HAMeeD

Spurred by the People Accessible Network for Digital Empowerment and Inclusivity (PANDei) program, which has won numerous awards and prizes, both locally and internationally, HAMeeD (High Aptitude Meeting and Discourse) is coined and initiated to further enhance the social presence of Pustaka Negeri Sarawak (Pustaka) in the information and knowledge industry. It is a forum in which prominent figures and experts express their views and comments on current local issues. These comments and views are then captured and transcribed into documents, which are then distributed to heads of government agencies, corporate figures and other industry players. While PANDei looks into the digital information literacy at the grassroot levels, HAMeeD on the other hand will increase the awareness of the top brass about issues and concerns affecting Sarawak.

Objectives

1) To expand and widen the reach of Pustaka’s information literacy programs and initiatives.
2) To keep the top decision makers and industry players abreast with current and pertinent issues affect every corner of the societies in Sarawak.

Target Participants

1) Head of government department, agencies and government-linked companies.
2) Community leaders.

Methodology

a) Face-to-face or online discussion in which each presenter will talk or present his views on a given topic for ten minutes.(br> b) Rapporteurs, comprising of senior Pustaka staff, will record the conversations during the session and transcribed them into a report at the end of the discourse.
c) There will four sessions or discourses in a year, preferably every quarter, and in each session, there will be four to six speakers.

Process

1) The Information Services (IS) Division, via its Current Awareness Service, will do a media scan or content analysis of current publications to determine pertinent current local issues.
2) The IS Division will then print the articles related to the identified issues and passes them to HAMeeD Secretariat, the Learning and Knowledge Creation (LKC) Division.
3) The LKC Division will seek the advice of the top management to identify experts for the topic of the discourse.
4) The LKC Division will then invite the identified experts and furnish them with the printed information on the topic to be discussed.
5) The LKC Division shall appoint rapporteurs and presiding officer for the session and make other necessary arrangements for the discourse.
6) The presiding officer will facilitate or moderate the session while the rapporteurs record down the views and comments of the experts.
7) After the session, the rapporteurs will transcribe the recorded conversations into report and hand it over to the LKC Division.
8) The LKC Division will print the report and distribute it to the relevant authorities.