Rafidah: Malaysia can achieve developed status in its “own mould’
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia can achieve developed status in its “own mould” by continuing to upgrade its education system and giving the right “tools” to the young people in improving their IT skills, said Economic Action Council member Tan Sri Rafidah Abdul Aziz.
Rafidah, who is also the former International Trade and Industry Minister, said that the country needs to move away from the narrow perception that a developed status could only be attained by achieving higher Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
“We have an education system that needs constant upgrading and do not neglect that. Our young people must be given the tools to improve their IT skills and ability to interface with the new development around us.
“This is not only for the domestic level but regional and global level. If we continue to do that, then we would be achieving the developed status in our own mould. Not the gross domestic product,” she said to media at the International Franchise and Entrepreneurship Conference 2019, here today.
At present, the country, according to her, has a pool of young people who are really immersed in IT but more work needs to be done to improve on that.
Bernama
