Malaysia’s leap into the future: an evaluation of the multimedia super corridor

Ramasamy, Bala; Chakrabarty, Anita; Cheah, Madeline

doi:10.1016/s0166-4972(03)00049-x

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“…Traditionally, Malaysia has been known as the largest exporter of commodities such as rubber and tin (Ramasamy et al, 2004). However, over the last 20 years, Malaysia has shifted to a manufacturing-based economy.…”

Section: Malaysia At a Glancementioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism and internet adoption: a developing world perspective

Karanasios

Burgess

2008

Journal of Tourism Research

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This paper provides a new perspective of the realities faced by small tourism enterprises in the developing world. Given the well-recognised value of the Internet in tourism, we sought to identify how entrepreneurs mitigate Internet adoption obstacles such as the inadequate and unreliable telecommunications infrastructure, the cost of the technology, and a lack of knowledge and skills that characterise developing nations. A qualitative study was performed on small tourism enterprises in rural and metropolitan areas of Malaysia and Ecuador. We found that entrepreneurs established ways to overcome obstacles, with some applying quite innovative solutions. This paper helps to understand the role of entrepreneurs in innovation adoption and improve knowledge of Internet appropriation among small tourism enterprises in developing nations. A number of transferable lessons are identified.

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Section: Malaysia At a Glancementioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism and internet adoption: a developing world perspective

Karanasios

Burgess

2008

Journal of Tourism Research

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“…It started just a few decades ago as an institutional support to empower the Malaysian industrial structure, particularly to accelerate the manufacturing sector as the main engine of growth through science, technology and innovation (Robani, 2008). This was initiated to ensure that the Malaysian industrial and technological competitiveness was able to meet the growing global challenges (Narayanan & Lai, 2000;Ramasamy, Chakrabarty, & Cheah, 2004;Lai & Yap, 2004;Malairaja & Zawdie, 2008) Historically, the technoscience parks have evolved tremendously since 1960s from industrial estates to free trade zones with technoscience parks as the latest development. Apart from the great potential of attracting foreign investment, the government has immense expectations for the parks to generate employment and skilled workers for the country.…”

Section: Malaysian Technoscience Parks: An Overviewmentioning

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A Reassessment of the Roles of Technoscience Parks in Malaysia: Towards Developing A Sustainable Innovation Ecosystem

Robani¹

2015

ASS

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Technoscience parks, a policy tool in the 1970s and 1980s, have remained a popular policy tool today, particularly in response to the urgency of developing and strengthening knowledge-based economic growth. In general, this paper examines the historical evolution and potentials of technoscience parks as innovation support system in Malaysia. Specifically this study aims at exploring the motivating and hindering factors to successful development of technoscience parks in Malaysia. To achieve the stated objectives, this study employs a combination of case study, document-research, and interviews. Based on case studies conducted on several technoscience parks in Malaysia, it is found that the Malaysian technoscience parks are still lagging behind other technoscience parks in the world. Their roles are very much confined to low value-added activities with less emphasis on innovative performance. This article claims that a reassessment of the roles of technoscience parks should be given due consideration This article highlights the great potentials of technoscience parks as the vital support systems of innovation in Malaysia in enhancing effective governance of sustainability in science and technology. This study also offers some policy and managerial recommendations which they can take to review their progress, their plans as well as their roles in the innovation ecosystem.

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“…After the launching of the Multimedia Super Corridor in 1996, Malaysia has increased the adoption of technology and other technological advancements in government services particularly through online services channel (Ramasamy et al, 2004;Basu, 2004). E-government is an initiative by the government to interact with citizens and ensure that the services offered are citizen-centric (Irani et al, 2007).…”

Section: E-government Adoption In Malaysiamentioning

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“…Concurrently, Malaysia launched the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) to improve the socio-economic status of the citizens. By having a digitally literate society, this will raise national productivity and make Malaysia the ICT hub of Southeast Asia (Ramasamy et al, 2004).…”

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Electronic Government Outsourcing Issues in Malaysia

Samsudin¹,

Hashim²,

Fuzi³

2013

JOOIM

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In today's knowledge-driven economy, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are major enablers in all sectors particularly in government departments. Furthermore, it is infinitely acknowledged that information is power, thus, in keeping up with the ICT evolution, the transformation to e-government has continued to be Malaysia's main agenda for economic resilience, capacity building and social capital integration. However, not all government agencies are able to offer the core e-government services to the public as cost, legacy systems and advance ICT skills are the main barriers. Therefore, agencies have to resort to outsourcing where another set of issues have to be contended with. Consequently, the objective of this paper is to provide preliminary insights on a case study of a federal agency's issues with outsourcing, specifically by assessing the feasibility of outsourcing an agency's core e-services including other aspects of backsourcing or insourcing. Also, the findings from the qualitative inquiries and analyses would provide a new framework on outsourcing issues, particularly for e-government services. The implications of this study is that online public services are crucial to a country's socio-economic development as this offsets other important agenda to catapult the country's growth and wellbeing toward Vision 2020 as well as to sustain these positive developments. Also, the ripple effect of an effective and efficient e-service delivery will certainly affect other national issues such as citizen integration, public well-being, international relations, and political stability.

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Malaysia’s leap into the future: an evaluation of the multimedia super corridor

Cited by 51 publications

References 18 publications

Tourism and internet adoption: a developing world perspective

Tourism and internet adoption: a developing world perspective

A Reassessment of the Roles of Technoscience Parks in Malaysia: Towards Developing A Sustainable Innovation Ecosystem

Electronic Government Outsourcing Issues in Malaysia

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