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IPPS in 2019

  • Rationales

  • Background/facts

    •       IPPS focal point for 2019 was on civic/political education program. We held eight events; one annual meeting, six dialogues and one seminar, on one main topic, Personal Data Protection, to explore the issue in three dimensions, monitoring of law enforcement, promoting public awareness on the right of personal data, and making data privacy guidelines for both public and private sectors.

          The Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (PDPA) enacted on 27 May 2019, is currently partially effective and the law will be fully enforced in May 2020. Though the act provides a legal framework of practices for data controllers and data processors, citizens should aware that as their personal data is valuable and can be used for benefits of others, therefore, the law requires data owners to give consent before giving out those data to data collectors, data collectors must state the conditions of using and data owners have the right to cancel their consent or requesting for deleting or nullifying that data at any time.

          The law applies to every data collector and processor in and out the country.

          The program “Personal Data Protection” intended to address the public on their right on the protection of personal data in regards to the implementation of this Act.

          Enactment of the Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 is the first step towards personal data protection for every citizen that both state and business organizations must adopt and set their own code of practice for the processing of personal data in transactions in consistent with the provisions of the Act.

          These lead to IPPS objective in organizing dialogues to review, discuss and share comments on the direction of suitable guidelines for practice, in relevance of human rights aspect; respect and protect the interest of the citizens particularly those who are relevant or applicable to the law.

          Distinguish speakers from various backgrounds were invited to share views with the invited participants on certain issues. Their study researches were presented to the participants during the meeting and later published online.

  • Objectives:

    • Development Objectives

    a. Long Future:
    1. To identify important political, social and economic subjects and potentials conflict.
    2. To process political information and to provide analyses and assistance to decision-making for the target group of opinion-leaders and decision-makers in politics and society.

    b. Sustainability:
    1. To support political dialogue between politicians, bureaucracy, local administrations, universities, democratic activist groups, non-governmental organizations and the mass media.


    Immediate Objectives

    a.Short Future:
    1. To foster participatory democracy through various activities; seminars, research, publications and other media.

    b.Quick Responses:
    1. To promote and enhance understanding democracy in regards to the Constitution.
    2. To promote political awareness and participatory democracy in public sector and civil society.
    3. To enhance studies/research and discussion on importance public policy issues.
    c.Prefer Concrete Effects:
    1. To fostering civic education by organizing public seminars, develop research, publications and other media in the content of political reform and decentralization.


  • Outputs:

    • Measurable Results (Please see attached table of programs output in appendix.)


    a. In 2019, IPPS produced a total of 15 products/activities and they were divided into 8 events, 6 study researches and 1 publication.

    b. The 8 events were participated by a total of 355 attendants. Age groups, occupations, organizations, sources of information and frequency of participation are listed in the appendix.

    c. The 8 events were:
    1. Annual meeting to inform on IPPS plan in 2019.
    2. A Dialogue on “Rights to Privacy/Conceptual Meaning and Legislative Protection”
    3. A Dialogue on “Rights to Privacy/Media Roles and Responsibility in Strengthening Public Awareness”
    4. A Dialogue on “Personal Data Privacy vs Public Security”
    5. A Dialogue on “Personal Data Protection : Legal Framework and Practices”
    6. A Dialogue on “Personal Data Protection/Awareness on Online Invasion”
    7. A Dialogue on “Guidelines for Practice on Personal Data Protection”
    8. A public seminar on “Rights to Privacy in regards to the Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562.”


    d. The events were accomplished by 67 speakers and staffs. The speakers’ names were listed in the appendix.

    e. The 6 study researches were presented in digital format on Google Drive accessible to the public. The six studies were listed in the appendix.

    f. Monthly newsletters and Webpage www.fpps.or.th : publication. Besides monthly activities and news summary three E-books were published in our website.


  • Inputs:

    • Inputs were delivered from IPPS, researchers, speakers and agency partner. The the Office of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRC), College of Administration, Khon Kaen University (COLA) and Privacy Thailand.

  • Indicators:

    • i. Every event was carefully evaluated from questionnaires distributed to all participants. Assessment was on the speakers’ performance, usefulness of the activity, sharing of opinions etc. We asked the participants to rate their satisfaction in five ratings; very much, much, intermediate, little and very little. Other questions were added as appropriate. There was a blank space for further recommendation.

    ii. More than 90% of the questionnaires were returned and some with additional written comments and recommendations. They were evaluated by the staffs for future improvements.

  • Means of Verification:

    • We anticipated 75 % of the participants of each event would be pleased with the activities and the results were individually reported in the monthly report.

    The average satisfactions on certain issues of those 8 events are as follow:


  • Deviations:

    • One publication, IB-IPPS-19-008 “The Unraveling Thai Constitution” and two E-Books, IB-IPPS-19-009 were canceled.

  • Improvements:

    • IPPS program in 2019 has significant improvement in these dimensions:
    • The whole program was focus on one topic, personal data protection, in regards to human rights.
    • The PDPA was reviewed and discussed in all aspects, by the distinguish speakers and invited participants from relating agencies.
    • There are study researches paper from the speakers, provided in the events and later put online accessible to all.
    • The same agencies were invited to participate in every event, with some added afterwards, making some of them regularly attendants. Among all 355 participants, they came from only 79 organizations. Organizations and their numbers of participants are listed in the appendix. This continuity made the dialogues progressive and fruitful.
    • We accomplished goal in creating cooperation with partners; the Office of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRC), College of Administration, Khon Kaen University (COLA) and Privacy Thailand, each of them shall continue their missions, towards the same goal of promoting public awareness and understanding on the importance of personal data and its connection with democracy in the digital society, or online society, within their capacity.

    		 


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