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Monday, August 13, 2007

UiTM Wireless Community Project

Background of UiTM


Universiti Teknologi MARA(UiTM) is the pioneer institution of higher learning that is totally committed to producing a significant number of Bumiputera professionals who are skilled in a broad spectrum of industry. They contribute to increasing the national productivity and improving the livelihood and standard of living of the people of Malaysia.

UITM is moving towards a World Class university. In order to produce a world class graduates the students must have not only knowledge from the textbook but they have to widen the knowledge by knowing the world outside as well. This will give them an extra credit compare to the other graduates. To gain the external knowledge, internet is the cheapest, easiest and fastest way.

Project Objectives

  1. To increase UiTM student knowledge and performance by providing wireless internet accessibility within the campus.
  2. To enhance the student with unboundedness academic resources so that the students are not only depending on the textbooks.
  3. To make internet as a communication tools such as email, instant messaging,video conferencing and online sms.

Current Problems

Currently, it is hard for the students to get an internet access within the campus. Internet facilities are only provided in the faculties and a few of student’s hostels. To provide internet access using cables will be costly and a lot of tasks have to been done to implement it. Besides it still limit the number of users to access it.

These circumstances not allowing the student to fully utilize the effectiveness and efficiency of the internet. Internet provided wider resources, more updated and inexpensive references compares to a book or printed resources. Other than that, it provides and online discussion whereby students can discuss, arguing and gained opinions from other users.

In addition, internet can also act as a communication tools. Making a phone call using a mobile phone will be expensive, but there an online service application that offer a pc to mobile call or pc to pc call with a lower rate and even. For example is skype and yahoo messenger. Besides that there also online free sms, video conferencing that are provided online. This allow the student to contact their families and friends without be afraid of the bills.

Missions / Goals

  • Increase the student learning effectiveness and student results by implement wireless zone (which allows unlimited geographical internet accessibilities)
  • Helps the students to enhance and deepen and gain knowledge using different approaches not only depending on the lecturer’s notes but they be able to get resources from the internet.
  • Changing the traditional printed textbook based to digital based such as online journals, articles, newspaper cutting and even digital books.
  • Encourage the students to keep in touch with their families and friends using the online services.

Project’s measurable organizational value

  • Produce computer literate graduates.
  • Producing world class standard graduates.
  • Creating a knowledgeable community who not only good academics area but also tailored with the current issues.
  • Students have a strong and great relationship with the family and friends.
How project MOV support the goal and strategies
  • By cultivating IT literate culture among university students.
  • By educating the students to enhance the use of ICT in their learning process and also to keep their knowledge up to date.
  • In creating a knowledgeable communities, implicitly, we improved the students’ soft skills.
  • By increasing the information technology literate among people, we will be able tighten the relationship bond between family and friends through the use latest ICT tools such as e-mails, video conferencing, instant messaging and online sms.
Business Case Objectives

  • To state the important of implementing the wireless technology in the campus
  • Encourage the student to fully utilize the use of the internet and make it as the secondary references.
  • To expose the community about the benefits of using the internet in academic and non-academic areas.

Acknowledgement

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful.
Peace and blessings of Allah be upon Prophet Muhammad


First and foremost, praise be to Allah, for enabling us to complete our Wireless Community Project without many difficulties. Special thanks and appreciation is given to our supervisor, for whom we are deeply interested, Cik Rashidah Bt Rawi, for her advice, criticism, guidance and brilliant ideas during the implementation of this project.


We also would like to express our gratitude to our beloved family for their encouragement, patience, support, financial support and sacrifice they have given us during the implementation of project. The most part is, thank you to Maxis for sponsoring the event. Without Maxis, we could not make the implementation the best we possibly can. Thank you once again for giving us the chance to serve the community.


Last but not least, we would like to express our gratitude to all friends as well as participants who had been supporting us from the beginning of the project. Only Allah S.W.T can repay your kindness.

Thank you.


Supervisor
Assoc Prof Rashidah Bt Rawi


Project Committee:

MOHD KHAIRI B. ISMAYUDDIN
ABDUL AZIM B. MUHAMAD SAIDI
MOHD FAIRUZ B. ABDUL JALIL
NORMAN B. AHMAD OSMAN
MUHAMMAD FAIZ B. MAZLAN

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Bsc (HONS) Information System Engineering
CSB56A


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