This National Strategic ICT Roadmap will provide a methodology for continuous monitoring with feedback signposts so as to better manage opportunities and risks associated with (disruptive) technology and its rapid impact on market. The technology landscape and key sectors are being transformed by rapid innovation and increased convergence in new technology. This is expected to intensify in the coming years and will continue to impact Malaysia’s innovative capacity, competitiveness and socio-economic development. Using IBM’s Impact of Future Technology (IoFT) method, the future global technology landscape was examined to develop vision areas around the TFAs in three time periods (near, intermediate and deep future). For each of the vision areas, consideration was given on the implications and applications might be on key sectors of the Malaysian economy.

The back-casting method was used to identify potential events (milestones) along the future timeline that will impact the TFAs and the key sectors of the Malaysian economy. These key signposts are important in increasing the likelihood of raising the regional and global presence and competitiveness of Malaysia in key sectors. A final, much smaller, subset of the seventy-one candidate signposts was selected. The final signposts are those that, if they occur, could have the largest impact on the 3 TFAs and for Malaysia.

The Vision Areas for the TFAs over the time continuum

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