E-Government in Malaysia: Its implementation so far and citizen's adoption strategies

-Government in Malaysia is quite new. This huge E-Government started in 1997 with the launch of the MSC (Multimedia Super Corridor). This online service started to become more popular these 3 years. We can see how the government is always promoting the E-Government these years through various types of media. The website for the government is http://www.gov.my/. Inside the webpage, we can view a lot of services that provided by the government including the online services. The e-government in Malaysia provided quite a lot of services such as e-Filling, Renewing Road Tax, Driving License online and e-Perolehan. All these services provide a lot of convenience to the citizens. They can use those applications through internet without having the trouble to go out of their house and queue up to perform these services.

However, the government should improve the E-Government they are currently using in order to attract more customers or citizens. There are a few of troubles that faced by the citizens while they are trying to use the E-Government. First of all, the E-Government is not very user-friendly. Senior citizens who are not expert in technology materials may find it hard to perform the E-Government service. Besides that, there are few complains that I heard is that the respond from the E-Government is not very effective and cannot compare with some private institutions. Below is one of the webpage from the government website, which shows some online services.

In order to encourage more citizens to use the E-government, the government should firstly solve the problems that encountered by most of the citizens while they are using the webpage. Other than that, the government can provide some offers which are available through the e-government. Lastly the government can explain to the citizens about the benefits of using E-government.



Link:
Electronic Commerce: From Vision To Fulfillment-Awad, E. M. (2007)
E-Business and E-Commerce Management-Chaffey, D. (2007)
http://www.gov.my/eServiceCenter/eServiceApplicationPortfolio/ServiceApplicationPortfolio.aspx?Form=0

Mobile payment systems in Malaysia : its potentials and consumers' adoption strategies

Mobile payment system is not quite well known in Malaysia. Perhaps, I also first time get to know this term. According to the definition from wikipedia, mobile payment is the collection of money from a consumer through a mobile device such as mobile phone, smartPhone or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). Through this system, we can sms the mobile money to anyone at anytime in anywhere. This system can bring a lot of benefits to everyone especially those who seldom or rarely go out.

As nowadays the petrol price is keeping on increase, the transportation cost will increase directly. Therefore it would be very troublesome and costly if we need to go to the nearest bank to have any transaction. In order to reduce those unnecessary works, this type of payment is introduced. Therefore in the moment where the petrol price is keeping increase, the mobile payment system will become more popular and being used. This reveals that this system has a very bright prospect in the future. Currently, Celcom is providing the mobile payment service in Malaysia. For further detail information about mobile payment service provided by Celcom, you all can go to the webpage of Celcom to ask for further information. Besides that, you all can click on the link below to understand or know more about the mobile payment available in Malaysia that is MM Wallet.
-http://www.mobile-money.com/

In order for more people practice mobile payment system in Malaysia, there should be more companies in Malaysia that can accept the mobile payment. Furthermore, the service provided should be ensured that the system is very secure and everyone can use the system without having any doubts or worry of the security problem. Other than that, this new type of payment system should be introduced to the public by using all types of media. This will be the fastest way to notify the citizens about the new and efficient payment system that is available.

Reference:

Electronic Commerce: From Vision To Fulfillment-Awad, E. M. (2007)

E-Business and E-Commerce Management-Chaffey, D. (2007)

-http://www.mobile-money.com/

http://www.mobileinfo.com/Mcommerce/payment_Systems.htm

How to safeguard our personal and financial data

Everyone who uses the computer will mostly keep their personal data and financial data in the computer. This is because many data can be stored inside the computer easily. However, this important data might be stolen by others (hackers) when the person surfs the internet by using the computer. Besides that, anyone can easily get access to the computer and knew the important data if the computer has no any security. This may cause undesirable activities occur such as important data of customer being stolen, personal financial data or code being stolen and personal data being manipulated. Therefore steps should be taken to safeguard all important data.

The first method to safeguard the data is by authentication. By using authentication, a person requires to verify himself in order to get access to a particular database. For example, a smart card is needed in order to access to a database. Thus not everyone is able to access to the database. Other than that, data can be safeguarded by authorization method. We can set a password in order to access a database. So, if there is anyone who wants to access to the database required to type the password set by the user. A password with above 5 characters is necessary to make it difficult for any third party to guess the password.

The third method of securing data is through non-repudiation. It ensures that a party in the dispute cannot refute a transaction that had occurred. This is necessary especially to the business people. Moreover, installing a firewall can also safeguard the computer from being hacked and important data being stolen. There are many firewalls available from the internet and it is free too. However it is advisable to use a subscribe firewall in order to get a better protection over the network. Firewall should be installed if the user will surf the internet quite often.

Above are some ways for safeguarding our important data. It is very essential so that our important data would not leak away. Prevention is better than cure. Therefore it is better to safeguard our data before it is being stolen.

Reference:
Electronic Commerce: From Vision To Fulfillment-Awad, E. M. (2007)
E-Business and E-Commerce Management-Chaffey, D. (2007)

Example of an E-commerce success and its causes

E-commerce is defined as business activities conducted using electronic data transmission technologies, such as those used on the internet. E-commerce is basically very broad and brings numerous advantages to the users of internet. One of the E-commerce successes is Yahoo!. Yahoo began from a hobby and then developed into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate, search and access information cum purchase stuff. David Filo and Jerry Yang who found yahoo started their yahoo journey since Feb 1994. The main purpose at that time was to provide a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. That was how Yahoo started. In 1994, Yahoo had its first one million-hit day. Later in April 1995, the founders agreed to fund Yahoo with capital nearly $2 million.

Nowadays, Yahoo is one of the most popular E-commerce companies in the world. Yahoo offers a variety of network services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide. Yahoo’s revenue is increasing from day to day. The revenues for yahoo that I get from the internet are as follows:

The main success of Yahoo is due to the strategic planning by the people involved. Yahoo provides search engine for everyone who uses Yahoo. Besides that, the information uploaded on Yahoo is up-to-date. Therefore, many people visit Yahoo everyday and increase Yahoo attractiveness toward marketing services such as advertisement. Furthermore, the friendly interface of Yahoo contributes to its successful. Yahoo knows the demand of its client and designed to suit the client needs.

Reference:
Electronic Commerce: From Vision To Fulfillment-Awad, E. M. (2007)
E-Business and E-Commerce Management-Chaffey, D. (2007)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html

introduction about Zzzzz

Hi, I am Chong Zheyan from Perak. In my class which is majority dominate by the Johor friends, my hometown seems to make me a bit unique. My hobbies are uncountable. However if you still want me to pick one of my hobbies I would definitely say it is playing computer games. Although I am wearing spectacles, I still cannot resist the temptation from stop playing computer. Every time after I played computer games, I will really hate it because it wasted lots of my precious time. This hobby caused my result worsen. Besides that, I like to play table tennis, read newspaper, swim and volleyball. However these few years, I am very lazy to exercise. I prefer to sit down and watch television etc. The first website that I always surf is http://www.malaysiakini.com/. This website contains a lot of news that can attract my attention. Besides that I also visit http://www.soccernet.com/ and http://www.livescore.com/ to know the latest football result. Of course, I will often go to my e-mail and read my mail. Actually I do not have any important things to do while surfing the net. I will go and chat with people, read news and do some research. This is all about me and the internet. There will be more interesting stories coming next………