Technological advancements have greatly been contributing to the betterment of human life. We can witness how building a carbon free economy, using advanced technologies, developing digital talent, and driving social sustainability are improving the quality of life. High-tech companies like Huawei are leading the charge to accelerate the journey toward digitalization, intelligent transformation, and low carbon emissions by increasing investment in talent, scientific research, and innovation to reshape its foundational technologies.
The journey of digitalization, intelligent transformation, and low carbon emissions enables the digital economy. A digital economy is, first and foremost, a green economy. Digital technologies qualify green development and play an indispensable role in addressing environmental challenges. Huawei focuses on leveraging its ICT strengths to enable the digital transformation of all industries and ultimately brings digital to every person, home, and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.
A foundation for a digital economy is well-developed ICT technologies. ICT technologies directly create value and drive immense indirect value by transforming other industries. ICT technologies can help improve organizational and social productivity, leading to even greater social benefits as they see wider adoption in the industrial, agricultural, financial, and transportation sectors, among others. Through our ICT technologies, we are committed to minimizing our environmental impact in manufacturing, operations, and over the entire lifecycles of our products and services. Innovative products and solutions help industries reduce their energy consumption and emissions and contribute to the circular economy. We are exploring applications of 5G tailored for over 20 industries and creating a safe working environment for mines, steel mills, machine industries, precision manufacturing, and others.
When ICT technologies expand and the digital economy grows, cyber security related issues will be questioned. Cyber security and privacy protection are a top priority at our company, and we continue to invest and remain transparent in both areas. We have launched the HiSec 3.0 solution, which supports intelligent analysis, dynamic detection, all-round defense, and intrinsic trustworthiness. With this solution, we provide customers with accurate, fast, and stable security defenses and help them build a resilient security network.
Digital skills and literacy are essential to the development and sustainability of the digital economy and also for a better understanding and utilization of ICT technology. To assure the viability of digitalization, Huawei is cultivating the talent ecosystem by designing various corporate social responsibility activities.
Since 2008, Huawei has launched or sponsored multiple talent development programs and competitions at the global, regional, and country levels, including scholarship programs, Seeds for the Future, Huawei ICT Academy, Huawei Developers Training, Huawei Cloud Developer Institute, Women in Tech, and Technology for Education (e.g., DigiSchool, DigiTruck, and SmartBus). We have already invested more than US $150 million in these programs as part of our commitment to local ICT talent development, and 1.54 million people from over 150 countries have benefited from them.
Huawei in Ethiopia. “In Ethiopia for Ethiopia”
Thanks to the Ethiopian people’s support, Huawei has been rooted in Ethiopia for more than 22 years. These years, more than 3700 jobs are offered, and 70% of them are local employees, and served more than 64 million people to be connected. We have been working in the Ethiopian telecom market for the past 10 years along with our partners. On May 9th,2022, 5G was successfully launched by Ethio Telecom and Huawei is honored to be the strategic partner to provide the state-of-the-art 5G solution to all Ethiopian people.
And we work tirelessly to create more employment and boost the economies of countries and regions by hiring locally, investing locally, procuring locally, and establishing research facilities locally.
Huawei’s business in Ethiopia is built on the principle of “In Ethiopia for Ethiopia.” Our company was recognized as a Top Employer 2022 in Ethiopia and Northern Africa by the Top Employers Institute in January. In addition, the Ministry of Revenue awarded the gold taxpayers’ medal in 2020 and 2021. We are grateful for the support of people from all walks of life.
Rather than focusing on business, we are also committed to participating in a variety of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, such as the well-known seeds for the future program, which has been running since 2017, and the UNESCO-Huawei open school projects, which were launched last year. We are also working to develop ICT talent in Ethiopia. We launched a talent development program through our Huawei talent online program; an ICT training center was established at Addis Ababa University, in which we invested more than US $2 million, with a capacity to train 2,000 students over three years. In addition, we established 42 Huawei ICT Academies in 42 private and public universities. Every year, a handshaking forum is held with the goal of promoting jobs to graduate students and others. And we have a long-standing commitment to train and certify new graduates and equip them with the latest trends in the industry like Datacom, Artificial Intelligence, Storage, LTE, Bigdata, Wireless LAN and others.
We will contribute more to this inspiring and thriving country in the future.
By Chen Mingliang
CEO, Huawei Technologies Ethiopia P.L.C.
The Ethiopian Herald 5 June 2022
