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The implementation status of Thailand's national social equality in ICT master plan

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The National Social Equality in Information and Communication Technology Master Plan provides a three-year road map for bridging the digital divide, supporting the use of assistive technology and promoting the creation of an assistive technology industry so that the disabled in Thailand will be able to afford the acquisition of the assistive technology. After the first year of implementation, 42% of the Year 1 projects have been implemented, with satisfactory results. The main output has been the training of 150 web designers who can handle the redesign of government websites to conform to the WCAG 1.0 standard at an AA conformance level. Three government websites have been transformed to attain AA conformance as initial pilot projects.

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Punyabukkana, P., Thanawastien, S., and Jirachiefpattana, A. Thailand's National Digital Divide Strategic Framework. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A'08). Beijing, China, April 21--22, 2008.
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National ICT Master Plan 2002--2006. The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, 2007.
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The National Quality of Life for Disabilities Master Plan 2007--2011. The Ministry of Social Development and Security, Bangkok, Thailand, 2007.

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i-CREATe '09: Proceedings of the 3rd International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology
April 2009
222 pages
ISBN:9781605587929
DOI:10.1145/1592700
  • Conference Chairs:
  • Wei Tech Ang,
  • Wantanee Phantachat
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  1. accessibility policy
  2. assistive technology
  3. digital divide
  4. strategic plan
  5. web accessibility

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  • (2011)Assistive technology for vision-impairmentsProceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web10.1145/1963192.1963365(513-522)Online publication date: 28-Mar-2011
  • (2011)Low-cost assistive technology in the developing worldProceedings of the 2011 iConference10.1145/1940761.1940824(459-465)Online publication date: 8-Feb-2011
  • (2010)A ratification of meansProceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development10.1145/2369220.2369247(1-11)Online publication date: 13-Dec-2010

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