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'Women not left from ICT mainstream'

KOTA KINABALU: About 48 per cent of Internet users in the country are women, which shows that they are not left out from the information and communication technology (ICT) mainstream, said Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai.

He said the statistics showed that opportunities in the ICT sector were not only limited to the men "because women too could raise their socio-economic standard with the Internet access provided whether in the urban or rural areas".

"The women are as capable as the men in applying the facilities created through the 'online' business at home," he said.

Dr Yee, who is also the State Minister of Resource and Information Technology Development, said this in his speech at the dinner in conjunction with the World Telecommunications and Informed Society Day 2012 organised by the Malaysian Communicatons and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), here last night.

He called on everyone to assist the MCMC in efforts to reduce the digital gap and raise the use of broadband in the state with the various initiatives including the widening of the broadband coverage being implemented currently. -- BERNAMA

SOURCE: NEW STRAITS TIMES