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Huawei Pakistan Holds Award Ceremony for ICT Global Competition
Winners

Huawei Pakistan held an award ceremony Category of the Practice competition with after which our team was able to qualify the
for the winners of the Sixth Huawei ICT Pakistan Team One clinching the 1st prize, Regional final as well as the Global final with
Competition 2021-2022 Global Final that and Pakistan Team Two grabbing the 3rd the first position.” Sateesh Kumar stated, “I
took place in Shenzhen and drew to a close prize. In the Innovation Competition, two belong to a small town in Sindh, and did
on June 25th. The award ceremony was further teams from Pakistan participated; my bachelors from Mehran University. I
attended by Pakistan’s First Prize winning Osman Ahsan Sheikh, Muhammad heard about the Huawei ICT Competition
team consisting of; Sateesh Kumar, Iqra Abdullah Ahsan Sheikh and Aqsa Amir through my teacher who motivated me
Fatima, and Bhagchand Meghwar, also represented team ‘Homevism’, comprised to take part in the competition. This is an
in attendance was Deputy CEO Huawei of students from NUST. The second team, amazing initiative by Huawei, giving equal
Pakistan, Mr. Ahmed Bilal Masud and ‘Boltay Haroof’, from LUMS consisted opportunities to engineering students from
Public Relations Director Mr. Wu Han. of Umer Farooq, Tabish Rafiq and Areej. all over Pakistan to showcase their talent,
During the ceremony, the team was In the Innovation competition, Team whether they’re from large bustling cities or
awarded the first prize of 20,000 USD, along Boltay Haroof won the 2nd prize, while small remote towns.” Deputy CEO Huawei
with mobile phones for each participant. Team Homevism was awarded the 3rd Pakistan congratulated the winners, “From
The competition attracted 150,000 hopeful prize. Star student of the winning team, the bottom of my heart, I congratulate
students from more than 2000 universities Mr. Bhagchand, stated at the ceremony, every participant for their success in this
in 85 countries and regions around the “The Huawei ICT Competition served as a competition. This has been the beginning
world. After making it through the national platform that allowed us to compete with of a great opportunity for you, and you
and regional competitions, 130 teams from and win against teams at a regional and have all walked away from this event with
43 countries and regions faced off in the international level for Pakistan.” Team a deeper understanding of ICT and the
global final. Pakistan’s team one, and team member, Iqra Fatima gave her comments potential to make a name for yourselves
two; Hafiz Rizwan, Adnan Ali, and Mukhtar about her experience, “After competing in in the ICT industry.” The competition has
Memon participated in the Network different rounds, I qualified into the top six, always been well received in Pakistan as
it promotes innovation and creativity while
serving as a link between the classroom
and the professional workplace. By
nurturing university students’ talent in
Pakistan, it also contributes to increasing
national ICT competitiveness while
enhancing digital transformation efforts.
The next installation of the global event,
The Huawei ICT Competition 2022, will
be held under the theme ‘Connectivity,
Honor, Future’, and will run from August to
December, and is larger part of Huawei’s
commitment towards nurturing the next
generation of ICT leaders across the world.
The competition will welcome thousands
of more undergraduate students from
countries all across the Middle East.
Winners of the regional competitions will
receive a certification, future learning
opportunities, a USD 20,000 cash prize and
more.

Huawei and China Mobile Release White Paper on 5G Energy Efficiency

Evaluation

Huawei and China Mobile jointly released Science and Technology Week & Mobile system for 5G wireless networks. It helps
the 5G Wireless Network Energy Efficiency Information Industry Chain Innovation accurately measure network energy
Evaluation White Paper 1.0 at the cloud- Conference. This white paper provides efficiency and guide network development
based "Technology Enables Dual Carbon, the industry's first definition of a multi- towards optimal performance and energy
Green Leads the Future" Forum of the 2022 dimensional energy efficiency evaluation efficiency. Green and dual carbon are the two
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