KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian education system needs to instill advanced information and communications technology (ICT) knowledge early, especially in the secondary schools, to ensure that the country produces innovators to cope with the move to promote digital economy. The four-day conference, attended by 300 international participants from 30 countries, is co-organised by California State University and Unitar International University. Earlier, in her speech, Rafidah said, the new technology and innovations were needed, especially in leveraging on the available resources. Taking financial technology (fintech) as an example, she said, fintech companies were competing directly with existing banks in most areas in the financial sector. “Among available segments in the fintech services are digital payments, digital insurance, investment and so on.

Source: New Strait Times November 06, 2017 07:41 UTC