Thailand’s Big Data Institute held a three day event here in Chiang Mai over the weekend to promote the understanding and usage of big data and AI to be applied to businesses, organisations, as well as in hopes of utilising it to bring Chiang Mai together to become a Smart City, as per the province’s strategy. With numerous educational and entertainment activities the event was held at Central Festival between the 25th and 27th April.
Governor Nirat Pongsitthithavorn said that this was a very important event for Chiang Mai as the province can utilise these tools to pool its knowledge and data, pulling them from a multitude of resources, while using AI to help create dashboards which can be easily used and applied.
These tools will help create transparency, efficiency and also can be applied to every sector across the board from environment to sports, politics to health, tourism to sustainability. The governor went on to say that this was a vastly important step forward for Chiang Mai to embrace and urged businesses and organisations to attend, pay attention and study how this technology can be used and applied.
The governor also went on to say that he had high hopes that this technology can be used to help solve the persistent annual PM2.5 air pollution problem, staying that should all data be gathered from all sources, AI can be used to help find solutions and create standards for compliance. Chiang Mai University, he says, is already working with national institutes of science and other important organisations as well as eight northern provinces to pool its data and use AI.
Currently the Envi Link smart platform, envilink.go.th, is connecting data from 30 organisations on matters of environment with 15 dashboards developed such as one for 24 hour analysis across the region, one for comparisons to previous years, another for urgent response and reporting and another from live satellite feeds, etc. To date 50,000 people have viewed this platform and as it develops authorities hope that it will become used and contributed to daily by all relevant parties.
Fifty tourism relations business and organisations have also opted into TAT’s usage of big data and AI to gather information to be used to analyse tourism trends and mitigate issues such as low season dips. This will then be linked to the National Tourism Intelligent Platform: Travel Link for enhanced data collection and analysis.
Extrapolated, this system is currently being used in health, education and many other areas, with its potential seemingly endless.
Any interested parties may find out more information at https://bdi.or.th and Facebook: BDI – Big Data Institute
