tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23004894038274698482024-02-02T14:23:37.144-08:00MissCloverieslets have fun with MGT300! ;)NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-54523014746741307862012-02-12T04:50:00.000-08:002012-02-12T04:50:08.195-08:00individual assignment<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">UiTM KAMPUS BANDARAYA JOHOR BAHRU, JOHOR<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: MS; mso-fareast-language: MS; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">1.0 SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Organizational Information theory says the one of the goals of any organization is to take any vague and confusing information and make it make sense to those that don’t understand the message being presented. The members of these organizations do this thru a process of enactment, selection, and retention of information. When an organization is able to take information that is unclear to some and make it make sense to all, it has achieved its goal in its communication processing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> Analytical information is used for managerial analysis and decision making. People who are higher up in the hierarchy of the company usually do not need all the details of transactional information. Whereas, timely information and quality information are the important things in organization to make sure that the organization’s goal achieved and success.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Information is everywhere in organization. Organizational information comes at different levels and in different formats and “granularities”. According to Pendse (2008), information needs vary with level in hierarchy. At higher levels, the information required is highly summarized, has higher granularity, lesser frequency of reporting, higher external content and needs to be accurate but need not be very precise.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center; text-indent: 7.1pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">:: <u>THE EXAMPLES OF TRANSACTIONAL INFORMATION</u> ::<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center; text-indent: 7.1pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: MS; mso-fareast-language: MS; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_1" o:spid="_x0000_i1031"
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">3.2 The value of Analytical Information</span></u><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #c00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Analytical information encompasses all organizational information. Its purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks. It is also information that can be quantitative or qualitative and is used for decision making specifically decisions and tasks of managers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Analytical information includes transactional information along with other information such as market and industry information. There are many examples of analytical information, such as trends, sales, product statistics, and future growth projections. The sample of analytical information can be shown at Figure 1.2 and Figure 1.3 below.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US">Analytical information can be the first step to becoming one of the many analyzing tools that managers and executives use to make decision. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="EN-US">Analyzing tools that use analytical information:<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">CLUSTER ANALYSIS</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">Technique used to divide information set into mutually exclusive groups that the members of each group as close together as possible to one another and the different groups are as far apart as possible.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">Frequently used to segment customer information for customer relationship management systems to help organizations identify customers with similar behavior traits.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">MARKET BASKET ANALYSIS</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">Analyzes information from websites and checkouts and manipulates. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">Useful for forecast how much inventories the organization may need or may not need.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">Market basket analysis gives clues as to what a customer might have bought <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">if the idea had occurred to them</span>.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">PERSONALIZATION</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">Similar to Market Basket Analysis but uses the information obtained from a customer online to find out what the customer likes.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">Useful because creates more revenue and sell more product.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">:: <u>THE EXAMPLES OF ANALYTICAL INFORMATION</u> ::<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: MS; mso-fareast-language: MS; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Figure 1.3<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">3.3 The Value Timely Information<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The need for timely information can change for each business decision. Some decision requires weekly or monthly information while other decisions require daily information. Timeliness is an aspect of information that depends on the situation. In some industries, information that is a few days or weeks old can be relevant while in other industries information that is a few minutes old can be almost worthless.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">REAL-TIME INFORMATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">Real-time information is defined as immediate, up-to-date information</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">Many organizations use real-time systems to exploit key corporate transactional information.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">With Real-time information, the information must also need to be timely in the sense that it meets employee needs.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">The growing demand for real-time information stems from organizations’ need to make faster and more effective decisions, keep smaller inventories, operate more efficiently, and track performance more carefully.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">If employee can absorb information only an hourly or daily basis, there is no need to gather real-time information in smaller increments.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">Most people request real-time information without understanding the continual change which is the one of the biggest pitfalls associated with real-time information.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">The timeliness of the information required must be evaluated for each business decision. Organizations do not want to find themselves using real-time information to make a bad decision later.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">3.4 The value of Quality Information</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #c00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Information from the organization must show the best quality for its customers as to look good image to them. Business decisions are only as good as the quality of the information used to make the decision in organization.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Westpac Financial Services (WFS), one of the four major banks in Australia serves millions of customers from its many core systems, each with its own database. The database maintains information and provides users with easy access to the stored information. Unfortunately, the company failed to develop information-capturing standards, which led to inconsistent organizational information. WFS had to solve its information quality problems immediately if it was to remain competitive. Customer service ratings are on the rise for WFS now that the company can operate its business with a single and comprehensive view of each one of its customers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There are five characteristics common high quality of information which are accuracy, completeness, consistency, uniqueness, and timeliness.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo6; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">Accuracy:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">Are all the values correct? For example, is the name spelled correctly? Is the dollar amount recorded properly?</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo6; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">Consistency: </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo8; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US">Is aggregate or summary information in agreement with detailed information? For example, do all total fields equal to the true total of individual fields?</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-59221877376930977242012-01-19T18:32:00.000-08:002012-01-19T20:48:37.100-08:00MDeC, University of Malaya, Cisco to Create ICT specialists for Malaysian SMEs Kuala Lumpur, 24<div style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://www.umlib.um.edu.my/graphics/umlogo-new.gif" /></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f2ee; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">KUALA LUMPUR, 24 AUGUST 2009 – Two young Malaysia-based entrepreneurs have won awards for the design and build of their multi-touch screen called Smart Surface. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f2ee; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
Smart Surface’s co-founders, Faysal Abdulaziz (managing director) and Homam Alghorani (executive director) said the product was envisioned during their student days at APIIT (Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology), where they became interested in multi-touch technology and related natural computer interfacing. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f2ee; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
The first prototype was designed and built at the beginning of 2009 when, in February, an entrepreneur offered the two aforementioned developers to co-form a company and fund their research, said Abdulaziz. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f2ee; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
“Smart Surface is completely designed and built in Malaysia,” said Abdulaziz, who added that the product was launched commercially in May 2009, during the 20th ITEX09 [International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition] exhibition held in Kuala Lumpur. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f2ee; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
During ITEX09, which was organised by MINDS (Malaysian, Invention & Design Society) and the ministry of science, technology and innovation, the product won two awards for Best Invention – Corporate Category, and the ITEX Gold Medal Award. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f2ee; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
Pioneering use of the LCD screen <br />
The company focuses on research and development of in-house multi-touch hardware and software solutions, said Abdulaziz. “As far as we know, another Malaysian provider of a similar product, Kreateevee, uses rear projection technology for display with diffused infra-red (IR) illumination for movement detection.” </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f2ee; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
“We do use this technology in some of our early models, but we also are the pioneers in exploring the use of the LCD screen for display technology, instead of rear-projection, as well as LASER [light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation] detection technology, instead of IR illumination,” he said. “Therefore, Smart Surface is the only company that has a full range of multi-touch and surface computer application technologies [rear-projection, LCD display, LASER recognition technology, tabletop and vertical walls].” </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f2ee; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
“Smart Surface has already been in commercial use by many companies,” he added. “That means we are technologically ahead in term of solving the many problems associated with any commercial use of the product. For example, for rear-projection technology, we achieved a tabletop display size ratio to the external dimensions of the top of the table of almost 1:1.” </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f2ee; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
Future plans <br />
“It is noteworthy that some of our clients, such as British American Tobacco and Cool Merchant Connections had already approached other local companies that offered multi-touch technology,” he added. “However, they opted to use Smart Surface products after they compared all technological aspects.” </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f2ee; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
Regarding future developments, he said: “We have already spoken with APIIT for cooperation through internships for students who will learn firsthand about our multi-touch technology and its applications. This will enrich the academic field of multi-touch research in Malaysia.” </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f2ee; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
“We also have ongoing discussions with the Centre for Research & Innovation Management at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, for possible cooperation on developing suitable applications for them,” said Abdulaziz.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"></div>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-92160231413125931242012-01-19T18:28:00.001-08:002012-01-19T20:51:07.816-08:00World Wide Web Domination Win is Malaysia's Gain<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Limkokwing University of Creative Technology" height="142" src="http://www.limkokwing.net/graphics/hd_logo.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #222222; font-family: inherit; line-height: 10px;"></span></div><div class="news_picture" style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="World Wide Web Domination Win is Malaysia’s Gain" height="100" src="http://www.limkokwing.net/graphics/news/word_wide_web_domination_win_is_malaysias_gain.jpg" style="background-color: #1c1c1c; border-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-style: solid; border-width: 3px; clear: both; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="200" /></span></div><div class="news_body" style="border-width: 0px; clear: both; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.64; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The award-winning website team does it again and every time they score on the international stage they bring glory not only to the world’s creativity University but also to Malaysia for online creativity and innovation.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.64; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The young creators of the Limkokwing official website, World Wide Web Domination (W3D), is on the roll again by taking home 18 international awards over the last two months, probably the only university web in the country to do so with such regularity.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.64; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The awards are all the more significant because they are from established US-based organisations known for their high standards and criteria.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.64; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The judges who are industry professionals picked the Limkokwing University website based on design, innovation content, technology, interactivity, copywriting and functionality, and the awards are a testimony that clearly reflects Malaysia’s sophistication for producing outstanding multimedia products and services.</span></div><h3 style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Young, talented and savvy</span></h3><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.64; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">W3D is dominated by dedicated team players who are all alumni below 30 years of age and for them winning is all in a day’s to come up with some amazing stuff.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.64; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Along the way, these young men and women have placed the country on the same pedestal as world-class names such as DreamWorks, Paramount, Levi’s, Walt Disney, Nissan, Pizza Hut, FIAT, Hewlett-Packard, Alcatel Lucent, Mattel, Pepsi, MTV, Samsung, Yahoo! among other distinguished brands.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.64; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">W3D comes under the able command of Dato’ Timothy Lim Kok Wing Jr who is a computer wizard in his own right. Working closely with the University Founder President, Timothy handles the day-to-day management of the outfit, which also includes conceptualization, content creation and direction of the creative team.</span></div><h3 style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Winning streak</span></h3><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.64; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Since 2009, Limkokwing University has won 30 more international awards again proving that Malaysia has the talents, resources and professionalism to create great online work of international standards.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.64; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Recently, the World Wide Web Domination again proved that have what it takes to be an award-winning web team when they won two Outstanding Achievement Awards under the Education category in the 2011 Interactive Media Awards (IMA) for the Limkokwing Community Portal and iPhone Applications.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.64; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The second highest honour bestowed by IMA, it was based on specific criteria: design, content, feature functionality, usability and standards compliance and cross-browser compatibility. The Limkokwing Community Portal and iPhone Applications received an overall score of 464 from a maximum of 500 points.</span></div><h3 style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Worldwide hit</span></h3><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.64; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The University’ official website is probably the such portal in Malaysia or in the world to register over 200 million hits annually from 220 countries and territories worldwide, or one that is yet to be matched by others.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.64; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This amazing achievement is again to the credit of the Limkokwing web team that is fast changing the landscape of the online skyline through their passion and creativity to excel in the field, and bring home more international awards so it may also be Malaysia’ gain too.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.64; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With more than 40 international awards showcasing their performance since 2009, the World Wide Web Domination is already strategising yet another global award, soon.</span></div></div>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-24271556116507580422012-01-19T18:27:00.001-08:002012-01-19T20:56:14.521-08:00IMU Expands Credit Transfer Options for Biomedical Science Students<div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">16 February 2011</div><br />
