Digital innovation is now the primary economic driver. In the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT), digital skills are becoming increasingly important. A paradigm shift from manufacturing to the digital economy brings opportunities and challenges to Malaysia. To prepare society and the workforce for this shift, Malaysia must put in place appropriate policies to enhance productivity and economic growth. However, if the digital divide remains widespread in the country, all of these digital development agendas will be viewed as mere rhetorical statements. In the face of such challenges, the government has already committed significant effort to promoting digital skills through a number of initiatives. However, it appears that the pace of the effort is still slow. Hence, the purpose of this concept paper is to examine the efforts and implementation of digital development in Malaysia as well as the digital divide that exists within the country. In light of the discussion generated by this concept paper, it is recommended that additional research be conducted into the most effective means of closing the digital divide in the country.

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Youth unemployment is one of the major global challenges for decades to come. While bound up with the overall employment situation, this challenge has its own dimensions and therefore requires specific responses. Unemployment or job difficulties have always been problems, especially for youth as they need to face it once they graduate. The government invents a lot of activities to cope with the unemployment issue in the country by cultivating entrepreneurship in society with a focus on students and youth to transform them to be an entrepreneur. So that this could lessen the problem at an early stage. Therefore, this study aims to identify the factors that contribute to the success of youth in entrepreneurship including business plan, business support program, and risk-taking, and how each of these influences’ youth entrepreneurship. The significance of this study is especially for youths include those who may leave their education and started their first jobs. Youth could expose the factors that lead to the effectiveness of the program. Even the youth may come from different fields, this could help them find the job if the current job mismatch with their field or being unemployed. A total of 200 youth respondents were collected from the youths who have become entrepreneurs and youth entrepreneurship has never been to obtain relevant data. The data collected, analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics. using Non-Probability Sampling and the sample size by Roscoe. Results from this study revealed that all the listed factors contribute to the successfulness of youth to become entrepreneurs and the most contributing factor to the success of youth in entrepreneurship is Business Support Program.

Digital education is now one of the main drivers of the country's economic development. Mastery in digital skills is becoming increasingly important in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0, the internet of things as well as technology-based teaching and learning processes. However, all these agenda towards digital development is seen as a mere rhetorical statement if the digital divide is still wide in the country. Thus, this article takes the initiative to dismantle the digital education policy implementation in the country and also attempts to see how strategies will be applied to reduce the digital divide in education. Success in ensuring the reduction of the digital divide is important to further increase the rate of digital literacy and at the same time fostering the process of innovation in society. The emphasis on digital education is also seen in line with the 4th sustainable development goal which is to access quality education and the 10th goal which is to reduce inequality. The discussion from this concept paper then produces some recommendations for future research to studies on the aspects of policy and strategies improvement needed in bridging the digital divide in the country.

This study attempted to explore the factors that determining the political beliefs among the flood victims in Malaysia. In disaster situation such as flood, political institutions play a significant role in supplying aid for the victims. However, even with the same relief that had been provided by the government, there are different appraisals such as criticizes and compliments regarding the way of the political institution handling aid are heard among the victims. These different perspectives represent the different ideological thought and belief system of the victims on 'how the political institution should be performed'. Hence, regarding with the issue, it seems important to understand the prior factors that developing the political belief of the flood victims, before it comes to form a belief system in the community. In order to do so, survey towards 759 respondents among the flood victims had been executed in order to understand the factors that influenced the political beliefs. The resulted from exploratory factor analysis shown that political knowledge was the dominance factor that determined political belief of flood victims. The implication of this findings was discussed.