Global Alliance for ICT Development (GAID) 2006: Part 1
Wow, looks like Malaysia is becoming a host for alot of big IT related events in the upcoming years, and well today.
- Global Alliance for ICT Development (GAID) 2006
- World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) 2008
Alright I may have missed some…
What does this mean for the nation? Not to sure. Ten years ago the nation decided to becoming a leader of IT in the south east region, and produced the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) to achieve that goal. A new “city” was built in the middle of nowhere, and bore the title “Cyberjaya.” Ten years down the road, the project is under criticism for failure to live up to its goal, and even the BBC has picked it up.
Perhaps in its attempts to establish itself as a pioneer in IT, Malaysia is looking towards inviting and hosting big conferences, hoping that big multi national companies would acknowledge Malaysia’s infrastructure as suitable for business, and thus would invest money. On a side note, I don’t know how Malaysia was able to lure Dell into Cyberjaya.
Back to the main topic, GAID06.
The day kicked off with the Strategy Council discussion, which is locked away in one of the ball rooms, and it appears that I can’t really participate in it. Luckily the video feed from the room is presented in the lobby, yet no audio feed is provided. Great job people.
Looking at the schedule I decided to go back early, though it seemed like a waste to drive there and just pick up my participatant stuff, ie: tags, papers, etc. The schedule for the rest of the day are just statements and etc, looks like long boring talks.
Will be heading there tomorrow though.
If my hunches are correct ,about Malaysia trying again to establish itself as a pioneer in IT, maybe conference holders, ie: Hack in The Box, FOSSCAR, should go talk to MOSTI about sponsorship; on the position that their conference would be beneficial to the nation.
In the showcase, they had a booth where you can insert your IC card, and read out the appropriate details. Though not a high powered job, the machine was running full WindowsXP (could not tell wheter it was home or professional edition) and I had a look at the (normal size) motherboard, holding a Intel (duh) processor. If this was the final product, I would say what an expensive and inappropriate waste of money just to run such a low-cpu intensive program. My colleague said it was because the producers dont want to spend cash on an embedded solution, and want the easiest way out. Though it may be the ‘easiest’ way out, it is argubably inefficient.
