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    Expert emphasises independence

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 10/11/2010

    » Speaking at a seminar entitled Leadership and the Independent Regulator at Thammasat University, Professor Mark Jamison, Director of the Public Utility Research Centre at the University of Florida, explained why the world needs independent regulators and what independence means when it comes to regulators such as our own National Telecommunications Commission.

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    Open Source has won precisely because we no longer notice it

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 24/11/2010

    » Open source has won. Oh, how time flies. When I started writing in Database in May 2003, my first column was about how the ICT Ministry had got the budget PC programme all wrong. ICT Minister Surapong had announced his great success at negotiating the inclusion of Windows XP and Office XP at just 1,500 baht, a 90 percent discount. He saw it as success. I saw it as capitulation.

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    Time to wake up and start running

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 28/07/2010

    » State domain assets. That word last popped up in anger during the privatisation of PTT, the Electricity Generation Authority of Thailand. A group of activists, led by now Bangkok Senator Rosana Tositrakul launched a legal challenge arguing that while PTT, as a company, could be sold off and privatised, the assets which it had acquired as through its expropriate power as part of the state through its dual role as both a government agency and an operator were to be retained by the state.

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    Big Brother is watching - and waiting to break down your doors

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 24/02/2010

    » What do the GT200 magic wand and the Internet Sniffer project have in common? Both are an assault on privacy and allow the state to pick on anyone at will.

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