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Webinars and Talks Issue no. 2 | 2022

Seminar with the Royal Malaysia Police:
Using GIS in Electoral Studies

By AP Dr Rosmadi Fauzi

Speaker poses with delegates and participants
On 13 April 2022, Associate Professor Dr Rosmadi Fauzi This talk is a result of the Royal Malaysia Police Force
was a guest speaker for the election management course having shown an interest in participating in the GIS
programme held at the Royal Malaysian Police College Application and the National Geopolitical training in
Kuala Lumpur, for senior officers of the Malaysian Special preparation for the 15th general election. The seminar
Branch, an intelligence agency attached to the Royal ended with the Royal Malaysia Police Force considering
Malaysia Police. His lecture covered the importance of sending hei officers for their Masters and PhD in GIS and
understanding Geographic Information System (GIS), a Political studies. Currently, Associate Professor Dr Rosmadi
computer system that analyses and displays remains the only GIS expert in the field of elections in
geographically referenced information, and its possible Malaysia.
use in elections studies.

Modernising the Malaysia Maritime Industry

By Dr Chong Wu Ling
On 22 April 2022, the Department of Southeast Asian
Studies proudly held a virtual seminar entitled “Application
of Industry 4.0 in the Maritime Industry” as part of its
seminar series. The speaker was Mr. Nazery Khalid, adjunct
professor at the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) and
Taylor’s University as well as the Distinguished Fellow at
the Maritime Institute of Malaysia. He is a well-known
commentator and scholar in the field of maritime studies.

Mr. Nazery began with an introduction of the four phases
of the industrial revolution. He pointed out that the current Mr. Nazery (top left) with some of the department paticipants
Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) was driven by cloud
technology. IR 4.0 fuses different technologies and stakeholders must embrace and adapt to IR 4.0. Otherwise,
devices and enables the integration of physical and digital they will risk being left behind by other industries in
domains. This creates significant changes and disruptions attracting investment and in improving productivity,
to humans’ life and to trade, economy, businesses and efficiency, customer experience and cost. They need to
industries. undertake digitalisation and change their style of
management to stay competitive and relevant. The
These changes create opportunities and challenges to seminar was moderated by Associate Professor Dr.
industries including the marine industries. Mr. Nazery Hanizah Idris, the head of the Department of Southeast
emphasised that IR 4.0 is here to stay and it will continue Asian Studies. Sixty-one participants attended this seminar
unleashing disruptive and game-changing forces to and they benefited significantly from the information of IR
humans' life and to industries. Hence, marine industry 4.0 shared by Mr. Nazery.
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