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Abstract

In this rapidly progressing information era, higher education institutions in
Malaysia in general and univerisites in particular, are also playing their role for
the provision of better educational services and remain competitive in a global
knowledge industry. A lack of presence of a proper framework has been noticed,
in many asia-pacific countries including Malaysia, to assess and evaluate IT
governance in higheer education sector. In this study a total of 18 objectives ,
which were earlier derived in accordance with the basic princples of ISO/IEC
38500 and its core contrls and mapped with the other frameworks and research
studies on IT governance, are validated for their importance. The same are also
used to assess the initial performance of IT governance within universities of
Malaysia. This research discusses the validation of these 18 IT objectives using
Delphi method and also assesses the initial maturity of these objectives within
HEIs of Malaysia. This study is based on an earlier research study by the authors
and is part of a PhD research for developing an IT governance Assessment
Framework (ITGaF) for universities in Malaysia.