PLANET & SOCIETY
Our Commitment to Greener Operations
Our commitment to environmental sustainability remains a
key priority. We are committed to reducing the environmental
impact of our operations and to empowering society
through our activities. Our infrastructure company edotco
was launched in 2013 with a view to creating greener
digital networks. One of ‘edotco’s’ goals is to reduce
edotco Group’s carbon emissions by 40% by 2018. Whilst
this is a very challenging and aspirational goal. We
currently have several concurrent projects and field trials
ongoing with a view to achieving this. We will continue
further study, and identify, efforts and measures to
achieve this target.
One of these initiatives has already enabled us to manage
key operations of some of our towers remotely. We
have established the ‘Echo Centre’ in Malaysia which
looks into managing rural sites including tasks such as
regulating power consumption, managing cabin
temperature, and measuring fuel and battery capacity.
We plan to establish this system across the Group in the
coming years. As part of our green mandate, more than
200 towers of our network are currently run by
renewable energy sources.
Our Commitment to Society
Each of our operating companies champion key corporate
responsibility initiatives in the different countries in which
they operate. Education has always been a key focus
area of the Group. In Sri Lanka, more than 50,000
students benefited from having free access to the
educational channel ‘Nenesa’ whilst rural schools in
Bangladesh were able to access English learning
programmes through the English in School programme.
‘Nenesa’ was able to make use of Dialog TV to provide
high quality educational programmes to rural communities
across Sri Lanka.
Our Commitment to Disaster Preparedness
Our operating companies happen to be located in areas
that are prone to natural disasters. ‘Disaster Management
and Response’ has been identified as a priority area for
2015 and beyond. Developing participatory processes
that can respond to and mitigate the impact of disasters
is very much a part of this initiative. As part of our
commitment to the Humanitarian Connectivity Charter,
we are working closely with the GSMA to look at
industry-wide best practices that can be adopted before,
during, and after a disaster.
In Malaysia, Celcom was the most resilient network
during the recent floods on the East Coast of Malaysia.
A sum of RM1.2 million was spent to ensure that
customers had adequate support after the disaster. In Sri
Lanka, Dialog’s Disaster Early Warning Network (DEWN)
has set a new benchmark for disaster preparedness.
Our 2013 Sustainability Report was our first attempt to
benchmark our operations against world class reporting
standards indicating our commitment to development.
Over the past year, we have developed our reporting
process while encouraging our OpCos to publish
standalone reports for their respective markets.
This is our second report produced in accordance with
the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines, where we
discuss our management approach to sustainability and
document the achievements of our Group over the past
year. Axiata remains committed to enhancing its
sustainability processes, delivering high value to its
customers and other stakeholders, and to Advancing
Asia. We will pursue these goals with full commitment in
2015 and beyond.
DATO’ SRI JAMALUDIN IBRAHIM
Managing Director/President &
Group Chief Executive Officer
