ICT Master Plan Research Articles

Semi-automatic assessment of ICT Master Plan contents with Natural Language Processing technologies

Semi-automatic assessment of ICT Master Plan contents with Natural Language Processing technologies

Universitising teacher education in Singapore: from the TTC to the NIE.

The emergence of a modern teacher education system in Singapore can be traced to 1950 when the Teachers Training College (TTC) was established. The TTC was a separate entity from the School of Education at the University of Singapore. Rapid economic growth in the 1970s and 80s necessitated changes to upgrade the education system, such that school leavers could be better prepared for work in a post-industrial economy. It was recognised then that teacher preparation had to be upgraded to represent the field as an evidence-based profession, thus leading to the establishment of the Institute of Education in 1973; this was a significant first step in the journey towards universitising teacher education in Singapore. Continued and transformative economic growth in the 1980s and 90s necessitated further changes in education goals, best represented by the Thinking Schools, Learning Nation initiative in 1997, the Teach Less Learn More initiative in 2004, and the ICT MasterPlans initiatives. In response, in 1991, the National Institute of Education (NIE) was established, as an institute of Nanyang Technological University. The move to universitise teacher education in Singapore enabled the profession to attract a better calibre of teacher-students, develop rigorous graduate and postgraduate programmes in education, recruit faculty with postgraduate qualifications, and invest in Singapore-centric education research. Though the journey has been long, steady progress towards universitisation has contributed significantly to Singapore's development, and the NIE can today claim to be an internationally recognised Institute of Distinction.

Common inhibiting factors for technology shifting from physical to virtual computing

Due to the rapid growth of cloud computing demands and the high cost of managing traditional physical IT infrastructure, virtualization technique has emerged as a foremost and key success factor for technology adopters to attain the intended benefits. However, the transition from physical to virtual computing is confronted with overwhelming adoption inhibitors rarely known to adopters. This paper examines inhibiting factors which have triggered to low adoption rate of virtualized computing infrastructure despite being the fastest growing and globally accepted technology. Survey results from 24 companies indicate that lack of relevant virtualization skills, security uncertainties, low computing demands and change management issues are the utmost inhibitors. In public entities, the slowness in the adoption process is highly caused by the low computing demands, lack of virtualization coverage in ICT policies, resistance to change, choice of technology and the lack of virtualization project priority in the ICT master plans. On the other hand, the use of open-source hypervisors and support and maintenance are specific inhibitors affecting the private sectors. This paper is useful for adopters who have virtualized their server resources or have a plan to virtualize in the near future.

Designing Enterprise Architecture of The Smart Governance of Bogor

Bogor City is one of the one hundred selected cities which are expected to implement Smart City. One component to realize Smart City is the implementation of e-government through the use of Information Technology (IT) through the Smart Governance dimension which is expected to be able to harmonize the implementation of the Bogor ICT integration strategy with the existing ICT masterplans. Based on this case, this study was aimed to make an application of the Enterprise Architecture framework to support the Smart City Masterplan in Bogor City. In addition, a comprehensive analysis of the current ICT conditions, gap analysis, and future targets for Bogor was carried out in this study. The data and information used in this study came from interviews with stakeholders in the Local Government Organization of Bogor, related documents, and information downloaded via the official sites of the Bogor city government. The method applied in this study was TOGAF ADM to design the Bogor Enterprise Architecture framework. The study provides recommendations for the design of Smart Governance Enterprise in the City of Bogor. In addition, based on the results of a gap analysis of business architecture, information systems and, technology, the need for an integrated system, interoperability, budget amount, ICT human resources, and ICT infrastructure needs to be improved, as well as the need for regulations and standards to protect Bogor City e-government products.

The digital Thailand strategy and the ASEAN community

AbstractThe progress of Thailand's development needs to be monitored especially in the environment of the ASEAN Economic Community which started formally at the end of the year 2015. Furthermore, Thailand has also established the Thailand 4.0 strategy in alignment with the Thailand 12th Social and Economic Development Plan (2017–2021) and the ASEAN ICT Master Plan in order to drive the Thailand economy into a high‐income country and to be an ASEAN regional center. Because of the efficiency and effectiveness of ICT that can stimulate and support in most work areas, ICT aims to be the foundation of the country's development in other aspects. Thus, Thailand's Ministry of ICT has launched various ICT policies and programs for ICT administrators of different economic sectors because ICT has been considered as an engine of country development, and this causes Thailand to rely more on the adoption of ICT in various sectors. This study focuses on the progression of ICT development and investments, country infrastructures, the quality of the higher education system, business sophistication, and innovation, which are considered as the principal components of Thailand 4.0 strategy. The findings may assist the responsible authorities in both public and private organizations in monitoring, understanding, and expediting strategies and operations in order to achieve the objectives of Thailand 4.0 and to obtain competitive advantages across the ASEAN Economic Community. Furthermore, the findings also help to detect improvement of the Thailand's performance with respect to the 5 components development relative to the other ASEAN economies.

