Engineers say Computing Bill is 'counter-productive'

The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) is against to a thought of controlling IT professionals as mooted in a proposed Computing Professionals Bill 2011.

IEM marked down a Bill as a "counter-productive" pierce which would suppress a creativity as well as creation which are inherent to a information record (IT) industry.

"If such a law is put in place in a early development of a industry, there most positively will not be a proliferation of innovative solutions to make a attention what it is today," says a matter issued by a veteran physique today.

IEM remarkable which a talent pool in a IT attention came from unequivocally different backgrounds, experience as well as qualifications, with some of them even but grave qualifications.

"Regulating IT professionals can lead to a rebate in competitiveness, which will be unpropitious to a feat of grown nation status as envisaged in a National Key Result Areas."

"It (the Bill) is a protectionist intrigue which adds unnecessary hindrance as well as costs, such as staff to man a proposed Board of Computing Professionals, to set as well as conduct exams, precision courses, fees, office work as well as a like, which will additionally in! double b ureaucracy."

IEM stressed which a law of professions should only be done in industries where public safety as well as interests were during stake.

While acknowledging which individual organisations should have a coherence to set up their own registers of eligible IT professionals for their specific needs, IEM believes which a "one-size-fits-all" solution as proposed in a Bill will not solve a stream attention concerns.

'Government not competent'

! Meanwhil e, a Institute for Democracy as well as Economic Affairs (Ideas) questioned a government's competency to umpire as well as impute a IT industry.

"The supervision unequivocally does not have a competency to impute IT practitioners since a attention evolves invariably through innovation," Ideas comparison senior manager Medecci Lineil pronounced in a statement.

"I firmly hold which this law is not indispensable since it denies a efficiency of a marketplace as well as it should thus be withdrawn."

Concurring with IEM, Lineil pronounced a government's try to interfere in a organisation of a IT attention was a academic "step backwards" as well as understandably, energetic technopreneurs as well as others in a attention op! acted th e Bill.

Instead, Ideas proposed consumer compensation as a ultimate "supervisor"or regulator for a IT industry, as well as for self-regulation through a formula of ethics promulgated by a attention itself, but supervision interference.
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