Review: New rules for cyber cafes soon

Cyber cafes in Malaysia have been causing a lot of problems especially to the teenagers. It has raised concern by the public about this issue and government has announced that there will be some new guidelines to be enforced soon on Internet and cyber cafes in order to control these businesses. The guidelines that are been announced are:

1.Have to close by midnight daily.
2.Banned from using tinted glasses in their premises. (must be able to see through from the outside)
3.Only allowed to operate from the ground floor.
4.Those under 12 years old must be accompanied by parents or guardian and only allowed to stay up to 10.00pm.
5.Prohibited from providing gaming activities, gambling, pornography, music and publications with negative element.
6.Cigarettes and alcohol to be prohibited from being sold.
7.A book log to record the entry and departure time of the patrons.

The guidelines above are meant to solves the problems that caused by the people and teenager in cyber cafe. It has been reported that students are found to skip their class in school and stay in cyber café to play games with their friends. Most of their parent did not aware of their children daily act and thought their children were in school but actually not. Students also usually affected by their friends turn into a problematic teenager and cyber cafés are usually the hot spot for them to turn bad. Therefore, government and society are very concern about this issue.

Besides that, it has been found that teenagers surf on those pornography websites and gamble on the net in cyber café. They choose to do it in the cyber café because their parent is not around and they could do whatever they want. The main problem is that the management of the cyber café did not take any action and ignore them from those activities. If there is no action taking on this problem, we believe that it will get worst for the society as well as the next generation.


Furthermore, we could always see that people tends to smoke in cyber cafes, which is an indoor air-conditioner room. It will affect the health of those non-smokers by inhaling those second hand smokes. So, cigarettes and alcohol have to be prohibited from being sold.


Moreover, there has been a few case of fighting in cyber cafes due to several reasons like got insulted after losing a game from their opposition and the others. Hence, tinted glasses are banned to use for cyber cafes premises. It is because the situation inside the cafes must be able to see through from outside to prevent any fighting incident happen inside. It is happened because no one is watching towards them and prevents this incident to happen. Hence see through glasses is required so that people from outside is easy aware situation inside the cafes.

Hence, governments should implements those rules quickly and take serious action on this issue before it worsens. Public should work together with the governments to deal with this.

E-government: It implementation so far and citizen adoption strategy

Electronic Government (e-government) was launched to lead the country into the Information Age. It is defined as a way for governments to use the most innovative information and communication technology to enable the social and economic development.

The vision of e-government is a vision for government, businesses and public working together for the benefit of Malaysia and all of its citizens. The vision focuses on effectively and efficiently delivering services from the government to the people of Malaysia, enabling the government to become more responsive to the needs of its citizens.

The 7 pilot projects of the Electronic Government Flagship Application are as follows:

1. Project Monitoring System (SPP II)
2. Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS)
3. Generic Office Environment (GOE)
4. Electronic Procurement (EP)
5. Electronic Services (E-Services)
6. Electronic Labour Exchange (ELX)
7. E-Syariah

Hence, through the introducing of e-government application, citizen is allowed to adopt the e-government strategies in many ways. Government has to increase citizen’s confidence towards the government by enhancing several strategies on e-government.

Firstly, citizen is able to access to government information more easy and convenient by using e-government. In addition, the government website is providing some guidance to citizens who need assistance for government information search or to make online transactions. By using the e-government, citizens can pay government bills, pay for fined, pay for loan or even find out more government new policies.

Secondly, citizens can enjoy the online services for free which provided by the government. Thus, government personnel will need to capture the knowledge and practices gained from the citizens. This will ensure that the government has the capacity to maintain the online service delivery processes, and in the long run continue to get on improvement initiatives. In addition, public confidence in online service delivery will be a key factor in the success of e-government. Hence, data security and protection of individual privacy are becoming increasingly important for all the citizens by using the internet.

Furthermore, e-government has delivered all the government services to citizens. E-government has providing a single shared platform for the delivery of government information and services. Besides that, if there have any updated news about the government policy, citizens are able to find it out through the e-government. Hence e-government is providing added convenience to the public in the usage of government services. For an example, people who wish to apply loan from PTPTN, they can download the application form from the website. Hence, the officer will process the application. It is much faster than fill up the form and handling it by queuing.

Moreover, government is providind a portal for processing government information between citizens and businesses with government. Besides that, it also facilitate citizen participation in government, creating digital citizens in a digital democracy.

Finally, the implementation of any e-government initiative requires a focus on continuous improvement efforts. The usage and adherence to global benchmark practices are on the rise, but will need to become further embedded in many e-government projects.

Reference:

http://www.pmo.gov.my/ucapan/?m=p&p=paklahtpm&id=3332

Application of pre-paid cash card

There are various types of cash card in the market which enables the people to have many functions and benefits with their payment in a transaction. The most common cash card that people using are credit card which is a card enables us to purchase something and pay the bills later.

In contrast to credit card, there is also a cash card named prepaid cash card, which is also known as debit card in the current market. Debit card has become more and more popular around the world today because it brings benefits to people and it is convenient.

