KOTO ASSOCIATION

KOTO Association strives to solve the problem of unemployment and poverty traps caused by i) education without the relevant employable skills, ii) discrimination, inequality and inequity, iii) lack of employability and iv) lack of financial inclusion.

The global unemployment and poverty rate is 5.8% and  9.2% which is 208 million and 719 million respectively.

The KOTO Association logo features the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) wheel, with six of the seventeen wedges highlighted to underline the KOTO Association's goal of:

1. Zero Poverty

2. Zero Hunger

3. Quality Education

4. Gender Equality

5. Decent Work and Economic Growth

6. Reduced Inequalities

KOTO Association is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ community driven platform for Upskilling, Job Matching and Financial Inclusion.

KOTO is an acronym that stands for "Know One, Teach One." This innovative web-based platform is attempting to onboard three distinct groups of people: course providers, learners/students, and companies/employers.

Our proprietary AI algorithms will help to analyse and predict the skills requirement in order to solve the inefficiencies in the labour market as well as to offer skills for students to learn. Our AI Algorithm also analyses and predicts future skills required for companies, private and public organisations for recruitment purposes as well as to produce the best talent pools. This will enable an AI ‘Automatic Job Matching’ where people can be employed anytime and anywhere to match employers with possible employees with desired skills. This is to tackle Malaysia's structural and frictional unemployment issues.

KOTO Association is matching with three groups of different entities which are students, course providers and employers.

KOTO Association segments a market by providing membership signup opportunities to over 24 million of Malaysian and Nigerian student population and gig workers.

KOTO Association’s main goal is to help people live in a more up-to-date data driven technology, so that is the main reason why we are targeting any market in general, but there are specific reasons we will tailor content to our different market segments.

• Students/ Learners: They usually have a low-level of income so we are not counting on this market to provide us revenue in the way of product sales, but we are targeting students because of the importance that they become educated and valuable to the society

• Course Providers: This is our largest market and our true target for generating revenue. They have the highest possibility and are the most likely to sell their courses that they are providing to learners.

• Employers: They most likely have to look for any eligible candidates that meet the job requirements and are able to perform tasks as listed in the job description. The most important thing is employers get educated workers with relevant employable skills.

KOTO Association founders are Edwin Loh who has 25 years of experience in venture building, a serial entrepreneur and the founder of The Xpress Train and Steve Edwards, over 22 years experienced and seasoned entrepreneur.

MIYAVI LIN is the Chief Technology Officer with over 10 years in software development. He leads the team to develop the KOTO platform.

Learners - 1000

Course Providers - 25

Employers - 50

Collaboration is key to the progress of the organisation and we will appreciate all support available to move our product to the next level.

Funding is critical and will be ready to access it for further improvement of our platform, content development and marketing.

To also take advantage of SOLVE networks to scale the product across borders.

• We are a learning and job placement platform with the aim to upskill, job matching and financial inclusion. KOTO  Association - a community of collaborative learners

• Machine learning and artificial intelligence to match people with training.

• Online and offline platform where members learn new knowledge & skills then teach & train others.

• AI analyses and predicts the skills gap of companies.

• AI to match jobs with unskilled workers. Learn employable skills anytime from anywhere. Be employed anytime from anywhere.

• Our customers will choose us over competing platforms because of the AI technology inclusion on KOTO platform. We have analysed other platforms and realised that none will have the easy navigation tools to enable the user to spend little time and achieve much.
• Regular live streaming workshops and video.
• Free Webinars, Knowledge & Experience Sharing
• 3 categories:

        KOTO Venture Building

        KOTO Makers’

        KOTO Sports

• Upskilling and talent development helps build Johor's new economy:

 New Services:

        Virtual Conferences/online events

        Digital Economy (e-commerce, digital marketing, coding)

New Manufacturing:

        AI Vision QC inspection & Robotics (IR 4.0)

        Blockchain Academy

New craftsmen:

        Agrotechnology

       Makers' Schools

Our members get remote job and paid in hard currency to avoid brain drain and increase FDI

KOTO Association focus is to sustain workforce transformation and expert skilling. The platform will give uninterrupted and continuous learning and development. With the help of Deep Tech Training programs, it will deliver highly engaging, immersive learning experiences that ensure learning agility. In addition, our strategy has a variety of training delivery models that range from Instructor-Led Training, Virtual Instructor-Led Training, Self-Paced Learning to Hybrid Learning. There are more than 2,000 industry-led professional courses to choose from and customized training solutions that meet your organisations’ future skills requirement. Those who join our platform will get lots of platform advantages as we are industrial relation 4.0 ready.

The platform will be the talent pool to attract various category of industry to choose from. The platform will supply local and international talent needs for full-time, part-time and remote employee.

The financial inclusion feature will support all remote, gig economy and part-time workers to be financially inclusive

1. The number of learners subscribe to our upskilling programmes.

2. Number of subscribers to purchase courses on the platform

3. The number of employee that are matched with jobs on the platform

4. The number of course providers that listed courses and the number of courses listed

The theory of change is to bring world class education, skills and knowledge to a platform to achieve a grand vision of reducing unemployment, alleviating poverty, eradicating inequality/inequity and enhancing financial inclusion by:

1. Identifying and connect learners and teachers for necessary upskilling and talent development.

2. Matching employers with possible employees with desired skills.

3. Predicting future skills requirements for employers.

4. Reducing the problem of unemployment and poverty trap due to

- Education without the relevant employable skills

- Discrimination, inequality and inequity

- Lack of employability

- Lack of financial inclusion

 Artificial Intelligence is the core technology that powers the platform and make our customers to choose us over competing platforms.

• Machine learning and artificial intelligence to match people with training.

• Online and offline platform where members learn new knowledge & skills then teach & train others.

• AI analyses and predicts the skills gap of companies.

• AI to match jobs with unskilled workers. 

1. There are more female working on the project than male

2. The platform can be accessed by all and be beneficial to all from different ethnic, cultural or religious background

3. It is obvious that diversity, equity, and inclusion is a continuous process and as an organisation, we will ensure a continuous improvement on status quo

We make money from:

1. SaaS for Companies/Employers

2. Upskilling Workshop 

3. Advertising Fees

4. Commission from Courses

5. Commission from Job Matching

6. Students Subscription

The key to sales at KOTO Association is to develop a level of trust with our visitors through our content. We must convince them we are knowledgeable, have their best interests in mind, and that we recommend people to be a KOTO Association member and enjoy benefits over $6,000 for only $9. All benefits are included with discounts to a good number of free workshop videos and many free webinars. By joining as our member, they will get to upskill themself, increase employability, earn more in less time and become financially included. We provide free newsletters worth $500, educational articles to members to improve networking with like minds.

Another aspect of trust and the products is that we must recommend high-quality courses and programs that meet the needs and satisfy the learners. If we recommend bad products, they will lose trust in us and the products we recommend. We must avoid this at all costs.

We stand in-between the industry and the government policy to reduce unemployment and poverty trap that is caused by the pandemic and lack of skill set required by the industries. We create a platform which is the meeting point for employers to list the skill sets needed and trained workers in relevant skills are matched. The government with their various interventions have a platform to play with with great incentive to the learner and the employers of labour.

We intend to raise money through government upskilling grants and raising investment capital also.

We have private public sector collaboration with a good number of Government Linked Companies in Malaysia.

We have got 6 government upskilling scholarship worth USD500,000

We have collaborated with manufacturing association with 500 members to list their job vacancies advertisement.