#TECH: Maxis and MDEC collaborate to foster digital economy

Maxis and Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) are collaborating to promote corporate innovation among businesses in Malaysia, from startups or large corporations, to stimulate the ecosystem and spur the country’s digital economy.

The partnership was formalised with both parties signing a Memorandum of Understanding detailing the framework for its mutual cooperation.

Through the year-long collaboration, Maxis and MDEC will jointly develop mentorships and programmes to provide coaching to startups and corporates embarking on their digital transformation journeys.

Additionally, both parties will facilitate events and engagements that will foster a conducive environment for networking and collaboration between startups as well as larger corporations to generate business leads for the industry and accelerate corporate innovation.

“In this challenging and increasingly competitive business environment, we firmly believe that innovation will be a key success factor in re-evaluating business models and digital transformation strategies,” said Maxis’ chief executive officer, Gokhan Ogut.

“Our collaboration with MDEC is therefore an important one as it allows us to collectively provide the right tools, support, and resources, so that we can bring together the best of technologies to help businesses to always be ahead in a changing world. We look forward to exploring and co-creating initiatives to fuel corporate innovation in Malaysia,” he said.

Meanwhile, MDEC’s CEO Surina Shukri lauded Maxis’ proactive stance in supporting organisations to take the digital leap and heighten their readiness for IR4.0.

She further encouraged Malaysia-based MNCs to join the effort to build the nation’s digital ecosystem and support local digitally-empowered businesses to grow globally.

“Maxis possess market knowledge, resources, established networks, and the validation that all businesses aspire to attain; tech startups possess the agility and novel ideas that corporations value. MDEC aims to harness these complementary strengths, which will not only advance the nation’s digital agenda but potentially lead to the creation of deep-tech solutions in our backyard that could shape the way we solve the most pressing global issues,” said Surina.

As the first of their joint initiatives, Maxis and MDEC will be launching a digital Design Thinking workshop for MDEC’s corporate partners in October. The two-week workshop aims to promote the use of Design Thinking as a methodology to deeply understand problem statements of companies and challenge assumptions in an attempt to solve them in a creative and innovative way.

Source: NST