The MSC's northern end is at the Petronas Towers in downtown Kuala Lumpur, extending through Cyberjaya, Putrajaya, the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and most of Sepang constituency, as well as parts of Bandar Tun Razak, Puchong and Serdang constituencies, before terminating at Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, which is part of the neighbouring Malaysia Vision Valley corridor.

The establishment of the program was crucial to accelerate the objectives of Vision 2020 and to transform Malaysia into a modern state by 2020, with the adoption of a knowledge-based society framework.

Consortia comprising local and foreign companies (MNCs) collaborated with government agencies, departments and ministries to enhance the socio-economic development of Malaysia in the information age.

It aims to attract companies with temporary tax breaks and facilities such as high-speed Internet access and proximity to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Seeing a loophole, journalist Steven Gan and colleague Premesh Chandran started an online news resource that would be free of the controls that they felt stifled print media.