Bunrak Saraggananda is better known for his roles as vice president of the Association of Thai ICT Industry (ATCI) and vice president of the Asia-Oceania Computing Industry Organisation (ASOCIO). However, he also runs a small software outsourcing company called Magic Software, which specialises in data conversion.
Bunrak often speaks of the Myanmar IT industry and how the two countries can work together. "Myanmar is closed, but not their Internet," he explained.
One of his partners there has over 200 programmers but with less than ten million baht in revenue each year.
Rather than a threat, Bunrak views Thailand's neighbour to the west as an opportunity: Myanmar can take on many basic programming tasks at one tenth the cost of programmers in Thailand, leaving Thai talent free for the high-value tasks.
"There is little chance of them competing with us directly, as their programmers and project leaders cannot get visas due to international sanctions," he noted.
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