{"id":8102,"date":"2021-02-05T11:41:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T03:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=8102"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T03:41:17","slug":"malaysians-need-to-adopt-other-facets-of-digital-technology-says-mdec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=8102","title":{"rendered":"Malaysians need to adopt other facets of digital technology, says MDEC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5 — The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) aspires that Malaysians\u00a0adopt other facets of the digital technology, not just the frontline such as e-commerce, but also digitisation of\u00a0the business processes and all the innovation that come\u00a0thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MDEC CEO\u00a0Surina Shukri said\u00a0in terms of talent, Malaysia is largely made up of a lot of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) but large companies and corporates have got teams of people that are dedicated to upscaling, reskilling, as well as\u00a0keeping tabs on latest digital development, and the benefit of numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to think through how we get the benefit of fast learning and learning from each other because most of the time the corporate experience you get to also learn from each other but what we have is that it is smaller companies. The question then becomes how do you create systems and communities that can foster this ongoing training and learning, that is where something that we need to figure out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surina said this at the virtual \u2018Google Breakfast Series — Peering into Malaysia’s Digital Future\u2019 alongside other panelists such as Google Malaysia managing director Marc Woo, Grab Malaysia managing director Sean Goh, Maxis chief executive officer Gokhan Ogut, and PitchaEats co-founder Suzanne Ling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surina said SMEs must form a network and partnerships with each other to help upscale consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we think\u00a0about the digital world, we think about where we are going.\u00a0The first thing that we all need to remember —\u00a0it is not just recent graduates even people in the workforce —\u00a0need\u00a0to recognise that now and tomorrow it’s all about skills.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cYou have to lead with skills, you need to recognize what kind of skills that we have and start to recognize how to fill in your skills toolbox,\u201d she said.mdec<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citing the MDEC website, she said it has a directory of the skills required for the future such as coding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd if you can demonstrate it (coding), you bring your ability to the table, companies will look forward to having you onboard as it is really a skills-based environment,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said graduates could thrive in the digital world as long as they have a sense of curiosity and grounded on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor SMEs, they have problems that they need to solve, if you’re able to have a sense of curiosity to understand what the problems are and bring their skillsets, it doesn’t matter what kind of background you actually have, you’re able to contribute to the digital world,\u201d she said.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concurring that the biggest challenge confronting companies is hiring skilled talent, Ling said a company has to outsource certain intellectual property digital job overseas due to lack of local talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGood talents have been hired by big digital companies in Malaysia. Generally, a lot of people in Malaysia don’t take more initiative to learn the latest update and version, which caused a lot of talent here to be lagging quite behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI’ve spoken to quite a few people, and a lot of people actually shared that the gap in people who are already in the (digital) scene upgrading and upscaling themselves, and keeping themselves updated with the latest programming language, and it is the biggest challenge in small and medium enterprises,\u201d she said.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\u00a0digital shift in the next five to 10\u00a0years,\u00a0Grab Malaysia managing director\u00a0Sean Goh shared\u00a0that Malaysians will become more and more equal in terms of talent and opportunities. mdec<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said e-hailing has gone fully digital, thanks to Google Maps and Waze, as well as 4G, as members of our hearing-impaired community now receive commercial licences for the first time in our nation’s history to be earning an income flexibly, and that is just the beginning as there is so much we can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe hope to do the same for food and beverages, for example there are so many Quick Response (QR) menus everywhere right now, digital ordering and payments. anyone can do a great job in the service industry, regardless yours are a spoken language or sign language and it doesn’t have to end there in today’s technologies,\u201d said Goh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goh said looking ahead in the next five years, companies would be more deliberate in making technologies work for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe should have by the end of five years real-time translation between sign and verbal language, as well as between written and spoken language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt sounds kind of far fetched but if you look at Google Translate today, when I point my camera I can see and read something in a different language in real-time, so are technologies that enable signs to (become) verbal, written to spoken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese changes weren’t wholly deliberate and relied on resourcefulness, for example, a friend of mine at the Malaysian Federation of Deaf told me of a deaf driver who was able to communicate with a blind passenger, and we didn’t plan for that. It\u2019s no credit to us, but its credit to them because they use Grab Chat plus text to voice and voice to text, which is really amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat is cool is that the digital growth has this knock-on effect, a potential to make a change that we didn’t see coming, so just imagine what we could do if we actually turn our mind to it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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