IDEATION:
In May 2017, four professionals—a deputy minister, a senior government director, a GLC eCommerce head and an Artificial Intelligence & Big Data consultant met at MiCasa All Suites Hotel to reaffirm Malaysia’s need for a locally developed national digital address system (eALAMAT) to support its digital economy and improve digital services.
VISION:
Develop a GIS-enabled National Address System starting with 8 million addresses (2017).
Annual growth: +500,000 addresses.
Projected total by 2025: 11.5 million addresses.
PURPOSE:
Strengthen digital sovereignty by ensuring accurate, standardized addressing.
Support eCommerce, Logistics, Digital Economy, Digital ID, Pangkalan Data Utama (PADU), Registration of Voters (MySPR) and Smart City initiatives.
Enhance emergency services, urban planning, corporate and government services.
This initiative lays the foundation for a digitally empowered Malaysia, ensuring efficient geospatial data management for economic and social progress.
We fought to become an independent nation & to own our physical territory.
We expanded it with Sabah & Sarawak who shared our vision & prosper together in the old world.
The exponential evolution of disruptive technologies like big data, robotic, ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, 5G and the US-China trade war has reminded us - Whatever we have in the digital world does not necessarily belong to us or have control over them unless we have to innovate, create and build it ourselves.
"At UN-Habitat, we are convinced that everyone has the right to an address. If you do not have an address you do not officially exist. An address is the key to a new life“
- Dr. Joan Clos, Executive Director, United Nations Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
