INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
ICT budgets B27m for e-commerce and cyber security upgrade
- Published: 23/12/2011 at 08:39 AM
- Newspaper section: Business
The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Ministry set aside 27 million baht for the Thai Computer Emergency Response Team to set up a national digital forensic laboratory to tackle cyber security and boost local e-transaction service.
The move is aimed at increasing the country's e-commerce and e-payment services, worth 629 billion baht and 680 trillion baht last year, respectively.
Thailand expects e-transactions to comprise 10% of GDP by 2015.
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- Writer: Suchit Leesa-nguansuk
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