</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">International Medical University (IMU) recently provided another credit transfer</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">option for students who have applied for its biomedical science programme, giving</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">these students an exciting new option to continue their education in an overseas university.</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Through this arrangement, credit transfer students from IMU will be required to complete</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">the first part of their studies in IMU before transferring to University of Strathclyde.</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">These students will receive academic credit for the subjects they have successfully</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">completed in IMU and use this towards the completion of their degree. The degree</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">will then be awarded by University of Strathclyde.</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">"We are pleased to be able to provide an additional credit transfer option for students</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">in the biomedical science programme. Providing students with this additional credit</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">transfer option is an affordable way for IMU students to gain access to a UK education</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">and towards obtaining an overseas degree," said A/Prof Chen Yu Sui, programme</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">coordinator of the biomedical science programme at IMU.</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The University of Strathclyde was founded in 1796 and is Scotland"s third largest,</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">with some 14,000 students from more than 90 countries. The University is recognised</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">as a centre of teaching excellence in Scotland and stands among the best in the world.</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">A/Prof Chen Yu Sui added, "Without doubt, this arrangement would offer vast benefits</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">to them as it uniquely allows students to experience the learning environments</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">of two leading universities in Malaysia and the UK. Another benefit for the</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">students is the discovery and understanding of cultures from around the world</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">as this is a critical component for a</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">healthcare professional. This is certainly one of the reasons for us to continuously</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">look for additional transfer options for students and part of its ongoing mission to train</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">and promote excellence in the healthcare industry."</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="link" href="http://farhanimohdmarzuki.blogspot.com/search/label/IPTS%20news" name="d.en.46163" style="color: #ff9900; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a></span>University of Strathclyde has been a member of IMU"s network of partner universities</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">for more than 10 years. Prior to this, the university has collaborative and</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">credit transfer arrangements with IMU for its pharmacy and psychology</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">programmes. With this</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">collaboration, University of Strathclyde will be expanding the number</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">of IMU</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">programmes that the university is having collaborative agreements.</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">In addition to the credit transfer option with the University of Strathclyde, students</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">applying for the biomedical science programme also have the opportunity to transfer</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">the credits that they have earned in IMU to the University of Otago in New Zealand or</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">University of Newcastle in Australia after successful completion of the first part of their</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">course in IMU. Students also have the option to complete the entire biomedical science</div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">degree in IMU and obtain a Bachelor of Science (Hons) Biomedical Science from IMU.</div>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-68451494050310366682012-01-19T18:26:00.000-08:002012-01-19T18:26:41.560-08:00UMT Signs Aggreements with Telekom Malaysia for Broadband Capacity Upgrade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" height="161" 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Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) hari ini telah memeterai perjanjian dengan Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) bagi menaiktaraf kapasiti perkhidmatan jalur lebar TM Direct dari 16Mbps ke 45Mbps.<br />
Dengan peningkatan kapasiti capaian Internet ke 45Mbps ini, UMT akan berupaya meningkatkan keberkesanan sistem operasinya di seluruh kampus termasuk semua jabatan dan dewan kuliah. <br />
Di majlis ini, TM telah diwakili oleh Y.Bhg Dato’ Adnan Rofiee, Ketua Pegawai Operasi, TM Retail, Malaysia Business, TM manakala UMT diwakili oleh Y.Bhg. Prof. Dato’ Dr. Sulaiman Bin Md Yassin, Naib Canselor, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu . <br />
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Perkhidmatan jalur lebar TM Direct yang disediakan oleh TM ini akan memberikan UMT capaian Internet berkelajuan tinggi yang dapat memenuhi segala keperluannya sebagai sebuah organisasi pendidikan yang mementingkan kualiti dan sentiasa mengorak langkah untuk maju kehadapan. Sehubungan dengan itu, teknologi telekomunikasi yang baik dan keselesaan dalam mengakses maklumat dari Internet bukan sahaja akan menambah pengetahuan pihak pengurusan, tenaga pengajar dan pelajarnya, tetapi ia juga dapat meningkatkan prestasi dan daya saing UMT dalam sektor pendidikan global yang semakin kompetetif. <br />
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Prof. Dato’ Dr. Sulaiman Md Yassin dalam ucapannya berkata, ” Kami berharap dengan penaiktarafan infrastruktur ini, pelajar UMT akan dapat menerapkan gaya hidup digital masa kini, sekaligus memperolehi pencapaian yang cemerlang dalam pengkhususan pengajian masing-masing”. <br />
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Berucap di majlis tersebut, Dato’ Adnan Rofiee berkata, “Penyediaan perkhidmatan litar suwa jalur lebar TM Direct daripada TM ini adalah bertepatan pada masanya kerana ia dapat menyokong pembangunan UMT, disamping meningkatkan keberkesanan pengurusan dan sistem pentadbiran jabatan-jabatan di seluruh kampus”. <br />
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”Selain capaian Internet yang laju, TM juga turut menyediakan perkhidmatan-perkhidmatan tambah nilai seperti “web hosting” dan “storage access network” kepada UMT. Dengan ini, UMT akan dapat menyediakan kemudahan ICT yang menyeluruh kepada pelajar-pelajarnya. Selain dari itu, pihak UMT juga akan dapat menikmati penjimatan kos mengurus dan menyelenggara rangkaian datanya kerana ianya akan dipantau dan diselenggarakan sepenuhnya oleh TM melalui Pusat Operasi Rangkaiannya yang berpusat di Kuala Lumpur”, tambah Dato’ Adnan. <br />
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Majlis yang diadakan pada hari ini juga merupakan salah satu usaha TM dalam menyokong usaha Kerajaan merealisasikan matlamat penubuhan Wilayah Pembangunan Ekonomi Koridor Pantai Timur (ECER). ECER yang dilancarkan secara rasmi oleh YAB. Dato’ Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi, Perdana Menteri Malaysia pada 29 Oktober 2007 di Kuala Terengganu menumpukan kepada tiga sektor utama iaitu Pertanian, Pelancongan dan Pendidikan.NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-38879425676159560422012-01-19T18:25:00.000-08:002012-01-19T18:25:28.570-08:00Hand-on-Skill<h2 id="story_byline" style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span>STUDENTS enrolled in Nilai University College (Nilai UC)’s Diploma in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering not only learn in the classroom, but have the opportunity to apply their knowledge on a real aircraft at the institution’s very own hangar.</h2><div id="story_content" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Soon, these students will have the option to further their knowledge in the field through a recently signed memorandum of understanding with the United Kingdom’s (UK) Kingston University and CAA International Ltd (CAAi), a subsidiary of the UK Civil Aviation Authority.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nilai UC president Prof Emeritus Tengku Datuk Shamsul Bahrin said students would have the option of pursuing an engineering degree in Aircraft Maintenance through its partnership with Kingston.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="story_image center" style="text-align: justify; width: 414px;"> <img alt="" height="213" src="http://thestar.com.my/archives/2010/7/11/education/e_14mason.jpg" width="400" /> <span class="caption">Prof Emeritus Tengku Shamsul (right) exchanging documents with Dr Mason at the ceremony.</span></div><div class="story_image center" style="text-align: justify; width: 414px;"><span class="caption"> </span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Students who want to further their studies after the diploma will have the avenue to do so locally through a one-year top-up degree programme with Kingston.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">“With the agreement, Kingston will also now be providing the notes for the diploma programme while CAAi will regulate the examinations throughout the course duration,” he said at the signing ceremony recently.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The degree programme with Kingston is scheduled to commence next January, together with additional options in helicopter maintenance and avionics.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Prof Emeritus Tengku Shamsul said Nilai UC, which had been running the diploma programme for the past three years, aims to produce trained professionals who meet international aviation standards.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Although three years is not a long time, we have worked hard to ensure the programme was accredited and now we are pleased to team up with Kingston and CAAi to further enhance the programme.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="story_image center" style="text-align: justify; width: 394px;"> <img alt="" height="314" src="http://thestar.com.my/archives/2010/7/11/education/e_14aircraft.jpg" width="380" /> <span class="caption">Diploma in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering students working on an aircraft during a practical sesion.</span></div><div class="story_image center" style="text-align: justify; width: 394px;"><span class="caption"> </span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Industry acceptance is also important and we are lucky to have the support of nine industry partners — SR Aviations Ltd, Berjaya Air, Dnest Aviation Services, KLAS, GGIFA, Sabah Air, Subang General Aviation Sdn Bhd, Integrated Training and Services Aviation Academy and Systematic General Aviation Sdn Bhd,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Aircraft Maintenance department head M. Kunalan said the partnership also allowed students to obtain valuable feedback on their examination performance.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">“It is important for the students to know how they fare in the examinations, and now they will be able to get feedback on their performance from the CAAi,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also present at the ceremony were Kingston University engineering faculty dean Dr Peter Mason and CAAi training and examinations unit senior manager Matthew Margesson.</div></div>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-89221957058106365442012-01-19T18:23:00.001-08:002012-01-19T18:23:45.273-08:00Introduction of FSKM ICT Week 2010<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o2GBi8hD35Q/TkJ74TBZF2I/AAAAAAAAAEs/3avLbC_RE6k/s1600/images.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o2GBi8hD35Q/TkJ74TBZF2I/AAAAAAAAAEs/3avLbC_RE6k/s320/images.jpg" width="320" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #33ff33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal;"></span></b></span></span></a></span></div></div><b>Come join over 1000 participants from future knowledge workers in Malaysia and users in the IT carnival which concentrate on green technology which will be held on 24th March 2010 to 27th March 2010 at Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematical, University Technology MARA, Shah Alam Selangor.</b><br />
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<b>IS AND IT GOING GREEN CARNIVAL</b> is heralded as the platform for “gathering of tribes” of IT communities, as well as businesses, academicians and its’ communities to share and show off their thoughts, experiences, ideas and projects. By end of the event, it will create awareness to the meaning and importance of “IS and IT Going Green” and also cultivating individuals and organization towards the same direction. As the meat of the event is its presentations and discussions, we have allocated 6 speaking slots opportunities. Drawing on a huge community we will discuss some of the most current and poignant topics in the industry today.<br />
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<b>IS AND IT GOING GREEN CARNIVAL </b>is organized by an Executive Committee comprised of volunteers from FSKM student UiTM. As such, it requires support through strategic partnerships that will assist it in fulfilling its role.<br />
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<b>IS AND IT GOING GREEN CARNIVAL </b>offers a dynamic opportunity to strengthen your organization’s exposure to your key target markets.NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-21793077973837852972012-01-12T19:23:00.000-08:002012-01-12T19:23:13.553-08:00ICT News of Universiti Malaya (UM)<span id="lblEventDetail"></span><br />
