RM1billion initiative to provide school children from poor households with Internet-enabled netbook computers and promote high-speed broadband usage. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced the National Broadband Initiative at the Dataran Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur. Under the programme, a student would only have to pay RM38 a month for the netbook and Internet access. Needy students in rural areas will pay even less RM20 a month. They also setting up 138 Internet centres for the rakyatat state information department offices that will benefit 400,000 people and 1,105 e-kiosks at community centres nationwide, at the cost of RM40million in total.
