Towards Economic Prosperity & Global Competitiveness DatukBadlisham Ghazali The speaker highlighted 4 key drivers in the Digital

l Malaysia ecosystem that cou ld bring the country as a high income nation that s worth RM294 billions of Gross Ne t Income in 2020. The first is Mobility, where there is an increasing trend among Malaysian in the last 4 years to own mobile devices to access and use Internet services.The mobi le penetration rate is 128.7% as of Q1 2012 looked very promising. It is said th at there s US$37 billion revenue by 2015 for mobile applications globally. Secondly is the Social Networking application that has provided a remarkable cha nge on the way we consume information now. With 12 million Facebook users in Mal aysia, there are a lot of links, news and posts shared each week making content travel faster that one could ever imagine. The third driver is Cloud Technology which offers many fantastic services and ap plications either for free or minimal cost for the consumer to use making it rel atively cheaper. It is predicted that global spending on cloud will hit US$82.3 billion in 2020. Lastly, is the Internet of Things relationship where is no longer about person t o person communicating but rather things are communicating with another thing fo r example the GPS devices is connected to the phone; the webcams is connected to the Internet, and etc. With the 4 drivers above, it engaged larger community and provided better partic ipation among the citizens with the government. The government is able to provid e better online services to the citizens to make the public service delivery mor e efficient and effective. For example, the online crime-reporting based on syst em-assisted mapping; civic issues reporting to the Municipal Councils; and distr ess call reporting which sends the GPS location of the sender to the police;are examples to have an inclusive environment and a smarter government. There are 3 strategic approaches to achieve the country s aspiration to be high inco me nation. The first approach is to reallocate our resources to more demand-focu sed programmes and activities; and to take full advantage of it. We must identif y what are the demands Second is to change the way people behave to produce as they consume information by having solid understanding what s missing and how we could fill in the gap. This could be done by generating digital income through broadcasting yourself on You Tube and using micro-sourcing and eCommerce services. The third approach is to e nhance competitiveness by focusing on knowledge-added activities