Ahmad Shabery Cheek
Next step for Digital Malaysia: The ‘DM354’ roadmap
The Digital Malaysia initiative that aims to transform the nation into a digital economy will shift into its second gear this year with the Digital Malaysia 354 Roadmap (DM354 Roadmap), which will see an emphasis on big data analytics and education, amongst others.
Typhoon Haiyan: MCMC and telcos set up fund, donate via SMS
The MCMC and telcos in Malaysia have set up a Communications and Multimedia Humanitarian Fund to help victims of the recent typhoon that swept across the Philippines.
Malaysian seaweed farmer wins ITU-MCMC ‘Digital Icon Award’
Kabilah Hassan, a seaweed farmer from Kunak, Sabah has been awarded the ‘Transformational Power of Broadband Digital Icon Award 2013’ by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).
The day Malaysia painted a bull’s eye on itself
While the systems at a major telco had just been breached, a minister expresses his confidence that Malaysia is savvy enough to fend off cyber-attacks and essentially issues a challenge to hackers, writes A. Asohan.
Malaysian Data Centre Alliance launched
The Malaysian Data Centre Alliance (MDCA), a professional alliance for the data centre industry, has been launched to oversee the collective development of data centres in Malaysia.
Korea’s SK Telecom opens community broadband centre in Sabah
Korean telecommunications giant SK Telecom has established a Community Broadband Centre (SK CBC) in Kuala Tomani, Sabah, as a step towards bridging the digital divide between urban and rural folk.
MDeC to move from Science to Multimedia ministry
An announcement may be made today that MDeC is going to be moved to the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia from its current ‘home’ in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation; Karamjit Singh explores the implications.
