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TPMAP — Thailand's AI poverty-mapping and social welfare targeting platform

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 75% 47/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

NECTEC/NESDC's TPMAP integrates 36M records across 77 provinces to map multidimensional poverty and direct social welfare to sub-district level. UNICEF-partnered dashboard enhancement (2022–23) deepened local reach. Integral to Thailand's social protection targeting since 2018.

~36,000,000 individuals
Individual records integrated into the platform
77 provinces
Provinces covered
TPMAP — Thailand's AI poverty-mapping and social welfare targeting platform

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC/NSTDA) / National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC)
Period
2018–present
Keywords
social policy, poverty reduction, data analytics, AI

Context

Thailand's Thai People Map and Analytics Platform (TPMAP) integrates data on roughly 36 million individuals drawn from the Community Development Department's Basic Minimum Needs survey and the Ministry of Finance's State Welfare Card register. Launched in 2018 by NECTEC (NSTDA) and NESDC, it constructs a Multidimensional Poverty Index across five dimensions — health, education, income, living standards, and access to public services — and serves all 77 provinces with drill-down dashboards and AI-driven household targeting for social welfare.

Activities

UNICEF supported an enhancement of the platform's dashboard between 2022 and 2023 under UNGM procurement LRPS-2022-9179539. TPMAP is referenced in Thailand's National AI Strategy 2022–2027 and is integral to the country's social protection targeting system.

Conclusions

No randomised or otherwise causal evaluation attributes poverty reduction directly to TPMAP; its documented role is as a data-integration and targeting platform rather than a proven poverty-reduction intervention in its own right.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — No specific budget figures published; UNICEF-funded dashboard enhancement was procured via UNGM notice LRPS-2022-9179539 (2022–2023).
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — Launched 2018; ongoing to present, with a 2022–2023 dashboard enhancement phase.
Staffing & skills
NECTEC (National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, under NSTDA), NESDC (National Economic and Social Development Council), UNICEF (dashboard enhancement support, 2022–2023)

Conditions for success

  • Integration of existing administrative datasets (Basic Minimum Needs survey, State Welfare Card register) rather than new primary data collection
  • Multi-agency ownership across NECTEC and NESDC
  • International technical support for dashboard development (UNICEF)

Common failure modes

  • No randomised or causal evaluation exists linking TPMAP to actual poverty-reduction outcomes
  • Targeting accuracy and fairness of the underlying model are not independently documented in the sources found

Where it fits

Governance type
national government
Scale
national programme covering all 77 provinces
Income level
upper-middle income (Thailand)

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