Malaysia
The bold, the brave, the inspiring…meet the 2020/2021 batch of Digerati50
Highest number of female entrepreneurs in current Digerati50 edition
Malaysia’s Digital Economy will be built on back of its tech entrepreneurs
Roche rocks with Code4life Inter-University Virtual Hackathon 2020
Students to gain work experience by co-creating alongside Roche experts
3 month hackathon will focus on healthcare digitalization & Covid-19 related ideas
PENJANA boost for MDEC’s Workforce Upskilling, Reskilling Efforts
Workers must be equipped for shift in skills demand in job market
Need to resolve glaring gap between talent graduating & digital skills sought
TaqwaTech championer, Thomas Tsao
Thomas Tsao, along with Gobi Partners, which he is a founding partner of, has been able to help shape the tech startup scene in ASEAN. They also coined TaqwaTech – Muslim-serving tech startups – which they are heavily pushing
Why does Malaysia’s MoE discriminate against local technology and digital content?
Established homegrown digital content players not engaged with on DELIMa
Bureaucrats visiting digital education fairs abroad come back acting like experts
Malaysia resets its digital learning ambitions, leaning on tech leaders Apple, Google, Microsoft to introduce DELIMa Digital Learning Platform
The Malaysian Ministry of Education announced a refresh of its digital learning platform, designed for teachers, students and educators, now with the help of tech giants
Futurise welcomes complementary NTIS initiative to further invigorate Malaysia’s Economic Recovery Plan
Tech, innovation, regulatory & commercial aspects in shaping recovery
Work together with Mosti on encouraging innovation & new inspiration
Malaysia’s alarming approach to citizen data collection
Failure to review the PDPA leaves citizens vulnerable to exploitation
Repeated sharing of info with unknown stakeholders felt like an invasion of privacy
Telcos offer new free internet access for learning and productivity until 31 Dec
Will continue to offer free access to a range of information-related apps and services
Industry is making a range of online learning resources available to customers for free
