SIU move to the new office at Ladprao area. We now share the building with our partner Thoth Media.

On 12 June 2009, SIU and Thoth had a little ceremony party for new office location with friends and partners.

Siam Intelligence Unit (SIU) in conjunction with Telecommunication Consumer Protection Institute and Prachatai online newspaper organized the Telecommunication Consumer Journalism Camp on 12-15 June 2009.

The aim of this camp is to empower consumer journalists to utilize new and online media, including blog, YouTube and Twitter, to spread the independent, telecom consumer-protection, around. The participants come from various media background (e.g. community radio, magazine) and all parts of Thailand.

From Bangkok Post: Activist groups demand cybercrime law changes

Thai Net Citizens, the Campaign Committee for Human Rights, Human Rights Lawyer Association, Campaign for Popular Media Reform and Youth People for Democracy Movement are all calling for changes to what they say is a draconian law.

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"To help push for the amendment, a key organisation is needed to draft the changes and gather signatures as quickly as possible," Kan Yuenyong, a coordinator of Thai Net Citizens and the Siam Intelligence Unit, told a forum on the rights of internet users at Chulalongkorn University recently.

Thairath has more coverage on SIU director session "Internet Right in Thailand".

Thairath publishes the news about SIU Talks About "Internet Right in Thailand" at Chulalongkorn University.

29 April 2009, At the seminar: "Impact of laws and politics on the internet user's human right" (เวทีเสวนา "วิพากษ์ผลกระทบจากกฎหมายและการเมือง ต่อสิทธิมนุษยชนพลเมืองเน็ต") at Department of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Kan Yuenyong reveals the result of online survey on "Internet Right in Thailand".

Practical Utopia Online TV - Challenge Thailand 2010 Ep#13 - Poldej Pinprateep

Poldej Pinprateep is former Local Development Institute.

The video is available at Practical Utopia.

Bangkok:April, 9th - 10th 2009; Change Fusion, SEACeM and Freevoice were organized E-media startups business plan workshop for E-media enterprises who were selected form E-media Staetups Competition programme.

The workshop aim to sharpen the business plan for early stage E-media Social Enterprises the output of the workshop will be rated and the winners will receive incubation supports as well as USD 10,000 equity-like loan for seed/startup fund, the workshop was attended by 4 E-media ventures. Two were selected for loan consideration: Siam Intelligent Unit (SIU) from Thailand and Real Picture from Nepal.

After 2 days workshop for develop the business plans, the output came up with Siam Intelligent Unit (SIU) who proposed business model of social & economic research base news portal and Real Picture who proposed business model of produce community base video news and documentary online in Nepal.

Those 2 ventures will be move forward to the incubation process closely with SEACeM and Change Fusion. The progress of the project will be posted on this website as well as 2nd e-media competition announcement in near future.

Source: ChangeFusion

Practical Utopia Online TV - Challenge Thailand 2010 Ep#12 - Prof. Vicharn Panich

Prof. Vicharn Panich, former director of Thailand Research Fund (TRF) and Knowledge Management Institute (KMI) talked to SIU team on Knowledge Management aspect.

Thairath, the biggest newspaper in Thailand, quoted Kan Yuenyong, SIU Director for his comment on the Computer Crime Act. The event was Thai Netizen meeting at Chulalongkorn University on 29 March 2009.