Training: Ministry of Education get trained in QGIS, Round 2

Latihan: Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia dapat latihan QGIS, Kali Kedua

Setelah memberi latihan QGIS kepada Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia (KPM), mereka berpendapat QGIS memenuhi keperluan mereka lalu menghubungi kami untuk mendorongkan mereka dalam penyediaan pangkalan data GIS KPM.  Saya amat mengagumi kumpulan ini kerana mereka amat postif dan sedia menerima maklumbalas  tajam semasa pendekatan KPM dalam perancangan kemudahan pelajaran dikupas dan dibidas kiri kanan agar lebih baik disedari kesilapan masing-masing disesi latihan supaya mereka tidak membuat kesilapan serius pada masa depan yang boleh memalukan Menteri mereka semasa berhadapan dengan ahli Parliamen. Kami telah terangkan bahawa setiap keputusan bagi kriteria dan parameter merupakan pisau bermata dua. Dalam ini terpaksa kami menggorek justifikasi bagi keputusan sehingga ke akar umbi barru saja mereka lebih jelas mengapa kami amat kritikal dan tidak suka pada alasan yang kabur  kerana ianya juga hanya menghasilkan output yang kabur. Saya pasti pendedahan kami tidak akan dapat sampai ke tahap ini andainya mereka telah menentang maklumbalas 'pedih' dan yang mana kami telah jelaskan terlebih dahulu "You may not like to hear what we have to say". Kesimpulannya, sesi latihan tersebut berakhir dengan jayanya bagi kedua-dua pihak.

Training: Ministry of Education get trained in QGIS, Round 2

Having given the initial QGIS training to Ministry of Education (MOE), they found that it fulfilled their needs and have now called us again over the past 2 days and night but this time to guide them in the preparation of their geodatabase. I admire them because this bunch are very positive and acknowledged our findings as we pried open their approach towards education planning of educational facilities and shot them down left and right in an attempt to make them see their mistakes now in this training session so that they won't make blunders in the future and give their Minister an embarrassing moment when he has to face the Parliament MPs. We explained how every decision in GIS they put forth in deciding their criteria and parameter has a two-edge sword effect and we made them clearly justify down to the very core. It made them understand why we were so critical because we did not want vagueness because that will only lead to vague and questionable outputs. I am sure we would not have got this far with MOE had they put up resistant to our "painful" feedbacks which I told them at the start "You may not like to hear what we have to say" and the training concluded I would say extremely well for both of us.