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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:32:20 -0500 
From: Schitt Laowattana <sl2k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: What is NECTEC? What is NECTEC doing?

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                                    Schitt  Laowattana
                                    FIBO
                                    Bangkok, Thailand

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Dear friends,

    Khun Pong of NECTEC has kindly provided some info. about NECTEC as follow:
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What is NECTEC?
What do they do?
 
Let me start off by listing the major area of activities in this message.
Then I shall go into each of the area in more detail in later messages. I
assume that Mr. Schitt have discussed the of MTEC in detail. 
 
The National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) is an
organization involved in research and development of electronics and
computer technology. NECTEC's goal is to persuade scientific and
technology research and development institutes to link up through R&D
network systems in the hope of enabling more efficient technology
transfer. 
 
NECTEC, much like the other two centers (MTEC and ????), is a granting
agency to stimulate R&D in government sectors, universities, and private
sectors. NECTEC is composed of four departments. The following description
is outdated since early 1992. Many things have changed since. I apologize
for the incomplete description. I will generate the proper organization
description within the next couple of weeks. But for the time being, this
is all we have. 
 
 
NECTEC
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1. R&D Operation Department
2. Technical Services Department
3. Administration and Planning Department
4. National Information Technology Policy Department
 
1. R&D Operation Department
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This department is composed of three divisions.
A. Hardware: Devices, Circuits and Systems R&D Division
        a) Telecommunication Lab
        b) Computer Technology Lab
        c) Natural Language Processing Lab
        d) Machine Translation Lab
        e) Laser Technology Lab
        f) Testing and Calibration Lab
B. Software R&D Division
        a) Training Program
        b) Software Library
        c) E-MAIL Program
        d) Software Standards Development Program
C. Policy Research Division
        This division work closely with National IT Policy department.
        The distinction between is yet unclear.
 
2. Technical Services Department
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A) Tri-partite Program Section
B) Data Base Section
C) CAD Center
D) Information Center and Computer Network
E) Business Development Section
 
3. Administration and Planning Department
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A) Finance and Accounting Section
B) Personnel Section
C) International Relations Section
D) Planning Section
E) Evaluation Section
F) General Administration Section
 
4. National Information Technology Policy Department
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During government Anand 1 administration, the National Information
Technology Policy Committee is formed chaired by deputy primeminister. The
committee are composed of many high rink government officials. NECTEC was
selected to be the secretariat of this committee. This committee is composed
of six subcommittees and some of which Dr. Pairash is the chairman. There
are lots of potential in this committee. This is a big issue which is
worth mentioning.
 
A) IT Policy Planning subcommittee
B) R&D Planning subcommittee
C) PR subcommittee
D) Human Resource Planning subcommittee
E) Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) subcommittee
F) IT/Computer for Government subcommittee
 
 
There are 12 separate major research areas which NECTEC promotes
especially. This is the guideline for major R&D areas.
1. The Computer System Technology
2. VLSI Design and Fabrication
3. Development of Sub-Fractional Motors for Electrical and Electronic
Appliances
4. Biomedical Electronics and Instrumentation
5. Industrial Electronics and Instrumentation
6. Materials and Devices Technology
7. Artificial Intelligence
8. Computer Software Development
9. Computer Network
10. Telecommunication Equipment
11. Computer Software Development for Industry
12. Technology Transfer and Human Resources Development
 
"I believe that" the areas of research that NECTEC promotes has to do with
the availability of the research specialists in that particular area. This
is especially true for the NECTEC research lab. If the capability exists
for certain particular area such as image processing or neuro network, it
would also be possible that NECTEC setup another research lab.

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