Re: Thailand's first information technology museum is set to open early next year

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Somchai ~ สมชาย wrote:
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Thailand's first IT museum will begin to receive visitors in early
2007, joining two existing museums - the Science Museum and the Natural
History Museum - at the Ministry of Science and Technology's
Technopolis complex in Pathum Thani.

Post Database met with the museum's director, Dr Aphiya Hathayatham,
and her advisor Malcolm Bray to see first-hand how this exciting
project was taking shape.

Dr Aphiya explained that the building was actually completed seven
years ago and was originally destined to be an aviation museum.
However, that idea was not well received and it was decided to use the
venue as an information technology museum three years ago by a
committee by then Ministry of Science and Technology Permanent
Secretary Professor Dr Pairash Thajchayapong.

The purpose of the IT Museum is to introduce a new generation to IT and
show that it is no longer simply a matter of science for scientists but
something that affects our everyday lives. "Children need a scientific
mind to be able to compete in the world of the future," Dr Aphiya said.


Next year visitors will be able to step on this giant calculator
themselves.

Bray added that as in most countries, parents here want their children
to be doctors and lawyers. They don't understand the career
possibilities of IT. "We accept PCs without understanding what happens
when we push a button. Today we have e-Passports, immigration, doctors
- everywhere we see IT operating. But 90% of the IT, we are unaware
of," he said.

The museum starts off with communications, from stone-age cave
paintings to the rise of the telegraph, Morse code, telephones,
analogue switches, radio right through to satellite communications and
today's Internet. Another area will explain how logic gates work and
can be put together to make simple adding machines. There will also be
a "Spy Room" where visitors can play with all the latest espionage
equipment.

The museum will have a workshop for training - for everything from
software programming to assembling computers.


Dr Aphiya Hathayatham, director of the National Information Technology
Museum

"We will also hold competitions here and have an e-Library. Last year
we had a big event with Synnex (a major distributor of IT components)
on computer assembly so that the children could understand how the
different parts of a computer work together," she said.

In addition to the static exhibition, the IT museum will hold science
camps where children will learn to make their own simple logic circuits
starting by making their own printed circuit boards.

On certain days, there will be also hold science drama plays. Bray
explained that it was all about putting a real-life person to a name
and this is proven to help increase children's attention to the
subject.

One of the plays planned is to depict how Thomas Edison once designed a
piece of equipment to measure the change in temperature during an
eclipse. During his experiment, he got to the venue late and set up his
equipment in the only sheltered place available, a fowl house. However,
when the eclipse occurred, the chickens thought it was night and
returned to their coop.

"Edison wrote about how he was conducting the experiments with chickens
literally sitting on his head, but he got the measurements he wanted.
This way, children can suddenly discover Edison as a real man, not just
a name in history," explained Bray, who plans to act himself from time
to time.

Other plays have been drafted depicting episodes in the lives of
Einstein and Newton.

Malcom Bray came to Thailand to help set up the National Science
Museum on a six-month contract. That was six years ago. Today he is
still helping the Ministry of Science and Technology set up new museums
here in Thailand.

The IT Museum will also partner with science and IT museums in
Australia and Japan and have interactive multi-player games with
visitors in the other museums via the Internet.

Dr Aphiya said she met with Japan's first astronaut, who is currently
director of their National Science Museum, and that he was enthusiastic
about the idea.

Bray noted that over the past six years that he has been involved, the
Science Museum functions have been supported through a "fantastic" team
of enthusiastic young volunteers who are able to connect with the
visitors. He invited anyone with a passion for teaching IT to volunteer
their time to this project.

The total budget for development of the 9,000 square metre complex up
until opening is 189 million baht, with a further operating budget to
be set each year.

Last year, the existing Science and Natural History Museums hosted over
600,000 visitors, 65% of which were children on organised school trips.
The museum is also very popular with families on weekends.

"We have learned a lot from setting up the Science Museum. We teach the
children, and we also have learned how to teach the teachers. In five
years' time, I am sure this museum will have a huge impact on
Thailand's IT industry," Dr Aphiya said.

Once the museum is complete, Dr Aphiya and her team will reach out to
organisations such as Nectec and Thailand's fledgling IT industry for
more ideas and assistance in developing the concept further. "At our
exhibition at the National Science Week, we worked with the Ministries
of ICT, Commerce and Defence. We want to cooperate with everyone," she
said.

Bray said that a successful method of collaboration used in the Science
Museum was to invite scholars from across the world to hold events and
seminars here. Over the past years, they have had researchers from the
UK, Australia and France use the Science Museum.

Dr Aphiya said that part of her mandate was to collect and document
tacit information on Thailand. "The Chinese have 7,000 years of
history. Thailand does not have a strong culture of writing down
history. That needs to change and we have a team that is dedicated to
documenting anything technological."

Bray said that in his home country of Australia, the government is
spending millions of dollars to preserve the Australian film industry
and digitise the archives. On a side note, Bray said that he has
browsed the Science Museum's archives and found a series of letters
between King Rama 5th and the Thai Ambassador to London on how His
Majesty was trying to recruit a European supervisor for education. It
appears that His Majesty had originally set a budget of 1,200 pounds a
year and eventually found someone who was willing to take the post for
1,000 pounds.

Asked how her museum was different from Thailand Knowledge Park, Dr
Aphiya said that TK Park was about using IT to access knowledge, while
the IT museum is about the development of IT through the ages.

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