Huawei launches ICT competitions, awards global champs 

Vice President Jessica Alupo has launched the 2023 – 2024 Huawei ICT competitions and also awarded the outstanding Ugandans that took second position at last year’s global Huawei ICT competitions.

With a series of talent development campaigns, including the ICT competition, Huawei hopes to skill more than 700,000 ICT professionals by end of 2023. The aim is to bridge the ICT talent gap, increase academia-industry communication, and advance the digital transformation of industries.

In the 2022-2023 Huawei ICT competitions, Uganda emerged in second position globally, which rose the Ugandan flag up high. At the event in Katakwi on October 3, Alupo awarded this group of young Ugandans for their outstanding efforts to excel and put the name of Uganda among the top-performing countries in ICT.

She congratulated the outstanding students for positioning Uganda’s name high in the ICT competitions. She encouraged more Ugandans to take part in such competitions because through such competitions, some outstanding students are now being employed by Huawei and others in other good entities.

Gao Jian, the deputy managing director, Huawei Uganda, in his speech explained that “Huawei ICT competition is an international competition and exchange platform aimed at providing students with a platform to compete healthily and exchange ideas, thus enhancing their ICT knowledge and practical skills as well as increasing their ability to innovate by using new technologies and platforms.”

Gao concluded by expressing his gratitude to the government, all partners and the people of Uganda for all their support towards the drive of narrowing the digital divide in Uganda.

“Let us all join hands to have a fully connected and intelligent world through use of the latest emerging technologies. We trust that once we have a better you, we will all have a better Uganda.”