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awareness campaign, she adds.” Working with the UNICEF
Pakistan Country Office, Facebook leveraged its Insights to impact
and amplify the immunization campaign from the Government of
Pakistan’s Facebook Page. The project was conducted in three
stages and featured a campaign with the hashtag #VaccinesWork,
which sought to promote the continuation of vaccinations for
children during COVID-19, particularly at health care centers. An
accompanying video campaign also featured easy-to-understand
animations with guidelines on how to encourage vaccinations
during the pandemic. “To support UNICEF in their effort to increase
center. “Interruption of health services due to COVID-19, has routine immunization, we leveraged insights from the Facebook
resulted in a large number of children missing out on their routine platform and tested the effectiveness of various types of content.
immunization increasing the risk of outbreaks of diseases in Overall, the results of this effort demonstrate the Facebook
Pakistan, says Aida Girma,” UNICEF Representative in Pakistan. platform’s potential to disseminate public health information as
As the services have now resumed, collaboration with Facebook well as the importance of working with partners like UNICEF to
is helping us reach the most vulnerable children and those who achieve positive health outcomes for communities” said Kadeem
were missed, through improved data services and an aggressive Khan, Associate Research Manager, Facebook Data for Good.

Huawei's 5G Telco Cloud Solution Won NFV Inno-

vation Award at Asia Communication Awards 2020

Huawei was awarded the NFV Innovation
Award at the Asia Communication
Awards (ACA) 2020 held online by Total
Telecom, a world-renowned international
telecommunications media company.
Huawei 5G Telco Cloud Solution features
hyper-converged NFVI infrastructure,
container-based microservice
architecture, and stateless design.
Cloud is the foundation of 5G networks.
The telecom industry has reached a
consensus on moving towards the cloud
native. Technologies such as container,
microservice, and DevOps have attracted
wide attention and are facing many
technical challenges. As 5G enters the
large-scale deployment phase, it brings TCO, and multi-RAT coexistence during provides easier O&M than the commonly
new growth opportunities for carriers, 5G SA networks deployment. It fuels the used live migration does. In addition,
and poses higher requirements on service digital transformation of the 5G industry, lightweight TCC is provided for small-
flexibility, platform efficiency, operation enables more agile and reliable services, scale, fast deployment in edge scenarios.
agility, and SLA reliability of cloud- and accelerates business success. Microservice architecture: The container-
based networks to support the growing Dual-stack convergence: Both OpenStack based microservice architecture used by
digitalization requirements of industries. VMs and Kubernetes containers are the Telco Cloud Solution features small
Huawei's 5G Telco Cloud is the industry's supported on the Telco Converged granularity and is lighter weight than
first full-stack cloud-native commercial Cloud (TCC) platform. VMs, VM-based VMs. Microservices can be assembled as
solution for 5G SA networks. Based on containers, and bare-metal containers required to provide differentiated services.
Industry-leading dual-stack convergence, can be deployed on demand, meeting The microservice-centric architecture
microservice architecture, and stateless different requirements. Unified resource makes slicing orchestration more flexible,
design, it helps carriers smoothly evolve management (URM) improves resource precise, and efficient, helping carriers
to 5G SA networks, facing challenges utilization by 30%. The seamless batch quickly respond to the changes of vertical
such as high network complexity, high upgrade on the infrastructure layer industries and applications.

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