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Subject:
[alternatif-net] Malaysia: Multimedia Super Corridor not
performing to cue
Date:
Sat, 07 Oct 2000 22:12:42 -0700
From:
"Mohammad Fudzail" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Asian financial crisis and insufficient local interest and skills
have
all conspired to slow Malaysia's leap to a knowledge-based future,
according to Business Asia, a publication of the Economist Intelligence
Unit.
The Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) -- a big, bold initiative conceived
by
Mahathir Mohamad half a decade ago to catapult Malaysia into the
information age -- is languishing in limbo, a victim of heavy official
oversight and slack investor interest. Unless it gets a new lease of
life,
the country's ability to meet the challenges of globalisation -- and the
government's burning ambition of achieving the leap from a production-
to a
knowledge-based economy -- will be compromised.
While greeted with considerable scepticism when first mooted in the mid-
1990s, the futuristic project made much sense. A prolonged
manufacturing-
driven boom in Malaysia had been steadily pushing up production costs,
eroding the economy's competitiveness. The prime minister and his
policymakers concluded that to continue growing strongly, the economy
had
to move up the value chain. And fast. The MSC -- a 15x50-km zone
stretching
south from central Kuala Lumpur, and designated for the creation, use
and
distribution of information technology products and services -- was to
spearhead the climb.
The government set about trying to turn the largely greenfield site into
an
Asian Silicon Valley. It pledged an initial US$10bn for basic
infrastructure, including a 2.5-10 gigabyte fibre-optic communications
backbone, and stipulated the "flagship" applications to be pursued:
electronic government; distance learning; telemedicine; multipurpose
smartcards; remote manufacturing; borderless marketing; and RD
"clusters".
Acutely aware that little if any progress was possible without the help
of
big players in the global high-tech industry, the authorities devised an
attractive incentives package to woo them. This exempted investors from
the
restrictions on foreign ownership and expatriate employment applicable
to
other parts of the economy; offered generous tax breaks and competitive
communications tariffs; and promised MSC infrastructure contracts to
companies willing to use the zone as a regional base. Bureaucrats busied
themselves drafting a series of "cyberlaws" to encourage the development
of
the corridor and protect investors and their products. Dr Mahathir set
up
an MSC "international advisory panel" that included the bosses of
technology and new economy giants such as Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Oracle,
Compaq and Sun Microsystems. Its members applauded the prime minister's
vision, and most committed themselves to setting up operations in the
zone.
It seemed poised for take-off.
Then the Asian crisis struck. While the MSC was largely spared the
public
spending cuts that forced the cancellation or dilution of numerous other
large projects, it was adversely affected in other ways. Scores of
small,
local companies granted MSC "status" found themselves deprived of
anticipated funding almost overnight.
More ominously, the early enthusiasm of some of the major multinationals
waned. One reason was Dr Mahathir's transformation into a seemingly
hostile
sponsor. The increasing frequency and vehemence of his anti- Western
outbursts -- blaming foreign "speculators" for the downturn and accusing
overseas companies of preying on Malaysian busin
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assalamualaikum
Dengan adanya MSC, adatak sesiapa yang tahu dimana
boleh dapat info tentang
e-construction terutama proses tender secara
on-line..
pertolongan sdr amat di hargai
wassalam
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Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 1:19 AM
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Subject:
[alternatif-net] Malaysia: Multimedia
Super Corridor not
performing to cue
Date:
Sat, 07 Oct 2000 22:12:42 -0700
From:
"Mohammad Fudzail" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Asian financial crisis and insufficient local
interest and skills
have
all conspired to slow Malaysia's leap to a
knowledge-based future,
according to Business Asia, a publication of the
Economist Intelligence
Unit.
The Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) -- a big, bold
initiative conceived
by
Mahathir Mohamad half a decade ago to catapult
Malaysia into the
information age -- is languishing in limbo, a
victim of heavy official
oversight and slack investor interest. Unless it
gets a new lease of
life,
the country's ability to meet the challenges of
globalisation -- and the
government's burning ambition of achieving the
leap from a production-
to a
knowledge-based economy -- will be compromised.
While greeted with considerable scepticism when
first mooted in the mid-
1990s, the futuristic project made much sense. A
prolonged
manufacturing-
driven boom in Malaysia had been steadily pushing
up production costs,
eroding the economy's competitiveness. The prime
minister and his
policymakers concluded that to continue growing
strongly, the economy
had
to move up the value chain. And fast. The MSC -- a
15x50-km zone
stretching
south from central Kuala Lumpur, and designated
for the creation, use
and
distribution of information technology products
and services -- was to
spearhead the climb.
