As Thailand gears up for e-Learning, addressing issues of connectivity and capacity, developing relevant standard compliant content and has also become crucial.
Heightened global security concerns led the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to set a deadline of 2015 for governments to equip passports with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips. In 2003, ICAO adopted a global plan for the implementation of not just machine-readable passports but also for the use of biometric identifiers in all of its 188 member countries.
[This article was published in the October 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The third preparatory committee meeting for the second phase of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) took place from 19 to 30 September 2005 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