<h2 class="news"><b>UPM and UM Enhance Learning Facilities and Empower Student Lives with 4G Mobile Internet</b></h2><div class="copy"><b>Kuala Lumpur, 13 September 2010</b> – Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and Universiti Malaya (UM) today joined the Education Partner Program (EPP) spearheaded by YTL Communications Sdn Bhd (YTL Comms). Under the program, both universities will apply the power of 4G Mobile Internet campus-wide to give their students cutting-edge learning facilities and further enhance the quality of life on campus for both students and academic staff.</div><div class="copy"><img alt="UM plans to utilise YTL's 4G Campus-wide Network to boost research activities and be among the top 100 universities in the world" border="0" height="320" src="http://www.ytlcomms.my/EN/images/news_image_20100913_1.jpg" title="UM plans to utilise YTL's 4G Campus-wide Network to boost research activities and be among the top 100 universities in the world" width="571" /></div><div class="caption">UM plans to utilise YTL's 4G Campus-wide Network to boost research activities and be among the top 100 universities in the world</div><div class="caption"><br />
</div><div class="copy">UPM and UM are the third and fourth local university respectively to join the EPP program in the last two months after UTM and UTAR. All twenty of Malaysia’s public universities and selected private universities are expected to join the program by the end of the year.</div><div class="copy"><br />
</div><div class="copy">“We want the students to access our enterprise, learning and research services from anywhere and at anytime and therefore we are pleased to partner with YTL Comms to give our students the freedom and the convenience of 4G Mobile Internet,” said Professor Tan Sri Datuk Dr. Nik Mustapha R. Abdullah, Vice Chancellor of UPM.</div><div class="copy"><br />
</div><div class="copy">“We champion the model of Ubiquitous Learning at UPM. This means learning whatever, whenever, wherever. We call it www-learning, which is, incidentally, the way the real Internet should be, too”, said Associate Professor Dr. Suhaimi Napis, CTO and Director, InfoComm Development Centre (iDEC), UPM.</div><div class="copy"><br />
</div><div class="copy">The Ubiquitous Learning Environment (ULE) at UPM, the brainchild of Dr. Suhaimi, relies on the Malaysian Research and Education Network (MYREN), a high-capacity broadband network that connects universities, colleges, research organisations and scientific laboratories. UPM was one of the founding proposers of this dedicated network that provides a platform for creating research communities and encourages them to exchange ideas and collaborate with international partners.</div><div class="copy"><br />
</div><div class="copy"></div><div class="copy"><img alt="YTL's 4G Campus-wide Network is set to take UPM's model of Ubiquitous Learning Environment (ULE) even further" border="0" height="320" src="http://www.ytlcomms.my/EN/images/news_image_20100913_2.jpg" title="YTL's 4G Campus-wide Network is set to take UPM's model of Ubiquitous Learning Environment (ULE) even further" width="571" /></div><div class="caption"><br />
</div><div class="caption">YTL's 4G Campus-wide Network is set to take UPM's model of Ubiquitous Learning Environment (ULE) even further.</div><div class="caption"><br />
</div><div class="copy">While UPM’s ubiquitous learning model relies on MYREN as the foundation, the university also has a number of cloud services that can support blended learning – a mixture of remote and on-premise education. For example, the video collaboration services, 1VideoBridge, make live virtual classes possible, with up to 160 laptops, desktops and other compatible devices connected at one time, where students can interact with the lecturer and each other. We also have uCast, modelled after a popular video-sharing portal to facilitate video-on-demand.</div><div class="copy"><br />
</div><div class="copy">“All this innovation that supports the ubiquitous learning model can’t be fully harnessed by the students without high speed Internet access that is available everywhere and from any device,” said Dr. Suhaimi. “The power of 4G Mobile Internet will create new ways for education to be delivered and we are already working with YTL Comms to enable interoperability between our learning and research cloud services and all platforms, including new Android-based devices, which we are eager to explore.” He added.</div><div class="copy"><br />
</div><div class="copy">Under the EPP partnership, each student will receive FREE converged data and voice services of 300 megabytes per user, on a monthly basis over a period of 3 years at anytime and from anywhere throughout the campus grounds. On top of that, the students will be able to top up their accounts at special student rates.</div><div class="copy"><br />
</div><div class="copy">“UM is currently rated the top ranking university in Malaysia, but it is our mission to see UM among the top 100 universities in the world in the next five years. Our partnership with YTL Comms and participation in the EPP program is a major milestone towards realising this vision,” said Datuk Dr. Ghauth Jasmon, Vice Chancellor of UM.</div><div class="copy"><br />
</div><div class="copy">UM sees 4G Mobile Internet as a perfect tool to enhance students’ lives on campus, too. “The combination of 4G Broadband & Voice service under one account is a great value proposition to our students. When every ringgit needs to be stretched, it helps that our students can use their 300 megabytes of free broadband to make free phone calls, too. Considering that the majority of their calls are made to friends and colleagues on campus, the savings they will be able to realize are substantial,” elaborated Dr. David Asirvatham, Director, Center for Information Technology, UM.</div><div class="copy"><br />
</div><div class="copy">UM is Malaysia’s first public university and a Research University, as designated by the Government. As such, UM actively spearheads a number of research-intensive projects in ICT and Computational Sciences, Biotechnology and Bioproducts, and Health and Translational Medicine in which it applies the power of Grid Computing. However, due to the current bandwidth limitations, the Grid Computing can only extend to the servers at the time being. </div><div class="copy"><br />
</div><div class="copy">“With the superior performance of 4G, that delivers connectivity in megabits instead of the kilobits we currently get with 3G, the power of grid computing can easily extend all the way to desktops and devices, too, significantly improving our research process,” added Dr. David.</div><div class="copy"><br />
</div><div class="copy">“We are very impressed with UPM’s and UM’s vision to create superior academic environments and we are extremely pleased to be their partner in realising this vision,” said Yasmin Mahmood, Executive Director, YTL Communications. “We are building a better Internet for everyone, a 4G Mobile Internet network that truly empowers all people, and we want our students, the leaders of a better tomorrow, to be the first to experience this most advanced Internet technology available today.” </div><div class="copy"><br />
</div>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-20337018311645711942012-01-12T19:17:00.000-08:002012-01-12T19:18:40.230-08:00Information Technology News from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)<table class="contentpaneopen" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><tbody>
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<tr> <td class="contentheading" style="padding-top: 10px;" width="100%"><a class="contentpagetitle" href="http://malaysiandigest.com/news/38-health/37911-upm-dean-malaysia-needs-to-produce-own-cyber-security-software.html"> <span style="font-size: large;">UPM Dean: Malaysia Needs to Produce Own Cyber Security Software</span></a> </td> <td align="right" class="buttonheading" width="100%"> </td> <td align="right" class="buttonheading" width="100%"> </td> </tr>
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<tr> <td style="padding-top: 10px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>KUALA LUMPUR, 28 DECEMBER, 2011:</b> Malaysia needs to produce its own cyber information security software as depending on foreign software may risk information leaks and intelligence breaches, said a software expert here today.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) Computer Science and Information Technology Faculty dean Prof Dr Ramlan Mahmod said infiltration could happen covertly as currently there was a lack of understanding on source code logic streams used by foreign software. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
"At the moment, there is no software capable of checking the source code of software to ensure the software used is confirmed safe. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
"For the realisation of this information technology, the country needs to acquire 'technical knowhow' in information security and expertise in various fields such as computer science, mathematics and engineering," he told Bernama.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
He said to acquire the expertise, the nation needed to carry out the foundation work such as training more experts in information technology and by<br />
bringing in more external technologies into the country. <br />
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Dr Ramlan said information leaks could happen in two situations, that is when the data was in transmission and hacking of existing data in storage.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
"To prevent hackers from attacking data in transmission or unauthorised access to data storage, the information could be encrypted or hidden.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
"This is the basis of information and software development important to ensure our cyber defence," he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
He said the government needed to play a major role to set up a strong system of cyber defence as it needed financial commitment, expertise, legislation and continuous monitoring.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
"Cyber security is the same as national security involving many operational aspects such as prevention, defence, detecting, intelligence and attack.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
"It also needs sophiscated technical knowledge in information security and continuous upgrading of capability considering hackers are also improving their attacks," he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><br />
- Bernama</td></tr>
</tbody></table>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-40565069556409278712012-01-12T19:11:00.000-08:002012-01-12T19:14:23.478-08:00UNIMAS Upgrades Its Internet Access Capacity<div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"></span></span></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; color: purple; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTsokNNu4C8ikucSfgsbRtlmWouJfPGumA52XIScxNw0rf8rykt" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 4px;" /></span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">THE increased application of information communications technology is one of the cornerstones of the Educational Development Masterplan 2006-2010 under the Ninth Malaysia Plan.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">In line with this, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) has signed an agreement with Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) to implement a major upgrade of UNIMAS' Internet leased line capacity from the current 8Mbps to 34Mbps by June 1.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">This increase in Internet access capacity will meet the administration, study and research requirements of 7,500 UNIMAS students and staff.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">TM has been the primary Internet connectivity provider to UNIMAS since 2003, and currently provides its tmnet direct solution to UNIMAS via a dedicated link.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">UNIMAS was TM's first tmnet direct customer among institutions of higher learning in the country.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">Founded in 1992, UNIMAS is the eighth public university in Malaysia and the first in Sarawak. It currently hosts 19 faculties, institutes and centres in a wide variety of study and research areas, including computer science and information technology, resource science and technology, as well as biodiversity and environmental conservation</span></div></div>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-63934157220773204682012-01-12T19:04:00.000-08:002012-01-12T19:04:46.335-08:00ICT News from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)<div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div id="banner" style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="social-share-button-mod"> </div></div><div> </div><table class="contentpaneopen" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> <a class="contentpagetitle" href="http://peoplespace.my/index.php/newsroom/106-peoplespace-technology-and-universiti-sains-malaysia"> PeopleSpace Technology and Universiti Sains Malaysia Redefine the University Journey<br />
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<tr> <td valign="top"> <strong><em>New engagement portal for alumni will extend the <span class="caps">USM</span> learning journey throughout graduates’ life and career.</em></strong><br />
<img align="right" alt="AUSM logo" border="0" height="96" src="http://peoplespace.my/images/stories/newsroom/ausm.png" width="280" /> Leading Malaysian HR, management and advisory consultancy PeopleSpace is proud to announce a new partnership with Persatuan Alumni Universiti Sains Malaysia (<span class="caps">PAUSM</span>) to create the <span class="caps">USM</span> Alumni Gateway, an online portal that will enable Universiti Sains Malaysia students to continue their lifelong education after graduation.<br />
The <span class="caps">USM</span> Alumni Gateway will provide a suite of online learning, engagement and peer networking tools that will empower every graduate to reach their full potential throughout their career and life journey. The Gateway will focus on developing key life skills like leadership, entrepreneurialism, self-awareness and lifelong learning. It will also create new networking opportunities and allow alumni to engage their peers, the business world and the wider community in a revolutionary way.<br />
By inspiring and encouraging the whole alumni community to make a positive contribution throughout their lives, the Gateway will help to fulfil USM’s mission of “Transforming higher education for a sustainable tomorrow”.<br />
<span class="caps">PAUSM</span> President Dato’ Syed Jamal says, “The Alumni Gateway is a significant step in delivering continuous alumni contribution in the making of academically qualified and world-ready graduates."<br />
Luc Andria, <span class="caps">CEO</span> of PeopleSpace Technology said that PeopleSpace believe great things can be achieved when individuals are empowered with the tools to excel in their life journey.<br />
“The Gateway, based on PeopleSpace’s leading Community Campus solution, brings together the whole <span class="caps">USM</span> community, creating a vibrant network of empowered University alumni, students and staff. As a result, we’re expecting to see <span class="caps">USM</span> graduates make their mark on the world as never before.”<br />
The <span class="caps">USM</span> Alumni Gateway will launch in Q1 2012.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-60408661178057823582012-01-12T18:56:00.000-08:002012-01-12T19:19:54.075-08:00ICT News of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The First 4G Outlet Launched in UTM Johor Bahru </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thursday, April 7</span><br />
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<div class="post-header" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"></div><div></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">“YES Campus Store”, the first 4G outlet at an institution of higher learning in the country is launched at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The UTM Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dato’ Ir. Dr. Zaini Ujang said, the initiative to open the said outlet enables the UTM community to get the 4G mobile internet services at an affordable rate.The package, Education Partner Program Campus Citizen Plan, facilitates the UTM community to use the 4G network which has been customised with a special package.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Yes 4G mobile phone is also launched today exclusively for the UTM community. The YES Campus Store was launched by Dr. Zaini. Also present was the Executive Director of YTL Communications Sdn Bhd (YTL Comms), Yasmin Mahmood. Although more than 80 percent of the student residential colleges have been provided with internet coverage through the installation of almost 1,000 wireless hot spots, the 4G broad band services will extend the students’ accessibility to the online learning materials and services.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The facilities enable more than 20 thousand students to utilise the advanced communication and information technology as part of their learning process. The initiative is in tandem with UTM teaching and learning policy which emphasizes the use of e-learning while focusing on the development of soft skills among students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The expansion of the broad band and internet accessibility will give great impact to the students of UTM as it enables them to obtain the information required particularly in research and development speedily and promptly. Such facilities are most appropriate as many of the learning references and materials are made available through the internet. In addition the technopreneur program will get the advantage of the services provided by YTL Comms through high speed internet.</span></div>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-29810179109351727732011-12-22T19:54:00.000-08:002011-12-22T19:54:44.189-08:00ICT Supplier Advocate off and running!<h1 class="entry-title" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.katelundy.com.au/2010/04/29/ict-supplier-advocate-off-and-running/"><br />
