FW: [ebxml-mktg] ebXML seen as SME web service enabler

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

Anybody have any contacts in the Thailand government we can hit up for
an ebXML case study?
--c

-----Original Message-----
From: Monica Martin [mailto:monica.martin@sun.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 12:47 AM
To: carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [ebxml-mktg] ebXML seen as SME web service enabler


Carol Geyer wrote:

>Bangkok Post
>ebXML seen as SME web service enabler
>http://www.bangkokpost.com/060803_Database/06Aug2003_data01.html
>by Sasiwimon Boonruang
>6 Aug 2003
>
mm1: Do you have contacts so I can get more details? Thanks.

>
>Govt, private sector begin pilot projects
>
>The Government and the private sector have adopted the Electronic
>Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML) standard to boost national
>competitiveness, launching Internet-based paperless trading pilot
>projects and a collaborative e-tourism project .
>
>ebXML is an open standard around web services that will be crucial in
>three major aspects _ setting standards for data; standards for data
>interchange as well as for electronic service interchange, according to
>the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec)
>director Dr Thaweesak Koanatakool.
>
>Speaking at a seminar on ebXML Awareness Day last week, Dr Thaweesak
>noted that these three open standards were important infrastructure
>necessary to develop one-stop e-government services, for collaborative
>B2B e-commerce and to provide an opportunity for the local software
>industry.
>
>Meanwhile, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Ministry
>will now appoint a committee on data interchange standard.
>
>IT veteran and honorary president of the ATCI Manoo Ordeedolchest said
>traditional e-commerce was the interaction between humans and
computers,
>but that we would soon be seeing computer-to-computer interactions.
>
>But this new economy will not bring benefits here unless SMEs were also
>part of this electronic business. Smaller firms needed to use ICT and
in
>order to create competitiveness ebXML technology or web services were
>the solution, said Mr Manoo, who is also a consultant to the ICT
>minister.
>
>The Internet and web services would change all business transactions
>soon, he said, noting that web service technology would define the
>practice of decreasing a company's dependence on complicated high-cost
>software.
>
>This would enable SMEs to adjust to enable themselves to conduct
>e-business at lower cost,'' he said, adding that this was all about
>business collaboration.
>
>Computer systems would not be for data processing as they were today,
>but rather they would be extended to do serious business-to-business
>applications, including self-service, business collaboration, and
>dynamic discovery.
>
>Mr Manoo noted that the convergence between the traditional PSTN and
the
>emerging PSDN, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and distributed
>systems were the ``big three'' new technologies.
>
>He explained that SOA defined a new concept for a service requester,
for
>a service provider, and for a service registry to support business
>collaboration over computer networks. The distributed system worked
>under a set of ``standard'' technologies including a data standard, a
>data interchange standard and a work process standard.
>
>If Thailand decided to develop its software industry to be at the edge
>of a new wave of ICT technologies, it should focus on technologies
where
>the market is abundant in size and opportunity such as distributed
>system technology, enterprise software technology and XML for business,
>he said.
>
>``ebXML is an opportunity that enable SMEs to expand their markets
>throughout the globe,'' he said, adding that the Government must invest
>and allow SMEs to utilise services from a central point.
>
>According to Commerce Ministry's Business Development deputy director
>general Skol Harnsuthivarin, the department was now working with other
>organisations to cope with the problem of data interchange by applying
>the ebXML standard.
>
>To achieve the target of paperless trading in the year 2005, the
>department and all agencies in the ministry first have to complete
>integration within the ministry by the end of next year and then extend
>it to the external partners.
>
>An Internet-based paperless trading pilot project is now being
conducted
>with the cooperation of the Customs Department, the E-commerce Resource
>Centre (ECRC), the Institute for Innovative IT of Kasetsart University
>(i3t-KU), the Business Development department and private companies
such
>as Minebea (Thailand), TKK, and CTI Logistics.
>
>The project aims to analyse the system in terms of traditional EDI and
>ebXML, to find a suitable way to promote the utilisation of ICT in SMEs
>and to boost competitiveness through the B2B e-business. It also pushes
>for the development of data interchange and service interchange
>standards in order to accommodate APEC's paperless trading project.
>
>Another ebXML pilot project is collaborative e-tourism, conducted by
>i3t-KU, ECRC, and Datamat. Objectives are to promote SMEs in the
tourism
>industry to use ICT to cut costs, to enhance efficiency and to expand
>their markets.
>
>
>____________________________________________
>Carol Geyer
>Director of Communications
>OASIS
>http://www.oasis-open.org
>carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
>Voice: +1 978.667.5115 x209
>
>
>
>
>
>
>