Technological advancement is an important tool in developing a nation and countries with such capabilities will triumph while those that fail to make innovation the centrepiece of their economy will fall behind, said the Prime Minister.
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said it is no accident that technologically advanced countries like the United States, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Canada and Australia are noted as the world’s wealthiest nations.
Malaysia, he said, has done well in the past by growing an industrial base while expanding its agricultural sector, and at the same time, nurturing a strong oil and gas industry.
According to the Prime Minister, this is why the MSC Malaysia initiative, which will enter its third phase of development and evolution from 2011-2020, will build on the country’s success so far and boost its economic growth and societal well-being.
Malaysia will be rolling out an advanced national communications infrastructure soon by wiring up 1.2 million households and business premises with fibreoptics that will help boost Internet connection speeds to between 10Mbps (megabits per second) and 1Gbps (gigabit per second). Current speeds are up to 4Mbps.
Najib said the high-speed broadband network will provide a platform to develop ICT (information and communications technology) applications for the future, as well as provide citizens, businesses and government agencies with a competitive boost via cutting-edge communications capabilities.
Stressing the advantages of ICT, Najib said he is pioneering a new style of intimate, people-centric approach through the use of ICT with his 1Malaysiawebsite that allows Malaysians to interact directly with him via the Internet.
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