e-Risalah USIM Jan-Mac 2023

BeritaKampus 012 CAMPUS DIGITALIZATION PROGRAM Encourages the use of cashless applications U SIM officiated the closure of the Campus Digitalization Program Series 1 (Cashless Campus), which started on 1st October 2022 until 31st December 2022 and was organized in collaboration with Payments Network Sdn. Bhd., a national payment institution that operates world-class payment systems and financial market infrastructure in addition to e-payment services such as MyDebit, DuitNow QR, FPX, JomPay, Direct Debit and various other e-payment platforms. Firdaus Ghani, Director of Paynet’s Client Engagement Division, said, “This program emphasizes the University’s efforts and initiatives to organize various activities to cultivate the acceptance and use of “cashless” among campus residents. We are informed that USIM is one of the universities that are active in promoting the “cashless” agenda by organizing various interesting activities such as Infaq Donation Campaign and Cashless Waqf, “Cashless Virtual Run” and the “Cashless University Program which involves vendors in USIM itself.” In the same ceremony, USIM Library Department received a grand prize of RM2000.00 for successfully obtaining the highest number of cashless application transactions, followed by the USIM Press, which took home RM1000.00, the Faculty of Dentistry in third place with RM700, while the USIM Cooperative and the Security Department each received a consolation prize amounting to RM300.00. Present at this closing ceremony was Mohd Esa Daud, Deposit Manager of Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad (Southern Region), senior officers of Paynet and the top management of the university. In line with the implementation of the blueprint, five main clusters have been created to boost smart activities on the campus, and this cashless campus initiative is a project under the smart infrastructure cluster that targets cashless use in the university. Through this initiative, a committee has been set up to coordinate, monitor and empower cashless facilities and awareness on the campus. Some initial running projects include e-wallet, e-procurement, and JomInfaq USIM”. Professor Dato’ Dr. Sharifudin Md Shaarani USIM Vice-Chancellor “This cashless campus programme is an encouragement to stakeholders (vendors) to register cashless acceptance and is one of the main initiatives in usim’s smart university blueprint for the 2018 to 2025 period.