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OSS Opportunity Workshop – 18 June 2009

OSCC MAMPU has recently conducted its third OSS Opportunity Workshop on 18 June 2009, which attracted a turnout of 16 public sector agencies. The workshop kicked off with the presentation of Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan by MAMPU Principal Assistant Director, Encik Omar Bin Yaakop.

As with the first two workshops, participants were presented with the MyMeeting application before they were split into groups for roundtable discussions with facilitators from OSCC MAMPU. Agencies were also given the opportunities to share the challenges and barriers that deter them from implementing OSS.  Agencies not implementing any OSS are to provide feedback to MAMPU by an agreed date for their OSS implementation.

Visit To Sudan, 8 – 9 June 2009

A delegation from MAMPU recently visited Sudan on June 8-10th 2009 on the invitation by the Nile Centre for Technology Research (NCTR) of Sudan. Sudan is seeking to adopt Open Source Software (OSS) in government agencies and educational institutions. MAMPU presented a paper during the OSS Workshop entitled “Free and Open Source Software in Sudan: Freedom of Change and Strategic Vision” to share its experience and knowledge in implementing the Public Sector OSS Master Plan.

The workshop concluded with an agreement by the National Information Council (NIC) of Sudan, which is a government agency equivalent to MAMPU, to work towards setting up an OSS centre in Sudan.

Apart from the workshop, the MAMPU delegation also attended several meetings with Sudanese government agencies and universities to discuss possible collaboration activities on OSS. Based on these meetings, Sudan has expressed strong interest to collaborate with MAMPU and is keen to establish a formal agreement with MAMPU to pursue this agenda further.

MAMPU Delegation with Sudanese Minister of Science and Technology (2nd from right), Sudan government officials and workshop participan

Visit To Saudi Arabia, 25 – 26 May 2009

On 25th May 2009, a delegation from MAMPU headed by Tn Haji Muhammad Rosli Bin Abd. Razak, MAMPU Director (BDPICT) officially visited King Abdul Aziz City For Science And Technology (KACST) to conduct a preliminary discussion on the above initiative. In essence, the discussion was focused on the formation of the Smart Partnership between KACST, United National and Development Programme (UNDP) and MAMPU to help the Saudi Arabian Government  to establish a National Open Source Software Centre in their country.

Under the Smart Partnership, a number of OSS activities were proposed and KACST was advised to draw the objectives and scopes of their OSS initiatives for analysis by MAMPU. This heralds the initiation of a mutually fruitful partnership towards implementing OSS in Saudi Arabian Government agencies.

The MSC Open Source Conference was held on 31st May to 3rd June 2009 at Berjaya Time Square, Kuala Lumpur. It was organised by Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) in cooperation with MAMPU.  The four-day conference has attracted the good turnout of over 650 local and international participants.

Director General MAMPU, Y. bhg. Dato' Normah Md. Yusof was also present to address the opening keynote on OSS initiative. In addition, MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT), Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah Binti Mohd Zahri spoke on OSS Master Plan with paper entitled the “catalyst for  Modernisation”. MAMPU Deputy Director,

Madam Tan King Ing gave an inspiring talk on the roles and success of OSCC MAMPU in executing the Master Plan to boost the OSS industry. She had encouraged and motivated the public sector to contact OSCC MAMPU  for OSS implementation.