Huawei helps accelerate ICT talent cultivation for mutual benefits in intelligent education

The digital economy has be­come a major engine of glob­al economic growth, with a compound annual growth rate of 9.2%. However, it is estimated that by 2025, the short­age of talent with a mastery of digi­tal and intelligent technologies (also known as ICT talent) will reach 60 million. Information and communica­tion technology (ICT) talent plays an increasingly important role in fields such as big data, “Internet+”, and ar­tificial intelligence (AI).

Wind Li, vice-president of Huawei and CEO of the Global Public Sector at Huawei, says: “China will need 20 million more talent in the future to support different industries in digi­tal development.” To help universities cultivate digital talent that adapts to industry development, Huawei has created an innovative “all-scenar­io 1+3” solution based on “AI+ edu­cation” (where 1 refers to ICT talent training and 3 refers to smart school campus, smart classroom, and sci­entific research computing) to help fully bridge the gaps in digital talent cultivation.

ICT talent training: Building a one-stop training platform

To facilitate the cultivation of high-quality digital talent, Huawei actively cooperates with universi­ties and enterprises. Based on its advantages in ICTs and industry ac­cumulation, Huawei provides a one-stop digital talent development plat­form to provide diversified teaching resources and training tools, helping universities around the world culti­vate digital talent.

Currently, Huawei has more than 1,300 trainers, 31 local training cen­tres, and three global training centres. Over 3000 practice-oriented courses are developed for 22 technical direc­tions, helping trainees quickly mas­ter the latest technologies.

At the Prince of Songkla Universi­ty, Thailand, Huawei deployed an in­novative talent training platform and built training labs for six technology domains: datacom, wireless, cyber security, cloud service, AI, and IoT. This provides courses, real-device training environment, and training services for teachers and students, together with a series of Huawei Cer­tificate programmes, including Hua­wei Certified ICT Associate (HCIA), Huawei Certified ICT Profession­al (HCIP), and Huawei Certified ICT Expert (HCIE).

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Meanwhile, Tunisia is vigorously promoting digital transformation, and the demand for digital talent keeps rising. By 2023, Huawei had signed ICT Academy agreements with 68 universities and colleges in Tunisia. More than 7,600 students have at­tended Huawei’s training courses, and over 750 of them have obtained Huawei certificates.

Smart School Campus: Eliminating data silos to achieve ubiquitous learning

To address the challenges that uni­versities faced in network infrastruc­ture construction, Huawei released the Intelligent School Network Solu­tion. Based on the Xinghe AI Smart Campus Network and F5G All-Op­tical Campus Network, this solution builds an all-optical, fully-connect­ed, and fully-intelligent campus net­work, establishing a network envi­ronment where everyone can learn anytime and anywhere.

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In September 2024, Huawei and University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) collaborat­ed to create a smart campus exhibi­tion centre that showcases advanced practices and serves as a model for smart campus construction in China and beyond. To build an all-digital in­telligent university, USST focuses on two main aspects of data and appli­cation scenario, and works with Hua­wei to promote the implementation of “one-network service handling”, “one-network management”, and “one-network smooth learning”, thoroughly boosting management efficiency and service level.

Smart Classroom 3.0: More accurate teaching and more efficient learning

To adapt to the continuous develop­ment of smart teaching, classrooms are becoming more digital and in­telligent. Huawei Smart Classroom 3.0 implements flexible, personal­ised teaching and precise, efficient teaching management, facilitating intelligent teaching throughout the process.

Ningxia University adopts the Huawei Smart Classroom 3.0 Solu­tion to build 300 modern smart class­rooms, which can implement hybrid learning, high-quality teaching re­source sharing, self-learning, and personalised teaching. During the class, teachers and students can interact via smart devices at any time. They can scan the QR code with their mobile phones to save the notes. With AI algorithms, teachers and students can extract keywords and key abstracts to form a video knowledge base that can be que­ried, greatly improving the learn­ing experience.

Scientific Research Computing: Promoting first-class discipline construction and research innovation

In the field of education and scientif­ic research, the construction of first-class disciplines and research innova­tion are challenging for many teachers and administrators. As a Chinese say­ing goes, a craftsman must sharp­en his tools to do his job. To tackle these challenges, Huawei dives deep into computing and helps universities output and convert research findings with its operation supporting services.

With Huawei’s high-performance computing solution, Lanzhou Univer­sity has built China’s first HPC platform that supports large-scale container deployment. Thanks to this platform, the supercomputing centre of Lanzhou University has provided research sup­port for many research domains and more than 300 research projects.

Dive into digital: Boosting new engines for economic growth

As Li points out, digital technologies are evolving every day. One must keep on learning new technologies to be prepared for the ever-chang­ing future. Huawei will continue to explore digital technologies and lev­erage industry resources to build a cradle for digital talent cultivation. By building a smart teaching envi­ronment, a unified digital manage­ment platform, and a scientific re­search computing platform, Huawei will help cultivate ICT talent, promote industry-academia collaboration, and propel high-quality development of the digital economy.