• THAILAND

  A new modern age

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 18/02/2015

  » Supak Sudsawad, 81, often used to watch her daughter playing with a tablet, but had no idea how it worked. Unlike other elderly people who perhaps believed technology was something they could never understand, however, Supak usually asks her daughter how the device works. She only wished she could learn how to benefit from it.

• THAILAND

  Programming in the mountains

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 11/03/2015

  » The Mae Hong Son IT Valley project is a collaboration between public agencies, private companies and local communities to broaden job diversity and improve opportunities for young people in the remote mountainous province.

• THAILAND

  The computer will see you now

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 22/04/2015

  » Desktop virtualisation — software that separates the desktop environment and associated application software from the physical client device used to access it — has been used in several industries such as financial services, telecoms, education, manufacturing and retail for some time.

• THAILAND

  Linking to the world

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 31/08/2016

  » Living in a remote area of Thailand is no longer a barrier to internet access, as students at Ban Khiri Lom, Prachuap Khiri Khan, on the border of Thailand and Myanmar now can partake of the e-learning class at the Border Patrol Police learning centre, thanks to the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Renewable Energy project for locals at the border by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.

• THAILAND

  All the new toys

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 08/02/2017

  » One of the largest events of its kind in Thailand, Inventors' Day 2017, which wrapped last Monday, showed off brand-new inventions and their creators' competence.

• THAILAND

  Adhering to the late King through stamps

  Business, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 25/10/2017

  » Stamps tell stories of culture, religion, history, famous people, events and much more, all from little pieces of paper.

• THAILAND

  Upskilling a generation

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 28/02/2018

  » Although computer science is thought of as a difficult, complicated subject, it's actually a basic aspect of everyday life. Now a programme has been initiated to give underprivileged and disabled youth a chance to access computer science education.

• THAILAND

  On the cutting edge

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 11/04/2018

  » The challenge thrown at contestants at the Annual Student Meeting on Automotive Embedded Systems (AMAS) was to design software that could control a model car to run past a set of obstacles.

• THAILAND

  The power of Facebook

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 23/05/2018

  » There is much more to Facebook than just a platform showing what people do, eat and where they travel. Facebook also serves as a community for creating positive social impact.

• THAILAND

  A home-grown coding toy

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 13/06/2018

  » Tassagorn Sirisuwan, 12, first experienced a KidBright digital board when his father's friends brought it to the workshop for kids at his home a few months ago. Since then, the boy has always worked on the board, designing simple computer programs to control home appliances.

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