Top Glove participated in MDEC ' s Digital Transformation Lab and achieved encouraging results
academia to further nurture these bright young talents.
Catalysing AI
Malaysia introduced the‘ Cloud First’ Strategy to the national agenda, starting with the public sector. Cloud adoption can enable the Government to rapidly deliver innovative public sector services to the rakyat without incurring high levels of capital expenditure in the IT infrastructure, such as data centres, servers and storage.
In a hyper connected world, it is becoming abundantly clear that artificial intelligence( AI) is the defining force of the fourth industrial revolution. AI is the natural progression from data analytics, and as such, Malaysia will develop a National AI Framework. This will be an expansion of the National Big Data Analytics( BDA) Framework, and its development will be led by MDEC. AI could well be a‘ game changer’ in improving the lives of Malaysians.
Malaysia City Brain In January this year, Malaysia introduced a highimpact initiative to catalyse the AI ecosystem and open up the path for collaborative innovation: The Malaysia City Brain. This is an open datadriven, artificial intelligence platform adapted from Hangzhou City Brain, which has been designed to meet local needs. It uses artificial intelligence as a platform to address urban challenges and offers intelligent solutions to the community in Kuala Lumpur. The platform uses Alibaba Cloud’ s AI programme as well as big data analytics capabilities to produce real-time traffic predictions using its video and image recognition technologies.
The Malaysia City Brain operates as an open platform whereby it can plug in new and existing solutions from other platform by leveraging prebuilt intelligent tools, incorporating artificial intelligence and Machine Learning, and utilising existing data sets as well as additional data sets from external sources.
Global icons
On the startup side, the Malaysian tech scene is growing and vibrant. There are several Made-in- Malaysia regional champions that we see today: iflix, a three-year-old startup that managed to roll out services to 30 countries and five million customers, while having access to data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. And it is intriguing that iflix does not own servers or data centres. Cloud and digital adoption allows them to be agile and scale fast to meet growing demands while keeping capital expenditure low. Presently, iflix has US $ 179 million in the latest round of funding. We need to see more rapid growing startups like iflix in Malaysia.
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