The government set about trying to turn the
largely greenfield site into
an
Asian Silicon Valley. It pledged an initial
US$10bn for basic
infrastructure, including a 2.5-10 gigabyte
fibre-optic communications
backbone, and stipulated the "flagship"
applications to be pursued:
electronic government; distance learning;
telemedicine; multipurpose
smartcards; remote manufacturing; borderless
marketing; and RD
"clusters".
Acutely aware that little if any progress was
possible without the help
of
big players in the global high-tech industry, the
authorities devised an
attractive incentives package to woo them. This
exempted investors from
the
restrictions on foreign ownership and expatriate
employment applicable
to
other parts of the economy; offered generous tax
breaks and competitive
communications tariffs; and promised MSC
infrastructure contracts to
companies willing to use the zone as a regional
base. Bureaucrats busied
themselves drafting a series of "cyberlaws" to
encourage the development
of
the corridor and protect investors and their
products. Dr Mahathir set
up
an MSC "international advisory panel" that
included the bosses of
technology and new economy giants such as
Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Oracle,
Compaq and Sun Microsystems. Its members applauded
the prime minister's
vision, and most committed themselves to setting
up operations in the
zone.
It seemed poised for take-off.
Then the Asian crisis struck. Wh
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Subject:
[alternatif-net] Malaysia: Multimedia Super Corridor not
performing to cue
Date:
Sat, 07 Oct 2000 22:12:42 -0700
From:
"Mohammad Fudzail" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Asian financial crisis and insufficient local interest and skills
have
all conspired to slow Malaysia's leap to a knowledge-based future,
according to Business Asia, a publication of the Economist Intelligence
Unit.
The Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) -- a big, bold initiative conceived
by
Mahathir Mohamad half a decade ago to catapult Malaysia into the
information age -- is languishing in limbo, a victim of heavy official
oversight and slack investor interest. Unless it gets a new lease of
life,
the country's ability to meet the challenges of globalisation -- and the
government's burning ambition of achieving the leap from a production-
to a
knowledge-based economy -- will be compromised.
While greeted with considerable scepticism when first mooted in the mid-
1990s, the futuristic project made much sense. A prolonged
manufacturing-
driven boom in Malaysia had been steadily pushing up production costs,
eroding the economy's competitiveness. The prime minister and his
policymakers concluded that to continue growing strongly, the economy
had
to move up the value chain. And fast. The MSC -- a 15x50-km zone
stretching
south from central Kuala Lumpur, and designated for the creation, use
and
distribution of information technology products and services -- was to
spearhead the climb.
The government set about trying to turn the largely greenfield site into
an
Asian Silicon Valley. It pledged an initial US$10bn for basic
infrastructure, including a 2.5-10 gigabyte fibre-optic communications
backbone, and stipulated the "flagship" applications to be pursued:
electronic government; distance learning; telemedicine; multipurpose
smartcards; remote manufacturing; borderless marketing; and RD
"clusters".
Acutely aware that little if any progress was possible without the help
of
big players in the global high-tech industry, the authorities devised an
attractive incentives package to woo them. This exempted investors from
the
restrictions on foreign ownership and expatriate employment applicable
to
other parts of the economy; offered generous tax breaks and competitive
communications tariffs; and promised MSC infrastructure contracts to
companies willing to use the zone as a regional base. Bureaucrats busied
themselves drafting a series of "cyberlaws" to encourage the development
of
the corridor and protect investors and their products. Dr Mahathir set
up
an MSC "international advisory panel" that included the bosses of
technology and new economy giants such as Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Oracle,
Compaq and Sun Microsystems. Its members applauded the prime minister's
vision, and most committed themselves to setting up operations in the
zone.
It seemed poised for take-off.
Then the Asian crisis struck. While the MSC was largely spared the
public
spending cuts that forced the cancellation or dilution of numerous other
large projects, it was adversely affected in other ways. Scores of
small,
local companies granted MSC "status" found themselves deprived of
anticipated funding almost overnight.
More ominously, the early enthusiasm of some of the major multinationals
waned. One reason was Dr Mahathir's transformation into a seemingly
hostile
sponsor. The increasing frequency and vehemence of his anti- Western
outbursts -- blaming foreign "speculators" for the downturn and accusing
overseas companies of preying on Malaysian businesses weakened by it --
and
his imposition of capital controls gave them pause for thought. The
government's repression of domestic critics, which involved monitoring
Internet traffic, was also seen as less than conducive to the sort of
innovation supposed to flourish in the corridor.
The Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC), the official agency
overseeing the MSC, continues to talk up the project. It says the number
of
MSC-status companies has grown steadily to 362 -- 40% of them foreign-
owned -- undertaking a wide range of activities, among them software and
hardware development, Internet-based business, systems integration, and
telecoms and networking.
But other figures released by the MDC, based on the business plans of
the
companies under its supervision, are hardly flattering. By 2001 they
will
have invested no more than US$475m, and generated a maximum of 7,300
jobs
-- modest numbers when measured against rival high-tech
