the report was published as an ESCAP document (ESCAP 1995. Capability
for Acquisition and Use of Technologies: Patent Laws, Regulations and Organizational
Structure in the Asian and Pacific Countries. Commissioned by ESCAP through
Chula UNISEARCH. Document ST/ESCAP/1483, January, 1995, 81 pp.).
- Establishing
an Intellectual Property Office at the National Science and Technology
Development Agency (NSTDA-IPS) (1995)
Project
Director and Consultant: Lerson Tanasugarn
Budget: US$140,000.00
Funding Agency: National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA)
Executing Agency: Chulalongkorn University
This was an ambitious 1-year project of establishing the first intellectual
property office in a non-university federal agency. The administrative structure
was set up with the understanding of internal politics of the organization.
Personnel recruitment and training were conducted. The office finally started
working in less than a year as planned.
- Business
Strategic Planning Based on Analysis of Patent Documents (1997)
Project
Director: Lerson Tanasugarn
Researchers: Lerson Tanasugarn, Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn, Suda Sirikulwattana
and Chukiat Noichim
Budget: US$124,000.00
Funding Agency: National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT)
Executing Agency: Chulalongkorn University Intellectual
Property Institute (CUIPI)
This project was the largest study, budgetwise, that was granted directly
from the National Research Council of Thailand to Dr. Lerson Tanasugarn.
The project was a demonstration of how to analyze thousands of patent documents
in order to arrive at business strategy plan for a company. The analysis
methodology was developed, using data from Thai companies in the space industries.
Co-sponsors included Shinnawatr Satellite (Shin Group) and Thai Satellite
Company (UCOM Group).
- The
Jasmine Rice Crisis (1998)
Project
Director and Researcher: Lerson Tanasugarn
Budget: approx. US$10,000.00
Funding Agency: LERSON Institute with partial support from the National Research
Council of Thailand (NRCT)
During the 1990s, Jasmine rice was a target of copying and modifications
in western countries, especially the United States, in order to develop aromatic
rice varieties that could compete with Jasmine rice in the US and ultimately
in the world market. In case of Jasmati (registered trade mark of RiceTec,
Inc.), which was genetically quite unrelated to Thai Jasmine rice, the word “Jasmati” could
easily confuse consumers into believing that such rice is a progeny of the
world-famous Jasmine rice, grown in Thailand. This project attempted to gather
relevant facts about the matter and to find possible measures that Thailand
could or should take. The results were put together as a 75-page report and
was published at the hight of the conflict (Tanasugarn, L. 1998. Jasmine
Rice Crisis: A Thai Perspective. The Intellectual Property and International
Trade Law Forum: Special Issue 1998, pp. 63-138).
- Biodiversity
Laws (1998)
Project
Director: Lerson Tanasugarn
Researchers:
Budget: US$18,000.00
Funding Agency: National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
(BIOTECH)
Executing Agency: Chulalongkorn University Intellectual Property Institute
This project was the first attempt to assess the impacts of the Convention
on Biological Diversity on Thailand, and to understand the interrelationships
among the many Thai laws that were related to biological diversity. Comparative
studies were conducted among Costa Rica, Brazil, the Philippines, etc.
before a Draft Thai Biological Diversity Law was proposed. See the sequel
of this
project under "Uniform Biological Material Transfer Agreement (UBMTA)
for Thailand (1999)."
- Patent
Licensing Guideline (1999)
Project
Director and Author: Lerson Tanasugarn.
Budget: US$7,000.00
Funding Agency: GTZ (German Government) through Department of Intellectual
Property (DIP), Ministry of Commerce.
The Guideline was designed for inventors who were about to draft and/or negotiate
a patent/knowhow license. The first edition came out in October, 1999 and
the second edition in March, 2000. DIP subsequently licensed the National
Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) to publish the Guideline
for distribution in their IP seminars. There is also an English version of
the second edition of the Guideline.
- The
Kwao Krua Incident (1999)
Project
Director and Researcher: Lerson Tanasugarn
Budget: approx. US$5,000.00
Funding Agency: LERSON Institute.
Several types of Kwao Krua, e.g. white, red, black, and gray, are known medicinal
herbs of Thailand. Owing to their effects related to breast enlargement in
females and to penis erection in males, the financial gains to anyone who
can attain monopoly, even limited monopoly, in this business is enormous.
In May, 1999, a Thai patent was granted on a composition containing Kwao
Krua and several other ingredients. Due to the way the claims were written,
many people were confused and were led to believe that the patent granted
an exclusive right for all products containing over 10 per cent of Kwao Krua.
