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Measures Rationale Timeframe Related Domestic Agendas
Strategy 4: Develop a citizen-centric digital government, and revolutionize governments’ work processes through the use of cloud computing and open data (Cont’d)
4.3) Continue to enhance the capability of Private sector organizations and governments around the world have increasingly turned their attention to the 2019 - 2020  Digital Thailand Plan,
government cloud and government open use of open data and big data utilization. Many governments have created their own public open data. These Strategy 4
data platforms, and extend their usage for database contain a variety of public information, such as fiscal statistics, census results or export data. These
private sector utilization efforts not only increase the transparency of the government, but also represent an opportunity for business
monetization and decrease accessibility costs, all of which benefit both the citizens and the private sector.

The ASEAN Masterplan on Connectivity 2025 has called for the establishment of an ASEAN Open Data
Network. It is an initiative that targets the harmonization of open data standards among ASEAN Member States.
More specifically, it seeks to set regional standards on, for example, the frequency of the data collected and
the methodology of the data collection. Although this initiative does not go so far as to specify an integrated
ASEAN level open data platform, it does serve as a common ground on which ASEAN Member States can
jointly benefit from open data utilization.

The Electronic Government Agency (EGA) has taken the responsibility for Thailand’s open data platform
development. There are currently 790 data sets available. Relative to other ASEAN Member States with
advanced open data platforms, the number of data sets, analytical tools or the quality user interfaces in the
Thai platform needs to be further developed.

G-Cloud is an attempt to consolidate government data storage under a single roof. It will allow easier searching
and data collaboration across many government agencies. However, there are presently only a few agencies
exploiting its full benefit.

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