Lesson Learns of Success factors from 10 Smart Cities Development: Thailand Context

Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) has established a 20-year national strategic framework (2017-2036) which is the main plan to direct national development inconsistent with sustainable development goals (SDGs), including the restructuring to Thailand 4.0, as well as national reform issues. In addition, the importance of participation of all development parties can help for manage to utilize the knowledge of science, technology and innovation to implement on an area that responds to demonstrate the potential of technology and innovation with the efficiency of readiness, including personnel, area, organization, and various sectors in production and respond to smart city development. In order to direct the development with appropriate quality index in almost all important areas such as human quality, education and public health service as well as alleviating social inequality and preserving the quality of the environment to lead a city with a complete network of systems, case study from success stories must be reviewed. This study attempted to investigate lessons learns of successful factor from 10 foreign countries. It was found that there are 5 issues to be considered, including (1) government transparency, which builds confidence for people who can review the information that have been solved; (2) establishing a board to oversee the development of smart cities, which needs to be placed in the overall operating framework; (3) creating an environment that is conducive to further innovation by creating a space for testing equipment (test-bedding) ; (4) establish laws and regulation to protect rights and personal information (cyber security); and (5) local government needs to be the pioneer of smart city development and create an attraction for each sector to participate.