Huawei plans to develop fifty thousand ICT talents in South Asia in the next five years. The strategy will include various programs like building ICT academies, different ICT and startup competitions, online course enrollment, fresh employee recruitment, etc. The announcement has come in an event titled ‘Building a Smart Talent Ecosystem, In South Asia, For south Asia’ held today at its representative office of South Asia.
The event today has been attended by journalists and Huawei officials from Huawei South Asia countries.
Yuying Karl, Bangladesh Country Director, South Asia Public Relations Department, shared the insight and plan at the event.
Recently Huawei has formed its South Asia representative office in Dhaka, Bangladesh, invol
ving 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 emphasized 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 the plan to develop 50,000 new ICT talents by next five year.
Seeds For The Future is Huawei’s flagship program for undergraduate students that being organized for last several years in the countries of Huawei South Asia.
Apart from that, Huawei organizes ICT Incubator from startups facilitating them with seed money, technology, and guidance support. It also organizes special programs for women in the ICT field.
