ICT Working Group Business Mission to Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur
November 15-16, 2007
The ICT Working Group held its second mission to the region with a visit to Malaysia on November 15-16, 2007. The ICT Mission immediately followed the US-Malaysia Business Council's mission. The Delegation was co-lead by Council President Matthew Daley and ICT Working Group Co-Chair Joseph Alhadeff of Oracle Corporation. In addition to Oracle, companies that participated in the mission were Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Unisys.
The mission's main event was a Roundtable discussion with officials from Ministry of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, and Ministry of Water, Energy and Communication. The Roundtable was co-organized with the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC). Entitled “Building Malaysia’s Next Generation Workforce through ICT”, the Roundtable discussed how the private sector can better collaborate with the Government of Malaysia to enhance education outcomes at all levels, including tertiary training, using ICTs as an enabler of those outcomes. The goal is for Malaysia to become the go-to place for a pool of highly skilled knowledge workers, including managers, scientists and technical experts.
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ICT Working Group Mission to the
ASEAN Telecommunications & IT
Senior Officials and Ministers Meeting (TELSOM/TELMIN)
Siem Reap, Cambodia
August 22-23, 2007

The US-ASEAN Business Council is priveleged to held the first ever private sector dialogue with the ASEAN Telecommunications & IT Senior Officials during the ASEAN TELSOM/TELMIN Meeting in Siam Reap, Cambodia, August 22-23. The Council's delegation is led by Mr. Natasak Rodjanapiches, Regional Managing Director for Oracle Corporation. Companies that were also part of the delegation are QUALCOMM and Motorola.
In addition to meeting with the Senior Officials, Council's delegation also had bilateral meetings with H.E. Muhammad Nuh, Indonesian Minister for Communication & Information (top picture - fifth from left), H.E. Lee Boon Yang, Singaporean Minister for Information, Communication & the Arts (bottom picture - fifth from right), and Mr. Jaime Fortes, Philippines' Deputy Commissioner for National Telecommunication.
For a copy of our Issues Paper that we present at the dialogue, please click here (Council Members only). For more information, contact Putri Alam at palam@usasean.org.
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