Suwan Juntiwasarakij is a Ph.D. student in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at the Pennsylvania State University. His research foci are on impacts of software offshore outsourcing in developing countries, conceiving effective ICT policies in developing countries, and intellectual properties violation in developing countries. He intensively uses cultural values and economic factors as tools in his study. There are many signficant factors which negatively withhold less developed countries (LDCs) from thriving in their social and economic development. Only looking at economic factors is similar to looking at the tip of an ice berg. With this regard, investigating in the cultural value situated is a very comprehensive means to discover the uncharted problems in LDCs.

Before pursuing his Ph.D. in IST, financially supported by the Royal Thai Government, Suwan had been working as a management in banking standard control division, a software engineer in software process group, and a university faculty. Working as a software engineer at Reuters, he joined Software Process Improvement division (SPI) and Software Process Technology division (SPT), functioning in implement and deploying the CMMi Level 5 over the company. As of now, Reuters (Thailand) has become the first CMMi Level 5 company in Thailand, and the ninth in the World. While joining Reuters in Software Process groups, he was also holding a full-time faculty position in the Department of Software Engineering, the School of Science and Technology, Bangkok University where the focus of his teaching was on software engineerig process development.

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Suwan Juntiwasarakij
307G Information Sciences and Technology (IST) Building
The College of Information Sciences and Technology
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
E-Mail: suj133 (at) psu (dot) edu
Tel: 814.360.5572