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Steven Yi , President of Huawei Middle East and Central Asia , delivering the opening keynote at SAMENA Leaders ' Summit 2023
UDC extended its partnership with Huawei to deploy its smart campus system at the new UDC development at Gewan Island .
Huawei has been operating in the Qatari market since 2003 and currently works with both telecom providers – Ooredoo and Vodafone Qatar – serving approximately two million people in the country . Huawei is also actively cultivating local ICT talents to contribute to Qatar ’ s ICT ecosystem . Huawei expanded its STEM and education initiatives last year through its flagship CSR programme , Seeds for the Future , Huawei ICT Competition and Huawei ICT Academy to further support the country ’ s core focus on innovation .
Speaking at the SAMENA Leaders ’ Summit in Dubai earlier in the year Yi emphasised the importance of Huawei ’ s CSR . He said : “ Over the last decades , we have put a lot of effort into creating social values for each country by creating hundreds and thousands of job opportunities for the local people , actively working with local partners and cultivating over 100,000 local ICT talents through our different training certification programmes . We will continue working with our partners to bring pioneering new technologies to the region that will enrich people ' s lives with immersive digital services and enable smart solutions to accelerate the industry ’ s Digital Transformation and related social value .”
Huawei has a long and proud history of collaboration with governments , academia and industry to enrich the region ' s ICT talent ecosystem . In the Middle East , Huawei has set up 186 Huawei ICT Academies and more than 4,000 students have participated in Seeds for the Future ,
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