{"id":9052,"date":"2013-11-20T13:26:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T13:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=9052"},"modified":"2015-05-21T13:27:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:27:27","slug":"malaysia-a-world-leader-in-shared-services-and-outsourcing-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2013\/november-2013\/malaysia-a-world-leader-in-shared-services-and-outsourcing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia A World Leader In Shared Services and Outsourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2013%2Fnovember-2013%2Fmalaysia-a-world-leader-in-shared-services-and-outsourcing-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=9052&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2 class=\"contentheading\"><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsitem_tools\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\"><span class=\"createdate\">WEDNESDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 2013 14:37<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2013\/IVIConf-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin<br \/>\nPix Izwan Azman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BANGI, 13 Nov 2013 \u2013 Malaysia is currently the world leader in Shared Services and Outsourcing industry (SSO) in Information Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Second Education Minister Dato\u2019 Seri Idris Jusoh said this sector has garnered investments of more than RM1 billion and has resulted in the creation of almost 60,000 jobs by 2008 and is expected to create a total of 300,000 jobs by the end of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>His speech was delivered by the Deputy Secretary General of the Education Ministry Dato\u2019 Nasir bin Mat Dam at the opening of the three-day Third International Visual Informatics Conference (IVIC) 2013 organised by The National University of Malaysia (UKM) and twenty other institutions here today.<\/p>\n<p>Dato\u2019 Seri Idris said there are now 184 SSO companies and about 79,000 knowledge workers in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that Malaysia\u2019s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is forecast to generate income of USD14.1 billion next year with an annual growth rate of 11.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Since the inception of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) in 1997, a total of 2,455 companies and institutions of higher learning have received MSC status.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, still a need to develop better solutions and improving existing ICT products and services through upgraded research.<\/p>\n<p>Dato\u2019 Seri Idris said the efforts are in line with the National Digital Transformation Plan of Malaysia and will make access to learning easier.<\/p>\n<p>Research creativity and innovations in visual informatics are not just relevant in education but also in industry as well as the services sector.<\/p>\n<p>Present at the opening ceremony was UKM Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Student and Alumni Affairs) Prof Dato\u2019 Ir Dr Osman A Karim and Director of the Institute of Visual Informatics UKM Prof Dato\u2019 Dr Halimah Badioze Zaman, who was also IVIC 2013 chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers and academics from Asia, the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and Taiwan took part with nearly 70 research papers presented at separate workshops.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2013\/IVIConf-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEDNESDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 2013 14:37 By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Izwan Azman BANGI, 13 Nov 2013 \u2013 Malaysia is currently<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2013\/november-2013\/malaysia-a-world-leader-in-shared-services-and-outsourcing-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1230,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9052","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9053,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9052\/revisions\/9053"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}