Challenges of Media and Communication Issues: Implications on Malaysian Public Sectors

This special edition of the Journal highlights challenges of media and communication issues with special emphasis on Malaysian public sector. It is devoted to perspectives from academia, government and media practitioners, revealing Malaysia’s situation in facing the challenges of the digital world. Accordingly, this edition presented a personal challenge for me, having researched on environmental studies which always apply new technological tools—from a simple two-way low-band transmission tool to a very sophisticated high-tech TelemetricSCADA system. This led me to ask the question: what happens if there is no innovation in communication technology? In other words, can we live without proper communication facilities which help us in our daily lives, and to what extent are communication technologies applied in our daily activity? Technology is changing rapidly, and today’s advanced communications are surely not as sophisticated as they will be in the next decade. Challenges and new issues will emerge. The questions of ethics, equal access and new strategies therefore require multifarious methods and solutions to address those challenges.