MDEC appoints chief digital business officer as part of Reinvent agenda Details 02 March 2021
The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) has appointed Aiza Azreen Ahmad (pictured) as chief digital business officer to drive all business development, strategic and operational aspects of the company. This includes corporate and business development initiatives; strategic planning; budget development and control; commercial input into national digitalisation development; as well as support investor relationships and fundraising.
In her new role, Aiza will be a member of the MDEC Operating Council and will report directly to CEO Surina Shukri. She will oversee and steer the digital adoption ecosystem in eCommerce, business digital adoption, data ecosystem development and the digital infrastructure departments. She will also lead external innovation opportunities to expand commercial strategies and build corporate business and innova
BY the end of this decade, Malaysia will become a high-value-added economy and a net exporter of home-grown technologies and digital solutions, according to the road map set out in the Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint. “The role of digital technology is evident, especially since a year ago, following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has led to all countries facing difficult challenges to continue business as usual,” said Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at the launch of the blueprint on Feb 19.
Real estate tech firm Juwai IQI to hire over a thousand staff for data and tech team in MY Details 26 February 2021
Asian real estate technology group Juwai IQI has made Kuala Lumpur its headquarters for global R&D and plans to build a data and tech team locally. The team is expected to eventually have more than 1,000 employees. Malaysia was chosen as the R&D headquarters due to its larger workforce compared to Singapore, universal English proficiency and a far-sighted outlook on its digitalisation trajectory , Juwai IQI co-founder and group executive chairman Georg Chmiel (pictured left) said. Malaysia has what it takes to be the digital heart of ASEAN. There are 400 million mobile users in ASEAN, which is important because mobile is the platform on which we are building the advanced services that will power our future growth. The United States has just 276 million mobile users, Chmiel explained.
5G digital malaysia
THE clock is ticking as Malaysia gears up for its public and private sectors to be fully digitalised. Notably, it took a health crisis – the Covid-19 pandemic – for the shift of mindset for some conservative businesses and also the government to accelerate the adoption of technology.
Yesterday, optimism poured over Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s announcement on the 5G internet connectivity rollout in the next ten months. Many more digital initiatives were announced by the prime minister on the official launch of MyDigital and the Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint.
The MyDigital initiative outlined a comprehensive plan to transform Malaysia’s economy into a technologically-advanced one through the Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint by 2030.