Internet Alliance Announces New Committee, aims to Double Membership by End of 2017

Internet Alliance (IA) – also known as “Persatuan Hubungan Internet Selangor dan Kuala Lumpur”, is a not-for-profit organization that collectively facilitate over 80 per cent of Malaysia’s active Internet scene.

The current IA membership comprises about 50 odd members, who are largely made up of Internet Service Provider (ISP) corporations and businesses.

President of IA, Chan Kee Siak – reappointed to serve IA for another 2 years, says, “Due to the increasing dependence of the country’s economy and business social connectivity on the Internet – IA is growing in relevance as local cloud providers and Internet players need a strong representation to the marketplace.

Chan Kee Siak (front, in green), President of Internet Alliance for 2017/18, taking a group photo with other IA members after General Meeting of IA recently.

IA welcomes this encouraging trend and concurrently targets to double our membership to 100 members by the end of 2017.”

Established since 2010, IA’s current membership base of 50 members cover a diverse Internet operational composition that includes major website hosters, Cloud-infrastructure providers, eCommerce platform and marketplace providers, data centers, payment gateway providers. All of these members collectively enable over 80 percent of the country’s active Internet infrastructure and operations.

IA Announces 2017/18 Committee Members

IA recently held its Annual General Meeting on Friday, 18 August 2017 and new general committee members who represent a wide variety of interests were appointed to serve on the IA committee as two-term office bearers.

The newly elected members of the IA Committee are:

• President: Chan Kee Siak, Exabytes Network Sdn Bhd
• Vice President: Ng Chet Chiang, Logistics WorldWide Express (M) Sdn Bhd
• Secretary: Liew Chew Keat, CARI Internet Sdn Bhd
• Treasurer: Wong Weng Yew, Extreme Broadband Sdn Bhd

Ordinary Committee Members are:

• Lee Yip Fei, NetOnBoard Sdn Bhd
• Chia Ting Ting, FG Media Sdn Bhd
• Chew Choo Soon, MyKRIS Asia Sdn Bhd
• TK Tan, Qinetics Solutions Sdn Bhd
• Sunny Ooi, ClickAsia Sdn Bhd

New elected Honorary Auditors of 2017-2018:

– Lloyd Lee from AIMS Data Centre Sdn Bhd

– Tan Gooi Lee from rhipe (M) sdn bhd

Strong Knowledge-sharing network

Chan shares that one of the biggest values that IA provides is its active and diverse series of ICT themed knowledge-sharing events and industry-level networking activities – whereby every member gets to participate in roundtables, advisory committees, and attend every expo conference applicable.

For example, since the beginning of the year we had roundtable discussion and training workshops covering hosting and cloud, Software-as-a-Service (Saas), Payment Gateway, What’s New in FB Marketing, IT & Professional Liability, Mobile Messenger and Bots Marketing, and many more.

 All of these topics are highly relevant and with top appeal to our members, who continuously need to improve their performance and customer SLAs in the Internet business,” he says.

IA’s Increasing Relevance With Growing Issues

Chan also believes that the growing importance of the Internet’s role in the general economy and social life drives the relevance of IA’s role.

A recent example was during the set up by of the Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ) by the Malaysian government in joining Alibaba’s representation as China’s lead for greater eCommerce trading in the Asia region.

IA stepped into the picture by voicing out the (for example) collective import-export tax concerns that the DFTZ would have on local Internet service and infrastructure providers.

Chan says that IA’s membership offers Internet players to know first hand the concerns, issues and on-goings in the local Internet scene; gaining more visibility and being heard.

IA membership fees is at RM3,000 per annum and is opened to all Set-Ups, Startups, SMEs and companies which provide any kind of Internet-related business or service in Malaysia.

To find out more on how you can become part of IA members, please visit www.internetalliance.my

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About Internet Alliance (IA)

Internet Alliance (IA) or also known as “Persatuan Hubungan Internet Selangor dan Kuala Lumpur”, is a non-profit association set up in 2010 to represent the country’s major pool of Internet service and ‘middleware’ infrastructure providers – ranging web hosting companies, data centres, payment gateway and Cloud providers, web platform enablers, and eCommerce players. IA serves as an effective networking platform for its entrepreneur-spirited members to educate and empower each other within a conducive ecosystem in order to share valuable learning and expertise amongst Internet leaders. IA aspires to provide a single unified voice to support common interests of Malaysia’s Internet business sector by acting as the platform and lead to seek both national and international dialogue on cyber ecommerce and cloud matters regarding internet environment, security, legality and commercialisation.

For the list of IA members or more information, please visit www.internetalliance.my