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Moving forward, the collaboration between Alibaba Business School and Malaysia has spawned two other components in the pipeline.

One is a government workshop called the Economy Workshop where the school plans to bring government officials to Hangzhou to learn the role the government has to play in nurturing the development of ecommerce and how ecosystems can help the government provide better access to job and wealth creations and opportunities.

The other programme which will be launched at the end of this month is the EFounders Fellowship programme. The twoweek programme will gather top entrepreneurs from Southeast Asia who are building e-commerce infrastructures in their own countries, and expose them to ecommerce innovations from China and around the world that has enabled growth and deemed successful.

“There are lots of opportunities to build the infrastructure of the Malaysian economy and we hope local businesses will get started on it. We want to share our experience and provide some elements to consider as opposed to you doing it from scratch or in the dark,” Wong said.

For students, Wong’s advice is to enquire among universities if they provide ecommerce programmes as Alibaba Business School will continue to work with local universities to offer Alibaba training programmes and facilitate certification.

These programmes will teach individuals to use specific e-commerce platforms so much so, on graduation students have an edge in finding employment because they have the required expertise to operate ecommerce platforms.