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Please Introduce A systematic Education On Globalisation Part of the speech by Dr Tan Seng Giaw in Parliament during the debate on the Security Commission Amendment Bill on 19 April 2000 | |||||||
| In the 2000 Bill to amend the Security Commission Act 1993, there are nearly 100 articles, updating the laws against irregularities in the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, KLSE, Malaysia. More transparency, more effective enforcement and more education on the old and new (Internet) economies are needed. We have to to ensure that online trading (cybertrading) does not result in more crimes. Waht is powerful for good is also powerful for evil. At the click of a computer mouse, investors can trade directly with the stock exchange. The potential for crimes is greater. What is even more glaring is the widening gap between those who understand globalisation, knowledge economy and Internet and those who do not or are not in a position to know--the digital gap. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told finance ministers and diplomats in New York on 18.4.2000: "in an age when globalisation and new technology are bringing hitherto unimaginable benefits to one part of humankind, it is shameful and unacceptable that another part--and by most reckonings the | |
larger part--remains excluded from those benefits", subjected to a life of grinding poverty often accompanied by malnutrition and disease. We cannot hide from globalisation and new technology. We have to take part in k-economy, e-commerce, e-government and so forth. But, we must pick what is good, leaving what is bad. We need the wisdom to choose one from the other. Where do we get the wisdom? On 18 april 2000, US-Malaysia Business Committee Chairman Michael Stephen tood the Prime Minister that American companies, responding to Malaysia's needs, would help train locals to propel the country towards a kowledge economy. "We are going to create practical training exchange programmes involving Malaysian students and private sector representatives working in US companies (to foster the development of knowledge workers). Wise workers? We welcome things which are good. We hope to learn about the ways to avoid the evils of globalisaton. Is it possible? We must have a systematic education to attune Malaysians to the vagaries of globalisation.
Dr Tan Seng Giaw | |||||
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