Bridging ICT Professionalism

in Malaysian ICT Graduates

Prof. Dr. Ahmad Zaki Abu Bakar

President

Malaysian National Computer Confederation zaki@mncc.com.my

Faculty of Information Communication Technology Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)

profzaki@utem.edu.my

18-06-2013

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Malaysian Graduates Dream

– Good job & fat salary

– High position & status

– Successful business after gaining working experience

– Filthy rich with lots of money and no need to work

– Real estate - Acres of land & Big house (s)

– Expensive & latest car (s), hand phone, ICT, toys

– Good & higher education– Masters & Ph.D

– Piety, a philanthropist, travel around the world

– Famous & a celebrity

– Happy family – • beautiful wife/ handsome husband

• beautiful & successful children

– Successful life, family & career!

Fairy Tale Career Roadmap

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Finish School

Enter

University/

College

Enter Job

Market 1

Fulfill Career

Goals

Achieve Life Dreams

Enter School

Study Hard

Study Hard Again

Graduate Do Post-Grad

Graduate – MSc/PhD

Work Hard Enter Job

Market 3

Enter Job

Market 2

Live happily

everafter

Sit for Exams Again

Sit for Exams

Reality

Mismatch?

EMPLOYER

Am I in for a rough ride?

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Gartner 2006 ICT Trends

• GARTNER: Six Significant IT Trends Impacting People and Business and IT Industry for 2006

• STAMFORD, Conn., November 29, 2005 ﾑ Gartner, Inc.

• The job market for IT specialists

will shrink 40 percent by 2010.

• The coming decade will see the

emergence of IT "versatilists,"

people whose multidisciplinary

assignments, roles and experiences

create a valuable blend of

synthesized knowledge,

competencies and context to fuel

business value.

Gartner’s Top Ten Technology Predictions

2012 2013

1 Media Tablets and Beyond. Mobile Device Battles

2 Mobile-Centric Applications and Interfaces.

Mobile Applications and HTML5

3 Contextual and Social User Experience.

Personal Cloud

4 Internet of Things. Enterprise App Stores

5 App Stores and Marketplaces. The Internet of Things

6 Next-Generation Analytics. Hybrid IT and Cloud Computing

7 Big Data. Strategic Big Data

8 In-Memory Computing. Actionable Analytics

9 Extreme Low-Energy Servers. In Memory Computing

10 Cloud Computing. Integrated Ecosystems

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Why the Mismatch?

Employer Expectations

Potential Employee

Expectations

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Professional Society’s Role

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What is MNCC?

• MNCC, formerly known as Malaysian Computer Society – first established in 22-03-1968 at Universiti Malaya

• 45 years old on 22 March 2013 – celebration

– 1st regional center for Northern region formed in Universiti Sains Malaysia in 4 December 1986

• MCS changed to Malaysian National Computer Confederation (or MNCC) in 1988 – Reregistered under Companies Act as a company limited by guarantee

(guaranteed by the Malaysian government)

– To improve operational effectiveness & ablity to establish branches easily

• International linkages – South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC)

– International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) 9

What does MNCC Do?

•Conduct various events & programs to inculcate ICT professionalism

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MNCC Membership

• Shall be a person who holds a recognized Information and Communications Technology (ICT)- related academic degree or professional qualification acceptable to the Council and who has been employed in the Information and Communications Technology Industry at an Executive Level as in the following:

– (a) Basic Degree: at least 3 years experience;

– (b) Master Degree: at least 2 years experience; and

– (c) Doctorate Degree: at least 1 year experience,

• or a person who do not hold a recognized academic degree or professional qualification as above but has been employed in the Information and Communications Technology Industry at an executive level for not less than seven years in activities considered by the Council to be relevant to the objects of MNCC. 11

Student Membership

• Shall be a person who is a full time student or a person undergoing a course of Instruction leading to a professional qualification acceptable to the Council and who is not over 25 years of age

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The way forward

Challenges

Generation Y

ICT super fast industry

Opportunities

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