It turns out that the patent examiners did not have access to the traditional
medical non-patent literature. The research tried to suggest what could be
done to the patent after the prior arts were revealed to the Department of
Intellectual Property (i.e. the Thai Patent Office) and what could be done
to prevent such confusion and problem from happening again. In the final
analysis, if the invention could not satisfy the requirements for patentability
in the first place, the patent right would not hold up or be enforceable.
Only new, useful, and non-obvious inventions not on the exclusion list deserve
patent protection, which is designed to stimulate more technological invention
that would benefit the society. This research resulted in a publication that
reviewed and analyzed the matter thoroughly (Tanasugarn, L. 1999. When a
Patent is not Enforcible: The Case of Kwao Krua. in The Intellectual Property
and International Trade Law Forum: Special Issue 1999, pp. 105-121).
- A
Uniform Biological Material Transfer Agreement for Thailand (1999)
Project
Director: Lerson Tanasugarn
Researchers:
Budget: US$18,000.00
Funding Agency: National Center for Biological Diversity
Executing Agency: Chulalongkorn University Intellectual Property Institute
Owing to the
fact that the Convention on Biological Diversity relies heavily
on contracts
as a tool in providing equitable share of benefits derived from
biological and genetic resources, developing countries were quick to
establish
guidelines and minimum standards on the so-called (biological) material
transfer agreements. So far
the system has not been working for Thailand due to lack of knowledge on
the part of local people to draft access and bio-prospecting contracts
and
even
to
understand
the legal terms in such agreements. What this study provided was a uniform
MTA for transferring both the biological specimen (a tangible property)
and certain intellectual property rights (a non-tangible asset) in both
for-profit
and non-profit settings. In this project, which was supported by
Thailand's National Center
for Biological Diversity, a uniform material transfer agreement was
drafted for each type of transfer, with certain clauses marked
as being "minimum
standards." Subsequently, government agencies with jurisdiction
over biological diversity in Thailand patterned their material transfer
agreements
after the model MTA developed in this project. The results from this
project was summarized in an article published in the 3rd Anniversary
Issue of the
journal of Thailand's Central Intellectual Property and International
Trade Court (Tanasugarn, L. et al. 2000. UBMTA for Thailand: A uniform
biological
material transfer agreement for Thailand has been drafted. The Intellectual
Property and International Trade Law Forum: Special Issue 2000,
pp. 149-167).
- CIPITC
Decision Database (2000)
Project
Director: Lerson Tanasugarn
Consultant: Klaewkla Kaewthai (MS with a dissertation on database implementation
on the Internet)
Budget: US$18,600.00
Funding Agency: Funds raised from an Information Technology Seminar at Hilton
International arranged by CU Intellectual Property Institute (CUIPI), Parliamentary
Standing Committee on Science and Technology, and Central Intellectual Property
and International Trade Court (CIPITC) with generous supports from Baker & Mackenzie
(Thailand), Nation Multimedia Group, and Domnern Somkiat Boonma (DSB).
Executing Agency: Chulalongkorn University Intellectual
Property Institute (CUIPI)
From the beginning to the end of 2000, the project attempted to compile several
thousands of CIPITC decisions into a single database that would be useful
to both legal researchers and to CIPITC personnel. Furthermore, the database
would work on an intranet of the court and would be ready to offer search
service on the Internet. FileMaker was selected as the database management
software owing to its ability to work with PC and Mac platforms as well as
the Internet. The database was designed as a relational database with printing
capability to mimic the actual court documents. Several dozens of extra fields
were provided and indexed in order to help legal researchers. In October
2000, the project output was delivered to CIPITC, with the database current
to June, 2000.
- Thailand's
IP Strategy for the Next Decade (2001)
Project Director:
Lerson Tanasugarn
Researchers:
Budget: US$103,000.00
Funding Agency: Thailand Research Fund (TRF)
Executing Agency: Chulalongkorn University
This project, which is an 18-month project starting on April 2001, attempts
to look back at decades of IP history in Thailand to gain insight that would
help formulate the macro IP strategy for the next decade. Data analyzed in
this project include 20 years of patent filing data and 4 years of IP court
decision data. Over 1,500 Thai inventors from all over Thailand have been
approached and approximately 150 of them (plus approximately 50 control subjects)
were interviewed regarding inventive activities, patenting activities, commercializing
activities, and IP disputes. In addition to the ususal policy research methodology,
the study is the first of its kind to attempt to use behavioral science methodology
to get at the factors that distinguish inventors from non-inventors. Recommendations
and interventions will be proposed to foster inventive, patenting, and commercializing
activities while efficiently resolve IP disputes.
