April News Roundup
April 30: Huawei Announces GoPaint Winners
Prizes
- Best Visual Award (US$5,000)
- Best Storytelling Award (US$5,000)
- Most Popular Award (US$5,000)
- Nine Honorable Mention winners (US$2,000 each)
Best Visual Award: Shir-Liz Hoo for "Childlike Curiosity"
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Honorable mention winner: Nurul Husna Binti Mokhtar -
Honorable mention winner: Wastana Haikal
With thousands of entries, the HUAWEI GoPaint Worldwide Creating Activity demonstrates how participants can get creative using tablets. The Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2" paired with the Huawei M-Pencil (3rd generation) were the most popular tools used by participants.
Learn more about Huawei's tablets.
April 29: Initiative Launched to Boost Literacy in Morocco
The announcement of the program's launch in Rabat, Morocco
The launch event was followed by a four-day workshop where literacy experts and educators joined representatives of academia and civil society to adapt existing training modules to the Moroccan context. As part of a process that is still underway, participants developed general guidelines for contextualizing the training modules in addition to translating the lessons into Arabic and devising an action plan for promoting the new curriculum. The modules will be integrated into a literacy training course that will be available through the Institute for Training in Literacy Professions (IFMA), a hybrid teaching and training portal developed by ANLCA.
Huawei has long been committed to promoting digital literacy worldwide, including Seeds for the Future, a flagship training program that has benefitted 2.8 million people since its launch, and Huawei's TECH4ALL DigiTruck, which provides free training in digital skills.
April 26: Huawei Makes CDP 'A List' for Climate Change Practices
Huawei has made the CDP's A List for its ongoing transparency and efforts in combating climate change for the fifth year running.
CDP, a prominent international NPO working on environmental impact management, also awarded Huawei the title of "Supplier Engagement Leader."
Under its long-standing pledge of "Tech for a Better Planet", Huawei uses innovative ICT solutions to address climate and environmental challenges and protect our shared home. The company's solutions focus on four areas: advancing energy conservation and emissions reduction, promoting renewable energy, contributing to a circular economy, and conserving nature with technology.
April 23: Huawei Wins Automation Solution Award at FutureNet World 2024
The Huawei Autonomous Driving Network (ADN) solution was awarded "The Automation Solution Award" to recognize the outstanding achievement of the Telecom Foundation Model application in the field of network automation and AI.
ADN is a Huawei's Autonomous Networks Solution and a core strategy of Huawei Communications Network 2030. By injecting intelligence into the network infrastructure, management and control systems, and O&M platforms，Huawei has built a full-scenario solution featuring single-domain autonomy and cross-domain collaboration. By leveraging the Telecom Foundation Model, ADN can unleash network potential to enhance monetization capability, user experience, O&M efficiency, and resource efficiency for operators.
April 18 & 22: Regional Huawei ICT Competition Awards Ceremony Held
Europe: The award ceremony for Huawei ICT Competition Europe 2023-2024 was held in Istanbul, Turkey on April 25. More than 200 college and university students, academics, government officials, KOLs, and media from more than 10 countries and regions in Europe attended the event.
The 8th competition in Europe had four tracks:
- AI innovation
- Networking
- Cloud
- Computing
- Türkiye MEF University
- Poznan University of Technology from Poland
- KLabs in Italy
- Erzurum University of Technology in Türkiye.
Asia Pacific: The winners of the 8th Huawei ICT Competition Asia Pacific 2023-2024 were announced on April 18 at an award ceremony held by Huawei and ASEAN Foundation at the ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia. Themed "Connection, Glory, and Future", more than 6,400 students from 14 countries participated in this year's regional competition.
- Cebu Institute of Technology – University, Philippines, received the Grand Prize in the Innovation Track
- Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, topped the Network Track
- Singapore Polytechnic scooped the Grand Prize in the Cloud Track
- i-Academy, Philippines, Regional Champion in the Computing Track
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Computing Track
April 16: Huawei and MTN Launch Joint Technology Innovation Lab
MTN Group and Huawei officially inaugurated the Technology Innovation Lab at MTN Group's headquarters today. This milestone marks a significant advancement in their ongoing collaboration across diverse digital fields. Initially announced during MWC 2024, when the parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding, the establishment of the lab aims to further deepen their collaboration, accelerating digital transformation and sustainable development across Africa.
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