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ICT industry faces multipronged challenges: Pikom

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Brain drain, declining enrolment, graduate unemployability may also stymie industry growth Curriculum restructure, certification and consciousness at schools had to address problem THE Malaysian statistics and communications generation (ICT) industry may be hampered from growing similarly as it remains plagued through a few complex and essential issues that would lead to the derailing the state's objectives, suggested the National ICT Association of Malaysia (Pikom).   Pikom chairman Cheah Kok Hoong (p.c) said its state-of-the-art ICT Job Market Outlook document has raised a few urgent worries, specifically, the persevering with mind drain skilled with fleeing Malaysian ICT experts; the declining enrolment of computing technology graduates at universities; and the unemployability among some of these graduates.   The study is an annual file produced and analysed through Pikom. This 12 months's take a look at become performed in collaboration with recruitment portal Jobs...

Philippines to launch ICT program to drive national development

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Initiative seeks to apply ICT as a tool to broaden priority sectors in the Philippines Sectors include governance, people, agriculture, healthcare, public protection, power THE Philippines Government, thru the Information and Communications Technology Office of Department of Science and Technology (DOST-ICTO), is ready to introduce a new ICT flagship software that is focused on some vital industries.   Called ‘Smarter Philippines,’ the initiative seeks to use ICT as a tool to expand precedence sectors within the us of a.   It consists of several additives together with Smarter Governance, Smarter People, Smarter High-Tech Industry, Smarter Computing, Smarter SMEs, Smarter Agriculture World Development, Smarter Environmental Healthcare, Energy and Transport, Smarter Disaster and Mitigation Public Safety, and Smarter Cities.   Alejandro P. Melchor III, deputy executive director for ICT industry improvement of ICTO, said the Government has recognized the big strength of ICT as a fir...

Malaysia’s ICT spend to surpass US$10bil but challenges abound

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Malaysian ICT spending to pass US$10 billion; relative growth to Asean countries slowing, offerings critical for sustainable boom Confusion over definition of huge information & social enterprise; cloud and BYOD continue to dominate in 2013 MALAYSIA's facts and communications technology (ICT) quarter spending is expected to breach the USA$10-billion mark for the first time in its records, according to a latest forecast by using analyst firm IDC. Speaking at its IDC Asean & Malaysia Top 10 Predictions for 2013 seminar right here on Dec 6, Roger Ling, research manager, Asean offerings research group for IDC Asia/Pacific, stated that Malaysia will spend US$10.four billion in 2013, representing a 7.7% growth from the 12 months before (2012).   But notwithstanding the overall spend attaining a new milestone, the expected growth percent of 7.7% is lower than what Malaysia has been used to accomplishing inside the beyond two years, a determine that has been towards eleven% o...

MH370: Experts meet in KL to discuss ICT in aviation

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Follow-up from Multimedia Minister’s policy assertion at ITU meet in Dubai ICT has developed extensively, but black field stays unchanged from 30yrs ago MORE than 50 high level professionals from all around the world have showed their attendance at an ITU (International Telecommunications Union)  discussion of real-time flight tracking whilst Malaysian government face mounting worldwide complaint over how they have handled the quest operations and research into the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.   The specialists will be meeting in Kuala Lumpur these days and the next day (May 26 and 27) in an ‘Expert Dialogue on Real-time Monitoring of Flight Data, consisting of the Black Box,’ consistent with the Malaysian Communications and  Multimedia Commission (MCMC).   They will even discuss the need for international requirements in the age of cloud computing and huge facts, the MCMC said in a statement.   The impetus for this communicate is the complicated investigation into t...

Dr Halimaton to helm Prestariang’s boutique ICT university

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New college of computing to recognition on unique ICT fields Dr Halimaton has received more than one international awards and recognitions PRESTARIANG Education Sdn Bhd (“PESB”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bursa Malaysia-indexed Prestariang Berhad, has appointed Professor Datuk Dr Halimaton Hamdan (p.c) because the Vice Chancellor of its boutique college to be installation in Cyberjaya.   PESB had in advance this yr acquired the letter of invitation from the Ministry of Higher Education to set up the first boutique college for computing in Malaysia, which it claimed might make it the first within the country to offer higher training in precise ICT fields.   The Prestariang Group’s pass into better training comes from the developing want to produce capabilities to support the global demand for relatively professional ICT understanding, Prestariang stated in a statement.   “In looking to … [elevate] the diploma of ICT training inside the usa, Prestariang’s training arm will cons...

ICT grads: Plugging the gap

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  No jobs, now not enough skilled people nevertheless an trouble Industry and academia paintings together to plug the space IN our earlier reviews this week, Digital News Asia has referred to that there is a odd dichotomy within the generation surroundings in Malaysia: Companies are complaining that they can’t rent enough humans, while IT specialists can't find jobs. This is not a surprising phenomenon, but one that has been building up for extra than a decade. There are many compelling theories: With the launch of the Multimedia Super Corridor task (now called MSC Malaysia) in 1996, the need for a essential mass of so-called understanding employees (ok-people) to gain its aspirations became acknowledged early in the game. New universities and “college-faculties” were mounted, while the vintage shield extended their IT programmes or introduced new guides. Students were fired as much as pursue a career in ICT, mother and father gave their advantages, or even driven them into ...

ICT talent gap: Still a catch-up game

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Malaysia nonetheless gambling catch-up with addressing talent hole in ICT fields More awareness on growing use of ICT in faculties and installing region greater industry-relevant curriculum  > THE spotlight has been solid on persisting gaps inside the ICT group of workers with simplest eight extra years left till 2020, the usa’s self-appointed closing date for accomplishing the reputation of a advanced state.   However, the rapid evolution of the IT environment and industry has made it vital to conform modern-day initiatives with the desires of a brand new truth.   During a media briefing hosted on the MSC Malaysia headquarters in Cyberjaya, Yuri Wahab (p.c, proper) , coping with director for Cisco Malaysia; and Ng Wan Peng (p.c, left) , chief operating officer of Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), each stated that addressing group of workers needs stays a “game of trap-up.”   With cloud computing and a mobile body of workers now a fact, building expertise into this ne...