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The Department’s computerisation programme continued Chronology
to expand in line with the progress of ICT as well as users’
demand. The expansion of the functions of the State Offices History in ICT Development:
in terms of data processing and tabulation resulted in the 1994 Computerised data processing commenced
migration from main frame to PC based. Starting from the in the State Branches.
stand alone micro computer system at the end of 1980’s, 1995 SIDAP, which was developed using Dbase IV,
the Department moved to the Local Area Network (LAN) was extended to State Offices. The updated
information was sent by the State Offices
system in 1990’s and expanded to the Wide Area Network using diskettes and then downloaded into
(WAN) in 2001. micro computer at the Industries Division.
1996 SIDAP-LAN was developed in local area
The usage of ICT was not only limited to data processing network (LAN) version to connect the Industries
and tabulation but it was also used in data collection. Division with other divisions under the Trade
and Industry Sector in the Headquarters and
The interview via telephone was introduced in 1998 for Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur Branch.
the collection of consumer prices. With the advancement For the other State Branches, this system was
still in stand alone version for the period of
of ICT, the web based data collection i.e. e-Survey was 1996 to 2001.
used. Commencing 2008, the Personal Digital Assistant 1997 SPDRB system was developed to manage the
(PDA) was used to expedite and facilitate the collection household frame in a centralised manner. This
of consumer prices and its usage will be extended to other stand alone system used Dbase IV software.
surveys in the near future. E-mail facilities using JARING was introduced
to facilitate communication.
1998 The Department of Statistics website was
developed using Windows platform namely
HTML, PHP, MySQL and Dreamweaver MX .
2001 The SIDAP-WAN (Wide Area Network) system
was developed to replace SIDAP-LAN. It
was the first on-line system used in all state
offices.
SPDRB was upgraded to suit changes in the
platform from Dbase IV to Microsoft Access
and this system used the 2000 Census data
as the base.
2003 SPDRB was upgraded from stand alone to
networking system.
SIDAP-WAN was extended to all State
Offices.
2005 Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) was
introduced for data processing.
Tangkapan data
Data capture
Penggunaan teknologi ICT di Jabatan
Usage of ICT in the Department
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