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As part of building a Smart Talent Ecosystem, the Chinese multinational technology corporation Huawei Technologies Co, has planned to develop 50,000 ICT talents in the next five-year in South Asia.
The strategy will include various programmes including building ICT academies, different ICT and startup competitions, online course enrollment, and fresh employee recruitment, said a press release.
The tech giant came up with the announcement at a virtual event titled ‘Building a Smart Talent Ecosystem, in South Asia, for South Asia’ held at its South Asian representative office on Monday.
The event was attended by journalists and Huawei officials from South Asia countries while Huawei Bangladesh Country Director and South Asia Public Relations Department Yuying Karl shared the insight and plans.
Recently, Huawei has formed its South Asia representative office in Dhaka, involving Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, and Bangladesh itself. This segment will be a sub-region of Huawei Asia Pacific region.
The main purpose of establishing this sub-region is to support the region with more attention and create better value for the customers, partners, ecosystem, as well as society with the inspiration ‘In South Asia, For South Asia’.
Among all key strategies, Huawei has always emphasised talent development since it believes in local empowerment and collaborative success. With that focus, Huawei has developed more than 6,000 ICT talents last year in South Asia. And now this company has a plan to develop 50,000 new ICT talents by the next five years.
‘Seeds For The Future’ is Huawei’s flagship programme for undergraduate students, which is organised for the last several years in the countries of Huawei South Asia. Apart from that, Huawei organises ICT incubators from startups facilitating them with seed money, technology, and guidance support. It also organises special programmes for women in the ICT field.
Huawei has also developed Huawei South Asia Academy, connecting stakeholders like government technical officers, telco operators, academicians, CSE/EEE students, and overall ecosystem partners. The worldwide business case scenarios of the latest ICT innovations, engineering courses, solutions, and so on that Huawei has got with its significant investment in research and development for more than 30 years will be showcased here.
ICT Academies are being constructed with different engineering universities in South Asia so that students can enrol for their desired programmes and achieve globally accepted certificates.
Yuying said, “Three things have been very important to Huawei-supporting the industry with cutting-edge technology and infrastructure, sustainable development and cultivating ICT talents”.
“Huawei is one of the leading companies that invested significantly in research and development. That helps us to provide the best technology to the ecosystem partners so that we can grow together. Besides, countries that have adopted digital strategy recently will largely depend on skilled youth. Huawei, as a responsible partner of ICT development, has a fixed solid plan for talent development.”
“By the end of 2022, we established Huawei ICT Academies with more than 2,200 universities across the globe. Through this programme, we train an average of more than 200,000 students each year”, he added.
