THE Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint plans to boost the growth of the cloud industry by adopting a cloud-first strategy in the public sector and appointing Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and Manage Service Providers (MSP) to build Malaysia’s capabilities in this area. In the first phase (2021-2022) of the blueprint, the government aims to move towards a paperless environment and migrate 80% of public data to hybrid cloud systems by the end of 2022. With this cloud-first strategy, the government can engage in more effective data collection and management, resulting in lower information management costs in the long run, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said during the launch of the blueprint.