Last month, Thailand hosted a conference of Greater Mekong Sub (GMS) regional grouping (Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam) entitled “Modernizing the GMS towards post-AEC 2015″ where experts and specialists traded ideas and experiences to advance their digital economies and ready themselves for regional integration into the ASEAN Economic Community.  The conference took place at the Mekong Institute in Khon Kaen province of Thailand which is an Institute that helps to boost manpower capabilities especially in regard to e-commerce.

Meanwhile, Thailand also recently became a party to a World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement that will abolish tariffs and duties on 201 products related to information technology. More than 50 countries have signed this Agreement that expands upon the 1997 Information Technology Agreement in order to include many products developed in recent years that were not previously covered including advanced computer chips, GPS devices, printer cartridges and video-game consoles. Annual global trade in the products has been estimated by the WTO at over $1.3 trillion.

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