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Tech for good: Continuing to create social to play an even greater role in supporting and ultimately, to bring digital to every
value and driving progress towards the UN sustainable social development. Huawei person, home and organization for a fully
SDGs is ready and willing to work with its connected, intelligent world.
In addition to creating more business partners, and use innovative ICT solutions
value for its customers, Huawei recognizes to support progress towards the UN SDGs,
the importance of creating social value for
all stakeholders and advancing progress Sustainability Strategy and Progress
towards the UN Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs). Huawei cares about its
employees and puts their safety first.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the
company took a number of steps to ensure
the health and safety of employees and help
suppliers and contractors safely resume
work. In 2020, Huawei organized more than
650 charitable activities around the world.
Its flagship CSR program Seeds for the
Future has benefited nearly 9,000 students
from 130 countries and regions, and these
young people will become a valuable talent
pool for the ICT industry in the future.
Over the past year, Huawei continued to
enhance its compliance program and
engaged and collaborated openly and
proactively with stakeholders to foster
mutual understanding and trust. In the
post-pandemic era, technology is poised

Huawei Pours $100M into Asia-Pacific Start-Ups

Huawei unveiled intentions to invest $100
million in Asia-Pacific start-ups over the
next three years, seeking to boost the
developer ecosystem in the region through
its Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) and
cloud offerings. At its Huawei Cloud Spark
Founders Summit, the company stated the
move will aim to support 1,000 start-ups
in Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and
Vietnam, as part of its Spark accelerator
program launched in Singapore, Hong
Kong, Malaysia and Thailand in 2020. The
program was created to provide support
platforms for start-ups with the help
of local authorities, incubators, venture
capitalists and academia. Huawei also
launched an initiative for cloud-plus-
cloud collaboration which it expressed
confidence will encourage innovation, universities in the region, to offer support Ping’an, CEO of Huawei’s cloud business
business ecosystems, and global and to 100,000 HMS cloud-native developers. unit (pictured), commented. The company
local services. It will be boosted by $40 “In 2021, our plan is to support 200 start- said its HMS platform was the third-
million, coming in equal portions from ups in the HMS ecosystem, and share largest mobile app ecosystem globally,
its Cloud unit and HMS. It also planned our network of channel resources with with 4.5 million developers from more than
to build an HMS Developer Innovation developers worldwide who together serve 170 countries currently using it.
Centre in cooperation with more than 200 1 billion Huawei device users”, Zhang

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