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Our TECH4ALL initiative are nomadic. Only 100,000 homes out of part of the TECH4ALL programme, comes
850,000 have Internet access.
into play. The ICT Academy operates in
centres on bringing partnership with universities from around
partners together to To address this, Huawei collaborated the world to address the talent gap by
develop digital inclusion with Unitel to launch a wireless home providing students with hands-on training
broadband solution in 2017. The service,
in the latest technologies, providing them
and empowerment Ger Internet, delivers rural connectivity with the foundation to become the next
initiatives for the following to remote areas of Mongolia. There are generation of great innovators.
50,000 homes currently using the service.
four high-impact domains: Users are reaping tangible benefits, A connected world opens doors – and a
environment, education, such as receiving up-to-the-minute properly skilled workforce can achieve
health and development. weather forecasts and the latest farming incredible things in the digital age.
Technology brings new opportunities that
techniques, helping them to increase
One of the key purposes of productivity. Businesses are able to build benefit whole societies as much as the
TECH4ALL is to accelerate websites, with results already showing individuals that live within them. People
have the chance to thrive, and economies
an impressive 190% increase in profits
the United Nation’s in three months due to advertising and prosper as a result.
Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs). By 2025, 85% of business applications will be cloud-based,
and 97% of large companies will use artificial intelligence
The benefits of pursuing an inclusive digital (AI). However, there won’t be enough qualified engineers
society go beyond simply providing people
with ‘nice to have’ Internet access. There to operate these technologies if we don’t act now – which
is a clear correlation between technology is where the Huawei ICT Academy, part of the TECH4ALL
and economic growth. Digitising public programme, comes into play.
services is something that governments
are actively pursuing not only because it
makes sense by making processes more a wider customer base. Internet access We believe that inclusive technology is
accessible and faster, but because good enables users to access online medical a universal goal. Together we can make
digital government can help businesses to consultations and learning, and is helping a difference – Huawei’s TECH4ALL is a
flourish, increase citizen engagement, and to bring families who live apart together – collaborative initiative that seeks ways
provide a long-term boost to the economy. such as when Kuta, a rural-dwelling eight- to ensure that technology can benefit
Digital government helps to make public year-old boy received a video call for the everyone, everywhere.
institutions more inclusive, effective, first time from his brother, who studies in
accountable, and transparent, which in Korea. A connected world opens
turn builds higher levels of public trust.
Bridging the Talent Gap doors – and a properly
Technology also has the potential to The benefits of a digital future can only skilled workforce can
increase social welfare and increases be fully realised by professionals who achieve incredible things in
happiness, which has a positive knock-on have the skills and understanding to push
effect on productivity. Happy people are, the boundaries of technology further. At the digital age. Technology
after all, more likely to be successful. present a gulf exists between the number brings new opportunities
of job vacancies in the ICT sector and the
Connecting Remote Communities engineers available to fill them – and the that benefit whole societies
A recent example of the power of gap is widening. By 2025, 85% of business as much as the individuals
connectivity can be seen in Mongolia, a applications will be cloud-based, and that live within them.
vast but sparsely populated country with 97% of large companies will use artificial
a widely dispersed population density of intelligence (AI). However, there won’t be People have the chance
around 1.9 people per km2. More than half enough qualified engineers to operate to thrive, and economies
of the population lives outside of cities these technologies if we don’t act now –
and towns – and four in 10 rural dwellers which is where the Huawei ICT Academy, prosper as a result.

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