Data Rules

The Association of Thai ICT Industry สมาคมอตุสาหกรรมเทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศไทย

July 2014

Pravit Chattalada

The World without Data Use

•Contents

•Big Data • Contextual Information

•Data •Hardware

•Software

Man lives and prospers by Data

Linear vs. Exponential Changes

•Digitization

• Networking

•Miniaturization • Artificial Intelligence

• Analytics

Time

Spee

d of

Eve

nts

• Unpredictable • Disruptive

• 90% World Data in Two Years

• Defining New Generation

Internet would catastrophically collapse

Portable phone wouldn’t replace the landline

soon

Remote shopping would flop

No reason to have a tablet anymore

Subscription-based music services

would not fly

Robert Metcalfe

Martin Cooper

Thorsten Heins

Steve Jobs

Prediction

The Linear Legacy • Depending on Seniority & Position

• We Know Best

• “Our Ways” blinds them to alternatives

• Questioning to stay the course

• Yield to the Conventional system

• “Advisor Fatigue” Effect

The Exponential Growth World •Power belongs to those who connect and

embrace information

•Uncustomary innovation provokes response

•Disruptive innovations form a system that kicks

back unintended consequences

•Information & Connectedness obsolete solution

as parts

•Problem must be solved through System thinking

System Thinking

• Relationships, Correlations, Connectedness

• Process rather than structure

• All parts must happen at once

• Patterns of system rather than contents

• Context

Management & Leadership

Thailand’s Problem Government thinking and acting not caught

up with Exponential Changes

Lack of Speed and Sense of Urgency

Process

Information holds all Systems together

Environmental

Degradation

Govern Ment

Corruption

Economic volatility

Crime

Human Traffick-

ing

Drug addiction

Problems cannot be solved as parts

Reform Is a Journey

Data

Accessible public data that

people, businesses,

organizations can make use

for analysis of patterns,

trends and making decisions

Open Data

New Opportunities

Some Thoughts •Culture change slow - Open to changing

ourselves

•Reform/legislate IT related laws/regulations

•Use IT for government transformation rather

than automation

•MICT ineffectiveness is not on structure and

name, it’s lack of leadership and competent

people

Some Thoughts •Rethink management assignment

- Rebuild government IT workforce

•Adoption of Open Data policy

• Privatize government IT agencies - Japan IPA

•Set up public & private sector Systemic Solution Team - Review and revise national IT development direction

- Grow IT Related Businesses:

R&D, Market Research, HR Development

- Build up Information Architect/Data Scientist

Advisors

New Gen Senior

There Are Better Ways Everyday

with the Right Information

Discussion