MCMC creates MEDi to spur large-scale national digitalization

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has created the Mercu Ekonomi Digital (MEDi) in an effort to encourage more entrepreneurs to venture into fields related to the digital economy on a large scale.

马来西亚通信和多媒体委员会（MCMC）创建了Mercu Ekonomi Digital（MEDi），以鼓励更多企业家大规模涉足与数字经济相关的领域。

Communications and Multimedia Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa said this initiative was done to enable more entrepreneurs, especially the younger ones, to expand their businesses digitally so as to display their products more effectively and competitively.

通信和多媒体部长Tan Sri Annuar Musa表示，这一举措旨在使更多的企业家，特别是年轻的企业家，能够以数字方式扩展业务，以便更有效，更有竞争力地展示他们的产品。

"The MEDi is focused on efforts to give more emphasis to entrepreneurs in digital economy-based businesses, in terms of product marketing such as branding, packaging and so on.

“MEDi专注于在数字经济型企业中更加重视企业家，在品牌，包装等产品营销方面。

"So, entrepreneurs who are involved can grow their businesses not just focused on training alone but on a larger and more comprehensive scale,” he said.

 “因此，参与其中的企业家不仅可以专注于培训，还可以在更大，更全面的规模上发展他们的业务，”他说。

Elaborating, Annuar said the allocation to develop the MEDi was estimated at RM3 million for each State and it is expected to be implemented as soon as possible.

Annuar表示，每个州开发MEDi的拨款估计为300万令吉，预计将尽快实施。

"However, I need to discuss with the State leaders to pick a suitable area as the location to develop the MEDi.

 “但是，我需要与国家领导人讨论，选择一个合适的地区作为开发MEDi的地点。

"In fact, for a start, the government will invest to develop MEDi and provide a 50% subsidy for three years’ operational costs and MEDi will be jointly developed with the private sector, whereby the private sector will fully manage MEDi from the fourth year,” he said.

“事实上，首先，政府将投资开发MEDi，并为三年的运营成本提供50%的补贴，MEDi将与私营部门共同开发，私营部门将从第四年开始全面管理MEDi，”他说。

He said the MEDi launch would be carried out soon and, once developed, other entrepreneurs could also adopt the idea to grow their businesses.

他说，MEDi的推出将很快进行，一旦开发出来，其他企业家也可以采用这个想法来发展他们的业务。