Over the years i've grown weary of "Malaysia's mega-projects":http://www.atimes.com/se-asia/AI03Ae02.html. Perhaps one of the largest white elephants of them all is the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC). Billions of ringgit have been pumped into it with the promise that it will propel Malaysia into the 21st Century as a global ICT hub. Wrong.
Without proper planning in critical areas such as intellectual property, without proper investment in a more open and merit-based education system - the Malaysian mind has not been properly "configured" or "conditioned" to take full advantage of "the various incentives the MSC provides":http://www.msc.com.my/mdc/cs/gc/incentives.asp.
Our approach has been all wrong. Give a poor mind fantastic tools and you will still have a poor mind. And it seems that we're "pouring more good money":http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/economicnews/view/40188/1/.html after bad - we've got "our very own biotech valley now":http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,190184,00.html. Its depressing that no one at "Putrajaya":http://www.putrajaya.net.my/ seems to be learning past lessons very well. Perhaps this is another characteristic of a poor mind.
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