Leadership

By Ameen Kamal In Malaysia’s efforts to pursue becoming the widely touted ‘high-income’, ‘high-tech’, digitally-transformed nation to embrace the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), we have to address the huge white-elephant...

By Afifah Suhaimi, Research Assistant at EMIR Research, an independent think tank focused on strategic policy recommendations based on rigorous research Although Malaysia is facing the worst quarterly economic contraction...

By Afifah Suhaimi, Driven by the growing demands of halal products and services from the global Muslim population, this is the best time for Malaysia to step up their effort...

By Dr Hj Rais Hussin, Chairman, MDEC The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) has been known for its primary task to manage and take the lead Malaysia's digital economy forward....

By Glenn Tay, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Gigworks, Social media has been the main source in forming a new culture among the younger generation - creating a new norm...

By Surina Shukri, CEO of MDEC   Our Perspective of Education In the first installment of this blogpost, I shared information about the skills being demanded by employers and the...

(Part 1 of 2 part series) JOBS Covid-19 accelerated tech adoption and already, Malaysia’s unemployment rose from 5% to 5.3% in a month, from April to May this year.  The nature...

By H.E. Vanu Gopala Menon, High Commissioner of the Republic of Singapore to Malaysia Singapore celebrates our 55th National Day on 9 August 2020. This year, we commemorate this occasion...

By Yeo Siang Tiong, General Manager for Southeast Asia at Kaspersky Among the obvious effects of this pandemic is the rapid rise of online payment services and digital banking across...

By Roch Gauthier is Aspen Technology’s Senior Product Management Director Even before the onset of the current Covid-19 pandemic, some manufacturing companies in Malaysia were already exploring the idea of...