E-rezeki by MDEC

by MOHAMAD AFIF MAKARIM

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Executive Summary

         This report contains information about Global Online Workforce (GLOW), how GLOW affects Malaysia and  benefits about GLOW also it is about how to earn more income via online platform. GLOW will train Malaysians on how to be a experienced freelancer, by following GLOW program,participants will be able to learn how to become freelancer. This report inform about basic introduction and basic information about Global Online Workforce (GLOW).

Introduction

          Global Online Workforce (GLOW), GLOW is a programm that provides a safe and trustworthy source of income. The main purpose of this programm is to coach, mentor and nurture full time crowd workers that are able to consistently earn a stable digital income. The training was organised by the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) in collaboration with UMS. This training program was aimed to train the participants with the knowledge and skills about working online through global crowd sourcing platforms. Global Online Workforce (GLOW) is an initiative by MDEC, which aims to create a community of competitive digital workers among Malaysians who can earn jobs or projects from global crowd sourcing platforms, in order to generate alternative incomes.This program also provides support programs, mentorship and coaching to Malaysian freelancers.

Contents

  • Benefits from Global Online Workforce (GLOW)

          GLOW is a program to assist to leverage on crowdsourcing platforms to generate digital revenue constantly and on a full time basis. Crowd sourcing represents the future in how jobs, projects and work are offered and taken up via online platforms, There are benefits from this program.

          The first benefits is to create a community of full time high quality crowd workers among Malaysia citizen. Because of this program employer can seek for high quality crowd workers or freelancers from this community.

          The second benefits is to provide Malaysia citizen an income source via online platforms. Malaysians can get extra income source from this program including students, unemployed, housewives, retirees and senior citizens.

           The third benefits is to Develop a support program for Malaysian freelancers to be always motivated, driven and committed in earn income from online platform or called digital income via crowdsourcing platforms.

           The last benefits is Experienced freelancers / crowd workers can improve their earnings through this program and can open their opportunity to get hired with higher payments via online platform.

And there are reasons why we should participate to this program:

  1. Various incentives offered to qualified individual
  2. Opportunities to generate a full time stable and consistent digital income monthly.
  3. Flexibility to execute and deliver the digital works anytime, anywhere.
  4. Helps individual to become disciplined and independent workers by having to complete the digital works within a stipulated timelines and requirements by employers.
  5. Generate digital income based on individual capability.
  6. Opportunities to start a business for digital works to increase digital income monthly.
  •   MDEC attempt to get Malaysia citizen to join the program, kind of participants and criteria for participants

Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) is the lead agency in driving the digital economy in Malaysia. MDEC role is to build a vibrant digital economy and ensure that Malaysia plays a leading part in the global digital revolution.

MDEC’s implementations and efforts are centered on building awareness on digital economy, creating credible talents for the industry, and encouraging digital technology adoption among the Malaysia citizen and businesses. MDEC is also the agency entrusted to nurture the growth of the technology industry in Malaysia including the Small and Medium Enterprises. Mostly MDEC attempt to persuade Malaysians to join Global Online Workforce(GLOW) through a college seminar

Global Online Workforce(GLOW) was made for many kinds of participants, There are few participants that are able to follow or join this program :

  1. Experienced freelancers, under-employed, students, housewives, retirees and senior citizens
  2. Registered individuals in employment programs by ministries, government agencies and at state level.
  3. Unemployed graduates and retrenched workers with the commitment to become crowd workers.
  4. Committed individuals aspiring to be crowd workers with qualifications and capabilities in various disciplines such as ICT, creative and design, languages and others.

 

There are also selection criteria for participants :

  1. Specialized skills sets in IT (programming, website development, mobile apps development etc), creative design (graphic design, multimedia etc) and linguistics (translation, transcription ,etc. In foreign languages eg. Mandarin, Arabic, French etc).
  2. Proof of specialized skills set (portfolio / resume / certifications / work assignments).
  3. Commitment to participate in the full time intensive training for 3 months at the E-rezeki Apprentice Centers.
  4. Commitment to become active digital workers able to consistently generate a minimum digital income of USD500 / RM2,150 monthly..
  5. English language proficiency to develop work proposals and interact with international employers.
  • Global Online Workforce (GLOW) impact to Malaysia

Global Online Workforce (GLOW) are giving a lot of advantages to Malaysia economy, there are reasons why GLOW implemented in Malaysia :

   The first one is technological revolution, technological revolution are a set of broader megatrends which will disrupt the way people work and live. These include urbanisation and demographic shifts such as an increasingly ageing population, an expanding pool of untapped women talent, and the entry of digital natives into the workforce.

   The second is high youth and fresh graduate unemployment in Malaysia, unemployment become a concerning issue in most of the countries especially in Malaysia. A key reason is the slower hiring compared to the number of job seekers. The slower pace of hiring is due to cautious business sentiments and a moderate economic performance that restrains businesses from expanding their workforce. The alarming rise in youth and fresh graduate unemployment and the equally disturbing high number of young people who still live in poverty despite having a job shows how difficult it is to reduce unemployment, unless strong efforts are being made to achieve sustainable economic growth.

      The third is amount of employer seeking for experienced workers, these days most employers seek experienced workers and mostly it is hard to find experienced workers these days. This means that the fresh graduates are ignored. This makes it a competitive field for fresh graduates. This are the reason why GLOW is implemented in Malaysia.

            Another reason is to eradicating unemployment in Malaysia, by implementing Global Online Workforce , Malaysians will have a opportunity to access to a  employer easily. By following the program they will be educated on how to find a job via online platform, and GLOW will give comprehensive training and training modules by MDEC strategic partners, experienced subject experts and specialist trainers. Exercises are hands-on. Hard skills are, however, not included in the training sessions.

Reflection

          On 24th September 2018, MDEC sent Nor Ashikin to give a seminar about Global Online Workforce (GLOW) at Dewan Seminar N28 (Faculty of Computing) UTM Johor Bahru. At the seminar she talked about how to earn money from online platform, such as e-commerce, Freelancing and many more, but the main thing she wants to inform us was about was about freelancing. There are many advantages of freelancing and e-commerce, but the main advantages is we don’t have to spend extra energy to go to work and extra money on transport in order to gain money, because we can earn that by staying at home and only on out personal devices such as laptop, PC, handphone. Students can also provides to this program or getting involve into this program to become freelancers, that’s also the advantage of freelancing. This is the reason I become fascinated, because we can apply a job, work and earn money by just staying at our home even when we are on our vacation we can still work and earn money by become freelancers. And from Nor Ashikin that earn more than 150.000 MYR even now she is working on a project where she gets more than 500 USD per month.     

      However, freelancing requires an advance skills also. There are simple task to apply but the payment also not big enough. For a high payment we have to gain advantage by using our skills to apply for job. Usually freelancer use an app , what I get from the seminar is freelancer.com they said this is the most common freelancer used to apply for a job because there a tons of employer at freelancer.com.

            GLOW really gain advantage by the current issue in Malaysia, because there are lot of unemployment in Malaysia and that issue really concerning for Malaysians. GLOW lead Malaysians to the new era of applying for a job and gain income, sometimes people make freelancing as their main source of income. And I think freelancing will be the most popular profession in the future, and I am glad that GLOW introduce me to freelancing even I didn’t follow GLOW program. By giving seminar to college student will help reducing unemployment for fresh graduates. Hopefully Global Online Workforce(GLOW) will open more opportunity to international not only for malaysians .

Updated on 17 December 2018, 5:26 PM; 997 page visits from 15 December 2018 to 9 April 2026