E-MyKad : An Online Identity Representation System for Malaysia’s Internet Community

The emergence of the internet since the evolution of Web 2.0 has brought many people
attentions towards the security of the internet itself. For many years, the online community in
the world including Malaysia has increase dramatically. The people are using the internet
mostly to interact and socialize with others and to do the online transactions such as selling
and buying things. Such progress of the online environment has raised the issue such as the
security, privacy and also the trust issue. On the first part of this research paper, the author
will prove that there is the need of one system or platform that can be used to verify user‟s
identity on the internet. The author will do this by examine the current issues regarding
cybercrimes in Malaysia and linked it to the various researches and media related materials.
The author is choosing Malaysia as the reference for this research is because there is no
particular system yet that is being built in order to verify the user‟s online identity.
Additionally, there is the urge from Prime Minister of Malaysia that there is a need for
Malaysia government to study a proposal for all bloggers and portal owners to identify
themselves on their sites. In this paper, the author will focus on the trust issue of the online
community by analyzing the online identity representation. The author is more interested in
finding the right identity attributes and the way of how they can be used to verify the person‟s
real identity. To examine this, the author will study the previous researches and current
products that are available in order to help conducting this research. After the correct
materials and data have been found, the author will design the research methodology that is
specifically fit the purpose of this research. Among the methodology that being suggested is
qualitative study, profile modelling and testing, algorithm analysis and testing, and feedback
analysis. At the end of this paper, there will be a suggestion on how the end system should
looks like. The author will address about what are lacking on the current related system that
have been built and what functions that can be improved. Additionally, there will be
suggestion from the author on the important features that the end system should have.