- TLO
Feasibility Study (2003)
Project
Director: Lerson Tanasugarn
Researchers: Lerson Tanasugarn and Santi Ratanasuwan
Budget: US$36,000.00
Funding Agency: National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA)
This 5-month project aims at finding the best possible way to establish a
full-function technology licensing office (TLO) from the existing intellectual
property and business development offices of the three technology centers
and the IP Service Section (IPS) at the Central Office of NSTDA. (See the
IPS Project above.) The study involves evaluating the present status of the
existing framework, finding the best practice of such offices in industrialized
countries, and recommending the optimum structure and steps in establishing
the TLO.
Examples of information technology policy projects we conducted or
participated in:
-
Policy
Guidelines for Development of Computer hardware and peripherals
in Thailand (1991)
Project
Director: Jittrapatr Kruavan, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn
University.
Researchers: Jittapatr Kruavan, Jarumas Pintong, and Lerson Tanasugarn.
Budget: N.A.
Funding Agency: National Center for Electronic and Computer Technology (NECTEC).
This was the time when microcomputers started to boom in
Thailand. NECTEC realized that the country was losing
foreign currencies on computer imports. The study involved finding strategies
and establishing guidelines for promoting local hardware and peripherals
development. The final report was never published or released to the public.
-
Policy
Guidelines for Space Telecommunication for Thailand (1992)
Project
Director: Jittapatr Kruavan, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn
University.
Researchers: Jittapatr Kruavan and Lerson Tanasugarn
Budget: N.A.
Funding Agency: National Center for Electronics and Computer Technology
(NECTEC)
This study was conceptualized in 1991 by Dr. Lerson Tanasugarn, Dr. Nongluck
Phinainitisart of the Post and Telegraph Department (just before she joined
Shin Satellite and later became Director and President), and Mr. Sutheera
Ariyawanakit of the Space Development Agency (SDA). Dr. Jittapatr Kruavan,
who was an expert in IT policy research, was approached to become the project
leader.
- Data
Processing Zone (DPZ) Feasibility: Second Study (1993)
Project
Director: Lerson Tanasugarn.
Researchers: Lerson Tanasugarn and Jittapatr Kruavan.
Budget: N.A.
Funding Agency: Ministry of Science, Technology and Energy.
Data Processing Zone
(DPZ) was conceptualized in late 1988. In the following year, the Ministry
of Science, Technology and Energy (MOSTE) commissioned
Jasmine International to conduct a feasibility study of DPZ. Nevertheless,
the DPZ project never materialized due to a quarral between MOSTE and the
Ministry of Transport and Communication (MOTC), who felt that they should
be the one who administered the DPZ Project. After the coup d'tat in 1991
and the mass massacre of May, 1992, MOSTE continued the fight with MOTC.
The following year, MOSTE realized that the feasibility report prepared in
1989 was badly out-of-date. So they commissioned the researchers to update
the whole study, from the concepts to the supporting data (with a budget
of just over 10 per cent of that of the original study). Unfortunately, after
the study was completed in early 1996, MOSTE was still fighting with MOTC
over who should be in charge of the project. See subsequent detail under
the DPZ Third Feasibility Study (1997)
- Electronic
Data Interchange (EDI) Law (1995)
Project
Director: Sudharma Yoonaidharma, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn
University.
Researchers: Sudharma Yoonaidharma, Lerson Tanasugarn, Pornpetch Vichitcholchai,
Bundit Limsakul, and Orapan Panaspattana.
Budget: N.A.
Funding Agency: ThailandŐs National Information Technology Committee (NITC)
Executing
Agency: UNISEARCH, the commercial arm of Chulalongkorn University
This 1-year project that started in March 1995 was the first formal attempt
to propose a legal framework for EDI activities in Thailand. The final report
of this project was published as a book by the National Information Technology
Committee (NITC) of Thailand. (Tanasugarn, L., S. Yoonaidharma, P. Vichitcholchai,
B. Limsakul, and O. Panasapattana. 1995. Guideline for Development of
Electronic Data Interchange Law in Thailand. Bangkok:NECTEC/NITC. ISBN:
974-7575-75-2.)
- Computerization
of Government Bureaucracy, Phase I (1995)
Project
Director: Jittapatr Kruavan, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn
University.
