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Media and Information Literacy Status

Overview of media and information literacy status

Exhibition 1: Thai populations are able to search essential information for daily basis, and able to
locate information’s location.

Today, there are 69.1 million Thais, and the number keep increasing. In this
number, more than 53 percent of populations reside in urban areas that is able
to access the Internet from private firms, which covered up to 82 percent (around
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52 million Thais) of the total of nation wide’s the Internet usage. Recently,

Thailand Government supported the Internet infrastructure by setting up “Net
Pracharat” (the national Internet network) project for expanding the high-speed

Internet service coverage to villages that is not able to access the Internet.
Moreover, this project aimed to reduce digital gap in Thailand. As a result, Thai

populations are able to search information according to survey dimension in
search and locate the information according to this competency framework. The

average score of Thai population’s competency in proper media search is 76.8,

1 Digital in Thailand 2018 in Southeast Asia – Thailand – Snapshot Digital in Thailand