The Malaysian government is actively supporting the growth of the country’s digital economy by offering potential business opportunities to further promote international partnership and collaboration

Efforts will be made to attract foreign data centers while expanding the growth of local data centers. Malaysia will attract iconic global cloud service providers while building clusters of domestic cloud service companies around them. Cloud services will also complement the growth of data centers to increase the contribution of the ICT industry to the economy. Cloud services industry in Malaysia is a mature industry that is growing fast with cloud computing investments poised to hit RM2.8 billion (£489.6 million) by the year 2020. Key focus areas that in need of extensive collaboration are Domestic Data Centre Industry Development, Data Centre Specific Talent Development, Information Enablement Programme, Data Centre Market and Research Benchmarking.