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GOVT-PRIVATE SECTOR SMART PARTNERSHIP VITAL TO DRIVE GROWTH POLICIES
By Wan Nor Azura Mior Abd Aziz
KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 (Bernama) -- Growth-oriented development policies are only effective through smart partnerships between governments which formulate the policies and the private sector which carries them out, former Science Advisor to the Prime Minister Omar Abdul Rahman said Wednesday.
He said the onus was on the private sector to partner with the government in undertaking policy measures to help Malaysia attain the goal of becoming a high income, sustainable and inclusive economy by 2020.
Dr Omar, who is also Co-Chairman of the London-based Commonwealth
Partnership For Technology Management (CPTM), said the involvement of the private sector remained the key for any government planning.
"Getting private sector inputs into policy-making decisions has been practised for a long time in the country," he told Bernama ahead of the upcoming Langkawi International Dialogue 2011 (LID 2011) to be held at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC) where leaders are expected to stress on smart partnerships to achieve socio-economic development.
The CPTM has been involved in the organisation of the smart partnership movement through LID since 1995 and the Southern Africa International Dialogue(SAID).
Dr Omar said the CPTM had a clearly defined mandate to provide advisory services to governments on matters related to science and technology for economic development and wealth creation through sound management of technology, using public or private sector partnerships.
This can be achieved primarily in two ways, either through international smart partnership dialogues and through networking and partnership development.
"When I first became the advisor during the Fifth Malaysia Plan, the government's policy was a secret policy, we can't leak out any of the government's plans.
"But now you don’t do any government planning without consulting the privatesector," he said.
Dr Omar said that in formulating the New Economic Model (NEM), the
government had established labs for the 12 National Key Economic Areas (NKEAs) led by the private sector to determine specific initiatives and projects that would drive economic transformation.
He said that as smart parnership grows, discussions on economic policies were open to the private sector.
For instance, private sector has been urged to migrate into higher
technological levels and innovativeness as there was "still a lot of room for improvements."
"Only when these shortcomings are addressed, Malaysia will be able to ride on the NKEAS to achieve the ultimate objective of being high income, inclusive and sustainable," he said.
Smart partnership dialogues create increased understanding and consensus on development issues which will focus on exploiting smart partners' combined experience and expertise.
This year, Malaysia will host the 9th LID in Putrajaya from Sunday to Tuesday, which is taking place at a time when the global arena is facing unprecedented political challenges and natural disasters.
-- BERNAMA
KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 (Bernama) -- Growth-oriented development policies are only effective through smart partnerships between governments which formulate the policies and the private sector which carries them out, former Science Advisor to the Prime Minister Omar Abdul Rahman said Wednesday.
He said the onus was on the private sector to partner with the government in undertaking policy measures to help Malaysia attain the goal of becoming a high income, sustainable and inclusive economy by 2020.
Dr Omar, who is also Co-Chairman of the London-based Commonwealth
Partnership For Technology Management (CPTM), said the involvement of the private sector remained the key for any government planning.
"Getting private sector inputs into policy-making decisions has been practised for a long time in the country," he told Bernama ahead of the upcoming Langkawi International Dialogue 2011 (LID 2011) to be held at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC) where leaders are expected to stress on smart partnerships to achieve socio-economic development.
The CPTM has been involved in the organisation of the smart partnership movement through LID since 1995 and the Southern Africa International Dialogue(SAID).
Dr Omar said the CPTM had a clearly defined mandate to provide advisory services to governments on matters related to science and technology for economic development and wealth creation through sound management of technology, using public or private sector partnerships.
This can be achieved primarily in two ways, either through international smart partnership dialogues and through networking and partnership development.
"When I first became the advisor during the Fifth Malaysia Plan, the government's policy was a secret policy, we can't leak out any of the government's plans.
"But now you don’t do any government planning without consulting the privatesector," he said.
Dr Omar said that in formulating the New Economic Model (NEM), the
government had established labs for the 12 National Key Economic Areas (NKEAs) led by the private sector to determine specific initiatives and projects that would drive economic transformation.
He said that as smart parnership grows, discussions on economic policies were open to the private sector.
For instance, private sector has been urged to migrate into higher
technological levels and innovativeness as there was "still a lot of room for improvements."
"Only when these shortcomings are addressed, Malaysia will be able to ride on the NKEAS to achieve the ultimate objective of being high income, inclusive and sustainable," he said.
Smart partnership dialogues create increased understanding and consensus on development issues which will focus on exploiting smart partners' combined experience and expertise.
This year, Malaysia will host the 9th LID in Putrajaya from Sunday to Tuesday, which is taking place at a time when the global arena is facing unprecedented political challenges and natural disasters.
-- BERNAMA