</a></h1><div> </div><div class="entry-meta" style="text-align: justify;"> <abbr class="published" title="2010-04-29T18:35:05+1100">April 29, 2010</abbr> <span class="meta-sep">|</span> <span class="author vcard">By <a class="url fn n" href="http://www.katelundy.com.au/author/katelundy/" title="View all posts by Kate Lundy">Kate Lundy</a></span> <span class="meta-sep">|</span> <span class="cat-links">Posted in <a href="http://www.katelundy.com.au/category/blog/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Blog">Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.katelundy.com.au/category/campaigns/publicsphere/ict-industry-devel/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Public Sphere 3: Australian ICT & Creative Industries Development">Public Sphere 3: Australian ICT & Creative Industries Development</a>, <a href="http://www.katelundy.com.au/category/video/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Video">Video</a></span></div><div class="entry-meta" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="cat-links"> </span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I just had an excellent meeting with Don Easter, the newly appointed supplier advocate for the ICT industry. Having had the privilege of <a href="http://www.katelundy.com.au/2010/03/03/supplier-advocate-to-champion-it/">announcing</a> the Rudd Labor Government would be making the appointment when I was a CeBIT in Hannover earlier this year, it was wonderful to meet the person tasked with this critical role.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">It’s Don’s first day on the job and our discussions traversed the recent (last few decades) history of procurement policy and experience from a SME’s perspective to things like the challenge of procuring ICT in a way that fosters innovation and nimble adaptation to leverage web2.0.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I was impressed by the fact that Don Easter had already familiarised himself with the report of our 3<sup>rd</sup> public sphere: ICT and creative industries development. ICT procurement issues attracted a lot of attention throughout the public sphere and we formally presented Don with the Report for good measure.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Given my strong views regarding procurement and outsourcing of ICT, I firmly believe that our new ICT supplier advocate is in a good position to make real progress solving the well known frustrations experienced by SME’s in particular.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I also want to acknowledge and thank the Minister for Innovation, <a href="http://minister.innovation.gov.au/Carr/Pages/ITSUPPLIERADVOCATEAPPOINTED.aspx">Senator Kim Carr for this appointment</a>. In further reinforces the central role the ICT sector plays in advancing our collective vision for a productive, expanding, knowledge-based economy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="vvqbox vvqyoutube" style="height: 295px; width: 480px;"><span id="vvq-5559-youtube-1" style="visibility: visible;"></span></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Transcript:</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Kate:</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I’m really excited to be able to introduce the ICT supplier advocate, Don Easter. He’s here with me in my office. I had the great priviledge of of course making the public announcement that the Rudd Labor Government was going to appoint an ICT Supplier Advocate and this is our first chance to have a meeting together. Don…</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Don:</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thank you very much and delighted to be here. I’ve been meeting with the Ministry today and getting to understand the role better. And certainly I’ve got through the Public Sphere 3 and Gov 2 initiatives and there are some really terrific ideas coming out of you work in your area so I look forward to working with you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Kate:</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well thank you for that. And it won’t surprise you to know Don that we’re here, one of the things I wanted to do today was to formally present you with the Public Sphere 3, the outcomes of the ICT industry and Creative sector briefing paper. So here it is.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Don:</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thank you very much.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Kate:</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">It’s on the laptop but we’ll make sure you get all the versions of the copies of it. And I commend it to you because we had wonderful engagement with the ICT sector through this Public Sphere. Their ideas have been collated via a wiki and presented in this report.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Don:</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Accepted with pleasure.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Kate:</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thank you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">It’s also important to note the commitment by Minister Carr, our Minister for Innovation and Industry. How he’s been able to push out the Supplier Advocate roles, and as I said I’m particularly pleased to see the ICT industry recognised with their own Supplier Advocate.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Don:</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thank you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="http://www.katelundy.com.au/2010/04/29/ict-supplier-advocate-off-and-running/" target="_blank">KATE LUNDY</a> </div>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-84737414780914026012011-12-22T19:50:00.000-08:002011-12-22T19:50:33.686-08:00Developing ICT skills the best formula for paving way to growth<h1 class="heading" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</h1><div> </div><div class="story-info" style="text-align: justify;"> <ul><li class="byline first "> <span class="source-prefix">by:</span> <cite> ACS: Anthony Wong </cite> </li>
<li class="source "> <span class="source-prefix">From:</span> <cite> <a class="source-theaustralian" href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/">The Australian</a> </cite> </li>
<li class="date-and-time last"> <span class="datestamp">November 29, 2011</span> <span class="timestamp">12:00AM</span> </li>
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="story-body lead-media-large" style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="article-media article-media-large media-count-1 first-image-650w366h"> <div class="image "> <div class="image-frame image-650w366h"> <img alt="France Unesco Palestinians" height="366" src="http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2011/11/01/1226182/623106-france-unesco-palestinians.jpg" width="650" /> </div><div class="caption"> <span class="caption-text">Picture: AP </span> <span class="image-source"><em>Source:</em> AP</span></div><div class="caption"><span class="image-source"> </span> </div></div></div><div class="story-intro"> <strong> AS we approach the end of another year it is encouraging to see signs of new investment aimed at stimulating growth and development in the ICT sector. </strong><br />
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</div>In the past three months, both the Victorian and NSW governments have announced plans to promote ICT-enabled innovation and the digital economy. In particular, the Victorian government's ICT plan, announced earlier this month, committed $85 million for ICT skills development, investment and infrastructure development in collaboration with industry.<br />
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"The coalition government recognises the key role ICT plays in contributing to a competitive, productive and growing Victorian economy, building on Victoria's reputation as a leading centre for ICT," said the Victorian Minister for Technology, Gordon Rich-Phillips. "Our vision for the future is to not only propel results for our ICT sector, but also help to drive and enable growth, productivity and competitiveness in other industries through the adoption of technology."<br />
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<div class="story-promo story-promo-middle"> <div class="group text-g-aus-marketing-subscribe-promo-group item-count-1 group-id-1226160316284"> <div class="group-content"> <div class="item ipos-1 irpos-1"> <div class="module module-promo-image-01 mpos-1 mrpos-1 id1226200893986 text-m-subscriber-content"> <div class="module-content"> <div class="promo-block promo-image-01 "> <div class="promo-image"> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>With a strong focus on ICT skills development and strategies to leverage the NBN -- both of which are critical to innovation-led growth -- the Victorian ICT Plan is a good model for other states and territories to emulate.<br />
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ACS Victorian branch chairman Ian Dennis welcomed the Victorian government's recognition of the need to raise the number of places for ICT students in order to ensure we have enough qualified workers to support the planned growth.<br />
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"Without increasing numbers from the current annual 2300 domestic ICT higher education enrolment commencements in Victoria, such sustained economic growth will be difficult to deliver," he said.<br />
We need to encourage more people into the ICT sector, and retain them for longer. This means encouraging students to enter ICT careers, catering for mature workers and providing options for women to remain in the workforce for longer.<br />
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Increasingly, we will need to verify the skills, experience and overall professionalism of these practitioners in order to provide confidence to businesses which depend on quality outcomes created by these professionals. The Skills Framework for the Information Age is increasingly being embraced as the standard for certifying ICT skills and providing a clear articulation path for ICT professionals, which is key to ensuring a viable ICT industry.<br />
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Growing demand for Australia's ICT professionals made headlines again last week after recruitment firm Robert Half Technology revealed that demand for specialist ICT skills jumped by 35 per cent in the past two quarters because of increased investment in e-commerce.<br />
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Meanwhile, skills shortages are being predicted for regional areas. Various studies into the impact of the NBN rollout have identified an estimated shortfall of more than 7000 telecommunications or electrical technicians and more than 12,000 ICT professionals needed to do the work associated with the network's construction.<br />
The NBN represents a critical platform for development that will dramatically stimulate the digital economy and drive strong demand for specialist ICT skills. As well as building a larger ICT workforce, we must also provide broader community education to ensure every Australian is prepared to participate in the digital economy.<br />
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Studies by UNESCO and the World Bank suggest that industrialised nations such as Australia can add between 1.2 and 1.38 per cent to the annual GDP for every 10 per cent increase in the population using broadband communications. For Australia, this would potential represent growth of between $11.1 billion and $12.76bn a year for every 10 per cent growth in broadband connections, based on a GDP of $925bn (July last year).<br />
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More of the nation's business leaders recognise the role the NBN will play in driving economic prosperity. At an ACS Foundation lunch in Sydney last week, IBM Australia's Managing Director, Andrew Stevens, highlighted the potential benefits of the NBN for all industry sectors.<br />
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"We are on the dawn of Australia's digital future," he said. "We will live through the time when the NBN moves from being a vertical backbone network to a horizontal one in terms of affecting all parts of how this country works and operates in terms of projecting this country forward and in terms of productivity and workforce participation; I can't imagine a better thing to do."<br />
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Australia's best formula for future economic growth is to develop the ICT skills that will enable us to take full advantage of the high-speed infrastructure the NBN will provide to create innovative products and services that we can sell to the world, not only in ICT but across every industry sector.<br />
We commend and fully support any government that demonstrates the foresight to develop and implement its own ICT growth strategy.<br />
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<em>Anthony Wong is president of the ACS and chief executive of AGW Consulting</em><br />
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<em>Source: <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/opinion/developing-ict-skills-the-best-formula-for-paving-way-to-growth/story-e6frgb0o-1226208570116" target="_blank">AustralianIT</a> </em></div>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-88568654588008345752011-12-22T19:44:00.000-08:002011-12-22T19:44:40.867-08:002011 International ICT Awards Winners<div class="posttitle" style="text-align: justify;"> <h2 class="pagetitle"><br />
</h2><small> Posted: April 5, 2011 in <a href="http://infochatnews.wordpress.com/category/tech/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Tech">Tech</a></small></div><div class="posttitle" style="text-align: justify;"><small> </small></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="325" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x81/infochatnews/ICTAwards2011Winners.jpg" width="491" /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>International ICT Awards 2011 Winners</strong> (L-R): Sreejit Chandran, Country Manager Cognizant Philippines; Cassandra Soto, Philippine Delivery Leader IBM Global Processing Services; James Donovan, Group CEO FirstCarbon Solutions; Maulik Parekh, CEO, SPi Global; David Rizzo, President Asia Pacific, Teleperformance; Danilo Sebastion L. Reyes; Emmanuel ‘Noel’ Mendoza, Director of Philippine Center, Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) LTD., ROHQ; and Raoul Teh, Senior Site Officer, Thomson Rueters Manila</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In a fully packed, grand recognition ceremony at the Dusit Thani Hotel, the CanCham (Canadian Chamber of Commerce) and BPAP (Business Process Association of the Philippines) announced and awarded the winners of this year’s International ICT Awards.<br />
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Filipino-owned <strong>SPi Global Solutions</strong>, the country’s largest locally led outsourcing vendor, was named <strong>BPO Company of the Year</strong>. In accepting the award, SPi Global Solutions President Maulik Parekh, revealed with pride that many SPi leaders all over the world are reporting to Filipino executives here, while the reverse is true for most in the industry.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Teleperformance</strong>, a finalist in three categories, brought home the trophy for <strong>BPO Employer of the Year</strong> while <strong>IBM</strong>, a finalist in 2 categories, won the <strong>Fastest Growing BPO of the Year award</strong>. <strong>Hewlett-Packard</strong> won the <strong>Non-Voice Excellence of the Year award</strong> and <strong>Danilo Sebastian Reyes</strong>, Genpact Country Manager, was honored as the <strong>ICT Individual Contributor of the Year</strong>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Three first-time finalists prevailed over the rest in the new locator, innovation and shared service excellence awards. <strong>Cognizant</strong> was named <strong>Best New BPO Locator</strong>, <strong>Thomson Reuters</strong> won the <strong>Shared Services Excellence</strong> award, and <strong>FirstCarbon Solutions</strong> was awarded <strong>Most Innovative Company of the Year</strong>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">International ICT Awards Chair Richard Mills said, “Over the last 5 years, we have seen a tremendous focus on and passion for excellence in the Philippine BPO industry. Today, the top awards are no longer reserved for the biggest companies with global resources. Very quickly, we are seeing new and smaller companies demonstrating efficiencies and effectiveness that put them at par with the world’s best.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Outgoing BPAP CEO Oscar Sanez who, on his last official function, was given a surprise tribute and took the opportunity to thank ICT partners for suporting the goals of the industry. “You have made the task easier because of your own desire to promote our country as the world’s BPO destination of choice and I will always remember you in my heart of hearts,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="http://infochatnews.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/2011-international-ict-awards-winners/" target="_blank">INFOCHAT NEWS</a></div>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-10397244438057207032011-12-22T19:40:00.000-08:002011-12-22T19:41:03.036-08:00A Study of the problems associated with ICT adaptability in Developing Countries in the context of Distance Education<table align="center" border="0" style="font-family: inherit; width: 600px;"><tbody>