Penilaian Implementasi e-Government di PUSTEKOM Kemendikbud berbasis metode PEGI

According to the Survey UN (United Nations) in 2014, e-government and innovation can provide major opportunities to transform the public administration becomes a tool of sustainable development, provide services more transparent and more accountable. Formerly, the development of government services can be done with a variety of channels, either through online services, big data, social media, mobile applications, or cloud computing, have expanded our perception of e-government services. The research aims to assess the level of achievement of e-Government implementation in the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia. Assessment is measured by the Indonesian e-Government Rating framework. The data in this research are obtained by qualitative approach and descriptive data analysis. The finding of this research that the implementation of e-Government in Ministry of Education and Culture in the category of "Very Good". Based on such an assessment, given the recommendation: assemblying policies Governance of ICT, aligning the ICT Master Plan by principle of ICT Governance, fulfilling documents related to human Resources of ICT and the application documents, the standardization of domain labeling and e-education, completing information systems/ technogy of management and organizational design, assemblying the development plan of e-education content, and development plans of information system and information technology.

The infrastructure attitude to strategic planning of information technology in organizations

The strategic planning means the future planning of an organization; in other words, it refers to the direction that the organization wants to move in that direction. Strategic planning of the information technology for any organization is an evidence that the organization’s information architecture in light of strategic considerations such as mission, objectives, and priorities of the organization becomes evident and it determines the necessary administration plan to achieve systems and forms the informational databases at the organizational level. To put differently, strategic planning of the information technology charter and the macro program in the field of information systems are generally considered as the information technology. Different approaches are used for planning. Now, the dominant approach for developing the long-term program or for ICT master plan of information technology is an approach of the organizational architecture or the information technology architecture. The purpose of this research is a preliminary introduction with an organizational architecture approach with the means of strategic planning of the information systems.

The determinants of intention to use electronic booking among young users in Thailand

Abstract Tourism is one of the largest and fastest growing industries worldwide. It helps to support the economic growth and development of many countries, Thailand included. A key engine of the growth of tourism has been the Internet, especially over recent years. One of the objectives of the Second ICT Master Plan in Thailand is to promote the use of ICT, namely the Internet, e-commerce, online marketing, payment systems, and reservation systems for businesses associated with tourism. Although more businesses and users have embraced e-commerce and online reservation systems (e-booking), very few studies have been conducted on their usage and adoption especially in the context of a developing country like Thailand. This study attempts to identify the factors and the degree of influence that each factor has on the intention to use e-booking. The findings of the study, including academic and practical implications, and recommendations are provided.

Harnessing OER to Drive Systemic Educational Change in Secondary Schooling

This paper reports on two action research projects which explored the challenge of determining the conditions under which use of OER can drive a transformative educational agenda in schooling systems. At St Peter’s College in Johannesburg, South Africa, a small pilot study was conducted to explore how to best to adopt new teaching and learning methodologies to encourage greater student engagement and responsibility, and to gauge student and staff reactions to a change in teaching and learning methodologies. It placed heavy emphasis on harnessing OER to enable student-led content creation, with a long-term view of demonstrating that students can use OER to create self-paced learning environments that significantly accelerate their journey through the formal curriculum. In Antigua and Barbuda, the research project considered how to facilitate an entire system to change. It recognised that for change to be effective, it needs to be driven at the systemic level, as these ultimately direct the operations of most public schooling systems. The paper explores the different steps taken, starting from the government’s commitment to ICT infrastructure, fostering a policy environment through an ICT in Education policy and an ICT Master Plan to guide procurement and deployment of ICT in schools, and the development of a School ICT integration plan to ensure school’s ICT needs and requirements. The research explored the deployment of an OER Virtual learning Environment (VLE) Prototype, and the compilation of an online mathematics ‘textbook’ from available quality free OER. The paper concludes by highlighting the kinds of systemic actions required for the proponents of OER to build sustained pressure for long-term, educationally effective systemic change.

