NAIROBI, Kenya, May 21 – A total of 18 Kenyan students have left the country for China to participate in this year’s Huawei ICT Competition Global Final in Beijing.
The challenge attracted more than 120,000 students from 2,000 universities and colleges in 74 countries and regions worldwide.
Six teams will be competing at the global final in the cloud, computing, and network tracks.
Similarly, each team will be accompanied by one lecturer from their university who has been helping prepare the students for the final, along with Huawei experts.
The ICT Competition first began in 2015 as a collaborative effort under the Huawei ICT Academy, an initiative that partners with more than 50 tertiary education institutes to enrich the ICT talent pool, grow the ICT industry, and ultimately.
“I want to congratulate Huawei for the advanced technology and being a champion of innovation all across Africa. He mentioned that he has been to Huawei Headquarters in China while he was Foreign Affairs Minister and he was impressed by the technology and work being done at the Huawei Campus,” National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula said while seeing off the students.
In Kenya, Huawei has set up ICT Academies in over 50 universities and vocational colleges to provide access to the latest technology training in networking, cloud computing, 5G, and AI, annually training over 4,000 students.
“The talent ecosystem is the foundation of our business strategy. Talent is the most important factor to ensure the vitality and continuous growth of the industry,” Gavin Gao said.
“Huawei has made many efforts to train Kenyan ICT talent by sharing our knowledge and best practices. We team up with educational institutions, industry associations, and partners to build a platform to foster ICT talent ecosystem.”
By Alvin Agufana
