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2014 MCCC-AEET GREEN AWARD
MALAYSIA’S Alwin Long
Su Wen emerged first
runnerup in the annual
2014 Malaysia-China
Chamber of Commerce
(MCCC) and Asean Academy of
Engineering And Technology (AEET)
Green Award held on Nov 24 in Kuala
Lumpur.
The winner was Brunei’s Queenie
Chong Chin Yee, while the second runnerup
was Ophath Sengmany of Laos.
Alwin is Founder &CEO/CTO of
ATECH Malaysia.
Queenie is an Education Officer with
Brunei’s Ministry of Education.
MCCC and AAET have collaborated
since 2011 to further promote the
green growth concept in among Asean
members by initiating the annual
MCCC-AAET Green Award.
The joint efforts are to achieve their
goals to promote the business and
technology communities in achieving
inclusive and sustainable socio-economic
development and also promoting
the development of innovative products
or solutions that meet the goals of environmental
sustainability.
Also the Green Award emphasises
that the inculcation of green awareness
must be started from a younger age
and for the younger generation to play a
leading role in green activities.
At the same time, the Green Award
is also to recognise outstanding young
green technopreneurs and young
contributors to the Green Growth in the
Asean region.
The participants were judged based
on three main components:
Extensive business and technology
network
By leveraging on the extensive network
of both MCC and AAET, the green messages
are effectively promoted to the
ASEAN communities in every member
states, including the less developed
CLMV countries.
Comprehensiveness and inclusiveness
The Award promotes and recognises
Alwin (kneeling, left) with other winners and participants pose with MCCC and AEET officials
Alwin does
Malaysia proud
He specialises in R&D and commercialisation for
low carbon building materials and sustainable living
concepts for rural communities
contribution from a wide range of green
workers, among them are scientists,
engineers, researchers, government
officers, entrepreneurs, journalists and
NGO members.
Continuous action
The Green Ambassadors will visit
ASEAN member countries to promote
green concept and environmental sustainability
to the young people.
The Green Award has became an
effective platform to connect green
workers, scientists, researchers and
technopreneurs of Asean countries for
further deliberation on the sustainable
development of the region.
Simultaneously, the joint project
between MCCC and AEET has also
created a replicable model for the science,
technology and innovation (STI)
and industry linkages in achieving a
greener and sustainable development
in Asean and other regions, particularly
among South-South countries.
The other country winners were:
Dr Seng Bunrith (Cambodia), Wai Wai
Hlaing (Myanmar), Kristine Rodulfo
Tolod (Philippines), Mark Cheng Jin
Quan (Singapore) and Do Huu Dao
(Vietnam).
A Certificate of Merit was
awarded to Thailand’s Nuttapong
Phadungpattanapong.
About
Alwin
Alwin is Founder &CEO/CTO of ATECH
Malaysia.
He specialises in R&D and commercialization
for low carbon building
materials and sustainable living concepts
for rural communities.
His major project entitled “SLIM”
(Sustainable Living In Malaysia),
which is in partnership with a university
and Technology Park Malaysia
(TPM) is to develop a sustainable
living environment for rural areas.
Alwin is also a service provider
who develops green business
models and training programmes on
sustainable technical workforce for
MNCs.
He is also actively advocating
green concepts and green entrepreneurship
through various camps,
conferences, lectures, training and
NGO activities.
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