The Digital Ministry has activated the Government Innovation Initiative (GII), a national programme aimed at accelerating Malaysia’s push to become an AI Nation by 2030 by turning real public sector and rakyat challenges into deployable digital solutions.
The initiative, conceived under the leadership of Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo, is designed to move government innovation beyond policy and pilots into measurable delivery, with a strong focus on using Made by Malaysia technologies, strengthening the domestic AI ecosystem and helping local digital and AI producers scale both nationally and internationally.
As part of the rollout, the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) spearheaded its CEO Anuar Fariz Fadzil and working closely with the Digital Ministry together with the Health Ministry, has rolled out a flagship pilot known as RadioConnect at three public hospitals, the ministry said in a statement today.
RadioConnect provides cloud-based connectivity with secure access across multiple providers through each hospital’s Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). The system is intended to streamline the secure, economical and near-instant storage, retrieval and sharing of diagnostic images such as X-rays, MRIs and CT scans, allowing authorised doctors and medical practitioners to access patient images across departments and hospitals nationwide.
Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo said the initiative is about building a more responsive and future-ready public sector, not just adopting new technologies.
“The Government Innovation Initiative is not just about adopting new technology but about building a future-proof public sector that is responsive, efficient and deeply rooted in local ingenuity,” he said.
The objective is to improve diagnostic efficiency and patient care by enabling faster and more seamless access to critical medical imaging across the public healthcare system.
The next phase of GII will involve the establishment of Citizen Labs, a collaborative platform that will allow members of the public and communities to submit problem statements and real-world experiences. These inputs will be channelled directly to relevant ministries to ensure solutions are developed based on the needs of the rakyat.
Central to this effort is the MyInovasi portal which would serve as a national platform to connect government, academia and industry, and to match local innovations with real public sector needs. The pilot initiative, led by the Digital Ministry and its agencies, is intended to serve as a bridge between solution providers and government problem owners.
In a related structural move, the ministry said Futurise Sdn Bhd will transition to operate under MDEC. Under this new arrangement, Futurise will take on a role in driving the progression of GII projects through the framework of the National Regulatory Sandbox, supporting the testing and scaling of new solutions.
The minister also said that the programme is aimed at breaking down silos across government and unifying national innovation assets under a single ecosystem.
“Through the Government Innovation Initiative, we are creating a direct pipeline where the rakyat’s challenges meet Malaysian-made AI solutions, accelerating our transformation into a leading digital nation by 2030,” he said.
