Meeting with Electronic Government Agency

On Friday 11 May 2018, members of the Digital Economy/ICT Working Group met with senior officials of the Electronic Government Agency. The EGA is responsible for the strategic plan (and its implementation) to transform the Thai government into digital government.

The EGA has developed a high level framework from which a detailed implementation plan can be developed. EABC (with JFCCT) published a detailed eGov strategic plan as a recommendation in 2014. A future Digital Government Act will make EGA the Digital Government Agency which will report into the PM’s office. It would make the Agency responsible for enabling and ensuring digitization of data, data exchange, and public accessibility of open data. It would have a regulatory role about compliance. The agenda included an overview of EGAs plans, and clarification of a number of issues and questions, including a whole-of-government plan, single-sign-on access, how agencies would re-engineer processes (especially in light of the Licence Facilitation Act).

Separately OPDC and EGA have announced plans for a cloud-based data base of Thai-government issued documents. The goal is that when interacting with the government, uses needing Thai-government issued documents should be able to retrieve and access required documentation (of the relevant agency can retrieve them), and not need to repeatedly provide the same information themselves. This plan’s scope does not currently cover foreign documents already submitted.

EGA also advised about from RFIs (Requests for Information).  EABC is grateful to Dr Sak and team for the dialogue and information; it was agreed to follow up on a number of areas of development.

Left to right in the photo: Mr Greg Thomas (375 Park Associates, member of the Working Group), Dr. Sak Segkhoonthod, President and CEO  EGA, Mr Bob Fox (Chairman, Digital Economy/ICT Working Group), Mr Peter Fischbach (ISM Technology, member of the Working Group), Dr. Adisak Srinakarin, Executive Vice President. Not in photo: Ms. Tipsuda  Chodchuen, Manager of e-Government Policy Division, EGA.