AwanBiru Technology Berhad - Annual Report 2021

Our Progress So Far: Sabah State Government are among the early adopters of our online learning platform, which has enabled 1,500 of their senior officers to upskill themselves despite the pandemic. Backed by our years of experience in training and certifying multitude of Malaysians, along with shared esprit de corps with our American online learning partner Skillsoft, we have consolidated our efforts to introduce online training for various organisations, sowing the seeds of digital learning across the nation in the financial year. This in turn, enabled us to address the current skill gaps which are widening with digitalisation, and empower Malaysian workforce with the much needed digital competencies for them to meet new job demands and capitalise on new opportunities, stemmed from digitalisation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (“ IR ”) 4.0. Further, to curb the spread of COVID-19 most of the Malaysian workforce had to adopt a new norm of working from home (“ WFH ”), thus rendering traditional training and certification approaches not viable. With talent development brought to a halt by the new normal, businesses and organisations are hard-pressed to find viable alternatives that are efficient and effective to equip their workforce with the required know-hows in successfully meeting the new market demands. Recorded 73,605 total training hours Trained and certified 29,745 individuals on various digital competencies Distributed more than 330,750 affordable software licenses Kementerian Pembangunan Luar Bandar is our latest subscriber of our online learning platform, enabling the ministry to impart the best in upskilling and reskilling its members to serve the people better. Sustainability | Awantec 53 Annual Report 2021