MALAYSIAS IT AGENDA:

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MALAYSIAS IT AGENDA

• DR. K J JOHN
• EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, NATIONAL IT COUNCIL (NITC)/
• VICE PRESIDENT (IT POLICY DEV.),
• MIMOS BERHAD
• Tel [phone]
• E.mail kjjohn_at_mimos.my
• 7 December 1998

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CONTENTS

• NITA Video What is the National IT Agenda
  (NITA)?
• What is NITA
• - National IT Framework
• Why NITA?
• - NITA Vision Leapfrogging Malaysia into
  Knowledge Economy
• - Recognising the Sea Change
• - Understanding The Sea Change
• - Impact of IT on Development
• How NITA?
• - Towards vale-based Civil Society by 2020
• - NITA Policy Initiatives
• - Generating Resonant Waves
• - The Malaysian Perspectives
• When NITA?
• - Monitoring Changes

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What is Malaysias IT Agenda?

• NITA is a national strategy and priority for
  leap-frogging Malaysia into the IT Age
• NITA is a framework for IT programme development
  at federal, state and local government levels
  with the partnership of private and community
  interest sectors
• NITA is both a journey and a destination it is a
  moving target, and an evolving, learning culture
  of IT utilisation for Quality of Work and Life
  improvement for all Malaysians

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National IT Framework
WHAT IS NITA?
People
Access and Equity
Qualitative Transformation
GOAL Masyarakat Madani - Civil Society
Infostructure
Applications
Creating Value
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NITA Vision Leapfrogging Malaysia into Knowledge
Economy
WHY NITA?
POST-INDUSTRIAL / ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
DEVELOPED SOCIETY
Manipulating control
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
recycling synthesizing
manufacturing processing
knowledge services
information services
DEVELOPING SOCIETY
utility services
Labour Land Capital Entrepreneur
Information RD Technology Knowledge
Labour Land Capital Entrepreneur
Information RD Technology
LEAST DEVELOPED SOCIETY
agricultural mining
Labour Land Capital Entrepreneur
Information
PRIMITIVE SOCIETY
shifting farming
Labour Land Capital
hunting gathering
Labour Land
INFORMATION FACTOR OF CHANGE
Labour
Note Although pictured so, the idea of progress
is nor merely linear.
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Recognising the Sea ChangeAge of Discontinuity
WHY NITA?

• Turbulence and change is a constant in the
  Information Age
• IT is the major driving force of this change -
  its impact is radical, pervasive and fundamental
• Globalisation extends change process worldwide

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Understanding The Sea ChangeThe Paradigm Shift
WHY NITA?
INDUSTRIAL ERA
INFORMATION ERA

• Knowledge in Hierarchy
• Size is important
• Maintenance of mainstream values
• Dichotomy between espoused theory and theory in
  use
• Development meant progress ala 1st, 2nd, 3rd
  World in material terms
• Growth trickles down
• Paradigm of power, manipulation and control
• Old medium and technologies
• Material world
• Quantitative in nature

• Knowledge with experts (decentralised)
• Efficiency and speed important
• Entrepreneurship and innovation
• Integrity and Credibility are real issues
• Development means quality of work and life
• All can participate in growth and creating value
• Paradigm of influence, network and partnerships
• New media technologies via convergence
• Virtual and real world
• Qualitative in nature

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Impact of IT on Development
WHY NITA?

• IT as a potent development tool that can
• - enhance knowledge, skill values
• - create new social economic development
  opportunities
• - promote direct participation and
  democratisation
• - promote effective application of human
  thinking
• - integrate human activities
• Two possible opposing outcomes
• - empowerment of the individual, society
• - a concentration of power - hegemony

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HOW NITA- Towards Value-based Civil Society by
2020
Economic
ICT as means
Social
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NITA Policy Initiatives
HOW NITA?

• FIRST RIPPLE - A greenfield ICT Testbed MSC
  Flagship Applications
• greenfield corridor for global multimedia
  companies to testbed new multimedia and IT
  applications
• SECOND RIPPLE - Nation wide Mini MSC-like
  Applications Demonstrator Applications
• grow webs locally for nationwide
  implementation especially outside the MSC
• Other IT Initiatives and Ripples
• Putrajaya as Smart City, Cyberjaya as R D,
  Subang Jaya as test-bed

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HOW NITA? - Managing The Transition
Generating Resonant Waves
Cabinet
propose
assign
feedback
NITC
Ministries
IT Programmes
Private Sector
Federal, State and Local Government Public
Sector Agencies
MSC and flagships
Demonstrator applications
Society, Non-profit Sector NGOs and Media
National Planning Dialogues and Promotional
activities to discuss, develop and assign
programmes, and to get feedback
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The Malaysian PerspectiveGovernance in the
Information Age
HOW NITA?

• Two possible approaches
• - proactive planning
• - laissez faire
• Lessons from our experience
• - Malaysian 5-year Plans
• - social engineering experiment the New
  Economic
• Policys 20 year plan
• - inadequacy of industrial planning model
  (Taylorism)
• - limited success of bottom-up approach

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The Malaysian PerspectiveExisting Planning
Parameters
HOW NITA?

• Vision 2020
• - a national vision of creating a developed
  society
• in our own mould
• Outline Perspective Plan 1990-2000
• 7th Malaysia Plan 1996-2000
• Industrial Master Plan
• The National IT Council
• - Developing a National Vision of IT
• - The MSC

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The National IT Council
HOW NITA?

• Established in 1994
• Chaired by the Prime Minister
• Second term Council comprises of all three
  sectors
• National level strategic planning for the
  application and development of IT
• - top-down and bottom-up
• approach

Community interest Sector
Public Sector
Private Sector
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Progress of NITAMonitoring Changes
WHEN NITA?

• Index to measure improvements toward knowledge
  society
• - Knowledge Imperative Index (KIX)
• - Knowledge Economy Model (KEM)
• Feedback Forum
• - Multimedia Asia
• - INFOTECH Malaysia

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NITC Strategic Agenda Selected Option - Planned
Transformation
Strategic ICT Policy Interventions
NITC
Obstacles Opportunities
Vision 2020 Civil Society
Malaysia Now
Feedback
Signals and Indicators as feedback
To be identified using Scenario Planning
Methodology
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Thrust Areas for Governance

• E-Community
• To facilitate communities of interest and
  conviction to improve the quality of life.
  Communities that are geographically dispersed yet
  whose members interact electronically

• E-Public Services
• To facilitate the delivery of services to the
  citizens and businesses more efficiently and
  effectively via electronic means

• E-Learning
• To increase the capability of organisations and
  individuals to acquire and develop knowledge,
  skills and values via electronic interaction

• E-Economy
• To facilitate and encourage e-commerce and
  e-business activities which support the
  development of a knowledge economy

• E-Sovereignty
• To enhance the identity and integrity of the
  nation in an increasingly borderless world

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Navigation of PolicyIntervention at Three Levels
NITC

• Strategic initiatives

• Inter- and Intra
• Agency
• Sectoral Policy

Organisational

• Operational activities

Feedback
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Terima kasih
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