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Digerati50: Rocking it in Silicon Valley
Digital News Asia (DNA) continues a weekly series that profiles the top 50 influencers, movers and shakers who are helping shape Malaysia’s Digital Economy. These articles are from Digerati50, a special print publication released in January 2014.
Entrepreneurship, and when academia loses the plot
UTAR's Young Entrepreneur Startup Scheme is emblematic of the disconnect between academia and industry. More practical partnerships need to be formed with private sector startup organisations and institutions of learning, writes Gabey Goh.
Donate books and toys to kids the easy, MyTeksi way
MyTeksi is working with Science of Life Studies 24/7 (SOLS 24/7), a non-governmental organisation that focuses on educating and empowering the lives of those in rural communities, on a donation drive themed ‘Delivering Happiness’ to collect used toys and English books for 2,000 children in underserved communities.
Intel: More emphasis needed on education for girls
Intel Corp continued its drive to get more girls and women educated, saying that they could then become powerful catalysts for progress and economic growth.
Intel and YTL in 1BestariNet collaboration
YTL Communications and Intel Malaysia have formalised an agreement that would see the introduction of Intel-based integrated 4G laptops and tablets for the 1BestariNet programme which seeks to deliver a cloud-based virtual learning platform and high-speed Internet connectivity to 10,000 schools nationwide.
Microsoft names 4 Malaysian teachers as ‘Expert Educators,’ selects 'Mentor School'
Microsoft Corporation has selected four Malaysian teachers to be part of its first class of 'Expert Educators' as well as the first Malaysian school to be included in its Mentor Schools programme.
Two Malaysian youth off to Telenor summit, chance to hobnob at Nobel event
DiGi has announced that 20-year-old law student Farah Fathiah Fauzi and 19-year-old pre-university student Wong Gwen Yi will represent Malaysia at the first Telenor Youth Summit in Oslo from Dec 9-11.
NI and MARA set up LabVIEW Academies to boost engineering ecosystem
LabVIEW Academies offers classroom curricula and hands-on exercise to undergraduates and graduates from MARA To promote more LabVIEW-trained and certified engineers to the electrical and biomedical engineering industries
Using mobile to give out-of-school Filipino youth education opportunities
The GSM Association (GSMA) has announced it would be working with government agencies and mobile network operators to provide up to one million Filipino out-of-school youth (OSY) with additional opportunities to access education, including technical vocational education, via mobile media.
It’s our Internet; up to us to protect it
We created the Web, so it's up to us as a society to look after it and to help make sure our governments or big companies not do things to it, says Wendy Hall, professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
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