Digital hygiene and responsible use of technology

Digital hygiene and responsible use of technology are complimentary practices. Being digital citizen living in digital world and environment has challenged us to seek for better ways to conduct our life. Surrounded by technological innovation we may sink into virus and infectious diseases in our digital lives of which the cures could be rooted in the digital hygiene and responsible use of technology. Technology is a tool which its inherent values have to be defined and practiced with intention of the users. Thus, technology has the ability to be used to encourage goodness and refrain from unlawful activities through the good practice of digital hygiene and responsible usage

Knowledge, attitude and practices of consumers in e-commerce transactions

E-commerce is a trading system between suppliers and consumers through the electronic medium which gives lots of benefits to both parties. On the other hand, it will also cause several problems to consumers such as the issue of privacy and security. The main purpose of this paper is to describe and identify the level of knowledge, attitude and practices of consumers in e-commerce transactions in four residential areas in Muar Johore. The totals of 104 respondents who had practiced e-commerce were systematically randomly selected. Questionnaires were used as a tool for collecting data and the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) had been utilised for data analysis. The results show that there was significant relationship between the consumers' knowledge and consumer purchasing practices of-e-commerce (r=0.251*, p<;0.05). It means the higher the level of knowledge, the better the practices and vice versa. The study also shows that there was significant correlation between consumers' attitude and their practices in e-commerce purchasing (r=0.197*, p<;0.05). Therefore, if the consumers' attitude towards e-commerce is positive, it is more likely that they will engage in e-commerce transaction. For policy implication, government should continue promoting and enhancing consumers' awareness and knowledge with the introduction of government policies which are beneficial to consumers

Consumers' perceptions towards mobile halal application system

Due to the advancement in the communication system, all the information are easily available. This includes the mobile application system which can act as tracking and educational tools for Muslim consumers to validate JAKIM halal logo. The study was conducted in Gadek, Alor Gajah Malacca to gauge the perceptions of consumers towards these mobile application systems. The data was collected using questionnaires and was analysed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). A total of 150 respondents were selected by systematic sampling. The study demonstrates that the consumers do not put high trust towards the mobile application system. They also claimed that they did know and understand the current available systems. However, the consumers agree that these mobile applications can act as educational tools to inculcate awareness about halal products among Muslim. The inferential statistic also indicates that there is a significant relationship between the usage of mobile applications system and the purchasing of halal cosmetics (r = 0.279, p = 0.000). This study gives implication to JAKIM, HDC, KPDNKK and consumer associations to play a role in shaping the culture of buying halal products among consumers through mobile application system. Nevertheless, comprehensive awareness activities need to be done to ensure the success of this system

Frequencies Determination of Characters for Bahasa Melayu: Results of Preliminary Investigations

AbstractBahasa Melayu (Malay language) is a language spoken in Malaysia and many countries around it. It has rich literature and deep roots in culture. Bahasa Melayu language uses roman character set (i.e. A-Z) identical to English language. The written language uses the character set as building blocks to build word, sentences and phrases along with special punctuations and signs to create documents of interest. In this paper, results of preliminary investigation of Malay text documents are provided. For this purpose scanning of articles written upon various topics in Malay were carried out. Approximately 31 thousand characters from different articles are scanned. Preliminary observations indicate that on average, character “A” occurs 19%, character “N” occur 10%, character “E” occur “9%”and character “I” 8% in text. However, it is also observed from the data that, these are the characters from over all set with highest frequencies of occurrences and it is expected that during further investigation they will remain as higher frequency occurring characters. Furthermore, the results indicate that for Bahasa Melayu characters appearance in text is very close in character frequencies of Bahasa Indonesia, but having different appearance of characters than English language. The investigation also indicate that these two languages, Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia share close phonetic structure but not English, though all three use same character set