About Me:

Radaphat

My name is Radaphat Chongthammakun (pronounced as ‘ra-daa-pat’ ‘chong-tam-ma-kun’). ” Similar to other Thai people, I have a nickname that I usually go by. My nickname is Pae (pronounced as ‘pay’).

I graduated with a Ph.D. in Information from the University of Michigan School of Information in April 2013. My research interests include digital government (DG) development, ICT in organizational settings, ICT and organizational transformation; Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and ICT for Development (ICT4D).

My (previous and current) research projects involve:
(1) examining the relationships between digital government development and deployment and change in organizational structures and decision-making powers in the organizational contexts;
(2) employing the concepts of boundary objects, agents, and organizations in digital government development and public organization contexts;
(3) studying government infrastructure and development and standardization efforts in the public sector, with particular focus on Thailand; and
(4) investigating the use and impact of paper-based documents in the digital-transformed government context.

Professionally, I have been working for the Office of the Administrative Courts of Thailand since 2000. My current position is Director of Strategic Management Bureau. Before that, I was Head of IT Strategy and Innovation Group, Bureau of Information Technology, where I was in charge of the development of ICT strategic and operation plans, which include IT system development and standardization, and the adoption of innovative technologies to help increase the speed and efficiency of our case procedures, judges and officials' performance, and court access for better justice delivery.

Also, I have been extensively involved in the e-Court system and service development and implementation projects from the very beginning of the process at the Administrative Court. Supported by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Global IT Technology Program (ITTP) and the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) of Korea, I conducted a technical feasibility study on the e-Court system development and implementation. I visited Korea in 2014 for data collection, as the Korean Justice Court has been considered as one of the world's best practices for e-Court and e-Litigation systems. During my visit, I interviewed the judges and staff at the the Supreme Court of Korea, Seoul Administrative Court, and the Patent Court in Daejeon. Presently, I have been working on the e-Admincourt (an e-Court version for the Administrative Court) and e-Service system development, as head of the design and development team and project manager. We have been rolling out systems and electronic services since October 2016.

At the Bureau of Strategic Management since 2021, I oversee the Administrative Court's master and operational planning, as well as budgeting planning. Furthermore, I In June 2020, I added a bachelor of laws from Chulalongkorn University to my CV. I decided to pursue this degree because I thought having a legal mind thinking would be helpful for my work at the Administrative Court. It obviously helps me understand legal terms and case procedures, and communicate with the judges easier and more comprehensively. This enables me to design more sophisticated and efficient e-Court and Smart Court systems.

A little further about my work outside of the judicial information systems and services, I help in some research studies, such as privacy and personal data protection. Also, I have been assisting Adjunct Professor Kanchanaratt Leevirojana, who is a senator, as a specialist attached to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs since October 2019.

In my free time, I enjoy traveling and taking photos of places and people. Feel free to check out my Instagram photo gallery on the "Links" page to see some of my photos.

Please see my Curriculum Vitae for more details: [download Radaphat's CV] or [Thai version of Radaphat's CV]