Govt targets 40 per cent digitalisation of E2E service delivery by year-end

PUTRAJAYA: The government is targetting 40 per cent digitalisation of the end-to-end (E2E) service delivery by end of this year compared to 20.2 per cent in 2019, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.

He said the digitalisation process will continue to be intensified with focus also to be given to the development of the digital economy to boost the country’s economic growth post-COVID-19.

“In facing the economic impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the government has taken an inclusive and comprehensive approach in a bid to ensure the economic survival and the wellbeing of the people.

“This includes efforts to empower the digitalisation agenda which is included in one of the strategic thrusts of the Shared Prosperity Vision 2030,” he said in his speech at the launch of MalaysiaBiz portal streamed via MAMPU Facebook page today.

The MalaysiaBiz portal functions as a one-stop centre to facilitate online registration of business and application of licence efficiently.

Muhyiddin said the target of the digitalisation process was also strengthened by the setting up of the National Digital Economy and Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) Council, which he chairs, to ensure sustainable digital economic development for the benefit of all in line with the 4IR technology potentials in the country.

Muhyiddin said the government was targeting to send 1.7 million doses of vaccines to Johor to boost its vaccination capacity to 70,000 doses daily from the current 50,000 doses.

He said he had directed the ministers concerned to have an audience with Sultan Ibrahim and Tengku Mahkota Johor Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim to explain the matter.

Muhyiddin said the issue on the vaccination rate was due to the fact that vaccines procured by the government did not arrive according to schedule.

"So, sometimes the committee under the ministers had to buy additional (vaccines) from local company Pharmaniaga to meet any shortfall in delivery.

"In terms of supply, by right there should not be any problem because we have booked more than 130 per cent of the country’s requirements, which means there is an excess but the delivery was not according to the schedule we want,” he added.

He said this vaccine delivery problem was partly caused by the very high demand for vaccines golabally.

Muhyiddin said overall, Malaysia had achieved a vaccination level that the country can be proud of.

"We will further increase it and with the intensified vaccination, (more sectors of) our economy can be opened,” he said.

Earlier, a group of local residents expressed their support for Muhyiddin as the prime minister by carrying placards which read "Generasi kedua Felda menyokong Tan Sri Muhyiddin" (Second generation Felda supports Tan Sri Muhyiddin) and "Terima kasih PM lupuskan hutang peneroka Felda" (Thank you, PM, for writing off Felda settlers’ debts).

-- BERNAMA