Sra Pathum Palace, Bangkok: On Monday, March 16, 2026, at 1:00 PM, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presided over the 1st meeting of the Executive Board of the Information Technology Foundation under the Initiative of H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (No. 1/2026) to review and consider the Foundation’s performance in 2025 and its operational plan for 2026.

    Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn graciously established the Information Technology Project under the Royal Patronage in 1995.  The Project was later registered as a foundation in 2015.  Its mission is to utilize information technology, along with other science and technologies, to reduce social inequality, in four initial target groups, i.e., rural schoolchildren, people with disabilities, chronically ill children in hospitals, prison inmates, and youths in the juvenile detention centers.

     The Foundation’s Board Meeting No. 1/2026 consisted of 15 board members and advisors, and an additional 50 participants, including executives from partner organizations and Thai researchers, who attended both on-site and online, for a total of 65 people. The meeting had four main agendas, categorized into 13 sub-agendas related to science and technology, specifically in international cooperation.

Important examples of the Foundation’s achievements in 2025 include:

• Organizing celebratory activities for the auspicious occasion of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn’s 70th birthday anniversary, April 2, 2025, as well as celebrating the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Thailand and the People’s Republic of China in 2025. The Foundation organized two activities: 1) welcoming the visit of the icebreaker Xuelong 2 to Thailand from May 19-23, 2025, at Sattahip Naval Base, Chonburi Province, which included nine activities to promote cooperation in science and polar exploration between Thai and Chinese scientists and to disseminate knowledge about polar science to the public. 2) organizing a special academic conference on Thai-Chinese cooperation in science and technology under the royal initiative of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, held on November 11-12, 2025, at Chulalongkorn University.  Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presided over the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote address on the topic “Two Decades of Strategic Cooperation in Science and Technology between Thailand and China,” which discussed cooperation in science and technology between Thailand and China under royal initiative.
• The development of a high-energy particle (electron, alpha, and proton) detector under cosmic rays in space, which will be sent up with the Chang’e-7 spacecraft to orbit the moon this August, to study the effects between the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun caused by these particles. This project is a collaboration led by the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (Public Organization) and the China National Space Administration in the Chinese government’s project to establish an international research station on the moon.
• Promoting and supporting research and development cooperation of the Royal Thai Survey Department, as well as the operation of the Sirindhorn Geoinformatics Center, through cooperation between the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Public Organization) of Thailand and Wuhan University of China.
• Developing a weather forecasting system for Thailand within the normal season, a collaboration between the Hydro-Informatics Institute (Public Organization) of Thailand and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics/CAS of China.
• Cooperation between King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi and the ALICE Institute of CERN. The first project involves detecting anomalies and visualizing them using artificial intelligence in a computer event logging system that collects data on particle collisions. The second project involves developing a chatbot system using a large-scale language model with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to enable interaction and information retrieval from technical documents using natural language.

     In addition, the Foundation has facilitated research and development as well as human resources development cooperation in various fields of science and technology, such as: cooperation in high-energy physics research with CERN, the Royal Initiative on Polar Research Project, the Thai-IceCube cooperation project, the development of an optical atomic clock project with Singapore, the Biomedical Engineering Consortium project, and the development of a Thai-Chinese automatic translation system, the project to select Thai students to receive scholarships provided to Her Royal Highness for Thai students to study for master’s and doctoral degrees at educational institutions abroad, and the project to select Thai representatives to participate in international academic events such as the Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau, Federal Republic of Germany, and the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) in the Republic of Singapore.

     The aforementioned work of the Foundation has been successfully completed under the cooperation of numerous partners from various organizations, both domestic and international. This has resulted in the development of knowledge, the development of personnel and human resources, and benefits for the public. For over 30 years, this has been possible thanks to the reverence for the royal grace of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, who has shown compassion towards the Thai people. This has led various government agencies at the ministerial, departmental, divisional, provincial, district, and sub-district levels, state enterprises, the private sector, universities, research institutes, and foundations to cooperate and provide support in terms of physical, morale, knowledge, intellect, and financial resources.