<tr><td align="justify" height="41"><div align="center"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><b>A Study of the problems associated with ICT adaptability in Developing Countries in the context of Distance Education</b></span><br />
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<tr> <td height="50"><div align="right"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #006633;"><b>M RAJESH,<br />
Assistant Regional Director,<br />
Indira Gandhi National Open University,<br />
Haryana-INDIA</b></span></b></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td valign="top"><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><b>“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last” The Adventure of the Red circle by Arthur.C.Doyle </b></i></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Communication technologies have come to play a vibrant role in democratizing Education not only in the Developed but also in the Developing Countries. How ever, in spreading the use of Information and communication technology some major difficulties are felt by the policy makers as well as the implementers. These difficulties are felt both at the growth and application stages of communication technology. Yaverbaum and Reisman highlights the importance of three aspects in the application of new information and communication technology. They are People, software and hardware. Different permutations and combinations with regard to the three variables create different implications for the growth and application of Information and communication Technology (James C Taylor, “Computer assisted Distance Education: A pedagogic and professional Development Perspective”). Among these, they stated that the most difficult aspect to address would invariably be the human element. Pete Thomas and Dean Taylor state that as access to Information and communication technologies become more extensive, their use is extended from the activities related to internal administrative aspects towards more of interaction with students (James C Taylor, “Computer assisted Distance Education: A pedagogic and professional Development Perspective”). Such a scenario throws up new challenges before technologists in terms of both technical and human aspects. Hidetoshi Kato states that in the years to come communication technologies will play a major role in deciding learning outcomes.(Kato, Hidetoshi(1995) “Technology and Distance education”, Indian Journal Of Open Learning,pp.11-14)</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
The problems associated with the growth of ICT that have been focused upon in this paper are Political factors, Economic factors, Cultural factors and technological factors. Among the major problems associated with application of ICTs the focus will be laid on Socio-political factors, Human and Administrative factors, Economic factors and Technical factors. Further, the paper based on various case studies derives important conclusions and also provides pertinent suggestions to ensure the smooth growth and effective application of ICT in the Third World.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Why use ICT?</span><br />
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Information and communication technology has come to be regarded as the mainstay of all Distance education methods. Dr.Ramanujam succinctly put the importance of Information and communication technologies in the current scheme of Distance education forward in the following words.</b></b></span></div><blockquote><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><i>“The spread of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has revolutionized the access to education in general and the Distance Open Learning (DOL) in particular. ICT’s role in the expansion of DOL need not be overemphasized. It is common knowledge that every Distance Teaching Institution is fast adapting itself to technology based teaching and learning in order to keep abreast of the changes taking place in educational technology”(<a href="http://depfolang.kubsu.ru/ramanujam.html" target="_blank">http://depfolang.kubsu.ru/ramanujam.html</a>)</i></b></b></span></div></blockquote><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Educational technologists have cited may reasons as to why an education system based on ICT can more effectively result in positive pedagogic outcomes than one based only on conventional techniques.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
One of the prominent reasons why ICT has come to hold an important place in ODL is that Distance learning is basically a Guided Didactic Conversational process (Borje Holmberg) in which the institution has to be in constant touch with the student. The high degree of interactivity exhibited by ICTs is an indispensable aspect in facilitating Guided Didactic Process. ICTs can transmit information to the students through a wide variety of media in a way that promotes informed discussion as well as provides guidance.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
The autonomous learner of ODL institutes needs to be continuously attended by the Distance Learning Institute. This was termed by David Stewart as “Continuity of Concern”. The ODL institutes will not be able to express their continuity of concern to their students with out the appropriate use of modern ICTs. Modern ICTs like teleconferencing can reach the farthest corners of the world discounting the traditional limitations of space and topography. Such a scheme will be able to effectively tackle the problems of students at all levels and at all stages. </b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
The use of new ICT is ex</b><b>tremely compatible with the “Industrial Form of Learning”(Otto Peters) that is propounded by ODL institutes. The emphasis on systematization by such institutes makes it highly imperative that each stage of the learning process is associated with skill that has to be pandered to by using a different learning device. This has prompted the cognitive theorists like Skinner to propound the usage of teaching machines. Such machines greatly reinforce the stimuli provided by the learning process. </b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Thus one must agree that for enhancing the pedagogic utility of ODL systems, a proper mix of new ICTs should be framed.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="color: blue;">What are the problems associated with the Growth of Communication technologies in Developing Countries? </span></b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>There are many problems that hinder the growth of new ICTs in Developing countries. Some of these factors are enumerated below.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
<span style="color: red;">Policy Structure of the Government:</span><br />
The growth of any communication technology in a society and hence its applicability for Distance Education depends to a very great extent on the degree to which policy makers recognize the importance of ICTs in promoting a knowledge based society. Many Developing Countries like India have realized the importance of giving a boost to New Information and Communication Technologies for the general betterment of the society. The New Information Technology Act 2000 passed by the Indian Parliament is a step in the right direction. Many Countries have bestowed tax incentives on Communication technology based industries. Some Countries that have paid relatively scarce attention to the area of information technology are lagging behind in the field of spreading education using the latest technology. The failure of Distance Education in many African Countries can be attributed to this. Not only are policies important but also their implementation deserves greater attention. The road to failure is often paved with good intentions. Many structural factors make the implementation of technology a daunting task. At the planning stage the enormity of such factors are often not recognized.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
<span style="color: red;"> Infrastructural Bottlenecks and High User Charges:</span><br />
The lack of appropriate infrastructure for enabling the use of ICT for Distance Education is a serious bottleneck. The aspect of Internet access in Developing Countries is a case in view. The figures for the level of Internet penetration in various countries are given below.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Internet Penetration in Asia by Country, 1999 (Millions)</b><br />
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<tr> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><b>Adult Population </b></i></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><b>Adult Population </b></i></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><b>Internet Users</b></i></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><b>Percentage of Internet users</b></i></b></span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Singapore</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>2.66</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>1.06 </b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>39.92</b></b></span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Hong Kong </b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>5.34 </b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>.075 </b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>14.06</b></b></span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Japan </b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>102.64</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>10.3 </b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>10.44</b></b></span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Taiwan </b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>16.09</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>1.8</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>11.19</b></b></span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>S.Korea</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>34.2</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>0.9</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b> 2.63</b></b></span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Malaysia </b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>12.58</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>0.16</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>1.27</b></b></span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>China </b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>869.93</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>2.47</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>0.28</b></b></span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Philippines </b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>44.69</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>0.12</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>0.27</b></b></span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Thailand </b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>42.72</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>0.11</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>0.26</b></b></span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>India </b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>598.88</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>0.27</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>0.05</b></b></span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Vietnam </b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>46.25</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>0.01</b></b></span></td> <td><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>0.02</b></b></span></td> </tr>
</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> <b>Source: Technology - Pedagogy Combine: Need for Quality in Distance- Open Learning (<a href="http://depfolang.kubsu.ru/ramanujam.htm" target="_blank">http://depfolang.kubsu.ru/ramanujam.htm</a>l</b>)</b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>The low levels of Internet penetration in India are clearly visible from the data presented in the table. The percentage of Internet users is just .05%, which compares unfavorably with countries like Thailand (.26%) and China (.27%). The same scenario holds true for most basic infrastructure needed to make ICT usage more viable in Developing countries. Further the waiting time for obtaining access to basic ICT is also very long. Even after liberalization, the average waiting time for obtaining telephone access in India is more that 8 months in India. Access to even the most basic of electronic devices like the Television is also highly limited in countries like India. In India the TV penetration is only 80 per 1000.Coupled with these is the fact that, for most modern information and communication technologies, the user charges are very high that makes their use for Distance Education a very costly affair. A case in view is that of the cost of Internet connectivity for Indian homes. It still costs as much as Rs.30 per hour for Internet access in Indian homes. Such prohibitive costs make the use of such technology for imparting Distance Education, a luxury. </b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> <b><span style="color: red;">Political Factors</span><br />
The perceptions and attitudes of a political system greatly affect the acceptance and growth of technology in any society. The same holds true for all the ICTs relevant to Distance Education. A political system conscious of the payoffs of ICT for the enhancement of the educational profile of a country will frame appropriate policies for the adoption and dissemination of ICT through out the length and breadth of the country. As A.W.Bates states while talking about his criteria of Media Selection, Novelty of an ICT should be the least important criteria that should guide the political society in deciding upon the ICT that should be selected. Rather than being guided by the fashion of the day, ICT should always be selected in accordance with its end result, that is the extent to which it can bring about positive pedagogic out comes.</b></b></span></div><blockquote><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><b>“Mere ‘buying’ of technology will not become a policy, because any unprofessional decision at some level will be enough to buy technology. In such a case technology will become a disabling rather than an enabling tool”‘Technology-Pedagogy Combine: Need for Quality in Distance-Open Learning (<a href="http://depfolang.kubsu.ru/ramanujam.html" target="_blank">http://depfolang.kubsu.ru/ramanujam.html</a>)’</b></i></b></span></div></blockquote><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> <b>The growth of ICTs will be generally welcomed in a democratic society, because, ICTs are known to democratize societies through wider dissemination of information. However, in a society in which an autocratic form of government prevails, growth of ICTs may not be viewed with favour because, greater access to information may encourage interest in creating more democratic space in the society.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Economic Factors<br />
</span>In Distance Education, cost is an important factor that guides the adoption and growth of Communication Technology in a country. Developing Countries often lack the initial allocation as well as matching funds to make feasible investments in ICTs. Many countries often acquire costly technology without making provisions for building sufficient infrastructure to run them.</b></b></span></div><blockquote><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><b>Thomas (1987) states that there are four major factors that can affect the growth of Communication Technologies in a Country. They are</b></i></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><b>- Financial Strength of the society<br />
- Attitude of policy makers- Budget Allocation for the technology<br />
- Cost-efficiency of the technology</b></i></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><b>.(IGNOU,“ Growth of Communication Technology”, Communication Technology for Distance Education,ES-318, pp.34)</b></i></b></span></div></blockquote><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Most Developing countries are constrained by resource scarcities. Even where the importance of ICTs is recognized, allocation for the development of these is at best paltry. Due to this, many developing countries are forced to depend on mostly traditional means of communication. These are limited in their efficiency.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
The Developing countries are vitally dependent on substantial foreign assistance to ensure the development of ICTs. Often it is found that it is very difficult to invite the attention of donors on ICTs. These countries are perennially short of Foreign Exchange for acquiring latest technologies. Most of the Developing Countries are undergoing Structural Adjustment Programmes under the auspices of the IMF. <br />
