The Department of Information Teknology and Communication (JTMK) of Universiti Malaysia Sabah is responsible for providing IT services to staff and students with the help of state-of-the-art equipment. In fact the university prepared a blueprint for digital inclusion even before the campus development. Being a strategic asset of the University, IT services are efficiently managed as a valuable resource.

Our network provides communication both internally and externally. Main services include telephones, computers, software, Internet, e-mail, printing, scanning, digital imaging, etc.

Facilities available are CD-Rom production, 2D graphics, image manipulation and enhancement, image scanning, animation, digital photography, digital audio/video acquisition and editing.

Academics uses of IT include multimedia applications in lecturing, practical training and research. Most lecturers have been provided with personal computers. Additional computers are obtained through research project grants for the use of the researchers.

Administrative sections of the university are increasingly using computerised systems and software in managing accounts and audits; processing of the salary, disbursement of research grant, preparation of inventory and setting of timetables. Staff handling these functions is given training and orientation by system managers, programmers and other IT specialists.