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Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Digital Officer (CDO)

 


 

Tuan Ahmad Munir bin Ishak was appointed as the City Secretary on 15 April 2021. He was born on 28 June 1975 in Ipoh, Perak. He started his career as an Assistant Secretary in the Economics & International Analysis Division, Ministry of Finance from 2001. He later served in several ministries, including Assistant Secretary in the Finance Division, Ministry of Home Affairs and Principal Assistant Director, Services Division, Public Service Department.

He started serving in Perak from 2015 as the Chief Assistant District Officer (Land) in the Hilir Perak District & Land Office and then as the Perak State Secretariat Human Resource Management Division Secretary. In 2018, he was placed as the Kuala Kangsar District Officer until he was appointed as the City Secretary.

He holds a Bachelor of Shariah Economics from Universiti Malaya and a Master of Business Administration from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

 

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of the Ipoh City Council is the City Secretary.

Name       

:

Tuan Ahmad Munir bin Ishak

Email

:

munir@mbi.gov.my

Phone No.

:

05-2083300

Fax No.

:

05-2537396

Roles and responsibilities of CIO:

1.

Assist the Mayor of Ipoh in performing tasks involving ICT needs in the Ipoh City Council;

2.

Coordinate and monitor the development, operations and management of ICT application systems and infrastructure in the Ipoh City Council;

3.

An encouraging leader in the use of IT in Whole-Of-Government (WOG) Service Delivery System;

4.

Lead and involve the Ipoh City Council in government efforts to develop and implement public sector ICT projects that bring about changes in the management and administration of the Public Service;

5.

Responsible for matters related to MBI ICT security;
6.

Coordinate and manage training plans and ICT Security Awareness Programmes, such as the preparation of the Ipoh City Council ICT Security Policy as well as risk management and auditing; and
7.

An innovation leader via ICT applications, infra and security.

Roles and responsibilities of CDO:
1.

Lead digitalisation initiatives in Ministries/agencies via the use of data, analytics and digital technology;
2. Create a data-driven culture in the public sector that adopts a principle-based approach via the use of data and digital technology;
3.

Transformation of digital services delivery in ministries/agencies, focussing on customer experience based on the Whole-Of-Government concept via innovations involving data sharing, open data and emerging technologies;

4.

Assess, coordinate, certify the needs of digital services, Technical Service Design and development budget as well as manage agencies as implementers of digitalisation initiatives and projects;
5.

Lead change via the Ministry/State/Agency Digitalisation Strategic Plan (DSP) Alignment by:

  • Ensuring the agency’s DSP is in line with the Public Sector DSP and Risk Management and Change Management Plan;
  • Ensuring the agency’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) Blueprint is available;
  • Strengthening the agency’s digitalisation governance structure & coordinating the application of global policies, standards and best practices.
6.

Report on the implementation and progress of digitalisation transformation to the Chief Secretary to the Government, as Chairman of the Government Cluster under the National Digital Economy and 4IR Council through the Government Cluster secretariat.