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Cost-efficiency of an ICT is another major factor that is important that determines its growth. Developing countries have to ensure that such a technology is adopted that is easily accessible to the target group and also fulfills all the functions that are expected of it. Such a scenario essentially implies that a costly technology need not always be the best technology. However, it is often seen that Developing Countries often invest in the latest technologies without considering whether the target audience is effectively reached or whether the target audience is interested in the technology. The latter is the case of UGC’s countrywide classroom scheme whose utilization rate is as low as 10%.<br />
</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="color: red;">Cultural Factors</span></b></b></span></div><blockquote><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><b>Contractor, Fulk, Monge and Singhal (1986) state that culture is a complex whole that includes knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws, customs and any other capability and habit acquired by a human being as a member of the society (IGNOU,“ Growth of Communication Technology”, Communication Technology for Distance Education, ES-318, pp.36) </b></i></b></span></div></blockquote><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Language is one of the major factors that hinder the easy assilimilation of ICTs by many developing countries. This hinders transfer of technology. The radio and TV programmes, computer software and the printed texts are produced in different countries bearing different cultural backgrounds. As such, such tools may fail to impress students of another country. For example, a zoology text can safely give the example of a koala in Australia, but the same cannot be replicated in India.<br />
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With regard to cultural patterns there are two groups of policy makers. Policy makers can be Pro-implementation or Anti- implementation. It is precisely the cultural moorings of a society that makes people either in favour of implementing technology or to reject it. Japanese have over the years built up a reputation of being quick to adapt and implement new technology. This can be linked to the way in which a new culture of receptivity to new ideas was built up after centuries of stagnation when commodore Perry forced the Japanese to open up their society. Again, in recent times it has been seen that the culture of class room teaching and learning has been so strongly built into the psyche of the teaching community that they often exhibit resistance in the way of implementing technological change that forces a change in the role of the teacher from being a store house of all learning to a manager of the teaching-learning process.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="color: red;">Technological Factors:</span><br />
Very often, technology becomes the determining factor in the growth of ICT in any society. One would be justified in applying the Bates criteria for media selection as an appropriate parameter for selecting appropriate technology for educational purposes.</b></b></span></div><blockquote><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><i>Bates Criteria for Media Selection<br />
Bates states that the following are the major criterion that have to be taken into consideration while selecting appropriate media for Educational purposes</i></b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><i>A - ACCESS TO THE MEDIA<br />
C - COST OF THE PROPOSED MEDIA<br />
T - TEACHING FUNCTIONS OF THE MEDIA IN RELATION TO LEARNING GOALS<br />
I - INTERACTIVENESS AND USER-FRIENDLINESS<br />
O - ORGANISATIONAL ISSUES<br />
N - NOVELTY OF THE MEDIA<br />
S - SPEED WITH WHICH CHANGE CAN BE BROUGHT ABOUT IN THE MEDIA<br />
(IGNOU, “Media in Distance Educatio “, Communication Technology for Distance Education, , (2001), ES-318.</i></b></b></span></div></blockquote><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
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<b>With regard to the acceptance of a particular technology, the factors such as access, cost, teaching functions, interactive ness and user-friendliness, organizational issues and speed afforded to change are important issues. In the case of Media selection, Bates regards Novelty of a media as the least important criterion on which a particular media should be selected or rejected. However, in the case of many third world countries, it is novelty of a media that attracts the attention of policy makers. For example, in the late70s and 80s, the novelty of TV as a medium influenced the UGC to initiate the Country-Wide Class room programme for the benefit of the college students. However much care was not taken to ensure whether, the programme could generate enough interest in the student community to make the programme a success. Moreover, at the time of its initiation, access to TV sets was also a major problem. Even today the tele-density in India stands at a low 80 per 1000. The end result was that UGC’s CWC generated a utilization rate of less than 10%.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Apart from the factors mentioned above, once a technology is selected, there are certain other factors that need the concern of policy makers. Handling of New technology needs care and technical proficiency. For this training is an important aspect. Many developing countries lack enough personnel to train manpower in new technology. Moreover, constant retraining of manpower to acquaint them with changing technology is also important. These often act as constraints before the smooth growth of ICT.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Maintenance of equipment also needs sufficient care. Frequent snags may render equipments unusable. Maintenance as a function also needs sufficiently trained staff, high quality spare parts and machine friendly attitude from the users. <br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Growth of Communication Technology – A case Study of India:</span></b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>In any Developing country, the factors mentioned in the previous section can play a major role in either progressing or depressing the growth of modern ICTs. In this regard the case of India is very illustrative. We shall examine the Indian case with the help of the case studies related to the use of two major ICTs namely Radio and Television.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="color: red;">The Relative successes and failures of various types of TV and Radio in the Indian Context:</span></b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="color: #006633;">1. Radio:</span></b></span><br />
<b>Radio broadcasts in India for educational purposes has taken the form of School broadcasts, adult education and community development projects, Farm and home broadcasts, university broadcasts and language learning projects.</b> </b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Among school broadcasts, the programmes aired by the Central Institute of Educational Technology for primary classes was one of the best programmes of the genre. </b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
Among the adult education and community development projects the “Radio-forums” that were tried out in 144 villages around Poona with the help of UNESCO. The programme was tried out in groups of 20 members each. These forums were expected to listen to thirty-minute radio programmes on agriculture and community development.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
Farm and Home Broadcasts were initiated in a big way in 1966. The topics covered in these were related to agriculture and allied topics. The aim was to educate the farmers and to provide them information in innovative practices in their field. These programmes were very effective.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
University Broadcasts in India have traditionally been of two types- ‘general’ and ‘enrichment’ oriented. The former includes topics of public interest while the latter is used to support correspondence education of various institutes. The University of Delhi works out details in association with AIR Delhi for providing education through radio. Again many Open universities in the country also use radio broadcasts. Even the CIEFL, Hyderabad is engaged in offers modules through radio mode.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
Language learning Projects are also a popular form of using the medium of radio. The most prominent example of the same is called the “Radio-pilot project” aimed at covering 500 primary schools of Jaipur and Ajmer in order to teach Hindi language. These projects were successful in improving the vocabulary of students by a very large measure. Later on such an experiment was also repeated in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh (IGNOU, ES-318, Communication Technology for Distance Education, 2000, pp.42-44).<br />
GyanVani project was launched by IGNOU is offered in FM channels in 40 cities around the country for the purpose of educational development. EMPC is the nodal agency for implementing the project. The EMPC is currently studying the possibilities of creating a global Gyanvani. </b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
Interactive Radio Counselling is a recent conception in Indian Distance Education scheme. In this scheme various experts at AIR stations provide live Counselling across the country. They are conducted at 189 radio stations on Sundays for an hour. Reflecting on the Interactive Radio Counselling mechanism as adopted in IGNOU, S.S.Chaudhary. et.al reported that IRC was an effective input to accomplish course objectives(Bansal,kiron and Chaudhary,sonvir.S,1999, “Interactive radio for supporting distance education: an evaluative study”, Indian Journal of open learning).Again, B.Sukumar states that IRCs provide a major forum on which the students, especially from the remote areas can interact with the teaching end and can get their doubts clarified. The study revealed that even though IRC is well accepted by the students, there needs to be more attention given to its various aspects to make it really effective.(Sukumar,B.(2001),IGNOU interactive Radio Counselling :a study,IJOL,10(1),pp.80-92) </b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Radio as an Information and communication technology is by far the most successful of all ICTs in India.<br />
</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="color: #006633;">2.Television<br />
</span></b><b>Experiment with television as a medium began very early in India. The major programmes of significance in this regard were Secondary school TV programme, Delhi Agricultural Television Project: Krishi Darshan, Satellite Instructional TV Experiment (SITE), Indian National Satellite Project (INSAT) UGC’s Higher Educational Television Project (HETV) and Gyan Darshan (TDCC).</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="color: #006633;">A. Secondary school TV programme:</span><br />
This programme was started in Delhi on an experimental basis in October 1961 to impart lectures in Physics, chemistry; English and Hindi for class 11.These were basically syllabus-based programmes. The aim of the programme was also to enable students without laboratory facilities to have a feel of the same in a detached environment (for science programmes).</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="color: #006633;"><br />
B. Delhi Agricultural Television Project:</span><br />
This project was initiated on January 26,1966 for providing information related to agriculture to farmers. It was provided in 80 villages in and around Delhi. The programme attained a fair degree of success.<br />
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<span style="color: #006633;">C. Satellite Instructional TV Experiment (SITE):</span><br />
This experiment was started in the year 1975, initially for a period of one year. The telecast concentrated on the broadcast of two types of programmes- 1. Development related programmes featuring health, agriculture etc and 2. School programmes in Hindi, Kannada, Telugu and Oriya. <br />
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<span style="color: #006633;">D. Indian National Satellite Project (INSAT):</span><br />
The INSAT series of satellites were a landmark in the history of Indian Educational technology. Educational Television broadcasts were inaugurated through the INSAT series of satellites on 15th August 1982 in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. Later on it was extended to AP, Bihar, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Orissa and UP. The cover of the INSAT spans the whole of the country in today’s date. One of the avowed objectives of the INSAT scheme was to bring the rural population into the national mainstream. The areas covered include most of the areas of interest to these populations.<br />
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<span style="color: #006633;">E. UGC’s Higher Educational Television Project (HETV):</span><br />
The UGC’s Countrywide classroom programme was inaugurated in 1984.The production of programmes under this scheme is undertaken by the Electronic Media Research Centres (EMRC) located at various spots in the country. Some of the programmes are also imported from other countries too. The aim of UGC through its CWC was to upgrade the quality of education in the country. <br />
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<span style="color: #006633;">F. The Gyan Darshan Experiment:</span><br />
A collaborative effort between the MHRD and IGNOU, the Gyan Darshan channel has come to stay as a major innovation in educational television. The EMPC is the coordinating and transmitting agency for the programmes. Regular transmission of programmes from EMPC started on January10, 2000. Cable operators are being encouraged to make available the programmes of Gyan Darshan to all their customers. This was for ensuring a countrywide reach. Currently Gyan Darshan is available for viewing both in India and abroad. </b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
<u><span style="color: #006633;">A Relative Analysis<br />
</span></u></b><b>A relative analysis of the performances of Radio and Television would indicate the factors that can lead to the success and failures of various media in Developing countries. It has been noticed that the experiments conducted with the medium of radio have been far more successful than those conducted with the medium of Television. The reasons are not far to seek. The extent of penetration of Radio is far greater than that of TV. Even today the penetration of TV is as low as 80 per 1000 compared to the widespread. On the other hand radios are easily accessible and with the transistor revolution radio as a technology has become very cheap. Another factor working in favour of Radio, as a medium is the low capital investment and operating costs of radio broadcast technologies. Again learners can easily listen to radio programmes even while they are doing manual work. Radio is in all its real sense an egalitarian medium of communication. The ease with which it is accessible to the poor and rich alike makes it the most ideal medium for information dissemination. Compared to the radio the TV has certain disadvantages that work against it as a medium of communication. The major problem with regard to making the TV a successful medium of communication is the high cost of programme production. Sonvir Choudhary states in that there are groups recommending the use of TV due to its glamour value and those opposing it due to the doubts over its viability of its access (Choudhary, s.v, 1992, “Television in distance education: the Indian scenario”, Indian Journal of Open Learning, 1(1), pp.23-31). Thus there are major factors that have led to the relative success of a medium like radio over a medium like TV. </b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="color: blue;">What hinders the wider application of ICTs in the Third World?</span></b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Political factors of various hues affect the application of ICT in various ways. The political will of the ruling elite can at times pave the way for the growth of a particular type of communication technology in a country. The current phase of buoyancy related to computer technology and information technology can be attributed to the energetic steps taken by the late Prime Minister Mr.Rajiv Gandhi and his scientific advisor, Mr. Sam Pitroda. They were also instrumental in initiating a series of Technology missions. Further, if there is decentralization of communication technologies, it will lead to making the country a well-informed one. Such a scenario can help the people to make well-informed choices about the political scenario. This may even result in a topsy-turvy period of transition.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><br />
