HUAWEI ICT COMPETITION 2022-2023 GLOBAL FINAL CONCLUDE IN SHENZHEN

Huawei ICT Competition 2022–2023 Global Final Closing and Awarding Ceremony (Photo: Huawei)

KUALA LUMPUR, May 30 (Bernama) -- The Huawei ICT Competition 2022-2023 Global Final concluded in Shenzhen, on May 27, drawing to a close the seventh installment of this competition.

First held in person since 2019, the event’s culmination was a competition between finalists in 146 teams from 36 countries with over 120,000 students from more than 2,000 universities in 74 countries and regions worldwide took part, before the Final.

As a key project of Huawei's Seeds for the Future 2.0 initiative, the Huawei ICT Competition aims to provide a platform for global college students to compete and communicate with each other in the information and communications technology (ICT) field.

“Digital talent and digital skills will be the foundation for the digital economy development. In the future, Huawei will bring ICT education resources to more schools around the world.

“We are projected to build 7,000 Huawei ICT Academies in total by 2026, train more than one million students every year, greatly improving students' digital literacy and skills for a more dynamic and inclusive digital world,” said Huawei Enterprise Business Group President of Global Partner Development and Sales Dept, Xiao Haijun in a statement.

The Network Track Grand Prize was won by teams from Shenzhen Polytechnic, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guangzhou College of Commerce, Yangtze Normal University, and Hunan Industry Polytechnic.

Concurrently, teams from Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Shenzhen Polytechnic, and Nanning College for Vocational Technology won the Cloud Track Grand Prize, while the team of Shenzhen Polytechnic won the Computing Track Grand Prize.

Teams of Jilin University and Ahmadu Bello University took home the Grand Prize of the innovation competition; the imin team from Tsinghua University won the Smart Road Grand Prize; and the Jsgroup from Xi'an Jiaotong University won the Electric Power Digitalization Grand Prize.

As of 2022-end, Huawei has cooperated with 2,200 universities to build Huawei ICT Academies, helping to train more than 200,000 students each year.

-- BERNAMA