KUALA LUMPUR: The Go-eCommerce Onboarding and Shop Malaysia Online campaigns will enable 10,000 businesses to enjoy wider market reach through online businesses, said Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz.

       He said the Malaysian Productivity Corp and the Malaysian Digital Economy Corp would work together to make the campaigns involving incentive packages worth RM200mil allocated under Budget 2021 successful.

       “The mandate given under MyDigital aims to accelerate online e-commerce programmes for offline food and beverage businesses to increase productivity and economic competitiveness of businesses.

       “Collective efforts towards digitalisation are showing results as Malaysia’s position has risen from 26th place in 2020 to 22nd place in 2021 in the category of ‘digital transformation of companies’ in the World Competitiveness Yearbook,” he said in the 65th Implementation and Coordination Unit Between National Agencies (Laksana) report.

       “Collective efforts towards digitalisation are showing results as Malaysia’s position has risen from 26th place in 2020 to 22nd place in 2021 in the category of ‘digital transformation of companies’ in the World Competitiveness Yearbook,” Tengku Zafrul said in the 65th Implementation and Coordination Unit Between National Agencies (Laksana) repor

       The Go-eCommerce Onboarding campaign aims to guide and facilitate more micro businesses and SMEs to leverage on e-commerce and e-payments as a new way of doing business and expand their market reach.

       The Shop Malaysia Online campaign aims to encourage online transactions through promotions related to the support of the e-commerce and e-payment sectors.

       Both campaigns are scheduled to run from July 1 to Dec 31, 2021. A series of webinars would be organised with key e-commerce players such as Touch N ‘Go, Boost, Beep and others to facilitate and guide the businesses to transition to online. — Bernama