Human and Administrative Factors can play a major role in the growth of ICTs in the third world. It is seen that if all sections of people do not have access to the technology being implemented then it will result in the creation of two classes of people – ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’. This may result in a sense of deprivation among the ‘have-nots’. It may also result in many administrative problems. Implementation is a major issue. When new technologies like computers are implemented, resistance from ground level staff is a real possibility. Far more important than technological resistance is the attitude of the people towards the use of technology for educational purposes. Sonvir Choudhary and Shyam Behari in their Modasa experiment state that developing countries do not lag behind advanced countries in the use of technology for entertainment. With a little change in perception the same technologies can be used for education too. The authors proved this fact through their experiment at Modasa, a village in Gujarat. (Choudhary,S,V and Behari Shyam,(1994) Modasa Experiment: Distance teaching through cable TV network system,Indian Journal of Open Learning 3(1),pp.24-28)</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Economic factors also affect the application of new ICT in Distance Education. Developing countries have a constant paucity of funds especially for the application of new ICT in Distance education. Due to this people are unable to reap the benefits of modern technology. For example, one of the reasons for the lack of success of UGC’s CWC was the lack of adequate TV sets for reception of the programmes.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>Equipment Related factors are a major hurdle in the growth and application of communication technologies. The main aspect in this pertains to the import of various equipments. In many cases, maintenance of the same requires foreign technicians. In the case of dual use technologies, there may emerge many import restrictions. A major case in view is the import restrictions imposed on the export of cryogenics related rocket technology to India by USA in recent times.</b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>The Human Element is also major importance in the growth and application of new ICT. In many cases, it is seen that the teachers act as a major roadblock against the implementation of new technology. They are not ready to accept any change in their role. With the advent of new ICT teachers are no longer the storehouse of all knowledge, but are more of managers of education.<br />
Communication policies of various countries also play a major role in deciding the application of various communication technologies. These policies are a product of social pressure. Policy formulations are based on the kind of role the political elite want that media to play in the process of development of the country. In the Educational field policies should be formulated in such a way that the inter –regional disparities as well as the inter- strata disparities are overcome and equal access is made available to all the segments in their quest for education. </b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="color: blue;">Suggestions and Recommendations:</span></b></b></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>The following suggestions and recommendations may be given for facilitating greater growth and adaptation of ICTs in Developing countries.</b></b></span></div><ul><li><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b align="justify"> In keeping with the pattern of the globalised economy, greater impetus should be given for the cooperation between the government and the private sector to adapt and disseminate new technology in the field of education.<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b align="justify"> Tax rebates should be extended to private institutions engaged in the field of research on ICT adaptability in Distance Education<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b align="justify"> The government of these countries should invest at least a percentage of their GDP in research and adoption of new ICT.<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b align="justify"> The Developed countries should accept it as their moral duty to transfer those ICT technologies to developing countries that can bring about vast changes in the educational profile of these countries. <br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b align="justify"> While choosing between different ICTs, the criterion of positive end use effect should prevail above the aspects of Novelty and fashion.<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b align="justify"> The governments of these countries should concentrate on building up the base of high speed data transfer by initiating projects like the Sankhya vahini.<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b align="justify"> Venture capitalist projects should be encouraged to make break thorough in the field of ICTs for educational purposes.<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b align="justify"> It is as important to empower people with technologies as to make technologies accessible to them. Access without empowerment will stunt the growth of technologies. </b></b></span></li>
</ul><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="color: blue;">Summing Up:</span><br />
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The growth and application of new ICTs in the field of education in Developing countries is fraught with immense difficulties. However, the choice of the medium is of paramount importance in ensuring that the objectives of using a particular media are fulfilled. From the relative analysis of radio and TV as media in India, we can safely conclude that the major factors that decide the growth and application of a ICT in Distance education are the access to the media, its cost effectiveness, its user friendliness and its pedagogic value. Unless all these factors are taken proper care of, growth and application of ICTs in Education will continue to be as daunting a task as it ever was.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde10/articles/Rajesh.htm" target="_blank">INTERNATIONAL ICT</a></b></b></span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-13875106973168694212011-12-22T19:16:00.000-08:002011-12-22T19:16:11.215-08:00Centralising & standardising ICT<div class="content" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="style-color-4" style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="title style-color-4"> Centralising and standardising ICT across your international group – implementing harmonised, high performance communications solutions for business benefit. </div><br />
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</div></div></div>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-68739136028236667352011-12-22T19:03:00.000-08:002011-12-22T19:04:50.003-08:00ICT For Education in Rural Malaysia<h4>Digital Inclusion, Education IT </h4><h2 class="article-title">ICT for education in rural Malaysia</h2><div class="article-byline">By Alice Kok | 19 November 2008</div><div class="article-byline"><br />
</div>Sekolah Menegah Kebangsaan (<span class="caps">SMK</span>) Tenom in a remote part of Sabah state boasts a wireless connection and computer-aided programmes for its students. This connection is meant to help these students keep pace with others in larger, more privileged districts in the state and across Malaysia. <br />
<div class="span-3 last" id="article-media"><div class="contentbox"><h4>Photos</h4><a href="http://www.futuregov.asia/photologue/photo/sabah-students/"><img alt="" src="http://www.futuregov.asia/media/photologue/photos/2008/Nov/19/cache/Clipboard01_gallery_large_thumb.jpg" /></a></div></div>Abdul Aziz Mohamed Zain Headmaster of <span class="caps">SMK</span> Tenom says having <span class="caps">ICT</span> in place has promoted excellence in teaching and enhanced students’ learning. “Students are excited about using computers in their lessons. Interest in learning and computer skills has improved.”<br />
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Under the 9th Malaysia Plan, the Education Ministry has allocated <span class="caps">US</span>$6.3 million for the replacement of <span class="caps">ICT</span> equipment and infrastructure.<br />
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Recently, the internet service speed has been upgraded by the ministry from <span class="caps">2MB</span> to <span class="caps">4MB</span> and this infrastructure is shared by primary and boarding school students. Currently, there are 80 personal computers located in the computer labs, a kiosk, offices and classrooms. On average, one personal computer is allocated to every 13 students.<br />
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Other than using <span class="caps">ICT</span> in school subjects, students are exposed to applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Flash and downloadable online software.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2008/nov/19/ict-education-rural-malaysia-school/" target="_blank">Asia Pacific Future Gov.</a>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-87245764472269074222011-12-22T18:57:00.000-08:002011-12-22T19:06:40.124-08:00PIXELS: Ever the ICT advocate<h2 style="text-align: justify;">TUN Dr Mahathir Mohamad has received the ICT Lifetime Achievement Award from the National ICT Association of Malaysia for his many contributions to the local ICT industry.</h2><div></div><div class="article-photo" style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="Tun Dr Mahathir " class="articleImage" height="200" src="http://www.nst.com.my/polopoly_fs/1.14881.1322996384%21/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_454/image.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="Photo: N/A, License: N/A" width="454" /> <br />
<div class="articleImageCaption caption" style="display: block;">Tun Dr Mahathir (3rdfrom left) was presented the ICT Lifetime Achivement Award at PIKOM’s 25 anniversary dinner</div><div class="right gallery-control"><span id="currentImage"><br />
</span> </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The former prime minister, credited for much of the success of the country’s ICT industry, was presented the award by Pikom’s newly elected chairman Woon Tai Hai at its 25th anniversary dinner held recently in Kuala Lumpur. The event was a culmination of a series of activities that Pikom had lined up to celebrate the year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also present at the event was Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Dr Maximus Johnity Ongkili.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">-Ultra-sleek computing</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">THOUGH not the earliest to launch the ultrabook in the country, Toshiba didn’t disappoint with its Portege Z830, the world’s lightest and thinnest 13.3-inch computer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Featuring second-generation Intel Core processors and Toshiba’s EasyGuard technology, it also comes with ports, slots and a solid-state drive for better storage capacity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At 15.9mm at its thickest point, the Z830 weighs just 1.1kg, yet packs in an eight-cell battery. With a 13.3-inch HD display with LED backlighting, WLAN, Bluetooth 3.0 and Gigabit Ethernet LAN, the model offers mobility without compromising function. Its spill-resistant keyboard, 1.3-megapixel webcam, 128GB SSD and up to 6GB DDR3 memory should delight users, too.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The top-of-the-line model with Intel Core i7 processor goes for RM4,799. Another option with Core i5 is priced at RM3,999.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Toshiba has also come up with two Android Honeycomb-based tablets: the 10-inch Regza AT100 (RM1,599) and 7-inch Regza AT1S0 (RM1,899). The smaller tablet sports 16GB internal memory, mini-USB, micro-HDMI and micro-SD card slots, while the bigger one offers up to 32GB internal memory, full-sized USB and mini-USB, an HDMI port and SD card reader. Both feature 1GB DDR2 RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth and HSPA+(3.5G) support, a five-megapixel rear camera, two-megapixel front camera, and GPS function.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then there’s Toshiba’s Qosmio DX730 all-in-one desktop PC, which at its highest specification offers Intel Core i7 Quad Core technology, NVidia GeForce GT540M 1GB DDR3 video RAM graphics, 2TB hard disk drive capacity, a Blu-ray ROM drive, multi-card reader and advanced multimedia features. The RM3,599 package offers Core i5 processor while the RM4,299 package has Core i7.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">DELL has three new devices to boast of: the Latitude ST tablet, XPS 14z notebook, and Inspiron One 2320 all-in-one touch-screen desktop.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 10.1-inch Windows 7 Latitude (RM2,380) is designed for mobile professionals and corporate users. The XPS 14z (RM2,999) is one of the thinnest full-featured notebooks to come in a borderless 14-inch screen but in a 13-inch form factor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</h1><div style="text-align: justify;">KUCHING: Sarawak Information Systems Sdn Bhd (Sains) in collaboration with Sarawak Chief Minister’s Office is calling for entries from journalists and writers in Sarawak for the upcoming ‘5th Sarawak Chief Minister’s ICT Media Awards Competition’. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to a press release yesterday, the contest is divided into two categories, print media and broadcast media. Entries can be in English, Bahasa Malaysia or Chinese.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The entries must be published articles or materials broadcast over radio or television from January to December this year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This year, there are 12 cash prizes up for grabs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The top three print articles in each language will receive cash prizes as well as certificates of recognition from the chief minister.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For the broadcast media category, cash prizes along with certificates will be presented to the three best pieces aired over radio or television in any of the three languages.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Additionally, for this year’s competition, the first 10 submissions will receive a surprise gift.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The competition is open to all media practitioners (reporters, editors and journalists) from the print and broadcast media industry.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All entries must be in the form of features, news articles, feature reporting or documentaries on ICT-related subjects printed in either local newspapers or aired over local radio or television in Sarawak by a licensed media organisation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Entries will be evaluated based on journalistic quality, communication impact and objectivity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Judges for the event will be representatives from Sains, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas), Information and Communication Technology Unit (ICTU) and Angkatan Zaman Mansang (Azam).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This annual event, under the patronage of the Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, was established to encourage journalists and writers to address ICT-related topics and promote the usage of ICT and awareness of its importance, for the socio-economic development of Sarawak.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/12/14/ict-media-awards-competition-open-for-entries/" target="_blank">BORNEO POST ONLINE</a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</h2><div style="text-align: justify;">The then Minister of Education, Dato’ Sri Hishammuddin Tun Hussien in his seminar paper “The Moving Young Minds International Ministerial Seminar of Education” in London (2004) among many other things stated that ICT is growing not just in capacity but in accessibility, availability and popularity. Old ways of communicating information and making things are destroyed or altered and new ones come into being. He gave the example that within 24 hours after the tsunami horror (the deadly waves that had spread destruction in twelve countries up to 3000 miles apart and killed an uncountable number of people); news and images of the destruction has been beamed into living rooms worldwide and journalists reported via satellite phone from affected sites. The Internet played an irreplaceable role in the mobilization and coordination of the relief effort in the affected countries. Within 48 hours, the largest ever fundraising effort for disaster relief was well under way, much of it on the web.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>WHAT ARE ICT’s AND WHAT TYPES OF ICT’s ARE COMMONLY USED IN EDUCATION?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wikibooks define information and communication technologies (<b>ICT</b>) as a “<b>diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, and to create, disseminate, store, and manage information”. </b>These technologies include computers, the Internet, broadcasting technologies (radio and television), and telephony. Older technologies such as the<b> telephone, radio and television</b>, although given less attention, have a longer and richer history as instructional tools. Radio and television have for forty years been used for open and distance learning, although <b>print </b>remains the cheapest, most accessible and therefore most dominant delivery mechanism in both developed and developing countries.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>E-Learning</b> is most commonly associated with higher education and corporate training. E-Learning encompasses learning at all levels, both formal and non-formal, that uses an information network – the internet, an intranet (LAN) or extranet (WAN) – whether wholly or in part, for course delivery, interaction, evaluation and / or facilitation. Others prefer the term online learning. <b>Web – based learning</b> is a subject of e-learning and refers to learning using an internet browser (such as Netscape or Internet Explorer).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Blended Learning </b>refers to learning models that combine traditional classroom practice with e-learning solutions. Class can be assigned both print-based and online materials, have online mentoring sessions with their teacher through chat, and are subscribed to a class email list. “Blending” was prompted by the recognition that not all learning is best achieved in an electronically-mediated environment, particularly one that dispenses with a live instructor altogether. Consideration must be given to the subject matter, the learning objectives and outcomes, the characteristics of the learners, and the learning context in order to arrive at the optimum mix of instructional and delivery methods.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Open and distance learning</b> is defined by the Commonwealth of Learning as “a way of providing learning opportunities that is characterized by the seperation of teacher and learner in time and place, or both time and place; learning that is certified in some way, by an institution or agency; the use of a variety of media; including print and electronic: two-way communications that allow learners and tutors to interact; the possibilities of occasional face-to-face meetings, and a specialized division of labour in the production and delivery of courses”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>THE USES OF ICT’s IN EDUCATION:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The potential of each technology varies according to how it is used. Haddad and Draxler identify at least five levels of technology use in education:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>presentation;</li>
