|
29th August, 2010
A total of 9,500 1Malaysia laptop computers has been distributed to students in 19 selected locations in Sabah under Phase One of the scheme which involved 500 units of computer for each location.
The Deputy Director of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Sabah and Labuan, K Juslly Elis, said, for Phase Two Sabah will receive a further 175,000 units of 1Malaysia computers involving 25 locations in the whole of Sabah.
“This is from the allocation of 1 million units of 1Malaysia computers provided by the government for distribution to secondary school students who qualify including students who are less fortunate and from the low income group so that they can have access to internet via broadband” he said after the distribution ceremony of the computers at SMK Bingkor, yesterday.
Juslly said, the distribution of the 1Malaysia computers with broadband facility to the targeted groups based on the ratio of 65 per cent of less fortunate students with priority given to government or government aided secondary schools that do not have broadband facility, is with the cooperation of the Ministry of Education Malaysia.
Meanwhile, he said, 35 percent is allocated to lower income groups staying in remote villages and those traditional villages with available services, new villages and community centres. He said, a family income of less than RM3,000 is the basis of identifying the less fortunate.
“From this Phase One distribution of 1Malaysia computers, the Interior Division will get 1,500 units involving three state assembly constituencies of Bingkor, Nabawan and Sook,” he said.
For the state constituency of Nabawan, distribution involved 2 secondary schools which are SMK Nabawan and SMK Nabawan II, while for the state constituency of Bingkor, the schools are SMK Bingkor and SMK Apin-Apin and for the state constituency of Sook, the school involved is SMK Sook.
He said, the government’s target was to achieve 50 percent internet penetration to all households in Malaysia by the end of this year. At the same time Juslly informed that 873 new telecommunication towers are being built all over Malaysia with 212 in Sabah.
|
