Eight Kenyan students have been flagged off by His Excellency Moses Wetang'ula, Speaker of National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya, accompanied by John Kiarie, Chair of the CII Committee of the National Assembly, as they proceed to participate in the Huawei ICT Competition Global Final.
The competition attracted more than 120,000 students from 2,000 universities and colleges, from 74 countries and regions around the world.
Six (6) Teams will be competing at the global final in Cloud, Computing, Network tracks. Each team will be accompanied by 1 lecturer from their University who has been helping prepare the students for the final, along with Huawei experts.
The ICT Competition first began in 2015 as a collaborative effort under Huawei ICT Academy, an initiative that partners with more than 50 Tertiary education institutes to enrich the ICT talent pool, grow the ICT industry and ultimately.
The ICT Competition is an important part of “LEAP”, a talent ecosystem development program launched by Huawei in sub-Saharan Africa. This program aims to cultivate more than 100,000 ICT talents for the region within three years.
The Speaker of the National Assembly in his remarks said “I want to congratulate Huawei for the advanced technology and being a champion of innovation all across Africa. He mentioned that he has been to Huawei Headquarters in China while he was Foreign Affairs Minister and he was impressed by the technology and work being done at the Huawei Campus”.