PUTRAJAYA: The Communications and Multimedia Ministry (KKMM) should review all the ministry’s Information Technology Strategic Plans (PSTM) to ensure that it remained relevant in line with current developments.
The ministry’s secretary-general, Datuk Seri Kamaruddin Siaraf said it was also in line with the restructuring of the ministry following the announcement of the new Cabinet line-up by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak recently.
“We have to do it to make sure our strategic plan is very current and relevant as a reference base for us to implement our tasks in the field of ICT,” he said at the Exit Conference event and the handing over of the Departments/Agencies’ PSTM Documents 2013/2017, here yesterday.
The handing over of the PSTM documents involved three departments and agencies, namely the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama), Filem Nasional Malaysia (Finas) and the Malaysian Museums Department.
The KKMM, which was previously known as the Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture (KPKK), to date has 14 PSTM, which were merged internally with the collaboration of the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Manpower Planning Unit (Mampu) since 2011.
It serves as a guideline or blueprint for the planning, development and implementation of ICT programmes of the ministry and agencies under it in a more systematic manner.
With the announcement of the new cabinet, several departments which were previously placed under the KPKK were transferred to the Ministry of Tourism and Culture including the Malaysian Museums Department.
Kamaruddin said the ministry’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) should also monitor the implementation of the plan, so that every plan that had been drawn up could be realised. — Bernama