"Tej Kohli said "There must be some international initiative must be taken to check out Information Technology growth in the alignment of government bodies and parallel industries."16th WCIT which held in Kuala Lumpur is the place where the big IT industry giant gather to check out IT growth and challenges in upcoming time.It be expectation of experts that WCIT 2008 is the largest gathering since ever of personals of IT who are leaders in business, government and others. There are 100 spokesperson from the 80 countries with more then 2,700 delegates are expected to be in WCIT 2008. Leading Enterprises IT publisher of the Asia Fairfax Business Media (FBM) , is the official media partner of the WCIT 2008.Other media partner are Computerworld Malaysia, Computerworld Singapore, CIO Asia and MIS Asia magazines, for providing full coverage of WCIT 2008 . As an estimation near about 350 million views are around the world from the homes and office had seen WCIT 2008.
WCIT 2008 will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre and incorporates a three-day Congress, a Link Program for business matching, an ICT exhibition and various ancillary activities including a golf tournament and motorsport experience.
**FBM Asia Magazine Titles:
-Computerworld - Computerworld Singapore (www.computerworld.com.sg) and Computerworld Malaysia (www.computerworld.com.my) magazines carry a stimulating mix of analytical reporting, in-depth discussions of current and emerging technology trends, enterprise IT, plus key technological developments and solutions that have an impact on regional IT professionals. Last month, Computerworld Malaysia received an honourable mention at the MediaConnect Asia Technology Journalist Awards 2007.
-MIS (Managing Information Strategies) Asia (www.misweb.com) . This is the leading IT management magazine circulated to some 10,650 CIOs and senior IT management in Asia 's large to medium-sized enterprises, encouraging business-guided IT strategy by offering case studies and best practices. In July 2007, MIS Asia won the Best Business Technology Title award for the second year, at the MediaConnect Asia Technology Journalist Awards 2007.
-CIO Magazine (www.cio-asia.com) - This respected magazine links CIOs and senior executives with business strategy and technology innovation. It builds the IT business case for the highest-level members of the executive suite, and is aimed at the C-level leader who needs to know the business essentials of IT, with enough technical information for informed decision-making. CIO magazine gives the budget proposers (for example, the CIO) the means to drive strategy and the budget gatekeepers (such as the CFO and CEO) the means to judge its value.
WCIT program is designed a three day congress to encompass global IT field issue and directing IT into new era of business-to-Business , business-to-government(B2G) and Business-to-industry(B2I).
The organizer of WCIT 2008 are the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) and the Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (PIKOM) with the full support and corporation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia. On 19 may (Xinhua) in WCIT announce new host WCIT which will be held in 2012 in Montreal, Canada, in 2012, Chairman of World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) George Newstrom announced here on Monday. The next WCIT will be planned to held in Netherlands in 2010, according to Newstrom. The vision of World congress of Information technology to gather government bodies with the industry leader to make up relation and work model for information Technology .
