Minister of Education II, YB Dato' Seri Idris Bin Jusoh officiated award ceremony of 1CITIZEN Programme participated by over 80,000 students

PUTRAJAYA, 25 February 2014 – The Minister of Education II, YB Dato’ Seri Idris Bin Jusoh officiated the award ceremony for 1CITIZEN Program, organized by the Ministry Of Education (MOE) in cooperation with Prestariang Systems Sdn Bhd (PSSB), to foster national unity via appropriate use of technology in Malaysia last Tuesday.

Portfolio winners of 1CITIZEN program for 2013 were announced and awarded at the event, by YB Dato' Seri Idris Bin Jusoh together with Dato’ Ramli Abbas, Chairman of Prestariang Berhad. As of 31 January 2014, a total of 81,033 students from 79 identified public institutes of higher learning including 20 universities (IPTA), 28 polytechnics and 28 community colleges in Malaysia, as well as 3 private institutes of higher learning (IPTS) had participated in 1CITIZEN Program. Out of which, 53,215 portfolio submissions were received from participants of Season 1 and 2.

Minister of Education II, YB Dato’ Seri Idris Jusoh, Deputy Minister of Education I, YB Datuk Mary Yap Kain Ching, Deputy Minister of Education II, YB Tuan P. Kamalanathan and Chairman of Prestariang Berhad, YBrs. Dato’ Ramli Abbas posing with winners after the prize giving ceremony.

There were nine (9) categories of portfolio winners including Creative Writing, Audio/Song, Photo, Slide Show, Blog Activity, Poster, Video/Animation, Facebook Page and/or any other creative formats (Open Category).

List of Winners for Season 1
Sarah Diyana Marzuki, UiTM (Creative Writing)
Ng Keat Yong & Aaron Lui Teng Wei, UMP (Audio/Song)
Azel Glean Tony & Muhammad Firdaus Rami, UMS (Photo)
Nur Atiqah Nasibah Binti Abu Bakar, UiTM (Blog Activity)

List of Winners for Season 2
Abdul Hazim Zaidani, UMP (Slide Show)
Qamarul Nazrin Harun, UiTM (Poster)
Mohammad Aqeel Safwan Bin Mohamad Zaki & Qamarul Syahmi Bin Kamarudin, UTM (Video/Animation)

“PSSB is proud to be a part of this initiative by MOE under the Department of Higher Education (JPT) to promote the ethics of ICT. With the increasing use of the Internet among youths, digital literacy and Internet etiquette knowledge becomes inevitable. The program was a success as the number of participants had exceeded the initial target of 80,000 students”, said Dato’ Ramli Abbas.

Minister of Education II, YB Dato’ Seri Idris Jusoh congratulating the winners accompanied by YBrs Dato’ Ramli Abbas.

1CITIZEN Program was recently awarded Best of e-Inclusion and e-Community by MSC Malaysia Asia Pacific ICT Awards (MSC Malaysia APICTA) 2013 and went on to represent Malaysia at the Asia Pacific Information and Communication Technology Alliance (APICTA) Awards 2013 held in Hong Kong last November.

The 1CITIZEN Program aims to instil in youths today a sense of 'keNegaraan', collaboration, responsibility and ownership to the communities during their online digital experience; promote youth activism and volunteerism. Participants of the program underwent a minimum of 12 contact-hour training session and upon completion sat for the IC CITIZEN Certification examination.

Winners posing with their winning cheque after the 1CITIZEN Program Awards Ceremony.

The IC CITIZEN Certification was the first certification program in the world specifically designed to produce digitally literate and responsible citizens. This globally benchmarked standard for digital literacy is a home-grown product, owned and developed by PSSB. It inspired Netizens to become critical thinkers who understood ethical consequences of online behaviour. Launched in 2010 for the global market, IC CITIZEN is being marketed via a partnership with Certiport from US to a network of approximately 10,000 centres in 152 countries. To date, IC CITIZEN has a growing list of users in the US, Mexico, Ireland, Turkey, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Brunei.

Oracle and Ministry of Education Invites Submission for Future Scientists Malaysia Contest

Contest open to all Malaysian students and teachers via educational portal Think.com

Oracle and Ministry of Education would like to invite all Malaysian students and teachers to participate in the Future Scientists Malaysia contest, exclusively via educational portal Think.com.

The contest is now open for registration and will close on 20 May 2008. All projects must be posted on the team’s respective Think.com project space, with all content creation completed by 20 June 2008. This unique contest focuses on project-based learning for the Science subject; promoting an exciting and fun way of learning where students can work together in groups with their teacher(s) as coaches. To keep the level of competition interesting, the contest is open to all teachers using Think.Com; whereby any teacher using Think.Com can be a team coach or co-coach.

A project group is also encouraged to collaborate with students from other schools in Malaysia. The project can be in any form of artefact, experiment, survey or any valid science project.

The Future Scientists Malaysia contest is being jointly organised by Oracle and the Ministry, in collaboration with the Academy of Sciences Malaysia. The winning teams representing primary and secondary schools and their coaches will attend a luncheon event hosted by Oracle with Saintis Muda Negara or National Young Scientist recommended by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia and jointly organized by Oracle and the Ministry of Education.

Think.com
Think.com is a joint collaboration between Oracle and the Ministry of Education Malaysia. It is an Oracle-hosted, web-based educational environment that provides primary (ages 7 to 12) and secondary (ages 13 to 18) school students and teachers with personal Web pages, along with powerful communication and collaboration tools - at no cost.

Think.com members work within a protected online community, where they engage in project-based learning through a host of collaborative learning activities with other Think.com members. Think.com allows users to easily add text, audio and video to their personal pages, and interact with other members. Accessible from a standard Web browser, members can stay connected to their classrooms from home, school or the library.

In Malaysia, Think.com involves over 800 schools and 4,065 teachers. The plan is to roll out Think.com to another 4,000 Malaysian public schools by the end of 2008. On Think.com, Malaysian students are able to build knowledge, collaborate on projects and share educational content with the 276,000 students and teachers from 73 countries who are already members of Think.com’s protected online learning community.

Think.com is available in eleven languages, including Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai and Turkish. Oracle provides specific training so that the school community can take advantage of all of Think.com’s functionality.

Think.com is part of Oracle and the Oracle Education Foundation’s global commitment to education and 21st century skills development. By investing in the education of today's students and partnering with the Ministry of Education in Malaysia, Oracle is helping students obtain the vital skills needed for success in today’s global economy.

In the Asia Pacific region, Think.com is being used by more than 180,000 students and teachers in 3,551 institutions across Australia, China, India, New Zealand, Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.