APRIL 2011, had a meeting with a special bureau of Innovation at Prime Minister's Office. We get to know first-handedly the innovative products that the government will help to commercialize them. We had students from universities around the country and we can speak out whatever is in our mind regarding the products enlisted in a booklet provided to us. The students are from different kind of fields, ranged from economy, architects, planners, computer science, mass communication and even lecturer-to-be. The most attractive product is a photovoltaic cells coated layer which can be applied to windows in order to decrease the heat gain in the interior and absorb the free solar energy and store them in the batteries. This product can be really useful for the poor in rural area to gain the free energy. A product like this has such a good potential to be invested and improved to the next level which we cant even imagine. Of course, there are lots of green products out there in the market. However, some of the students think it is a waste for the government to spend money on this kind of product as she think the products can only produce a small amount of energy. While another student from the economic field suggested that Malaysian government should innovate the petroleum industry to boost up the GDP of our country instead of wasting time and money in the infancy of green technology.
From my perspective, it is clear that Malaysian students spend too much time fighting for better grade and forgot to think out of their fields. What comes out from their mind and mouth is what they have learnt in their particular field without considering other aspects. The government call us the Y-generation. The question is, how can Y-generation governs the country to a better level if the professions from different fields just think of the benefits of their own fields despite the importance of integration of the knowledge to form the balance in life. What I expect from the meeting in the PM's office is a solution in progress to make use of all knowledge from all the profession to tackle the problem faced, tackling the problems in every aspects. This is a damn hard job, but at least, we try, better than doing nothing.
The worst thing in the meeting is when the speaker conducting the meeting agreed with the economic student regarding the matter of innovating the petroleum industry, praising him a talented student in the economic field. Perhaps, talented but not innovative. Malaysia, from the bottom level of the social to the top, is still ignoring the environmental issue.
LYNAS BRAVO ? Coal plant in Sabah Bravo ?? Coal plant in Mukah Bravo ?? Boleh ?
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