Researchers: Jittapatr Kruavan and Lerson Tanasugarn
Funding Agency: National Information Technology Committee (NITC)
This research, commissioned by the National Information Technology Committee
(NITC) and the Government Budget Bureau, provided the foundation of the computerization
of the Thai government bureaucracy. In the final recommendation, the implementation
was planned in phases, starting from the rapid computer training for government
personnel. This study served as the master blue-print for all the subsequent
activities during the following decade. The final report was published as
a book by the National Information Technology Committee. (Kruavan, J., L.
Tanasugarn, and K. Udomvitit. 1995. Guidelines for Promoting Computerization
in Government Agencies. Bangkok:NITC. ISBN: 974-7571-52-8.) See also
the second phase of this study that was commissioned by NITC in 1999.
- Internet
Service Providing Law: Framework, Recommendations and Control (1997)
Project
Director: Sudharma Yoonaidharma, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn
University.
Researchers: Sudharma Yoonaidharma, Jittapatr Kruavan and Lerson Tanasugarn.
Budget: N.A.
Funding Agency: National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT), Judiciary Committee
This project looked
at the interplay of technology, economics, and laws related to internet operation
and usage. The final report
was later re-written and published as a book in February, 1998. (Tanasugarn,
L., J. Kruavan, and S. Yoonaidharma. 1998. Legal Framework for Regulating
Internet in Thailand. Bangkok:Nitidharma Publishing House. ISBN 974-7716-98-4)
The second edition of the book is due later in 2002.
- Strategic
Planning by Analysis of Patent Documents: Case Study in Space Telecommunication
Industry (1997)
Project
Director: Lerson Tanasugarn
Researchers: Lerson Tanasugarn, Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn, Suda Sirikulwatana,
and Chukiat Noichim.
Budget: US$124,000.00
Funding Agency: National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT), Engineering
and Industrial Research Committee.
Executing Agency: Chulalongkorn University Intellectual Property Institute
(CUIPI)
The methodology similar to that used in Japanese private firms was used to
analyze thousands of patent documents related to space telecommunications
to arrive at the strategic plan for the Thai private sector. All Thai companies
in the field were invited to take part in the study. Two firms, Shin Satellite
Plc. and Thai Satellite Co., became co-sponsors of the Project. Shin Satellite
Plc. also actively joined the research team as specialized consultants. Other
specialized consultants were from Chulalongkorn University, Kasetsart University,
King Mongkut Institute of Technology North Bangkok, Mahanakorn Institute
of Technology, and the Thai Army. The patent database assembled during the
course of the Project was published in CD-ROM format and was also available
on-line at CUIPI web site for over four years (1998 through 2001). This database
was shared among ASEAN countries as a contribution from Thailand for joint
ASEAN space activities. Early in 2002 we decided to remove the database from
circulation because we could not find enough financial support for its hosting
and maintenance, which amounted to approximately $8,000 a year.
- Data
Processing Zone (DPZ) Feasibility: Third Study (1997)
Project
Director: Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn, CUIPI.
Researchers: Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn, Sudharma Yoonaidharma, Lerson Tanasugarn,
Jittapatr Kruavan, and others.
Budget: N.A.
Funding Agency: Telephone Organization of Thailand (TOT)
Executing Agency: Chulalongkorn University Intellectual Property Institute
(CUIPI)
After the second DPZ study in 1995, the Ministry of Science, Technology and
Energy (MOSTE, later renamed as the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment)
was still fighting with the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MOTC)
on the jurisdiction over DPZ. At some point after almost a decade of bitter
fighting, MOSTE realized that DPZ would never be implemented. At that time,
Malaysia was about to announce the establishment of their Multimedia Super
Corridor (MSC) that was essentially what DPZ was supposed to be. MOSTE finally
gave in and the Thai Cabinet ordered MOTC, through the Telephone Organization
of Thailand (TOT) which was then a state enterprise under MOTC, to study
the feasibility of DPZ once again. This time TOT commissioned Chulalongkorn
University Intellectual Property Institute (CUIPI) to look into the matter.
CUIPI then appointed Dr. Lerson Tanasugarn, Assistant Professor Sudharma
Yoonaidharma, and Dr. Jittapatr Kruavan, three of the initial architects
of DPZ, as researchers in the project, which was directed by Dr. Prasit Parpinmongkolkarn,
Director General of CUIPI. The study dragged on for a couple of years because
TOT could not accept the recommendation that due to the changing circumstances,
including the proposed liberalization of telecommunication service sector,
the concept of DPZ had to be changed radically to benefit the country as
well as being financially viable. Nevertheless, the project was finally concluded
but no action or implementation on the side of the Thai Government has been
heard ever since.
