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Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will make sure that Sarawak is not left out in the new economy or digital era.

Towards this end, he said Putrajaya had approved RM290 million to implement a connectivity recovery plan which represented the first phase of his entire project to bridge the digital divide in Sarawak.

“We hope to achieve 85 per cent coverage by having communication towers throughout the state.

The Seremban City Council (MBS) will procure electric vehicles (EV) and also encourage property owners to use solar power in its aspiration to turn the Negri Sembilan capital into a smart and low carbon emission city by 2027.

Mayor Datuk Masri Razali said as a start, MBS will acquire four electric scooters this year for enforcement and patrolling.

He said MBS had been working towards achieving these objectives since Seremban obtained city status in 2020.

As we enter the early stages the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), or what has now been coined as the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’, it is now more imperative for governments of major economic countries and businesses to catch up or risk falling behind this new evolution sweeping through global markets. The population is shifting, the young generation of tech-savvy Millennials are rapidly moving into their prime spending years.

The federal government’s administrative centre, Putrajaya, has often been cited as an exemplary benchmark by other countries in the development and management of a well-planned city and has also received praise from many heads of state, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pictured).

After 25 years of its establishment, he said Putrajaya had rapidly grown, not only in the physical aspect but also in the socio-economic development.

Sarawak Information Systems (Sains) has partnered Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak (Swinburne Sarawak) to conduct joint research, development and implementation of a digital socio-economy platform that could enhance the livelihood of rural communities in Sarawak.

Sains chief executive officer (CEO) Dato Teo Ten Hiong yesterday exchanged a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with Swinburne Sarawak deputy vice chancellor and CEO Prof Janet Gregory, witnessed by Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg.

A slide, a touch and a beep: such is the easydoings of electronic payments in today’s era of effortless payments.

Accelerating consumer’s migration to electronic payments (e-payments) in its move to realise cost savings and benefits has become a part of thw government’s agenda to increase the efficiency of the nation’s payment systems.

Technology for solid waste management, camera monitoring systems for illegal waste disposal sites and smart city management are among the local technologies that can be applied at the local authority level (PBT) to enhance public service delivery, said Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Chang Lih Kang.

He said this was because there was a need to increase the level of technology application at the PBT level to ensure the comfort and welfare of the people.

Thanks to an agreement with Huawei Malaysia, the university will be equipped with a high-quality, high-bandwith and high-reliability campus network.

“Smart campuses with reliable, high bandwith networks are essential tools for today’s digital natives to feel engaged in their university education and compete successfully in the digital economy,” said Huawei Malaysia chief executive officer Abraham Liu at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on Wednesday.

The promise of smart cities has been an ongoing conversation in the nation’s digitalisation agenda for some time now as new technologies are constantly being integrated into communities, especially post the Covid-19 pandemic.

However, concrete efforts have yet to be launched due to an assortment of reasons which include the time and resources needed to build efficient smart cities.

TM ONE, the enterprise and public sector business solutions arm of Telekom Malaysia Bhd, hosted the City LEAP Summit 2022, which is aimed at boosting smart city execution by local city and municipal councils (PBT).

In a statement, the company said the two-day event was the second time the summit was organised and was attended by a total of 60 participants from 26 PBTs nationwide.

Faded documents and wrinkled receipts were peppered across the floor of the room. Stacks of folders sat precariously on the narrow dining table.

Teary eyes, weary fingers, and two coffee-stained cups remain the only evidence of a caffeine-filled day, and it was still a couple of hours away from lunchtime.

Son Eun-ji’s newborn son will begin the first months of his life in a sci-fi-like home in the middle of a sparse river delta that was until recently sprawling fields of scallions.

The young family will move early next year into an experimental project showcasing South Korea’s ambitions for the city of the future.

Miri mayor Lawrence Lai said such support is needed in order to ensure the objectives set by the government through implementation of ICT development can be fully achieved.

Lai pointed the greater convenience of internet web development in all business levels championed by the government such as e-banking, e-payment and e-government had contributed to a surge in the number of users.

Planning and Resource Management Assistant Minister Mohd Naroden Majais said rural folk should not follow the current trend of using blogs or websites to spread incorrect information and humiliate others.

“There have been many incidences where the IT tools are being used to smear others, giving inaccurate information, which can confuse people and causing division among us,” he said.

Standing at a size of 1.62 million, the question of Malaysia’s civil service being bloated has been raised time and again, while downsizing is not on the cards, digitalisation may be the way to go when it comes to improving efficiency and productivity.

Socio-Economic Research Centre executive director Lee Heng Guie told SunBiz that while electronic-government (e-government) services have already been in place, there is a need to step up the efforts in that segment. This, he said will eventually lead to the rationalisation of the size of the manpower.

Its group chief executive officer Tengku Farith Rithauddeen said the assurance given by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak will definitely encourage more to embrace IT, especially in those related to the e-government and e-commerce initiatives for which the government is pushing very hard.

Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) requires at least 20,000 CCTV cameras installed throughout the capital to monitor crime and traffic congestion.

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said at present, there are only 5,000 units around the city.

He said the installation cannot be undertaken solely by DBKL but requires the cooperation of various ministries, departments and agencies, especially the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM).

Malaysia is experiencing a broad-based digitalisation drive across government and business, and management consultancy 27 Group is aiming to support this process through its new transformation subsidiary – 27 Digital.

Launched in the first quarter of this year, the new outfit is charting out the high-impact areas of Malaysia’s digitalising economy – spanning business transformation, innovation and entrepreneurship, smart city development and agricultural technology (agritech).

The deployment of 5G in Malaysia is poised to benefit the end users in numerous areas and create jobs for the people.

Prof Ir Dr Hafizal Mohamad, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia head of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, said Malaysia could see the acceleration of new jobs with the advancement of the network, coupled with the new artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) applications, particularly in the education, agriculture and manufacturing sectors.

Digital Nasional says initial rollout covers KL, Putrajaya and Cyberjaya, followed by 5 major cities and districts in 5 states by 2022

The national fifth generation (5G) network will be launched by the end of 2021 beginning with Kuala Lumpur (KL), Putrajaya and Cyberjaya, according to Digital Nasional Bhd (DNB).