Measures on social distancing for workplace and applications supporting work from home - 29/05/2020
National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC)
TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Asia & Pacific | Thailand
1. Work from home” Measure: Ministry of Digital Economy and Society in collaboration with Microsoft, Cisco, Google, Line, TOT Public Company Limited, CAT Telecom Public Company Limited, and Telecom operators has developed Work from Home platforms to allow officers and employees to work remotely minimizing their risk of COVID–19 infection by: a. Developing communication platforms: Microsoft Team, WebEx Team and Hangout applications. b. Providing VDO conference services for organizations to conduct live meetings, presentation, training, webinar businesses via the internet. c. Using document collaboration tools: G-Suite Enterprise, Google Documents, and Could Storage as a Center Service Document d. Using Virtual Desktop infrastructure (VDI) & VPN connection as tools for Work from Home users. 2. Coordination Center for Work-from-Home Application Services, responsible for providing preliminary consultation on application services, and developing their manuals and instructions. 3. Service Provider Certification for E-tax Invoice and Receipt, providing a certification service ensuring the secure and effective delivery of electronic tax invoice and electronic receipt . This electronic documentation process will help reduce processing time and paper usage and reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19 by not touching paper materials and avoiding unnecessary contact with other people. 4. Guidance on Electronic Document Management System Ministry of Digital Economy and Society has issued a notification providing guidance for government agencies to conduct two main routine operations: document management and meeting arrangement. The guideline allows government employees to perform the basic office operations during the government work-from-home campaign. This helps reduce traveling and physical assembling within one place, in order to avoid risk of COVID-19 infection.