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101282
Wed, 01/20/2010 - 10:00
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TELCO'S SHOULD ALSO GIVE PRIORITY TO CONTENT ON CULTURE, HUMAN CIVILISATION
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 (Bernama) -- Telecommunication companies (telcos) should also give priority to content on culture and development of human civilisation, said Information Communication and Culture Minister Dr Rais Yatim.
He said this would further help stimulate the minds of Malaysians more so
this in this era of sophistciated and borderless communication and was an aspect
of content the telcos should address besides chasing profits.
"New applications like the short-messaging service (SMS), Blackberry, Yahoo
Messenger, Twitter, ICQ, Skype and the like have made communciations between
humans easier and this has contributed to the development of human civilisation
and changed the landscape of communication universally, which before heavily
depended on the telephone, telex, fax and the postal service," he said.
He said this in his speech which was read out by his deputy Joseph
Salang at the prize-giving ceremony for winners of the 'Mobile Content Challenge
2009' contest, here Tuesday.
According to Rais, owing to the ease of communication, certain aspects of
culture, like language, might face challenges.
He said truncating spellings in using the SMS could jeopardise the integrity
of Bahasa Melayu besides posing challenges to ethical issues in inter-personal
relationships.
"There have been cases of consumers using SMS, MMS, chat rooms, Facebook and
Twitter to spread rumours and with speed spread hatred among people," he said.
He said abuse of these applications should be addressed together by raising
awareness on the ethics and proper norms of using sophistcated communition tools
in this ultra-modern age.
On the contest, he said it was a very good programme and should be continued
in future.
-- BERNAMA
.
He said this would further help stimulate the minds of Malaysians more so
this in this era of sophistciated and borderless communication and was an aspect
of content the telcos should address besides chasing profits.
"New applications like the short-messaging service (SMS), Blackberry, Yahoo
Messenger, Twitter, ICQ, Skype and the like have made communciations between
humans easier and this has contributed to the development of human civilisation
and changed the landscape of communication universally, which before heavily
depended on the telephone, telex, fax and the postal service," he said.
He said this in his speech which was read out by his deputy Joseph
Salang at the prize-giving ceremony for winners of the 'Mobile Content Challenge
2009' contest, here Tuesday.
According to Rais, owing to the ease of communication, certain aspects of
culture, like language, might face challenges.
He said truncating spellings in using the SMS could jeopardise the integrity
of Bahasa Melayu besides posing challenges to ethical issues in inter-personal
relationships.
"There have been cases of consumers using SMS, MMS, chat rooms, Facebook and
Twitter to spread rumours and with speed spread hatred among people," he said.
He said abuse of these applications should be addressed together by raising
awareness on the ethics and proper norms of using sophistcated communition tools
in this ultra-modern age.
On the contest, he said it was a very good programme and should be continued
in future.
-- BERNAMA
.
