Information technology phenomenon in Thailand

Abstract

Since Information Technology spreads in various groups of people and tasks in Thailand, the researcher tries to review this important situation. The objective was Explore the application of Information Technology in Thailand in five dimensions: Policy, Theory, Applications types, Contents, and users. The content analysis approach was used to discussion of IT phenomenon. The sampling was 83 research documents that were recent published in August 2011. The result found that The National Education Act (81.93%) was mostly influenced factor of IT Policy /Plan in Thailand, the theory of Learning (87.95%) was the mostly influenced factor of IT Concept or Theory, IT application mostly was Courseware (49.40 %), IT contents were language mostly (53.66%), and mostly IT users were students (89.16%). Finally, the idea of IT phenomenon in Thailand will be as the case study for the other countries to review their IT applications further. © 2012 ICST Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.