<li>demonstration;</li>
<li>drill and practice;</li>
<li>interaction;</li>
<li>collaboration.</li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;">Each of the different ICT’s may be used for<b> presentation and demonstration</b>, the most basic of the five levels. Except for video technologies, <b>drills and practice</b> may likewise be performed using the whole range of technologies. Networked computers and the Internet are the ICT’s that enable <b>interactive and collaborative</b> learning best. However the full potential as educational tools will remain unrealized if they are used merely for presentation or demonstration.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are <b>three (3) general approaches</b> to the <b>use of radio and TV broadcasting</b> in education:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><b>Direct class teaching</b>, where broadcast programming substitues for teachers on a temporary basis.</li>
<li><b>School broadcasting</b>, where broadcast programming provides complementary teaching and learning resources not otherwise available, and</li>
<li><b>General educational programming</b> over community, national and international stations which provide general and informal educational opportunities.</li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Teleconferencing</b> refers to “interactive electronic communication among people located at two or more different places. There are four (4) <b>types of teleconferencing</b> based on the nature and extent of interactivity and the sophistication of the technology.</div><ol style="text-align: justify;"><li>audioconferencing;</li>
<li>audio-graphic conferencing;</li>
<li>videoconferencing;</li>
<li>web-based conferencing;</li>
</ol><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Audioconferencing</b> involves the live (real-time) exchange of voice messages over a telephone network.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Videoconferencing</b> allows the exchange not just of voice and graphics but also of moving images.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Teleconferencing</b> is used in both formal and non-formal learning contexts to facilitate teacher-learner and learner-learner discussions, as well as to access experts and other resource persons remotely. In open and distance learning, teleconferencing is a useful tool for providing direct instruction and learner support, minimizing learner isolation. Higher institutions using teleconferecing in their online learning programs include the Open University of the United Kingdom, UNITAR (Universiti Tun Abdul Razak) Malaysia, Open University of Hong Kong, and Indira Ghandi National Open Univerity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Three General Approaches</b> <b>to the Instructional Use of Computers and Internet</b>:</div><ol style="text-align: justify;"><li><b>Learning about</b> computers and the Internet, and technological literacy is the end goal.</li>
<li><b>Learning with</b> computer and the Internet, in which technology facilitates learning across the curriculum.</li>
<li><b>Learning through</b> computers and the Internet, integrating technological skills development with curriculum applications.</li>
</ol><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Learning about computers and the Internet</b> focuses on developing technological literacy. It typically includes:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li> Fundamentals: basic terms, concepts and operations;</li>
<li> Use of the keyboard and mouse;</li>
<li> Use productivity tools such as word processing, spreadsheets, data base and graphics programs;</li>
<li> Use of research and collaboration tools such as search engines and email;</li>
<li> Basic skills in using programming and authoring applications such as Logo or HyperStudio;</li>
<li> Developing an awareness of the social impact of technological change.</li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Learning with computers and the Internet</b> means focusing on how technology can be the means to learning ends across the curriculum. It includes:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li> Presentation, demonstration, and the manipulation of data using productivity tools;</li>
<li> Use of curriculum specific applications types such a games, drill and practice, simulations, tutorials, virtual laboratories, visualizations and graphical representations of abstract concepts, musical composition and expert systems;</li>
<li> Use of information and resources on CD-ROM or online such as encyclopedia, interactive maps and atlases, electronic journals and other references.</li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Learning through computers and the Internet</b> combine learning about them with learning with them. It involves learning the technological skills to engage in a curriculum related activities eg. using spreadsheet and database programs to help organize and analyze the data they have collected, as well as using a word processing application to prepare their written report.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Telecollaboration</b> is the organised use of web resources and collaboration tools for curriculum appropriate purposes. Judi Harris defines telecollaboration as “an educational endeavor that involves people in different locations using Internet tools and resources to work together. Much educational telecollaboration is curriculum-based, teacher-designed, and teacher-coordinated. Most use e-mail to help participants communicate with each other. Many telecollaborative activities and projects have web sites to support them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>ICT AND MALAYSIAN SCHOOLS</b>:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Ministry of Education sees ICT as a means, not an end in itself. Technology is not seen a “vitamin” whose mere presence in schools can catalyse better educational outcome. The concept of ICT in education, as seen by the Ministry of Education, includes systems that enable information gathering, management, manipulation, access, and communication in various froms.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Three (3) Main Policies for ICT</b>:</div><ol style="text-align: justify;"><li> <b>ICT for all students</b> – ICT is used as an enabler to reduce the digital gap between the schools.</li>
<li> The role and function of ICT in education as a<b> teaching and learning tool.</b></li>
<li> Using ICT to<b> increase productivity, efficiency and effectiveness</b> of the management system.</li>
</ol><div style="text-align: justify;">Malaysia is often cited as front runner in ICT implementation in developing world. The following are some of the initiatives implemented by government agencies that gave Malaysia this profile:</div><ol style="text-align: justify;"><li> <b>The Malaysia Smart School Project</b> that was launched in July 1997 by the Prime Minister – as one of the flagship applications of Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor. The project aimed for a systematic reinvention of teaching and learning and of school management. It promotes student-centred, integrated and unified learning. It has developed a School Management System and a set of Learning Courseware.</li>
<li> <b>ICT Training in Schools</b> : The model that the Ministry uses to disseminate training is the <b>cascade model</b>. Selected master trainers undergo training , later to pass their training to selected trainers, who in turn, train their colleagues at school, district, or state level.</li>
<li> <b>Training teachers to use teaching courseware, notebooks, projectors and supplying schools with such equipment</b>: In 2003 after a change in the language of instruction for Science and Mathematics to English – this programme was initiated to help teachers cope with the changed.</li>
<li> <b>The Computerisation Programme in Schools</b>: The Ministry of Education implemented a Computerisation Programme in Schools to introduce ICT literacy to as many schools as possible, and thus to reduce the digital divide to some extent. Each school in Malaysia will be supplied with at least one computer Laboratory. To date there are more than 3,000 computer lab. in operational.</li>
<li> <b>The Process of Providing Information Technology and Connectivity to all schools: </b>Almost all schools are “wired” with broadband connections. The Ministry is also looking into equipping schools with WiFi (Wireless Local Area Networks) so that the benefits of connectivity can be realized by all.</li>
<li> <b>Internet Usage</b>: MySchoolNet website was set up by the Ministry of Education to help increase the use of ICT in education, providing links to help teachers and students access educational information readily.</li>
<li> <b>The Electronic Book Project</b>: In 2001, the Ministry initiated a pilot project involving the use of electronic book or e-book. E-book, a device which stores electronic textbooks and links the user to the internet, can be used to improve teaching and learning in the classroom. It is hope that the use of the e-book can replace the conventional textbooks and thereby resolve the perennial problem of heavy school-bags.</li>
</ol><div style="text-align: justify;">Introducing ICT into all schools in Malaysia is a major undertaking even though it is a major investment into the future productivity of Malaysia K-Economy Plan. Let’s hope that all Malaysians are committed to ensure it success.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sources: <a href="http://www.teo-education.com/teo/?p=332" target="_blank">TEO-EDUCATION PORTAL</a></div>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-3394630887080662952011-12-22T18:37:00.000-08:002011-12-22T19:05:33.492-08:00Properly Using ICT in the Classroom<span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="post-header" style="color: black;"></div><span style="color: black;">One thing about the changeover to teaching science and maths in English in 2003 was that for the first time ICT (Information and Communications Technology) began to be used on a large scale throughout our school system as a teaching aid. Unfortunately, instead of being a teaching aid, in many cases the poor English of the teachers turned the teaching aid into the only teacher many kids got. I can speak from personal experience that as good as my science teachers were, there wasn't much they could do to add to the ICT-based teaching aids. If anything, the structure of the aids seems to have been meant to supplant teachers instead of assist them. This is really a great shame, because ICT can be a fantastic teaching aid when used correctly.</span><br />
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<span class="fullpost" style="color: black;">The slideshows which schools use as teaching aids presently are essentially whole lectures with some visuals included. There is not a whole lot teachers can add to the ICT-based teaching aids, especially if their English is poor. Teachers are pretty much reduced to opening the slideshows and clicking "next".<br />
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Of course, teachers still have a role to play. After all, teachers should be able to tell when students are not paying attention to the virtual lecture, and answer any questions the students may have. If anything, the slideshows probably give more effective lectures than some teachers do.<br />
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The problem as I see it is that instead of playing to the advantages of ICT, this marginalises ICT. We're just replacing human lectures with computer lectures. Teachers are now more like teaching assistants than actual teachers.<br />
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The primary advantage of ICT is that it offers access to a lot of data and information which teachers don't have, and that it can present this information in compelling and interesting ways. The way we've rolled out ICT is such that our students get a voice from the computer droning at them while some pretty cartoons pop up on the screen. At best, students may get the chance to play a game or two which facilitates retention of the material — but this isn't really playing to all the advantages of ICT.<br />
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Let me give some examples of how to effectively use ICT, based on my experiences in university. In my game theory class just two days ago, my professor mentioned a scene from the movie <i>A Beautiful Mind</i> illustrating the principles he was teaching. He then loaded up Youtube and showed a clip of the scene to us. In previous lectures, he's used the internet to locate studies proving that the theories he's teaching actually apply to the real world. While my professor could have just told us to look these things up in our spare time, having the option to call up all these visual aids and supporting facts in the classroom itself is clearly invaluable to the learning experience.<br />
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When I was studying Chinese last year, my professor frequently made us watch the news on CCTV, or called up Chinese clips on Youtube. It was an obvious and easy way to help us practice our listening, and it was a lot more natural than repeating sentences from our textbooks to one another. In my calculus class last term, the lecturer used graphing software to illustrate the things he was teaching us about vectors. ICT lends itself readily to all sorts of interesting applications in the classroom.<br />
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The one thing in common here is that nobody made the instructors use particular software or stick to particular applications of ICT. So far, our approach to ICT in the classroom has been to hand out CDs to teachers, without making teachers realise how they can more broadly apply things like the internet to lessons in the classroom. Our ICT strategy has been essentially "If we give teachers CDs with slideshows on them, we're making use of ICT! It's a success!"<br />
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But a truly successful programme for ICT use in the classroom would not only allow but encourage teachers to go beyond government-supplied tools, and to use things like the internet to better their teaching. Even if all they do is use Google to search for answers to questions they don't have answers to, I think it's a lot more instructive and useful for students to see how to use Google to find answers than it is for them to get a simple lecture from the computer.<br />
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Right now, we're not doing anything really useful with ICT. All we're doing is pretty much what a teacher with decent English and maybe some visual aids of her own can do anyway. The true advantage of ICT lies in things which ordinarily teachers can't do: answering almost any question imaginable, and offering exciting and interesting ways in which to present those answers. A good education policy would go beyond handing out CDs to schools; it would train teachers how to include ICT as part of their lessons in the classroom.<br />
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source: <a href="http://educationmalaysia.blogspot.com/2009/02/properly-using-ict-in-classroom.html" target="_blank">EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA</a></span>NurKhairiyahMunithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153173234680299013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300489403827469848.post-24945513160222918322011-11-25T05:06:00.000-08:002011-12-23T08:47:37.510-08:00introductionAssalamualaikum<br />
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