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will enable Malaysia to become an educational
hub for the entire region. To raise awareness of
the benefits of e-Learning, the Education Ministry
has been promoting educational online content.
To date, a total of 4,166 educational programmes
and education-related programmes have been
uploaded onto EduWebTV.
The e-Healthcare EPP aims to connect all medical
institutions to the Healthnet platform that hosts
productivity applications for healthcare providers
and gives companies and patients access to
healthcare-related services. E-Healthcare also
encompasses the deployment of IT equipment to
medical institutions and the roll out of applications
for personal and remote monitoring of chronic
diseases. To date, a total of 1,156 public health
facilities have been connected with a broadband
speed of 2Mbps. Educating the public on
healthcare is the MedikTV channel project. Under
the first phase of the project, Medic Channel has
deployed 1,410 42-inch television sets to 168 hightraffic
locations nationwide. The expected annual
viewership is estimated at 24.9 million.
The e-Government EPP uses ICT technology to
enhance access and delivery of Government
services to the public and businesses. Currently,
more than 3,000 Government applications are
available online, in line with the goal of zero counter
services by 2020. MyEmail project was launched
to enable a secured communication channel to
Government e-Services that is accessible through
all devices. To date, the service had garnered more
than 7,000 users.
The goal of EPP 7 is to increase broadband
accessibility by designating broadband access as
an essential utility for consumers and bridging the
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digital divide. The local councils of Kuala Lumpur
and Kota Kinabalu have adopted the ‘Connected@
City’ programme to increase broadband adoption
among SMEs and businesses through an annual
license renewal requirement. The Mayors of
the two cities have announced that business
operators (e.g. food and beverages outlets, hotels,
universities, shopping malls) are encouraged
to offer wireless internet facilities. Under the
KL Wireless Metropolitan project, about 1,500
Wireless@KL access points have been installed
in about 700 locations and in and around Kuala
Lumpur. Registered users can access in a Wi-Fi
zone with a laptop or tablet. Until June 2011, about
387,254 users have registered with Wireless@KL.
The EPPs aims to drive up broadband subscription
outreach level in non-urban areas to as much as
90% of households in 2020, resulting in 3.4 million
new broadband subscribers. The Community
Broadband Centre initiative led by Malaysia
Communication and Multimedia Commission
(MCMC) focuses on providing ICT services to
the community in rural areas. To date, there are
252 centres in operation nationwide, providing
internet services at a very affordable rate to the
rural community. Another initiative led by MCMC
is the Kampung Tanpa Wayar service which has
been commissioned in more than 1,300 villages
and 215 towers have been erected. A total of 1,588
Kampung Tanpa Wayar, Community Broadband
Centres (CBCs) and Rural Wireless Towers have
been commissioned in 2011.
Extending the regional network, EPP aims to increase
bandwidth capacity and reduces Internet Protocol
(IP) transit costs and bandwidth price. Under
this EPP, three projects are underway. The first
is the formation of a consortium comprising 24
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