- Computerization
of Government Bureaucracy, Phase II (1999)
Project
Director: Jittapatr Kruavan, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn
University.
Researchers: Jittapatr Kruavan, Chonchanok Viravan, and Lerson Tanasugarn.
Budget: US$28,000.00
Funding Agency: National Information Technology Committee (NITC)
This was the sequel of the first phase of the study conducted in 1995. This
time, new ideas were examined and incorporated into the measures. For example,
the service-oriented goal of the computerization was recrafted and the title
of Chief Information Officer (CIO) was established in every government office
to be the focal point of IT activities. The final report of the project was
published as a book. (Jittapatr
Kruavan, Chonchanok Viravan, Lerson Tanasugarn, Sopawan Sangchai, Yannawan
Nitayajarn, Dararat Rachadanurak, Puchapan Laochan.
1999. IT for Government Reform. Bangkok:NECTEC/NITC. ISBN: 974-7577-13-5.)
- Universal
IT Infrastructure Law Drafting (1999)
Committee
Chairman:
Committee Members:
Secretariet: National Information Technology Committee (NITC)
This was the activity organized by NITC mostly during 1999. Later in the
Project, Dr. Lerson Tanasugarn was appointed by NECTEC to be an Advisor for
the drafting of all information technology laws.
- Ecommerce
Law Drafting (2000)
Committee
Chairman:
Committee Members:Secretariet:
National Information Technology Committee (NITC)
This was
the activity organized by NITC mostly during 2000. Later in the Project,
Dr. Lerson Tanasugarn was appointed by NECTEC to be an Advisor for the drafting
of all information technology laws.
-
Data
Protection Law Drafting (2000)
Committee
Chairman:
Committee Members:
Secretariet: National Information Technology Committee (NITC)
This was
the activity organized by NITC mostly during 2001. Later in the Project,
Dr. Lerson Tanasugarn was appointed by NECTEC to be an Advisor for the drafting
of all information technology laws.
Examples of science
policy projects we conducted or participated in:
- Restructuring
of Science and Technology Ministry (2001)
Project Director:
Supachai Yawaprapas, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University.
Researchers:
Budget: N.A.
Funding Agency: The World Bank, through the Civil Service Commission (CSC)
Executing Agency: Chula UNISEARCH.
This project grew out of
the need to modernize the administrative structure of the Minister of Science
and Technology as part of the entire ministerial bureaucracy reengineering
that was conducted at the beginning of the new government under the helm
of Prime Minister Taksin Shinnawatr of Thai Rak Thai Political Party. The
project basically involved determining the mission and vision of the Science
Ministry and rearranging, trimming, and grouping Departments within the Ministry.
We had to operate within a short time period under extreme beaurocratic pressure
but the project survived under a strong leadership of our Project Director.
The result of our work, after further bureaucratic scrutiny, is the present
organization of the present Ministry of Science and Technology.
Examples of space policy
projects we conducted or participated in:
-
Policy
Guidelines for Space Telecommunication for Thailand (1992)
Project
Director: Jittapatr Kruavan, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn
University.
Researchers: Jittapatr Kruavan and Lerson Tanasugarn
Budget: N.A.
Funding Agency: National Center for Electronics and Computer Technology (NECTEC)
This study was
conceptualized in 1991 by Dr. Lerson Tanasugarn, Dr. Nongluck Phinainitisart
of the Post and Telegraph Department (just before she joined Shin Satellite
and later became Director and President), and Mr. Sutheera Ariyawanakit
of the Space Development Agency (SDA). Dr. Jittapatr Kruavan, who was
an expert in IT policy research, was approached to become the project
leader.
- Space
Policy and Master Plan for Thailand (2004)
Project
Director: Lerson Tanasugarn
Project Coordinator:
Researchers: Rachan Lekkla,
Jittapatr Kruavan, Supachai Yawaprapas, Nipan Jittasombat.
Budget: US$125,000
Funding Agency: Ministry of Information Computer and Telecommunication
Executing Agency: Chulalongkorn University
For the past
15 years, Thailand has been drafting several versons of a comprehensive
space policy. Unfortunately, such space policies have never been endorsed
as an official national policy. The aim of this project is to draft a
national-level space policy and master plan for 2004-2014. The plan will
center around the establishment of a national space organization.
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