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With the rapid development of Information Technology and an awareness of the importance of the role of IT, our country, Malaysia has taken the opportunity to make the industry of Information Technology as the engine of economic country growth. Thus on August 11, 1996 during  inaugurated of the Multimedia Asia 96 trial in PWTC Kuala Lumpur, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad has announced Multimedia Super Corridor Project (or simply the Multimedia Super Corridor MSC) which is the Malaysian agenda to achieve the vision 2020 and the main strategies to achieve competitive advantage in the knowledge-based economy. This announcement demonstrates that Malaysia was heading towards the world of multimedia and at the same time providing the country to faced the IT era.

MSC involves three giant projects, namely Putra Jaya, Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC), and Kuala Lumpur's National Airport (KLIA). MSC will be an area that has the perfect infrastructure for multimedia applications electronically. Along with the technological advances, it is brings the influence in all aspects of life, both in the field of Education, Manufacturing, Telecommunication, Banking.

Based on explanation above, here I will discuss more about Malaysia's use of IT in some of these aspects as well as how the challenges and future direction in the context of IT.

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) sector are an important part of economic development in Malaysia. The sector is contributing to the economy of the nation and can be viewed from various aspects such as in terms of business units, employment and economic output. Apart from these contributions, the SMEs sector in Malaysia is also known to make a valuable contribution to other areas such as income generation, savings, training, stimulation of competition, helping large enterprises, the introduction of innovation, and as a seed for growth.

Generally, the purpose of developing SMEs in various countries to fix the unemployment problem, increase the rate of growth, real income per capita, income distribution and improve the balance of economic stability. Given this goal, the development of SMEs in developing countries such as Malaysia are often assigned a high priority. Although the activities of SMEs are similar to business activities in general, over the years, their business has changed.