MIMOS ready to partner more companies
Published on: Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Kuala Lumpur: National research and development (R&D) centre in information and communications technology, MIMOS Bhd, is ready to partner more companies for its psychometrics assessment tool.President and Chief Executive Officer Datuk Abdul Wahab Abdullah said after seven years of developing the technology, MIMOS had managed to gather enough sample data to provide better and accurate assessment."The lab was formed five years ago, but the work has been done by more than seven years.
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"With more than 100,000 data point, our accuracy now is more than 95 per cent compared with 90 per cent when the lab was formed. We have a very good sampling now," he told reporters after the exchange of documents between MIMOS and its strategic partners, witnessed by Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Wilfred Madius Tangau here Tuesday.The strategic partners included CyberSecurity Malaysia, Integrity Institute of Malaysia, Uniutama Education and Consultancy Sdn Bhd and Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris.Psychometrics is a technology to measure human inclinations, knowledge, abilities, attitudes, personality traits and others in order to predict future behaviour, to enable wise decision making. Compared with other psychometrics tool available, Abdul Wahab said the technology, developed by MIMOS, was specially designed, tailored to the Malaysian culture and enabled the agency to provide accurate assessment.
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