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Making eKL a lifestyle for people living within Klang Valley. |
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Tuesday, 31 July 2007 |
PUTRAJAYA, 30 July (The Star) -- The 6.4 million people within the Klang Valley are about to enjoy better Internet connectivity and access to public services with the introduction of the eKL project.
The project, which covers three cities and an administrative centre – Kuala Lumpur, Shah Alam, Petaling Jaya and Putrajaya – will stretch from Hulu Langat area in the north down to Nilai in Negri Sembilan.
The project, which takes off this year and runs until 2010, will involve 150 agencies ranging from the land office and the local councils to government departments.
Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Unit (Mampu) director-general Datuk Normah Md Yusof said that under the eKL project, the Government would increase the number of online services it now offered to the public from over 400 to 5,000 by 2010.
"We also aim to increase the number of services offered through the SMS (short message service) from 50 to 500 by 2010.
"The eKL project will not only offer public services through the Internet but also through wireless technology, interactive voice response system via telephone calls and mobile web," she said in an interview here recently.
Normah said the eKL initiative aimed to give a "push" to the implementation of the electronic government concept in the Klang Valley, which was chosen as the area was the country's main business, financial and administrative centre.
The unit, she said, would propel Malaysia to be among the top 10 countries in the world in terms of global competitiveness for its public service delivery.
"This is especially so when neighbouring countries are growing so fast. We need to implement such a project so that we won't lose out.
"Under the project, we want both the Government and our customers – the public – to use the electronic service delivery system as a kind of lifestyle, an eKL lifestyle," she said.
To ensure speedier Internet access, she said the "Klang Valley Broadband Push" agenda would be implemented by the Energy, Water and Communications Ministry. |
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