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ICT BUSINESSES NEED TO UNDERGO PARADIGM SHIFT, SAYS ONGKILI
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 19 (Bernama) -- Information and communication technology
(ICT) businesses need to undergo a paradigm shift to meet the challenging global
competitive environment, says Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation,
Dr Maximus Ongkili.
"The world is changing rapidly and we must offer the right enabling
environment and ICT facilities in order to address the needs of the ICT
industry," Ongkili said in his keynote address at MSC Malaysia Cybercentre
Status award ceremony here Thursday.
At the event, Ongkili presented the MSC Malaysia Cybercentre Status to
GTower, the first fully-certified green building in Malaysia.
He said greater use of ICT would not only support the growth of the sector
but also boost productivity and raise the nation's overall competitiveness.
"The ICT sector accounted for 9.8 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP)
in 2009 and its contribution to GDP was expected to increase to 10.2 by 2015.
"Being one of the 12 National Key Economic Areas under the 10th Malaysia
Plan, ICT will play a central role and a key enabler to lead the way as the
engine of economic growth," he said.
Ongkili said the extension of MSC Malaysia's enabling environment and
incentives was expected to boost the growth of new investments, particularly in
the ICT and knowledge-based industries, and it would enable the country to
generate high-value jobs and transform into a high-income economy.
"This is because the MSC Malaysia cybercities and cybercentres serve as the
MSC Malaysia ecosystem to catalyse and support growth of ICT and ICT-enabled
industries and as nuclei to bridge digital divide and extend ICT benefits to the
community," he said.
He said the cybercities and cybercentres were positioned to be nodes for
development of ICT and ICT-enabled clusters in the states nationwide.
"They are also designated to house MSC Malaysia-status companies, offering
full MSC Malaysia 10-Point Bill of Guarantees in cybercities or partial MSC
Malaysia Bill of Guarantees in cybercentres," he said.
-- BERNAMA
(ICT) businesses need to undergo a paradigm shift to meet the challenging global
competitive environment, says Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation,
Dr Maximus Ongkili.
"The world is changing rapidly and we must offer the right enabling
environment and ICT facilities in order to address the needs of the ICT
industry," Ongkili said in his keynote address at MSC Malaysia Cybercentre
Status award ceremony here Thursday.
At the event, Ongkili presented the MSC Malaysia Cybercentre Status to
GTower, the first fully-certified green building in Malaysia.
He said greater use of ICT would not only support the growth of the sector
but also boost productivity and raise the nation's overall competitiveness.
"The ICT sector accounted for 9.8 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP)
in 2009 and its contribution to GDP was expected to increase to 10.2 by 2015.
"Being one of the 12 National Key Economic Areas under the 10th Malaysia
Plan, ICT will play a central role and a key enabler to lead the way as the
engine of economic growth," he said.
Ongkili said the extension of MSC Malaysia's enabling environment and
incentives was expected to boost the growth of new investments, particularly in
the ICT and knowledge-based industries, and it would enable the country to
generate high-value jobs and transform into a high-income economy.
"This is because the MSC Malaysia cybercities and cybercentres serve as the
MSC Malaysia ecosystem to catalyse and support growth of ICT and ICT-enabled
industries and as nuclei to bridge digital divide and extend ICT benefits to the
community," he said.
He said the cybercities and cybercentres were positioned to be nodes for
development of ICT and ICT-enabled clusters in the states nationwide.
"They are also designated to house MSC Malaysia-status companies, offering
full MSC Malaysia 10-Point Bill of Guarantees in cybercities or partial MSC
Malaysia Bill of Guarantees in cybercentres," he said.
-- BERNAMA
