What สำนักงานส่งเสริมเศรษฐกิจดิจิทัล (depa) does

The Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa) — formally "สำนักงานส่งเสริมเศรษฐกิจดิจิทัล" — is a Thai government state agency operating under the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society. As a public sector organization, depa is not structured to generate commercial revenue; instead, it is funded through the national budget to promote Thailand's digital economy and coordinate smart city development across Thai municipalities. Its customer base consists of Thai municipalities and provincial administrative organizations, and no pricing model is disclosed because services are delivered as part of national digital initiatives rather than commercial offerings.

depa's core technical offering is the City Data Platform (catalog.citydata.in.th), a CKAN-based open data catalog that hosts 840+ datasets contributed by 71+ organizations and is consumed by 55+ municipalities across Thailand. Built on the open-source Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN), the infrastructure exposes both a CKAN Data API (for programmatic retrieval of CSV, XLS, and XLSX files with SQL query support) and a CKAN Data Catalog API (for metadata access). Layered on top of this data foundation are thematic smart city products and dashboards covering Smart Living (e.g., Wristband Smart Living), Smart Environment (e.g., Fahfon, Water Level monitoring), Smart Economy (e.g., Food Delivery), and Smart Mobility (e.g., Traffic). Dashboard visualizations are rendered through Google Looker Studio integrations.

Distribution is entirely government-to-government: depa reaches Thai municipalities through the Smart City Thailand Portal (citydata.in.th), the data catalog, official websites, and direct coordination with municipal governments. There is no commercial sales motion, no headcount disclosure, and no private capital involvement. Strategic partnerships include integration with the National Statistical Office's Government Data Catalog (gdcatalog.go.th) for cross-platform data sharing, a collaboration with Chulalongkorn University's Property Management Office on the Samyan Smart City project, and utilization of CKAN as core technology.

Name

สำนักงานส่งเสริมเศรษฐกิจดิจิทัล (depa)

Legal name

Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa)

Website

https://citydata.in.th

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa) is a Thai government state agency under the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society that operates the CKAN-based City Data Platform and Smart City Thailand ecosystem, providing open data infrastructure, APIs, and thematic smart city dashboards for Thai municipalities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Open Data Platform / Smart City Infrastructure

NAICS

Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (9251), Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development (92512), Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development (925120), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Smart Cities & Urban Innovation Programs (Digital Planning, Civic Tech for Cities) (BPAIANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Digital Development & ICT4D / GovTech Technical Assistance (BPADAEAL), Environmental Data Management Platforms (EHS/EMS, LIMS, ELN, Compliance Data Hubs) (EUAHAKAA)

Keywords

• Smart city infrastructure
• Open data platform
• Digital economy promotion
• Government data catalog
• Municipal smart services

Headquarters

HQ city

Bangkok

HQ country

Thailand

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

depa operates the national Smart City Thailand open data infrastructure, headlined by the City Data Platform (catalog.citydata.in.th) — a CKAN-based open data catalog hosting 840+ datasets from 71+ organizations across 55+ Thai municipalities. Programmatic access is delivered via CKAN Data APIs (CSV/XLS/XLSX retrieval and metadata endpoints), and the Smart City Dashboard aggregates real-time thematic indicators (Smart Living, Smart Environment, Smart Economy, Smart Mobility) backed by Looker Studio visualizations. The agency also provides smart city development guidelines, handbooks, and training courses to municipalities and provincial administrative organizations across Thailand.

Product overview

depa operates a multi-layered smart city data ecosystem built on the open-source CKAN platform. The core offering is the City Data Platform (catalog.citydata.in.th) — a CKAN-based open data portal hosting 840+ datasets and 71+ organizations across Thai smart cities — which is complemented by the CKAN Data API (for programmatic dataset/file retrieval) and the CKAN Data Catalog API (for metadata access). On top of the data infrastructure, depa provides a Smart City Dashboard aggregating real-time data streams from thematic smart city sub-products covering Smart Living (e.g., Wristband Smart Living), Smart Environment (e.g., Fahfon Smart Environment, Water Level), Smart Economy (e.g., Food Delivery), and Smart Mobility (e.g., Traffic). The Smart City Thailand Portal (citydata.in.th/en/) serves as the public-facing showcase and news hub for all smart city initiatives. Data Visualization (Graph) capability is built into the CKAN platform for chart generation from datasets.

