By Sherilyn Pang
SHAH ALAM, Jan 26 — More than 650 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been trained under the Selangor government’s agency, in line with the state’s digitalisation agenda, says state executive councillor for industry and commerce Dato’ Teng Chang Khim.
Teng said the programmes for the upskilling of entrepreneurs were initiated by the Selangor Information Technology and Digital Economy Corporation (Sidec), or previously known as Selangor Information Technology and E-Commerce Council (Sitec).
“We have been putting a lot of effort into the digitalisation of businesses in Selangor.
“Aside from the two Selangor e-bazaar campaigns last year where we injected RM3 million to assist our SMEs to sell online, we have also launched Produtk, which is to assist our SMEs to digitalise the management of their workforce beginning October 1, 2020, for three months and is now still being continued,” he said in reference to the Workforce Management Digitalisation Programme, which was introduced to help SMEs in Selangor undergo digitalisation.
“We are not able to assist them (in the digitalisation of their production processes) due to financial constraints, but we are helping them to digitalise the management of their whole workforce,” said Teng during the virtual launch of the Selangor e-Bazar CNY campaign today.
He added that in 2020, the state government managed to help 26,000 SMEs to transition their businesses online.
The Selangor e-Bazar Chinese New Year (CNY) campaign which will run on the Lazada and Shopee online shopping platforms will start on February 1 and ends on March 7 and aims to onboard 25,000 SMEs to transition their business online via the campaign.
