Community leaders urged to keep up with change
TAWAU: Community leaders, especially at village level, need to change their attitude and ways of thinking to enable the development programs in their areas to be implemented more successfully.
Assistant Resource Development and Information Technology Minister Datuk Hamisa Samat said without the change of mind, planned programs in villages were difficult to implement effectively.
She said it needs to be stressed that community leaders and villagers need to prepare themselves with knowledge and competitiveness in meeting the goals of a world-class village development.
“If we are not willing, then we will be left out and left behind in the mainstream of global development.
“We have no choice but to continue to equip ourselves with knowledge and skills in the latest fields of technology as well as a change of attitude towards being more positive,” she said during the Special Assistance Scheme of the ‘Smart Mathematical and English Clinic' in conjunction with the handing over of chairs and table donations organized by Yayasan Sabah South East Coast Zone at the Quba Mosque hall, Taman Wawasan yesterday.
Hamisa, who is also Tanjong Batu assemblywoman, said that at the same time, community leaders should also work closely with government agencies to allow new changes to be better received.
She said managing the situation in the village environment today is not as traditional as before but rather more to increase the economy of the local community.
Therefore, the government places emphasis on skills in the use of information and communications technology and people need to tap into the latest information, including promoting their products globally as well as seeking new business opportunities, she said.
She said the opportunity to create economic resources is no longer dependent on land size alone, but rather on knowledge, creativity, technology, markets and capital to be owned.
During the ceremony, a total of 100 chairs and seven tables were contributed to the mosque.