Enhancing the sense of community and learning experience using self-paced instruction and peer tutoring in a computer-laboratory course

<span>In its second decade of education reform and its third cycle of national ICT master plans, Thailand struggles to transform its aspirations into practice. This paper chronicles three decades of Thailand's ICT national plans and their relation to education reform. It also discusses the effect of global trends, Asian cultures, and Thai cultures on teaching and learning in higher education. After discussion of existing literature on technology integration in Thailand higher education, this study proposes alternative classroom instructional strategies in a large computer laboratory course, using self-paced learning and peer tutoring. The strategies are grounded in constructivist learning theory which can foster a sense of classroom community, and thereby promote learning. The </span><em>Classroom Sense of Community Index</em><span>was utilised to measure student perceptions of classroom connectedness, learning, and community in traditional and alternative instructional approaches. Results indicated significant differences in two indices: connectedness and community. Although there was no significant difference in the learning index between the two groups, descriptively the scores were higher for the alternative instructional approaches group. The results imply that the proposed instructional choices have the potential to foster a sense of community and support learning.</span>

Educational technology management approach: The case of Singapore’s ICT Masterplan Three

This paper describes and examines how Singapore attempts to implement ICT in education through its three Masterplans for ICT in Education since 1997. It analyses the management approach during the implementation of Masterplans One and Two and highlights the inadequacies of a linear Newtonian model of ICT implementation for Masterplan Three. This paper posits that for Singapore to venture into an uncharted era of educational ICT innovation, the new educational ICT management paradigm should be based on complexity rather than a linear Newtonian model. In particular, it should be one that promotes the recognition of the education system as a complex adaptive system; promotes loose coupling between headquarters and schools, and among schools; promotes organisation around intelligences rather than fixed structures; and promotes integration through purpose rather than policy. The case study of Singapore contains lessons for other countries implementing national level initiatives for ICT in education.

Thailand Moves to Connected Government

Thailand started its race for e-Government development with the policy frameworks of IT 2000 and 2010. The ICT policy frame works were then translated into the country’s ICT Master Plan to lay down e-Government architecture during 2002–2008. The IT2000 set target to lay basic foundation of ICT Infrastructure including human resource development. Whereby the IT2010 (2001–2010) which is set forward to achieve the ultimate goal of building up the country to the level of knowledge based economy and three specific goals are aimed: firstly to raise the technological capability of Thailand from “dynamic IT adopter” nation to “a potential leader”,secondly to increase the proportion of knowledge workers and thirdly to increase a contributable sum of knowledge-based industries to the country growth. To achieve these goals, IT2010 has identified five main flagships: e-Government, eEducation, e-Commerce, e-Society and e-Industry as the country’s e-development initiatives. Interpretation of the IT2010 has been depicted through the country’s first-ever ICT Master Plan (2002– 2006 and extended until 2008) with key objectives: to apply ICT to increase competitiveness, to develop a knowledge-based society, to apply ICT for sustainable development, and to develop business around the ICT industry. The second ICT master plan has currently been prepared and ready for deployment during the years 2009–2013. The succeeding master plan’s ambition is to further develop the country to a so called “Smart Thailand” where sustainable ICT implementation will be based on IT-literate-human capacity in all levels of society and on the good governance foundation in all development sectors as well as the accessibleto-all infrastructure. It is about time for reviewing the country’s ICT and e-Government direction and at the same time paving way for future fulfilling of substantial aims. Surveys, Interviews and studies on stakeholders including users, webmasters and government CIO community and the present environment conditions have been conducted by the Ministry of ICT to reflect facts and figures of the past e-Government services development as well as future development roadmap has been design as a step forward to leapfrog its maturity level of e-Government services development and to keep abreast with the international development arena.

Masterplan Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi (TIK) Kantor Pemerintah Desa

The village is the smallest part of the system of administrative governance in Indonesia,which is required to keep abreast of technological developments and improve its ability tomanage the administrative data the village population. Currently several villages in southernKalimantan, there are many uses conventional technologies in system administrationservices village population. It is very possible impact to village officials and villagers, wherefrequent human error, as well as a waste of time and cost. Therefore, it needs a system thatleads to e-Government to address any problems that occur.In the implementation of e-Government, the Government needed some kind of strategicplanning that is often referred to as the Master Plan for ICT as a base village government inimplementing Information Technology and communication. Preparation of Master Plan ICTto the village administration office is expected to be a guide or reference for the villagegovernment in determining policies, strategic plans, work programs of ICT, ICT developmentunit manager, user management, network infrastructure development, ICT infrastructure,and information systems management guidelinesThe preparation of the ICT master plan begins with identifying the current condition ofthe village so that it can be seen readiness of the village at the time of the master plan willbe applied, and then determine a strategic plan in ICT include information technologyinfrastructure, and management ICT