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Thursday, 04 Mar 2021 06:08 AM MYT
BY SYED JAYMAL ZAHIID
Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said at the launch of MyDigital and the Digital Economy Blueprint that up to RM56 billion will be invested into the initiative by both the public and private sectors. AFP pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 Executives from some of the country’s biggest start-ups have welcomed Putrajaya’s recently-launched digital economy blueprint but with reservations about its goals and the timeline set to achieve them.
While the 10-year MyDigital plan will put the government on track to spur the high potential sector, they said the initiative appeared convoluted and lacked vigour in terms of what it sets out to achieve.
Juwai IQI to build 1,000+ strong data and technology team in Kuala Lumpur
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Asian real estate technology group Juwai IQI announced plans today to build a data and technology team in Kuala Lumpur that it expects to eventually reach more than 1,000 persons. The move has been warmly welcomed by the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and is in line with the government’s MyDIGITAL initiative to attract RM70 billion investment in digitalisation by 2025.
Juwai IQI’s technology hub will be located at Millerz Square at Old Klang Road. Millerz Square is a 6.8-acre mixed development project consisting of residential and commercial towers with a gross development value of RM1.8 billion that is being developed by EXSIM Group. Juwai IQI has begun the process of designing and fitting out its new space, with plans to move in during the first quarter of 2022.
THE Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint has laid out a series of ambitious targets for the country’s digital economy, not least of which is to attract some RM70 billion in foreign and local investments into the digital economy. Notably however, the blueprint does not set out a time frame for this investment target.
Even so, at this preliminary stage, the government appears to have taken a prudent, back-to-basics approach with the blueprint, with a view to correcting certain long-standing deficiencies.
Joachim Sebastian, managing director of local technology-enabled transhipment and repackaging company Everpeaks Sdn Bhd, commends the government on acknowledging and prioritising a number of very fundamental issues that have held the economy back for years.