hi, I tend to agree with Red, we are too far behind to let purely 'market forces' do their work. An enlightened government can guide/persuade in certain directions and accelerate the process, although I strongly disagree that Dr.M guided us well! Because of HIS myopic vision we have a crappy car that is hardly world-class, where owning a car has become a major drain on personal finances but we have no choice becos of the poorly developed public transportion (to support the crappy car industry). Plus the English vs BM language policy muckup in education which is causing our Sc & Technology to fall even further behind! Makes you think its better left to market forces..!
But no, Gov should guide and nurture, create opportunities but you need an enlighthened gov to do so. The people making decisions need to understand the subject matter, or have experts on hand that do. They shld help by creating opportunities, in the use of FOSS for e.g. If there is a actual policy to use FOSS (instead of an advisory) that would help. Yes there is OSCC MAMPU, but they have little actual powers. And pork barrel sales tactics by the likes of MS, Oracle, SAP are hard to beat if you are a independent FOSS developer. That is if you really want to nuture technopreneur who produce real IP. Of course if yr definition of entrepreneur as someone that can make a fast buck, I'm sure Malaysia has a bunch of those that run SEO, Google Ad-Sense scams that have multiple bogus sites/blogs that earn them a few thousand click-thru $/mth. Is this the way to go for our high-income economy? Story: how Sing built its bioTech industry. When Sing started their Inst. of Microbiological Research (may have changed its name, this was in the mid 90's), they lured 80+ foreign PHds, by giving them funds for research projects. These foreigners headed they own project teams. The top man of the Inst. was a Sing. and the no.2 man on each of those project teams are Sing. and of course so were many technicians Within a matter of about 5 years, the Inst. was good enough to out-source contracts from the US, to bio-engineer a rabbit (or something) for drug testing. And today Sing is world class in Biot Tech, they started 15yrs ago, we are only now talking about it! Contrast this with Msia, an equivalent Inst. would be MIMOS, they never had any 'gwailo' experts, all their top people were from a certain privilaged class (too politically sensitive to mention!). And after all these years they achieved .... ?? The lessons here is gov, can play an active role, experts are important irregardless of ethnicity, implementation of the policies is where we fail. Sing has technocrats, we only have bureaucrats and lesser... On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:53 PM, red1 <[email protected]> wrote: > i tend to agree loudly to this Brian, but my pitch is that if Malaysia wants > to be no.1 Govt has to interfere correctly. > We are not a top world economy. Tun Dr. Mahathir applied that principle of > guided (read interference) very well to put us up there. > No European country has an MDec like ours. It is there to arrest the slow > process (USA took 200 years) of going thru evolution. > We are not going to repeat wars and market crashes to reach where USA is > today. We learnt from their past and thus M'sia has the benefit of > hindsight, and MDec can do wonders if it applys the right pedals to the > right rubber. > > I am frustrated with simple stuff: > 1. When IAP still features kuailohs instead of us M'sians. This is not to > ask for grants. This is not even to ask for recognition. But this is just to > ask to stop this nonsense of looking up to others that now we have our own > goat and mutton. This is asking for pride where pride is due. This does > wonders if you put some Malaysians up there where their words can inspire > more than just thru the inside pages of TheStar's Intech. > > 2. MDec asked for help but do not change the rules of the game. Today the > game is fast-changing with its attendant processes to achieve it. We need > not copy and paste from Singapore nor Silicon Valley. Honestly i do not see > any borang gomen that is original. I can show you lots of principles in used > by 1st world nations that are mind boggling. No, not that i am asking to be > deported to those fascinating countries. I am just asking, 'learn from > others in order to overtake them'. Nope, i m not saying 'copycat them'. I am > saying look at the rules. We can change them well when it comes to us. > > In the end, i have a dream: > "Where Malaysia need not follow others to get there. Where Malaysia dares to > break the rules yet is correct in the end. Where Malaysia can win, win in > its own Blue Ocean". > > Rafe, > I am still at a lost why you suddenly blow up. I never mentioned your name. > It was Raja Iskandar who hentam more keras than me. I do not even know that > your CEO is who actually. They fill me in. To me i do not care and i dont > want to know. All i want to know is when do you want to get into the bull > ring and score your own KPI of '5 top world class developers'. I been > waiting. waiting since last year. I kept going to the MDec cafe and sms you > hoping to discuss progressively. Remember our last sit-in last year where > Azrul, Raja, Boh and you (with Rozi) was around and you told me lots of > stuff such as "Hacking contest with USD10k prize" and i pour out free as in > no need to pay me ideas - all in the name of helping u and MDec. I never > talk about getting me paid or make me look good. I talked until hoarse about > making Malaysia look good. > > Sincerely if you blew up tak tentu pasal again, i am going to personally go > there and kick your ass till the Pau Lady poster drops down. > > Don't make this into a personal war cos it is not. Think of our country > together or else fuck it! > > On 5/19/10 5:26 PM, BRIAN RITCHIE wrote: >> >> Let me say this. The biggest underlying problem with Malaysian >> "Technopreneurs" is the reliance on Gov to provide you with funding. >> While I think its great that the Gov gives out such grants, my >> personal believe is that they shouldn't. Not at all. To no one, no >> matter how great your idea is. This causes the exact situation we r >> seeing here where people who get it sometimes abuse it ( or not) and >> people who don't whine ( or not ). What happened to the real spirit of >> Entrepreneurship ? 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