{"id":28011,"date":"2026-05-05T13:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/28011\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:59:22","slug":"true-google-and-thailands-government-launch-nationwide-ai-literacy-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/28011\/","title":{"rendered":"True, Google and Thailand&#8217;s Government Launch Nationwide AI Literacy Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>True, Google and MHESI launch Thailand&#8217;s first credit-bearing AI curriculum, aiming to close an 80,000-professional skills gap and open the kingdom to global tech investment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>True Corporation, Google and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI) have joined forces to launch &#8220;AI for All Thais&#8221;, a landmark initiative that embeds artificial intelligence education directly into Thailand&#8217;s university system for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Announced in Bangkok on Tuesday, the collaboration combines True&#8217;s nationwide digital infrastructure, Google&#8217;s global AI expertise, and government policy backing to tackle what officials describe as a worsening shortage of AI-skilled professionals across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the programme is AI for Future Workforce, a specially designed 45-hour credit-bearing course co-developed by True and Google that can be officially counted towards academic credits at participating institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The curriculum will be piloted across more than 20 leading universities before being rolled out nationally, with a Train-the-Trainer component enabling university instructors to integrate AI literacy into their regular teaching.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"Prof Dr Yodchanan Wongsawat\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-true\" style=\"width: 750px; height: 422px;\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Closing an 80,000-Person Gap<\/p>\n<p>Prof Dr Yodchanan Wongsawat, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, described AI workforce development as a &#8220;national agenda&#8221; that could no longer be deferred, pointing to a shortfall of as many as 80,000 AI professionals in Thailand.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 \u00a0 True, Google and MHESI launch Thailand&#8217;s first credit-bearing AI curriculum, aiming to close an 80,000-professional skills&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24,13285,111,10410,132,1429,18572,18573,160,18575,1419,18571,18570,18574],"class_list":{"0":"post-28011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-google","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-skills-development","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","11":"tag-digital-literacy","12":"tag-google","13":"tag-google-ai","14":"tag-ministry-of-higher-education","15":"tag-research-and-innovation-mhesi","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-sigve-brekke","18":"tag-thailand","19":"tag-true","20":"tag-true-corp","21":"tag-yodchanan-wongsawat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}