The Kedah state government website, which has not been restored,
was hacked during Hari Raya, leaving behind the following message from
the hacker:
"Di kesempatan ini saya ingin mengucapkan selamat hari raya maaf zahir batin kepada :#Kedah webnet - Mant , penyu, altrojo, tin-oren, matduish, budak_sket, sitias, dan lain2
#mha webnet - Black-Gagak , Joe^^
Tak lupa juga kepada admin seber - selamat ari raya - saya tak pro mana2 parti politik :)
Ucapan Ikhlas Dari Neophyte
fail lama - utamalama.html"
It was only a week ago that an international “Government Online
Study (GO)” to measure the impact of the Internet on government globally
and nationally was released and it was a most unflattering finding
for Malaysia.
Electronic government was one of the seven flagship applications of the multi-billion ringgit MSC when it was set up more than five years ago, and the government proclaimed the MSC as “Malaysia’s gift to the world”.
If the MSC is Malaysia’s “gift to the world” and electronic government one of the seven MSC flagship applications, then there is no reason why in an international survey on e-government adoption, Malaysia lagged behind many of the 27 countries surveyed in the study based on global and national benchmarks relating to the use of government services online and perceptions of safety when providing personal information to Government.
The key questions surveyed in the study were:
According to the study by market researcher Taylor Nelson Sofres,
only 11 percent of Malaysians have used the Internet to access government
data, provide information to government agencies, or to transact with government
services online.
Norway had the highest level of e-government usage at 53 percent, followed by Denmark (47 per cent) and Finland (46 per cent) as well as in North America - Canada (46 per cent) and the USA (34 per cent). But all those countries have far greater Internet penetrations than Malaysia.
The study found that the main problem for Malaysia lagging behind in e-government usage is security. Fifty-seven percent of Malaysians polled said they were worried about using the Internet to provide the government with personal information or credit card details.
The time has come for the government to review the progress of the e-government flagship application as to whether it is living up to the reputation of the MSC as “a gift to the world” instead of becoming an international embarrassment.
(17/12/2001)