Delivering eLearning through Universal Service Obligation USO Telecommunication Infrastructure to St

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• Delivering eLearning through Universal Service
  Obligation (USO) Telecommunication Infrastructure
  to Strengthen
• National Security in Southern Thailand
• Colonel Settapong Malisuwan, Ph.D.
• Office of the Deputy Supreme Commander, The Royal
  Thai Armed Forces, Thailand
• E-Mail settapong_m_at_hotmail.com
• Lt. Jesada Sivaraks, Ph.D.
• TOT Corp, Thailand
• E-Mail jsivaras_at_tot.co.th

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• Insurgency Situation in three southern
  Provinces
• Changing national security Structure alone cannt
  solve the problem
• Educational Opportunities is the need

Goal

• To encourage the utilization of existing USO
  telecommunication infrastructure to deliver
  education for people in the three southern
  provinces to strengthen national security

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Brief on insurgency situation in three southern
provinces of Thailand

• South Thailand in 3 Provinces (Yala, Pattani and
  Narathiwat)
• Campaign escalated on November 2004 and conflict
  still ongoing
• More than 1,200 killed and 2,729 civilian wounded

The insurgents have attacked monks collecting
alms. School teachers, principals, and students
have been killed and schools torched presumably
because schools represent the Thai Government
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Topic
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Education ? National Security

• National Security Strategy of the USA 2006
• Actively expanding educational opportunities for
  Americans to learn about foreign languages and
  cultures and for foreign students and scholars to
  study in the United States
• UKs foreign and security policies exploring the
  links between insecurity and educational
  inequality working through the UN, EU and other
  international organizations
• The analysis results studied by the Royal United
  Services Institute for Defense and Security
  Studies expresses that the combination of
  widening educational inequality and intensified
  globalization over the last three decades has
  seen a notable worsening of internal inequalities
  across most of the worlds regions

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Education ? National Security

• In Thailand, the UNESCO global education survey
  2004 found that education is lagging behind
  globally
• Thailand performed poorly due to lack of
  qualified teachers and financial support. The
  Thai government spent only 5.1 of GNP on
  education in 2001. Thus, the Thai government is
  facing a challenge to improve the education
  system

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Population 1.8 Million (Yala, Pattani and
Narathiwat) 22 Buddhists and 78
Muslims Result Survey from 9 districts in 3
Provinces Local Muslim communities face
poverty, unemployment, lack of education,
substandard infrastructure, inadequate supplies
of land and capital, low quality of living
standards, and other economic related problems
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• Most Muslim people in the three border provinces
  lack educational opportunities.
• Muslim status as the majority population in the
  region, and their strong background in religious
  education
• But
• Muslims in the deep South are more disadvantaged
  than their Buddhist counterparts in educational
  attainment
• Muslims are seriously underrepresented in
  educational attainment
• Government attempts to implement a variety of
  programs of socioeconomic growth and development
• But
• only at the macro-level and in service and
  public sectors improved

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• Government Policy to level up the socioeconomic
  can't guarantee jobs nor substantially improved
  standards of living for the great majority of the
  Muslim population
• Comparison between Muslims in 3 Provinces and the
  rest of Thais
• The cycle

Thailand Educational achievement Standard
Muslims in three southern Border Provinces
The less investment and educational opportunities
The more insurgency crisis
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Telecommunications pipeline for education in
rural area
E-learning
Information Technology
Electronic Media
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• Access to information and communications
  technologies remains much more limited in
  southern Thailand ,especially , the three
  Southern Border Provinces
• In the past, they lack policies that promote
  equitable public participation in the information
  society
• The USO telecommunication infrastructure is being
  utilized to promote development of rural
  communication and education
• USO is not always commercially viable, it is very
  much socially desirable

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March 2000,Act on Organization Allocating
Frequency Waves and Supervising Radio and
Television Broadcasting and Telecommunications
Business
April 2006 NTC Notification on USO Targeted area
past - 2000
November 2001 Enact the Telecommunication
Business Operation Act
August 2005 NTC Notification on USO regulation
October 1 2004 Established the National
Telecommunications Commission (NTC)
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The Section 17 of the Telecommunication Business
Act B.E 2544 (2001) states that the Commission
shall have the duty to administer Universal
Service Obligation (USO) for basic
telecommunications service and shall have the
power to prescribe that the license shall provide
the following telecommunications services (1)
Telecommunications services in rural areas, or
low return-on-investment areas, or any area where
there is no or insufficient service providers or
where there is insufficient service to meet the
user demand
utilized to promote development of rural
communication and education in the three Southern
Border Provinces of Thailand
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Wireless Local Loop (WLL)
Past Not support E-learning
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Wireless Local Loop (WLL)
Copper Cable
Public telephone
Private telephone
?Fixed Mobile
Fixed mobile Private telephone
Fixed mobile Public telephone
GSM , CDMA Base station
Present support E-learning
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Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSATs)
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Discussion and Concluding Remarks
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• Q A
• Colonel Settapong Malisuwan, Ph.D.
• Office of the Deputy Supreme Commander, The Royal
  Thai Armed Forces, Thailand
• E-Mail settapong_m_at_hotmail.com
• Lt. Jesada Sivaraks, Ph.D.
• TOT Corp, Thailand
• E-Mail jsivaras_at_tot.co.th