USJ.com.my featured in Jaring Internet Mag, Feb 2003

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<font size="+1">USJ.com.my featured in Jaring Internet Mag, Feb 2003</font>

Focus
Resident’s Initiative:
For the Community by the Community
By: Azlyn Abd. Rahman

<img src="http://www.magazine.jaring.my/~jim/2003/images/cover-february-main.jpg" align="left">Besides local councils, it is also encouraging to see the members of the communities putting the extra efforts to ensure that the smart community or e-community project is realised.

With an initial team of 12 volunteers – themselves residents – the USJ-Subang Jaya community site was launched in 1999. This first full-fledged e-community in the Klang Valley is a symbol of the local community's commitment and unity.

The founder and administrator of the Web community, Jeff Ooi said the site is a platform for the local neighbourhood to communicate and keep abreast with current issues and latest happenings in Subang Jaya. In short, it is like the eyes and ears of the community.

It is on this site that the residents expressed their dissatisfaction and problems and (if they are lucky) get solutions in return from other fellow residents.

"To us, the Internet is merely a tool and a channel for us to take full advantage and set up an effective and helpful platform that would assemble the residents and provide an avenue for them to voice their rights and views," explained Ooi.

The site has proven its merit and worth when it was awarded with two of the country's prestigious IT-related awards; Pikom-Computimes IT Awards and @My Malaysia Internet Awards, in 2000.


For more details, check out the JARING INTERNET MAGAZINE FEBRUARY issue.


SOURCE:
http://www.magazine.jaring.my/2003/february/index_focus.html?id=40&month=february&year=2003

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Jaring Internet Magazine
Thu, 13 Feb, 2003

Editor's Note:
<font size="+1">The net .Community</font>

While many Web sites – be it local Governments' or residents' sites – are merely providing information about their township, municipality or community, there are quite a few that have provide a platform for its community to do a lot more like paying bills online and voicing out opinions on local matters.

Unfortunately, many of such sites are not updated regularly.

SOURCE:
http://www.magazine.jaring.my/2003/february/index_stay.html?id=185&month=february&year=2003


<FONT SIZE="+1"><a href="http://www.magazine.jaring.my/2003/february/index_focus.html?id=41&month=february&year=2003"target="new">The Smart Community of Subang Jaya</a></FONT>
According to MPSJ deputy council president Arpah Abdul Razak:

"MPSJ as the local council should ensure that by 2005, the Subang Jaya community has become an e-community that is connected through one common platform, whereby daily dealings and transactions can be carried out with just a click of the mouse," she said.

"It is envisaged that by then, the residents around the Subang Jaya area may not even have to leave the comfort of their homes to conduct activities like paying bills, buying groceries, planning a holiday, and even dealings with the Government."

"the council has, to date, introduced a number of electronic services (e-services) to the residents of Subang Jaya."

...The council is now considered to be quite advanced among the other local municipal councils in Malaysia. Through the council's official Web site, e-services such as e-payment, e-compound, and i-response can be accessed by the Subang Jaya residents.

Currently, the Web site provides information on latest news, happenings and issues relating to the township's development, forums for neighbourhood watches, business ventures and opportunities, as well as selling and buying activities.