Comments on: On Indonesia’s Elections and CTO http://www.net.co.id/2009/04/on-indonesia%e2%80%99s-elections-and-cto/ The Web Services Company Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:45:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Diana@yahoo.com http://www.net.co.id/2009/04/on-indonesia%e2%80%99s-elections-and-cto/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Diana@yahoo.com Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:43:20 +0000 http://www.net.co.id/?p=194#comment-111 Selamat hari raya aidil fitri 1430H,mohon maaf lahir dan batin, Selamat hari raya aidil fitri 1430H,mohon maaf lahir dan batin,

]]> By: David http://www.net.co.id/2009/04/on-indonesia%e2%80%99s-elections-and-cto/comment-page-1/#comment-93 David Mon, 11 May 2009 08:49:25 +0000 http://www.net.co.id/?p=194#comment-93 Feeling free to blog... I am an expat living in Indonesia. My wife is also Indonesian so I feel personally committed to improving our industry here in Indonesia (IT). I personally contribute to organizations such as the IASA (International Association of Software Architects) here in Indonesia and helped to organize one of the biggest IT architecture events here in Jakarta last year (IASA ITARC). Hopefully my children will benefit from the maturation of our industry here some day. I also hope you appreciate my input. Back to the topic... in my opinion pretty much every country (including Indonesia) already has a defacto CTO. That would be the head of the ICT ministry. That person should and would be the person appointed by the government whom is responsible for establishing the national IT agenda and working with the community to establish a suitable environment for the growth of IT as an export industry as well as a sufficient domestic ecosystem to serve the local systems of government, business and social welfare. It always bemuses me to see the state of our industry here in Indonesia. I One particularly disappointing facet is the level of contribution of international companies here. They are all take and no give. I have noticed since business in Singapore and Hong Kong has been quiet lately there are plane loads of sales people coming down here to take even more from the local economy. Fostering a stronger local IT industry here and fostering IT export would be a major step to curb this phenomenon and make Indonesia a net exporter of IT products and services.... Look at India!!! I think we need far more support from the government and more investment in our sector to help it flourish... i.e. turn it into a less take and more give situation for international companies and provide some genuine support to develop our industry. There are plenty of models to work with for this. To me it is a matter of national commitment. It would be interesting to see some benchmarks (an outside-in if you will) of Indonesia vs Indonesia's peers amongst other developing nations in ASEAN and further afield. A comparison against India or Pakistan's IT industry would yield some interesting facts about the state of our industry here. BTW a trailing note. The company I am with here sponsors a technology blog for "Service Oriented Architecture" at http://blog.pwsindonesia.com/ so please feel free to contribute and share. Feeling free to blog… I am an expat living in Indonesia. My wife is also Indonesian so I feel personally committed to improving our industry here in Indonesia (IT). I personally contribute to organizations such as the IASA (International Association of Software Architects) here in Indonesia and helped to organize one of the biggest IT architecture events here in Jakarta last year (IASA ITARC). Hopefully my children will benefit from the maturation of our industry here some day. I also hope you appreciate my input.

Back to the topic… in my opinion pretty much every country (including Indonesia) already has a defacto CTO. That would be the head of the ICT ministry. That person should and would be the person appointed by the government whom is responsible for establishing the national IT agenda and working with the community to establish a suitable environment for the growth of IT as an export industry as well as a sufficient domestic ecosystem to serve the local systems of government, business and social welfare. It always bemuses me to see the state of our industry here in Indonesia. I One particularly disappointing facet is the level of contribution of international companies here. They are all take and no give. I have noticed since business in Singapore and Hong Kong has been quiet lately there are plane loads of sales people coming down here to take even more from the local economy. Fostering a stronger local IT industry here and fostering IT export would be a major step to curb this phenomenon and make Indonesia a net exporter of IT products and services…. Look at India!!!

I think we need far more support from the government and more investment in our sector to help it flourish… i.e. turn it into a less take and more give situation for international companies and provide some genuine support to develop our industry. There are plenty of models to work with for this. To me it is a matter of national commitment.

It would be interesting to see some benchmarks (an outside-in if you will) of Indonesia vs Indonesia’s peers amongst other developing nations in ASEAN and further afield. A comparison against India or Pakistan’s IT industry would yield some interesting facts about the state of our industry here.

BTW a trailing note. The company I am with here sponsors a technology blog for “Service Oriented Architecture” at http://blog.pwsindonesia.com/ so please feel free to contribute and share.

]]> By: enda http://www.net.co.id/2009/04/on-indonesia%e2%80%99s-elections-and-cto/comment-page-1/#comment-80 enda Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:06:56 +0000 http://www.net.co.id/?p=194#comment-80 making a campaign sexy, agreed! if it's possible could you post this post to http://www.politikana.com as well? i am sure the guys over there would like to comment on it as well :D making a campaign sexy, agreed!

if it’s possible could you post this post to http://www.politikana.com as well?

i am sure the guys over there would like to comment on it as well :D

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