The UAE team won the 'Best Performance' award in the final stages of the `` Huawei ICT Competition in the Middle East 2019 '' which concluded in Shenzhen, China today.
The UAE team of three technical science students from Khalifa University and Emirates University won the award during its participation in the competition held over the course of 2019 with the participation of more than 21,000 students from 437 colleges and universities from countries including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. , Oman, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. Thirteen teams, including 39 students, were promoted in the final, while the Lebanese team won the first place award in the final stages of the competition.
Participants at a conference and ceremony held by Huawei, called on governments to increase investment in ICT talent, and called on universities to adopt approaches that meet the requirements of the development of ICT talent in the future.
Dr. Kung Bae, UAE University Supervisor and Leader of the UAE Team, Professor of Electronics and Computer Engineering, said that the UAE team performed well in the final stages, which were concentrated in the sectors of network systems, cloud computing and IT sciences. Positive indicators of the team.
For his part, Chairman of the company «Huawei» Middle East ,, Charles Yang, the winners and teams that participated in the finalist of the competition, which witnessed great competition.
“When we see so many talented young people, we feel confident about the future of ICT in the Middle East,” he said.
He pointed out that the competition aims mainly to develop the skills and knowledge of ICT among the generation of young people in the region, and prepare them to contribute to the efforts to achieve digital transformation in their country, and designed to conform to government goals to build a sustainable digital economy based on knowledge, led by technology pioneers Digital of young cadres.