September 19 marks one-year anniversary of the military coup in Thailand, when the Royal Thai Army ousted the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The justification for the coup provided by its military authors was wide-spread government corruption and abuse of power, but – as VOA reports – political uncertainty and economic stagnation persist today, and many Thais are questioning what the coup accomplished. Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political analyst at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, criticizes the impact of the military rule:
“The coup got rid of a corrupt and abusive leader, but the coup was mismanaged because the coup makers rejected everything that the previous leader did. So it has not solved much in the past year, apart from kicking out Thaksin. And now...
Early this year I participated and registered in the Asian Development Bank Institute online course called the Community Information Services. The aim of this course is to teach participants to design or formulate a model to use information technology to stimulate development by bridging the digital......
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