This note draws together the main findings of the Workshop on Thailand's Hard Disk Drive Industry: Future Developments in a Regional Context. Copies of all the presentations, complete country and topic research papers, related background materials are available at the web site of The Information Storage Industry Center of the University of California, San Diego https://www-irps.ucsd.edu/~sloan/. They can also be obtained by e-mailing idema@brookergroup.com. See the attachment to this note for more details.

Since the Workshop, considerable progress has been made in the development of a Thailand branch of the industry association - IDEMA (see www.idema.org) - as well as the development of specific training programs, technical symposiums, and other activities designed to support the disk drive industry. The first meeting of the IDEMA Thailand Management Committee took place on September 15, and an ambitious Disk Drive Technical Symposium is planned for November 1999. For more details on the proposed IDEMA/Asian Institute of Technology Certificate of Competence in Storage Technology, please contact AIT (Dr. Nitin Afzulpurkar - E-mail: nitin@ait.ac.th).