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Problem solved

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Products and services

• City Data Platform (catalog.citydata.in.th) CKAN-based open data catalog hosting 840+ datasets from 71+ organizations across Thai smart cities, providing open city data access to citizens, businesses, and government agencies.
• CKAN Data API Programmatic REST API for retrieving dataset resource files (CSV, XLS, XLSX) with query conditions, supporting SQL queries (datastore_search_sql) and basic datastore_search with limit, offset, and keyword filtering.
• CKAN Data Catalog API API for accessing metadata of open city datasets on catalog.citydata.in.th, providing endpoints to list all datasets, search by keyword, retrieve package details, and search/show individual resources; write operations require api-key header authentication.
• Smart City Dashboard Centralized dashboard aggregating real-time data from multiple smart city initiatives across Thailand, covering smart living, environment, economy, mobility, and water level monitoring, with Looker Studio-backed visualizations.
• Smart City Thailand Portal Public-facing web portal showcasing smart city initiatives across Thai cities and municipalities, featuring blog posts, case studies, handbook downloads, courses, and links to dashboards covering smart living, environment, economy, mobility, and digital services.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

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Integration2 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Municipalities and Local Governments (Smart City Thailand Network)coreStrategic or Co-development Partnerdepa partners with Thai municipalities and local governments to implement smart city initiatives, providing the City Data Platform infrastructure for open data sharing across 55+ cities including Phuket, Chonburi, Phitsanulok, Khon Kaen, Chiang Mai, and others.
• CKAN AssociationcoreTechnology or IntegrationThe City Data Platform is powered by CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network), an open-source data management platform. depa utilizes CKAN as the core technology for its national smart city data infrastructure.
• National Statistical Office (NSO)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIntegration with the National Statistical Office's Government Data Catalog (gdcatalog.go.th) for cross-platform data sharing and interoperability.
• Chulalongkorn University (Property Management Office)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on Samyan Smart City project, contributing air quality data, 3D mapping, point cloud data, and smart city indicators for the Samyan district innovation hub.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• OpenGov: OpenGov provides a broader government technology platform spanning budgeting, procurement, and civic analytics. It is a broad incumbent in the govtech space rather than a direct open-data-portal competitor, but it competes for the same municipal technology budgets that depa helps allocate.
• Esri: Esri is the dominant GIS and mapping platform vendor, with a significant smart-city and open-data presence (ArcGIS Hub). It is a broad incumbent: it overlaps with depa on location-based smart-city data and dashboards, but operates as part of a much wider geospatial portfolio rather than a Thailand-focused municipal data hub.
• Smart Nation Singapore: Smart Nation is Singapore's whole-of-government initiative to drive digital and smart-city transformation, broader than any single platform. It is comparable to depa's Smart City Thailand initiative in scope and ambition, but operates as a cross-ministry program rather than a single platform.

Others

• Open Data Institute (ODI): The ODI is a non-profit that promotes and supports open-data ecosystems globally. It is adjacent to depa as an ecosystem shaper and standards advocate rather than a competing platform, but is thematically closely related to depa's open-data mandate.

Direct peers

• OpenDataSoft: OpenDataSoft operates a commercial open-data portal platform used by cities and governments globally. It is directly comparable as a competing open-data-as-a-service vendor in the same target market (municipal open data portals).
• GovTech Singapore: Singapore's Government Technology Agency is a state-led organization that builds and operates national digital infrastructure and citizen-facing platforms. Like depa, it operates under a national digital-economy mandate, serves as a central technical authority, and partners across ministries and municipal bodies — making it the closest structural analogue.
• CKAN Association: The CKAN Association is the open-source community and steward behind the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network — the exact platform depa uses for its City Data Platform. It is directly comparable as the underlying data-catalog technology provider on which depa's offering is built.
• Tyler Technologies (Socrata): Tyler Technologies, through the Socrata platform, provides an open-data and civic analytics suite used widely by US state and local governments. It is directly comparable as a commercial open-data and smart-city data infrastructure offering targeting municipal customers.

Regional players

• Digital Dubai (formerly Smart Dubai): Digital Dubai is the UAE's city-level digital transformation authority, comparable in mission to Thailand's depa but operating in a different geography. It pursues city-data infrastructure, smart-city dashboards, and cross-agency data sharing — a regional analogue that does not directly compete in Thailand.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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