This year’s Sustainability Report, ‘Our Commitment to Development:
Towards a Digital Future’ is our second standalone report against
the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI – G4) guidelines. This report
continues the narrative from 2013 which introduced Axiata’s
approach to promoting sustainability within the Group.
The mobile telecommunications industry has moved from facilitating voice and short messaging services
(SMS) to a dynamic new digital platform where the services we support empower communities where we
operate. This report discusses the approach taken by the Group to create sustainable digital ecosystems
within each of our four sustainability pillars.
In this year’s report, we share our journey towards creating sustainable digital ecosystems by examining four
key aspects: the improvements we have engineered; the innovations we have seen; the investments we have
made; and the impact we have had.
This report discloses the developments in each of the pillars in four different aspects. They are:
•
Improvements
made to projects highlighted last year
•
Innovations
& new projects introduced this year
•
Investments
made for significant projects
•
Impact
of the key programmes and their developments from a socio economic
perspective
Notes:
Forward Looking Statements
This report contains forward looking statements characterised by the use of words and phrases such as
“might” “forecast” “anticipate”, “project”, “may”, “believe”, “predict”, “expect”, “continue”, “will”, “estimate”,
“target,” and other similar expressions. Our business operates in an ever-changing macro environment. As
such, our business is subject to uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those reflected in
the forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the expectations of the Group and may or may not
turn out as predicted.
Changes from the Previous Report
Our 2013 report scope did not include the passive infrastructure of our operations currently managed by
edotco, covering a network of over 13,000 sites in Malaysia, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Sri Lanka. This report
however, includes and discusses the impact of these operations and discloses sustainable measures taken
currently within edotco as well. This report examines Celcom’s performance in sustainability with more detail
as Celcom is located in Malaysia and wholly-owned by the Group.
About the
Report
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G4-23
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