PETALING JAYA: Malaysia Digital Economy Corp (MDEC) CEO Datuk Yasmin Mahmood has gone on voluntary leave pending an investigation into the organisation’s Asean Data Analytics Exchange (ADAX) project.
The investigation was initiated by Communications and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo.
According to MDEC’s website, ADAX enables the development of the entire data analytics ecosystem through building human capital, infrastructure, data aggregation and community.
At its launch on March 28, 2017, ADAX CEO Sharala Axryd had stated that its aim was to produce 20,000 data professionals by 2020, out of which 10% would be data scientists.
“Our CEO Datuk Yasmin is on voluntary leave starting yesterday as she…
