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Pongsrihadulchai
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Pongsrihadulchai
have their own computer and telephone line. The project officials at various levels of administration.
provides only the modem and the required client Unfortunately, this project could not started due to the
software. All technical issues are also supported present economic crisis in the country.
including on site hardware and software installation,
technical training for the users and solving any problem
during operation. The project also support the cost of
long distance call with the maximum time limit to 10
minutes per call. The agricultural experts in Bangkok
who help supporting information can use local call to the
central host with separate lines or via internet. A local
villager in each experimental area is recruited to work as
an informant for conveying messages from local office
(cooperatives or TAO) which obtained information from
Bangkok to farmers in his village and also conveys the
messages from farmers back to the local office for further
transmission to Bangkok via BBS for corresponding.
Farmers are also able to exchange their views and
experiences through this system.
The next phase will be the installations of provincial
hosts and the improvement of information dissemination
system. The establishment of local hosts will cut the long
distance telephone cost and allow the number of users to
conveniently expand. It is planned, however, that after
termination of the pilot project all of the communication
cost and facilities will be the responsibility of the local
organizations.
After implementation for about a year it was found
that there were still many obstacles and difficulties
remained to be solved. The main problem was that the
local organizations were not actively participated
especially in further dissemination of the information to
the farmers which is the ultimate target groups of this
project. This is because they do not yet convince about
the benefit of having the BBS.
4. Future Plan
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