Datasonic Group Berhad Annual Report 2021

DATASONIC GROUP BERHAD 20 The most important asset of Datasonic is our people, which has been driving the Group’s growth throughout our history. Therefore, we place great significance on our talents and continue to invest in human capital development activities during this pandemic to continuously cultivate them in order to strengthen our competitive advantages. In FY2021, we conducted most of our training and development activities virtually; focusing on upskilling as well as corporate governance training. Furthermore, our talent is also pivotal to our R&D whereby we are very proud to share that most of our systems and solutions were developed in-house by our exceptionally skilled R&D team. Concurrently, on our R&D segments, we intensified our emphasis on digitalisation during FY2021, in tandem with its rising importance to develop innovative integrated digital systems and solutions. To maintain our position as the preferred solutions provider, we have channelled our efforts on the design architecture including the revamp of our existing processes and procedures to adapt to the changing needs and demands of digitalisation in support of the Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint (“MyDIGITAL”) as introduced by the Government. Datasonic promotes health and well-being, sustainable economic growth and responsible consumption and production. Our sustainability initiatives deliver long- term value to all stakeholders such as shareholders, employees, customers and suppliers. These broad efforts benefit our organisation as well as the local and national communities in which we operate. High environmental, social and corporate governance (“ESG”) standards are important building blocks for a long-term sustainable business. We are in the process of establishing new internal guidelines to improve our ESG initiatives and compliance levels. During the year, we held a three-week donation drive to raise money for flood victims in Malaysia. The money was handed to MERCY Malaysia’s Flood Relief Fund for the purchase of hygiene kits and food packs for those affected. For more detailed elaboration of our sustainability initiatives, please refer to the Sustainability Statement of this Annual Report. SUSTAINABILITY AGENDA CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (“R&D”) HUMAN CAPITAL SKILL ROLE PEOPLE