Tun Musa (centre) is seen listening while Wozniak (right) answered questions from the media during the press briefing.
KUCHING: The government should stand behind the digital growth of a country, says Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak at the 13th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) on Tuesday.
“The government should be behind the digital growth. It is really the future for the whole world. The countries that do their best in it are going to go through this and have the best level of income.
“A country should try to attract the best talent. The region should also educate the talent and make a lot of parts and tools available to young people almost for free… so they can develop on their own and find out what they like to do and build. Incubators is a good term to use,” he told a press conference yesterday after his session for WIEF.
Wozniak added that governments should start modifying some school programmes to include software, hardware, robotics, mixtures and so on into the curriculums of primary education. He emphasised that with primary and university level education, “Orient yourself towards the parts of technology that are going to be important in the future.”
Wozniak also highlighted other key takeways from disruption change which included thinking about it outside the box within a company. WIEF Foundation chairman Tun Musa Hitam was also present during the press conference.