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FEATURE / PIKOM MEMBERS MEET
PIKOM MEMBERS MEET 2021 PIKOM held its first online members’ meet for 2021, organised to engage members of the association, to update on activities and developments over the last one year, as well as future developments within the association and to welcome new members.
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n welcoming members to the first members’ meet for 2021, Danny Lee, Chairman of PIKOM said that with the lack of physical meet-ups over the last one year, this was a great opportunity to catch up on the latest developments. Danny introduced PIKOM’s new office bearers, advisors, council members, and members of the secretariat. Representing PIKOM, Danny has been involved in various advisory councils of government agencies to advocate the overall direction of the digital technology industry. He was appointed as part of the Communication and Multimedia Consultative Council, a platform for the government to get involved in discussions with industry and stakeholders on policies and issues related to the communications and multimedia sector.
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PIKOM’S GOVERNMENT ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS Danny highlighted that PIKOM is also involved with MDEC in terms of engagement, with PIKOM having the opportunity to meet the new chairman of MDEC, Datuk Wira Dr Hj Rais Hussin Mohamed Ariff, to discuss the e-commerce ecosystem for local players. “This where we are looking at how to develop local organisations in the e-commerce space which is very important in terms of building local talents as well as the industry,” said Danny. Danny is also on the board of the Digital Productivity Nexus (DPN) of Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC) which plays the role of being a technology supplier while also addressing tech talent as well as consumer issues. “As far as DPN is concerned, they are also looking
into digitalisation of SMEs with grants from the government,” explained Danny. Every year, PIKOM also works with the Ministry of Finance Malaysia (MOF) conducting various discussions that include budget planning for the tech industry. “In last year’s budget discussion, we talked about tax exemption for IT devices. We are also talking about bigger budgets for training and development of tech talents, and also to address digital tech issues, and so forth,” he said. Danny is also involved in the National Science Council Advisory panel which plays an integral advisory role for science, technology, innovation and re-engineering. “We are also closely working with Akademi Sains Malaysia on the development of talent,” he added.
