OBJEKTIF PENUBUHAN PUSAT INTERNET 1MALAYSIA/COMMUNITY BROADBAND CENTRE
- The Community Broadband Centre (CBC) project is an ongoing effort to promote
- the widespread availability and usage of network services and applications services by encouraging the installation of network facilities and the provision for network services and applications services in underserved areas and/or for underserved groups within the community.
- The ultimate goal of this project is to ensure that communities living in underserved areas are:
- Connected to mainstream Information and Communications Technology (ICT) development Enabling and empowering these “connected communities”
- Bring about socio-economic development for those communities in the various sectors such as agriculture, education, health, business, amongst others.
- The Connected Community approach will:
- Enable the communities to access new knowledge and information that can be incorporated into their local knowledge and context
- such as, provisions of information on employment opportunities,
- educational resources,
- government services (for example, providing links to e-Government, e-Learning, e-Commerce, e-Health, e-Agriculture, etc.) and
- Provide technical information on agriculture for their daily lives, such as information on new varieties, planting techniques, and disease prevention.
- The facilities installed for CBC project may also be used as:
- Training centres for local people to learn computer and ICT skills,
- To provide access to distance education, employment opportunities, human resource training, business ventures, amongst others.
- The CBCs shall serve as centre for Broadband access to the community.
- In order to assume its full functionality in terms of building capacity whilst leveraging on the socio-economic impact of the communities, several enhanced features shall be incorporated into these centres to attain the following goals/functions:
- CBC as e-Transaction Centre
- Support various applications for e-Government, e-Learning, e-Commerce, Employment opportunities, Online Banking transaction, etc.
- CBC for Life-long Learning
- Functions as a Learning Academy, to be owned and operated by the Community, where multiple capacity building activities and enrichment training program can take place.
- Continuous promotion and awareness for education
- CBC for Social Networking
- Social collaboration with other connected community within the ecosystem
- Opportunities to learn about services and techniques used in other e-Community, and then adapt these for use in one’s own center
- Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of e-Community activities and sharing of lessons learned across e-Community centres and across networks
- Advocacy and policy related activities to support the growth of the connected community movement
- CBC for Value Creation via Access to Knowledge and Information
- Development of Local Content (e.g. Internet portal applications)
- Creation of digital opportunities through ubiquitous, affordable, equitable, and quality access to ICT
- Research and Documentation
- Repository for Education Materials
- CBC as Catalyst to Moot Broadband Access Service Take Up in the Universal Service Targets
- Promotional, awareness, and marketing activities for individual broadband subscription
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