Prepaid card offers the same ability as credit card to purchase a product or services but with a crucial difference, which is we can only spend the amount we have in our account balance while credit card we can spend up to the limits that allowed by the financial provider. This also means that by using prepaid card, we will not running into debt and the risk of unable to pay off the bills.

Prepaid cash card are offer by most of the banks around the world and we will be given our pin number for the card when we apply for the card. As long as our prepaid cash card has money credited, we can use it to purchase goods on the street, online purchase or paying bills as well as cash withdrawal from ATMs.

Prepaid cash card benefits us with the risk of losing our cash on hand. For example, if we lost our purse or got stolen, our cash in the purse will gone but if we have the card with us, we have the choice to not hold so much cash on hand. If our purse got stolen, we can call to the bank to stop the card to function immediately.



Apart from this, it also enables us to control and budget our spending more easily. This is because we will be provided an online statement which we can view it anytime to look at what, where and when we bought something. In other words, we can trace our spending by using prepaid cash card and thus we can have a better control of our spending.

Furthermore, we would not have to worry when we are lack of cash when in other countries because the card can be use worldwide to purchase a good or withdraw moneys.

In conclusion, prepaid cash card very popular and getting more and more users because it is safe to use and it has bring us with a lot of benefits and functions.

Refer to:

http://www.moneysupermarket.com/c/prepaid-cards/guide/

How to safeguard financial & personal data

Financial data and personal data are confidential data for every person. It consists a lot of private information that cannot be known by others. Nowadays, there is a lot of victim that fall under online fraud or identity theft. Hence the fraud or identity thefts cases are increasing such as passwords, bank account numbers or credit card numbers were stolen. Therefore, it is important that we use some necessary ways to safeguard the data which is needed for the personal data to be secured.

Firstly, you have to choose passwords that would be difficult for someone who knows you to guess. Many people like to use their birth date or phone number as their password, this is definitely wrong. It is because not only the hacker but your close friends also can be easily figure out the password and hack into your account. Besides that, make the passwords more complicated and different for every different website. So it is hard for a person to crack the password and the person is unable to steal all the financial or personal information.

Next, keep your financial and personal data off your computer. Try to avoid for keeping some bank account numbers or passwords in the computer. It is easy for a hacker or spyware program to hack into your computer and detect all the sensitive data. Hence we should buy an external hard disk or thumb drive to store all the confidential and sensitive data. It is simple and effective way to prevent data theft. Thus we only have to plug in the drive whenever we need to refer on the data.


Thirdly, install anti-virus or anti-spyware software into the computer. Not only that, you should also keep the software up to date so it is able to detect all the virus or spyware in the computer. Without an anti-virus software, any virus or worms can spoil all the information in the computer and steal it to earn money. As well as the data get stolen, the computer will also run slower if there is some virus or Trojan horse in the computer.

Last but not least, be more alert when take the computer for fixing. People simply trust technician and hence hand over the computer to them when something goes wrong. It is just a piece of cake where the technician can easily copy down all the personal data for themselves. So it is important that people should delete all their personal information before hand it to the technician. In another way, they can request the technician to come over to their house to fix the computer and you just watch as they do it.


Reference:

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/13-ways-to-protect-personal-data-from-online-fraud-and-identity-theft/zh/

An E-Commerce success and its causes

One of the examples of an E-Commerce success is eBay. eBay has been very popular in recent years due to the advancement of technology and IT. According to Pierre Omidyar, a computer programmer who developed eBay, “eBay is the world’s largest online marketplace which offer trade on a worldwide basis at any time.”

eBay is founded in 1995, it has become very well known around the world nowadays and it is a place where visited by hundreds of millions of people every day. It has become very successful because of internet has expanded, people more and more conducted their day to day activities online nowadays.

eBay is tend to have a successful response over the country because it provides a lot of benefits to consumers. We can see that eBay is providing an open trading way to determine the value of items sold. Over the year, people who visiting on eBay website is increasing, one of the reasons is because the website is clearly shown out all the description of the products and providing a view into what objects the consumers want most at any time.

Hence, people tend to visit online store to sell or buy the products they want nowadays. Reason is because it is more convenient and people get to have more variety of choices to choose by just looking at the computer screen. It is save their time where they do not have to walk out from the house and carry all the ways to the physical shops.

Besides that, eBay is using PayPal to process the payment. It allows people to send and receive payments online easily and securely. The process is faster than you go to the bank to do the transferring of money.


Thus, eBay is enable people around the world to enjoy and familiar connected to each other to buy or sell the product they want at a fair price. Consumers will feel comfortable to bargain at the price and they are getting a good price if the bargaining success. Then consumers only have to pay the product and the transportation fees and will receive the product in a short time.

Moreover, the reason they are success is because of eBay community that they set up. The features in eBay community like discussion boards, chat board, forum and feedback leaved back customer allowed the buyer and seller to form a meaningful relationships. Through this, satisfied consumers will always come back to eBay for another trade.

Last but not least, eBay success is also due to their trusted and effective services they provided for their seller and customer. By having trust and favorable feedbacks from the consumers, eBay will do changes and updating according to their needs. Thus, its will eventually getting more and more people visit on eBay to trade.

Reference:

http://news.ebay.com/about.cfm

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/2127.html