Saturday, February 12, 2011

RM1Bil worth of netbooks plus subscription ...

The key word here is official complaint. I wonder if MACC is a better watch dog. Or could it be that the PIBG should also be party to the implementation. After all the funds allocated are tax payers money. I still has this suspicion that much like the Smart School project, there will be massive "misappropriation".

Amplify’d from thestar.com.my

1Malaysia netbook distribution monitored by govt

THE Information Communication and Culture Minister has not received any official complaint of misappropriation in the distribution of 1Malaysia netbooks.

He said RM1bil had been allocated to implement the programme involving the distribution of one million netbooks and subscribing to the broadband package for the students from families with household monthly incomes of less than RM3,000 and the low-income group.

Salang said the distribution of the 1Malaysia netbooks was being monitored by the commission’s officers nationwide, where feedback was also obtained from school students who received the netbooks and other concerned parties such as teachers, district education officers and village heads in order to assess the effectiveness of the programme.

Read more at thestar.com.my

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