Doha: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education in cooperation with Huawei launched yesterday the third edition of its information and communications competition in the State of Qatar.
The competition is also done in partnership with Qatar University, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Carnegie Mellon, and Qatar Community College.
Huawei organises the competition every year in Qatar and nine other countries in the Middle-East. It aims to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among youth interested in technology. Combining Huawei’s goal of nurturing local ICT talent with its vision to bring digital to every person, home and organisation for fully connected, intelligent world and building the local digital ICT ecosystem, the competition will run in Qatar and nine other countries across the Middle East.
The competition promotes innovation and creativity and acts as a bridge between the classroom and the workforce to nurture ICT university students’ talents in the Middle East region, increase national ICT competitiveness and develop a generation of ICT leaders ready to drive forward digital transformation.
Dr. Ibrahim Al Nuaimi, Undersecretary for the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, said: “ICT is a formative component of Qatar’s future development plans. We must shift our attention towards developing talent within this sector, in order to continue our progression towards becoming an economy driven by knowledge and smart technology. The Huawei ICT Competition is welcome in Qatar for its contributions to the knowledge and understanding of our students.”
Fan Tao, CEO of Huawei Technologies, Qatar, said: “We are proud to launch the third edition of the Huawei ICT Competition in Qatar, providing young talent within the ICT sector with a global platform on which they can demonstrate the progression of their country within this field. In partnership with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, we look forward to the upcoming stages of the competition and seeing what the talented Qatari youth submit.”
