The SME Association of Malaysia, together with the Malaysian National Technology Association (Pikom) and Huawei Technologies Malaysia Sdn Bhd, will offer digital skills training to 10,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs), as well as local micro-SMEs this year.
The training, which will involve entrepreneurs and employees, is to equip SMEs with digital skills to ensure they remain relevant and contribute to improving the post-pandemic economy.
SME Association president Datuk Michael Kang Hua Keong (picture) said currently, there are still not many SMEs that use digital technology in their business, thus making it difficult for them to increase their income this time.
He added that digitalisation is a key element at the moment due to the Covid-19 pandemic and SMEs needed to adopt digital technology for their survival.
“It is important for SMEs to accept the fact that the way of doing business has changed over the years and companies that did not want to adapt to digital business would continue to lag behind.
“Therefore, this collaboration with Pikom and Huawei is a significant step towards the digitisation of our economy and SMEs, in particular, and will provide entrepreneurial and employment opportunities as we grapple with the ever-changing market conditions,” he told the reporters after the launch of the digital training in Cyberjaya yesterday.
Kang noted that the skills upgrading training will be conducted under the Huawei Asean Academy and it is free of charge for most of the training modules.
“This year, we are targeting 10,000 SMEs and employees to receive these skills upgrading training and it will be enhanced next year,” he said.
The ceremony was officiated by the Deputy International Trade and Industry secretary general Datuk Bahria Mohd Tamil. Also present were Pikom deputy chairman Datuk Sean Seah and Huawei Malaysia VP of human resources Choh Yau Meng.
The training programmes offered will include guidance on industry trends to raise general information and communications technology awareness, ecosystem talent enablement to offer technical training and certification, and skills improvement for members of the SMEs and tech community.
He said, through the National e-Commerce Strategic Roadmap, a total of 231,365 SMEs received e-commerce training last year and that number exceeded the government’s initial expectation of 50,000 SMEs.
Source: https://themalaysianreserve.com/2021/04/27/sme-association-pikom-huawei-to-train-10000-smes-for-digital-adoption/