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By Mohd Arshi Mat Daud
The World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) 2006 is estimated to generate some US$26 million (U$1=RM3.59) in business for Malaysian companies involved in the shared services and outsourcing (SSO) cluster.
"Within the next 12 months, our presence in WCIT 2006 is expected to open up the South American market to 12 Malaysian companies engaged in software development," Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Seri Jamaludin Jarjis told Malaysian journalists here Saturday.
About 80 Malaysian companies took part in the five-day biennial event which ended Friday.
Some 300 Malaysian delegates attended the event, led by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Malaysia will host the next WCIT in 2008.
Dr Jamaludin said that WCIT 2008 would open up new markets in West Asia and Africa for the country's information and communications technology (ICT) companies.
He said a roadshow would be mounted to attract a larger number of delegates so that WCIT 2008 would be the most exciting and biggest ever.
The Prime Minister had agreed that the Malaysian-hosted WCIT would not only be a gathering of ICT players, but also policy makers who deliberate on the world ICT sector.
"I will discuss with Wisma Putra to invite policy makers from the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) countries and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), to come to Malaysia for WCIT 2008," he said.
Touching on Dell's plan to set up a technology and development centre in Cyberjaya, he said once finalised, it would be the largest technology centre in the area to date and the biggest employer of software engineers through the creation of 1,500 jobs.
"We are still negotiating details of customised incentives to be accorded to Dell for the centre," he said.
The planned centre was announced after Abdullah's visit to Dell headquarters at Round Rock in Texas on Friday.
The centre is expected to include a range of high value-added activities including process design and software development.
On Malaysia's plan to host the world's first public-private sector centre against cyber-terrorism, Jamaludin said that it would fall under his ministry's jurisdiction.
"We hope to have it as soon as possible," he added.
Abdullah announced the set up of the cyber-terrorism centre, to be called "International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Terrorism" or "Impact", during the closing ceremony of WCIT 2006.
Impact will be sited in Cyberjaya, -- at the heart of Malaysia's MSC, with access to world-class ICT infrastructure.
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Source :Bernama (www.bernama.com)
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