ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND THAILAND
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The objectives of this academic paper are to explain the development of social credit system in the People's Republic of China and social credit system through moral promotion in Thailand, and also to offer guidelines for applying the social credit system to promote ethics in Thailand. Currently the People's Republic of China has been using this system to build credibility and control people's behavior in integrity by collecting data through big data systems and transforming various behaviors. It comes out as positive scores for good behaviors and negative scores for bad behaviors and penalties. In Thailand, this system is used through moral promotion to solve social problems but there are no penalties. There is a national moral promotion plan and main morality of the nation, namely, sufficiency, discipline, honesty, and volunteering as a framework for organizations and areas to carry out moral promotion according to their roles or missions. As a result, there are 4,923 moral model organizations and 10 moral provinces.
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