Updates written by our field teams, newest first. Each one shows which project it comes from and which Issue that project is under.
Jaidee has redesigned the experience-from-friends page to make stories easier to find and scroll through in a social media-style feed. AI also helps screen and recommend categories for more than 20,000 stories submitted by users, so the team can publish valuable content more quickly and accurately.
The Taxonomy system and AI-powered content extraction and writing mechanism, jointly designed by ChangeFusion and Kid for Kids, are now live. Child Impact synthesises issues concerning children from Kid for Kids into new articles and publishes them regularly on the platform.
ChangeFusion and the Foundation for Consumers (FFC) agreed on the scope of an 18-month project to monitor e-cigarette sellers and track consumer responses to high-risk products on social media. AI will be used to analyse data and expand the keywords to keep pace with sellers’ evasion tactics.
TSWA and ChangeFusion have officially published a summary report on the first year, covering 15 communities, 24,987 rai and 6 MOUs, with endorsements from independent marine scientists.
The projected 1-year benefit-cost ratio (B/C Ratio) assessment of all 10 top innovations found a B/C value above 1 for every innovation.
Drawing on lessons from the first year, the Project plans to expand to 15 new communities in the same four provinces, while establishing a joint working group with the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources and the Department of Fisheries to reduce systemic delays.
The event was held at Ch. Karnchang Public Company Limited. A total of 43 people from 8 partner organisations attended. Plaques and certificates were presented to 10 teams, and 3 teams were announced as recipients of scale-up funding.
The first-year summary report identifies 4 areas for improvement, from uneven understanding of LMMA and overlapping government mandates to community economic enterprises that are still at an early stage and limitations in follow-up data, with a monitoring period that is too short.
ChangeFusion and San Phalang Di have completed the system on the Child Impact website for registering for Health Talk activities, taking post-activity tests and issuing certificates. The system retrieves information from the member database to reduce duplicate data entry and lets both participants and administrators track information directly through the system.
A survey in May B.E. 2569 of economic enterprises in 3 provinces found that income from new activities still made up a much smaller share than income from fishing, but helped increase savings and bring some younger people back to their communities.
Lessons from the work of forest guardians across various areas of the Forest Guardians Project in B.E. 2569 point to four factors that determine success: mobilising community efforts instead of waiting for government funding, technology that reduces the risk of loss of life, donations that bridge immediate gaps, and an economy that rewards forest stewardship.
Ban Muaklek Nai and Khlong Rabad community forests in Saraburi Province are building on their firebreak work by developing ecotourism and a system for sharing income with the community’s own forest management fund. They are also holding the Muaklek Nai Nature Camp on 2-4 May B.E. 2569, opening the forest to families and children aged 7-12 to learn about nature.
