Public Internet Service Policy in Thailand: Case Study in ICT Free Wi-Fi

Abstract

This research had objectives to study factors of trends involved in policy making of ICT Free Wi-Fi Project by applying Kingdon’s Streams & Windows Model and found the following results: 1) Trends of problems had resulted from a gap in access to basic information infrastructures which were expensive and could not be sufficient to serve the needs of people, and create problems in gaining attention from authorities involved. 2) Trends of policies in public internet service policy had been continuously improved and become a policy of Pheu Thai Party, but later on, it faced the problem of budget shortage that caused a revision of such policy. 3) Political trends were the most important factors that having been driven by global influents and interested groups, who were politicians playing leading roles, and cooperating by agreements with private sectors, and by the support of mass media as political tools to achieve such contracts.