The Software Industry Promotion Agency (SIPA) is a public organization, established on September 24, 2003 under the administrative supervision of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology. SIPA acts as a lead agency that develops plans and policies to advocate Thai software industry with a focus on promoting and developing software and digital content entrepreneurs, improving human resource, supporting investments and market opportunities, boosting research activities and technology instructions as well as supporting and developing measures to protect the Intellectual Property Rights to software. The goal is to make Thai software industry domestically and internationally recognized. Thus, this is consistent with the Government Policy that defines a development of software industry as a main strategy to build competitiveness of the country.