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MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCES (MoHR)
ICT STRATEGIC PLAN 2014 - 2018

1 INTRODUCTION

MoHR started as a Department of Labour in 1904 and

became to what it is known today as Ministry of

Human Resources in 1960. Simply put, MoHR’s role in leading Malaysia’s
Human Capital has been over more than hundred (100) years today or for

the past fifty-six (56) years since independence. Over the past five
decades of independence, Malaysia has seen Human Capital

Transformation or best described by Durrishah Idrus, “from Agriculture
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to Industry, Pondok to Twin Towers” . Within the said period, the
explosion growth of Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
advancement has changed tremendously overtime from the way people

are communicating and conducting business. Just for an analogy

purposes, in terms of ICT progress, disk storage for 25 Mega Bytes in the
1980’s weighs approximately 100 Kg with the size of a washing machine.

Today, an SD memory card for the size of 256 GB is available in the
international market weighing approximately 3 grams. Thus,

comparatively, storage per gram has increased by 341 Million times
within 30 years or approximately an average of 11 Million improvements

per year. That is on the sheer weight alone and not by the access time
capability. Sounds scary or may perhaps exaggerating, but the point is,

similarly, we have to transform MoHR ICT capabilities in respond to the
Human Capital Transformation to ensure that Malaysia will achieve

Vision 2020, High Income Nation and capable of providing highly skilful
knowledge workers. ICT is no longer a tool or automation system, ICT

shall be treated as catalyst of change and shall shape and provide
organisation capabilities to meet this highly globalised, competitive and

borderless world that we are here today. ICT shall not be seen as cost
centre, but rather an investment for better Malaysian’s future, with

respect to Human Capital Transformation.

1 Human Capital Transformation – 55 Years of Malaysian Experience, Chapter 1 – Durrishah Idrus

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