Huawei plans to establish a smart talent ecosystem in South Asia and develop 50000 ICT talents in the next five years. The strategy comprises building ICT institutes, ICT and startup competitions, online courses, employee recruitment, etc. The leading tech giant announced the plan at an event “Building Talent Ecosystem, in South Asia, for South Asia” on Monday at its representative office in South Asia.
The event had journalists and several Huawei officials from Huawei South Asia. Yuying Karl, Bangladesh country director, South Asia Public Relations Department, shared insights regarding the flagship plan.
Recently Huawei has established its South Asia representative office in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It will be a sub-region of Huawei Asia Pacific region. Establishing this sub-region will help 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’. The sub-region consists of a group of countries involving Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, and Bangladesh.
Huawei Plans to Develop 50000 ICT talents in South Asia
Among its key initiatives, Huawei has always stressed the development of digital talents. It believes in the upliftment of local digital empowerment and collaborative success. Already, Huawei has cultivated 6,000 ICT talent in 2022 in South Asia. The aim is now to develop fifty thousand ICT talents in the next five years.
Huawei conducts its annual Seeds for the Future program for undergraduate students in multiple countries in South Asia. Additionally, the ICT Incubator program facilitates startups with seed funds, technology, and guidance. In Nepal too, the company successfully conducted its second edition of the Seeds for the Future program in 2022.
Huawei has also established Huawei South Asia Academy which connects government, operators, academicians, CSE/EEE students, and overall ecosystem partners and other stakeholders. Huawei’s engagements with the latest ICT innovations, solutions, and technology over 30 years will be showcased here.
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Three Keys to Huawei Operations
Yuying shared, ‘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 program, we train an average of more than 200,000 students each year,’ he added.
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At the event, Yuying also shared that in 2022, Huawei drew in $93.5 billion in revenue and accumulated $5.2 billion in profits. In the meantime, Huawei made a massive scale of investment in its R&D, with an annual expenditure of $23.5 billion in 2022, which represented 25.1 percent of the company’s annual revenue. In the past ten years, the tech leader has invested a total of over $142.3 billion in its R&D.
