Mr. Boris Wojtan, GSM Association (GSMA)’s Director of Privacy, urges the Thai Government to consider adding the free flow of cross-border data into the draft of Personal Data Protection Act which is now in process of enforcement.
He also hopes that if Thailand becomes the President of ASEAN in the next year, Thailand will be the leader in pushing the cooperation framework among ASEAN countries which will permit the free flow of cross border data to be the same standard as implemented in APEC.
He stated the studies of McKinsey “The New Era of Global Flows: Digital Globalisation 2016” discovered that in the past decade, the cross border data flow has made the world’s economy to grow by 10.1% or accounting for US$2.8 trillion.
According to GSMA’s studies, it found out that the ease of cross border data flow will create 2.89 million jobs worldwide. For example, in Philippines, the business processing outsource services is worth US$ 25.5 per year from the efficiency of the data flow.
GSMA’s studies also found out the in countries where data flow is blocked, the GDP growth in ASEAN will be dropped by 5.0-7.1% in average. Furthermore, if the data is collected only within the country, it will increase the cost of using cloud service by 30-60% such as in Brazil and European Union.
