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on Huawei’s extensive experience of addition, the white paper introduces Developer Kit and ModelArts 2.0 AI
campus digital transformation. It is “fully Huawei’s security and privacy protection development platform for software
connected, converged, and open”, which governance practices. AI products and development on the Huawei Kunpeng and
helps customers and partners deliver rapid applications are part of a comprehensive Ascend computing platforms. Developer
service innovation. Huawei released the ecosystem and encompass a wide range Program 1.0, launched by Huawei in 2015,
“Thinking Ahead About AI Security and of market participants. Due to the difficulty has 1.3 million registered individual
Privacy Protection” white paper, which for any individual party to address complex developers and works with over 14,000
outlines the company’s perspective and AI security and privacy threats and risks enterprise developers to innovate products
practices in AI security, privacy issues and alone, Huawei proposes a shared and solutions to create value for
related solutions, and proposes a shared responsibility model for AI security and customers. Developer Program 2.0 will
responsibility model for AI security and privacy protection governance, with focus on building an open computing
privacy protection governance. Sean Yang, accountability across five roles that must industry ecosystem based on Kunpeng +
Director of Huawei’s Global Cyber Security work together for the healthy development Ascend computing processors;
and Privacy Office, introduced the white of AI: consumers/customers, application establishing an all-round enablement
paper at a summit focused on building a developers, deployers, full-stack solution system; promoting the development of
comprehensive AI security and privacy providers, and data collectors. Huawei industry standards, specifications,
protection system. In the white paper, announced an investment of USD 1.5 demonstration sites, and technical
Huawei has defined seven governance billion over the next 5 years as part of its certification system; building industry-
objectives on security and privacy: system Developer Program 2.0, with the goal of specific application ecosystems and
security and controllability, transparency partnering with enterprises and individual region-specific industry ecosystems, and
and traceability, privacy protection, developers to build the computing industry sharing Kunpeng and Ascend computing
fairness, data management, competence, ecosystem. The leading ICT solutions power, making it available to every
and deployment objective assurance. In provider also unveiled the Kunpeng developer.

Huawei and Government Officials Announce a New Cloud Data Center in
Chile This Week During a Huawei Conference

While Huawei faces bans in the U.S. and “Huawei has been serving Chile for 16 years While the new data center is Huawei’s
other countries, it’s open for business with and has earned the trust of customers, first in Chile, Google and Digital Realty are
a new data center in Chile. The Chinese partners, institutions, universities, and among the cloud providers that are also
tech giant announced at this week’s governments in the country,” said Zou looking at building data center facilities
Huawei Cloud Chile Summit 2019 that it Zhilei, president of Huawei Latin America there, according to a story by Data Capacity.
has opened the doors on a new cloud data Region, in a prepared statement. “Huawei Huawei Cloud said it could deliver domestic
center. Huawei Cloud will not only provide Cloud’s mission here is to create a latency of 20 milliseconds, which is roughly
a full-stack cloud platform for Chile, but fertile environment for enterprises and the standard round-trip latency that’s
also for organizations elsewhere in Latin governments to digitally transform and needed for network edge applications and
America, Huawei said in its press release. improve international competitiveness.” services, and a latency of 50 milliseconds
for other Latin American countries. The
Huawei Cloud Partner Network (HCPN)
program was also announced at the
Summit in Santiago, with 36 Huawei
partners from around Latin America
named as certified program partners. In
addition to giving Huawei a foot in the door
in Chile and South America, the program
provides partners with business, technical,
marketing, and go-to-market support for
working with Huawei Cloud. As of June,
As of June 2019, Huawei Cloud and its
partners have opened 23 regions with a
total of 44 availability zones, and launched
over 180 cloud services and 180 solutions.

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