PENANG: Southeast Asia’s cloud, e-commerce and digital solutions provider, Exabytes, in conjunction with International Women’s Day 2021, launched ‘Women Entrepreneurship with Exabytes’, an initiative aims to highlight the capabilities of women and encourages entrepreneurship by providing a platform for women entrepreneurs in Malaysia and Singapore to turn their business ideas into reality.
The societal expectation of women to be homemakers leave many at a disadvantage to seek work. In the second quarter of 2019, Malaysia’s labour force was represented by 39.1 per cent female (6.11 million) based on data released by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).
This year’s International Women’s Day theme, #ChooseToChallenge seems most fitting to the challenges women face in pursuing their dreams.
For the initiative, Exabytes will be sponsoring a total amounting of RM350,000 and SG$350,000 respectively in the form of products and services for this initiative.
With 20 years of experience powering over 160,000 businesses worldwide to grow online, the company is set on its mission to showcase the talents and creativities of women and 100 selected women entrepreneurs will either receive free websites or online store set-up.
These chosen entrepreneurs will be given an opportunity to not only create an online presence for their businesses, but help them reach a wider audience to increase their sales.
“Over the past year, the acceleration of digital adoption and shift to e-commerce has allowed for the creation of many new entrepreneurs. e-commerce platforms give everyone an equal chance to attain better livelihoods for themselves, and that is what we want to achieve with ‘Women Entrepreneurship with Exabytes’.
“Through our years of experience digitalising SMEs, we have seen how simply setting up an online store or website immediately kickstarts entrepreneurial journeys,” said Exabytes’ founder and chief executive officer, Chan Kee Siak.
The ‘Women Entrepreneurship with Exabytes’ is an excellent initiative to show women that they can be the wives and mothers they want to be while also being the business owners they want to be.
Chan added, “Through this initiative, Exabytes is dedicated to empower and nurture women entrepreneurs in their journeys of building their very own businesses. We have experienced the successes of women who manage their families and businesses at the same time and we wish to expand this possibility to more women. It is also important that the financial security and independence of women, especially those who are homemakers, are boosted and improved with the initiative.”
Women Entrepreneurship will run throughout March 2021 and is open to any woman entrepreneur in Malaysia or Singapore who has a registered business.
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NST