Saturday, May 17, 2025

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IBB! says: When good intentions threaten SME survival

The world had always rather shuffled around climate change awareness and action, but the coronavirus lockdown crystallised it into something bigger and broader called ESG (Environment, Sustainability, Governance). Currently,...

IBB! says: Are Malaysia’s SMEs being left behind in the ESG revolution?

Malaysia’s government has charted an ambitious course with frameworks like the National Sustainability Reporting Framework (NSRF) and the i-ESG Framework - these two and...

IBB: When we bet more on AI than on ourselves

Last night I fell asleep to news that very big figures in the AI world - Elon Musk, Yoshua Bengio, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Harari,...

PDPA: A much needed update

A dispute resolution lawyer and member of the Malaysia Bar Council, Sarah Yong, a talked about the state of local cybersecurity legislation with a...

IBB: Wandering thoughts after “Wandering Earth 2”

The story this time is inspired by the sequel of a China-made movie I recently saw, “Wandering Earth.” Let the records show that I...

IBB: ChatGPT vs a Collective with few Centuries of Experience

This is story about Malaysia's newly announced budget plan, ChatGPT, and what a room full of IT industry veterans can bring to the conversation;...

IBB! Says: Bolstering Legislation to Crack Down on Tech-Enabled Wrongdoings

Dear EITN readers, I’m Associate Prof Col(R) Dato’ Ts Dr Husin Jazri of ESPC and here is my open letter to all of you.  The push for...

IBB: A Thought-Provoking Week for journalists

How do journalists help people understand the significance of news that will take years to transpire? This was the takeaway question by The Information's Jessica...

IBB: Regulating Data Centres and CSPs in Malaysia – about time?

I'd written some time back about MCMC wanting to regulate the data centre (DC) players and cloud service providers (CSPs). The reasons put forward...

Breach, leak or scrape? There can still be data misuse

In today’s world if we have paid any attention to cybersecurity events, we may recognise these events as unwanted cyber breaches. Some malicious attacker...

IBB: Digital Health Platforms on the rise, Slowly

An interview with our Ministry of Health resulted in a feature article about their many digital health initiatives for the next 5 years at...