Engineer Ali Al-Soma, Advisor to the Minister of ICT and Director General of the Saudi e-government program met with representatives from Malaysia's ICT industry as well as worldwide ICT executives during the 16th World Congress for Information Technology held in Kuala Lumpur to foster new means of cooperation as the Kingdom looks to become the first country in the GCC to develop a complete e-government platform.
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The roll-out of broadband infrastructure will be accelerated through a public-private partnership initiative to achieve 50% household penetration by 2010.
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The benefits of having such a facility for the people and the nation are expected to be worth many times that amount.
High-speed access to the Internet will provide a boost to telehealth facilities, Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said yesterday.
In fact, so slow has been the uptake of broadband services that, last year, the cabinet committee chaired by the deputy prime minister had to revise downwards the penetration target for 2010 from 75 per cent to 50 per cent.
Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said the RM15.2 billion infrastructure would spur economic growth further.
The speed of Internet access will be improved up to 1,000 megabits per second for large users.