Oh wai, IT support does not need to study.
Research + Experience will do the magic.

My reasons for opposing are this:
1. I am against a law that forces people to only hire a member of a certain body.

2. Let the body exist and certify the IT people that wants to join it, but let the industry determine the value of the body and its members through free trade. If the members are less capable than the non-members, then don't hire them. In this way, if the body's certification and membership are of any use, industry will tend to hire them and not others.

3. Producing software is not like medicine or architecture that is a matter of life and death. Certain industries that require better software people (i.e. airlines, military, parts of wireless communication) already have more rigorous hiring process and another certification will not make a difference to them; they trust in their own hiring people, not a piece of paper. Lay people can also produce software, like writing a book, and there should not be a law to stop them from doing so. Even non-accountants can fill up their own tax forms. Are you looking forward to the day when only accountants can fill up tax forms, painters association members can paint your house, writers association can type your emails etc.?

i just wonder how if tukang masak gona take a license..job in it field is full ah? so need to apply this bill

That is one of the objective

U may need to worry about taking exams to qualify to be registered and probably paying yearly membership

What are you all waiting for, lets storm Najib facebook and twitter on this.

Same here entrepreneur mindset.

Sometimes the best coders/designers comes from self-taught, passion & experience, and not from classroom.

If classroom style had worked, then all IT grads MUST be pro in what they do.
But is that the case?

Imagine this bill was passed during the start up time of Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg.


Passion & initiative will always prevail.


This hit home exactly!

IT is different from law and medicine or architecture.

IT can be found in everyday life and be accessed by All levels of society, as compared to law and medicine or architecture.


By whom the salary will be paid?
SMEs?, start ups? Big Companies? Government?

SMEs?, start ups - They rather hire someone who is a dropped out but can delivery, as compared to a fresh IT grad that doesn't have the experience.
I know some people who are so good in whatever they do that, the cert is not necessary at all.

Big Companies - Can pay big bucks but how many people can Intel/Dell/Microsoft hire?

Government - to create another Myemail, Mywebsite, Myfoot is it?

Bottomline - This Bill discourage Entrepreneurship & Passion driven people from being creative.
Since when IT is not based on passion to create & think outside the box?

This post has been edited by elblink: Dec 9 2011, 09:13 AM

Not IR ler but (RCP) , after your name

Does anyone know of any other country that has this kind of board?

Yes it is under Post #11

Can we change this for a vote? Mod?

1. Support the bill
2. Against the bill

This post has been edited by piumiu: Dec 9 2011, 09:14 AM

oh shi- so i kena apply this liao. where to apply?

Does anyone find this statement very wide? Are they gonna start saying that designers need to register too?
Did somebody get butthurt and decided to come up with this whole nonsense?

Open Day to review the Draft

Board of Computing Professional Draft Bill for review: An Open Day will be held on 13th December (Tuesday) at MOSTI Block C4, Parcel C Putrajaya.

NOTE: This date is supposedly for the organizations that were represented in the committee representing the draft. However, I felt it is for the benefit of all IT professionals to show up and be able to review the bill as we don’t want what happened recently with the Peaceful Assembly Bill.

Date : 13 Disember 2011 (Selasa)
Time : 9.30 pagi – 5.00 petang
Venue : Dewan Perhimpunan,
Aras 1, Blok C4, Kompleks C
Kementerian Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi

I'm planning to go.

Anyone going?

This post has been edited by elblink: Dec 9 2011, 09:47 AM

billgate need to apply this license too if he open IT industri here ? lolx

Some kid out there would have a nice idea on IT, and he would not be able to pitch that idea as he is not registered it professional.

IT has grow a lot unregulated, open and free. If the an act that is not properly define to pass it will stop it innovation!

working mang. if u go don't forget to post detail in here later.

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Added on December 9, 2011, 10:08 ami think this is good la. because dowan catering company get IT jobs.

/truestory

This post has been edited by lagenda: Dec 9 2011, 10:08 AM

open source community members will just read the law, sit on it and give it a loud purrring fart...

RM20k, jail term. Choose one

If this bill is passed, I foresee a lot of IT company and IT outsourcing company will pulled out from Malaysia. There goes Cyberjaya. There goes MSC. Also, sometime a IT Professional need to work cross technology. It's already hard enough to get certified by the IT technology company like Mircosoft, Oracle or Cisco. Now we have to get license to work? This will really limit the creativity and growth of IT professionals in Malaysia. Who's bright idea is this?