The Prime Minister said every Malaysian must be sufficiently exposed to ICT so that they could use it to improve their way of life, be it for agricultural activities, business dealings, research or schoolwork.
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This would allow vendors to be ready and equipped with the necessary experience and skills; or to proactively propose to the Government through concept requests for proposal (CRFPs), IDC Malaysia (www.idc.com.my) said in a statement.
An important component is government-to-citizen (G2C) services as this is where the public deals with the Government and could subsequently assess how successful this initiative has been.
Read more: Malaysia: Creating awareness in govt-to-citizen services
The Cross Flagship Integration (CFI) Architecture Project, which came up with a draft enterprise architecture for all government agencies in November, is intended to overcome the challenge of integrating application environments that have developed in isolation.
Read more: Malaysian govt addresses enterprise architecture issues
In Malaysia, the Government’s enterprise architecture (EA) efforts began last year through Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC) which initiated the Cross Flagship Integration (CFI) Architecture Project.
Read more: Malaysia: Enterprise architecture to boost e-government