{"id":8292,"date":"2021-06-04T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdec.com.my\/web\/?p=8292"},"modified":"2021-06-25T16:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T08:52:19","slug":"sarawak-digital-mall-on-e-commerce-platform-shopee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdec.com.my\/web\/2021\/06\/04\/sarawak-digital-mall-on-e-commerce-platform-shopee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarawak Digital Mall on e-commerce platform Shopee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>KUCHING:<\/strong>&nbsp;The Sarawak Digital Economy Corporation Berhad (SDEC), together with the Sarawak Economic Planning Unit (EPU), will launch the \u2018Sarawak Digital Mall\u2019 campaign with e-Commerce platform Shopee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SDEC chief executive officer Sudarnoto Osman highlighted the importance of entrepreneurs to start taking their businesses online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSDEC is a government-owned agency mandated to implement the Sarawak Digital Economy initiatives and among its stakeholder segments is Digital Business, where digitalisation of Sarawakian entrepreneurs is the key focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn this age of technology, everyone prefers to do things through mobile phones or computers and by embracing digitalisation, it opens up bigger opportunities to these sellers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudarnoto also remarked that this collaboration would foster digital adoption among Sarawakian SMEs, which is a crucial step, especially given the region\u2019s mounting Covid-19 cases, which have brought practically every industry to a halt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith the discount vouchers provided in this campaign, Sarawakian merchants will be able to sell their local products at a more competitive value within the wider Malaysian and regional market, without the significant shipping fee as a barrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMoreover, Shopee will assist in the onboarding of many more local vendors, as well as giving entrepreneurship classes through Shopee University, a free online training programme available in Bahasa Malaysia, English, and Chinese.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Shopee regional managing director Ian Ho said: \u201cWe are always striving to empower small businesses, especially those who lack access to tech platforms and the potential they could harness just by going online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are erasing geographical boundaries between these sellers and customers by collaborating with the Sarawak state government, allowing access to goods such as bario rice,&nbsp;<em>gula apong<\/em>, salted&nbsp;<em>terubuk&nbsp;<\/em>fish, and many more to those in the Peninsular, as we follow through on our mission to make e-Commerce for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey can also use the SDEC certificates, and Shopee will help them even more by offering free shipping, especially during the 6.6 Awesome Sale.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:<a href=\" https:\/\/www.rakansarawak.com\/v3\/2021\/04\/08\/mysrbn-akan-diteruskan-di-seluruh-kawasan-pedalaman-sarawak\/\">https:\/\/www.newsarawaktribune.com.my\/sarawak-digital-mall-on-e-commerce-platform-shopee\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUCHING:&nbsp;The Sarawak Digital Economy Corporation Berhad (SDEC), together with the Sarawak Economic Planning Unit (EPU), will launch the \u2018Sarawak Digital Mall\u2019 campaign with e-Commerce platform Shopee. SDEC chief executive officer Sudarnoto Osman highlighted the importance of entrepreneurs to start taking their businesses online. \u201cSDEC is a government-owned agency mandated to implement the Sarawak Digital Economy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdec.com.my\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdec.com.my\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdec.com.my\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdec.com.my\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdec.com.my\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdec.com.my\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8357,"href":"https:\/\/sdec.com.my\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions\/8357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdec.com.my\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdec.com.my\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdec.com.my\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdec.com.my\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}