Figure 6
segments are registering significant growth over
the past five year period attributing to dynamic
growth in digital services in various forms
and shades. Specifically, the ICT sector, in its
contemporary form, has evolved to be more than a
mere collection of technological tools. As a socioeconomic enabler and key driver of businesses,
ICT is poised to increases the process efficiency
and product and services delivery effectiveness.
ICT’s ubiquity and pervasive features and
characteristics are continually impacting the way
one works, plays and learns. In the early stages
of information age, such changes were succinctly
harnessed through the MSC Malaysia initiative
that saw its introduction in the mid-nineties.
Having gone through two decades of new age
experiences and exposures, viewing from a public
policy perspective, the country is migrating into its
next phase of inflection point by creating a digital
innovation economy through the Digital Malaysia
Programme (DMP). Indeed, the ICT Road Map Blue
Print 2012 (revised version of ICT Road Map 2008)
as shown in Figure 5 the Government’s focus
areas include e-services, ubiquitous connectivity,
security platforms, wireless intelligence, big data
analytics and cloud computing especially directed
at research, innovation, intellectual property rights
patenting and commercialization. )%