Huawei has planned to develop 50,000 ICT talents in South Asia in the next five years.

The strategy will include various programmes including building ICT academies, different ICT and startup competitions, online course enrollment, fresh employee recruitment, among others.

The announcement was made during an event titled “Building a Smart Talent Ecosystem in South Asia, for South Asia” held on Monday at Huawei’s representative office of South Asia, according to a press release.

Yuying Karl, country director of Huawei Bangladesh, South Asia Public Relations Department, shared the insight and plan at the event.

Recently Huawei has formed its South Asia representative office in Dhaka, involving Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, and Bangladesh itself. This segment will be a sub-region of Huawei Asia Pacific region.

Huawei developed more than 6,000 ICT talents last year in South Asia. And now it plans to develop 50,000 new ICT talents by next five year, said the release.

ICT Academies are being built with different engineering universities in South Asia so that students can enroll for their desired programmes and achieve globally accepted certificates, it said.

“Three things have been very important to Huawei, supporting the industry with cutting-edge technology and infrastructure, sustainable development, and cultivating ICT talents. Huawei is one of the leading companies that invested significantly in research and development. That helps us to provide the best technology to the ecosystem partners so that we can grow together,” Yuying said.

“Besides, countries that have adopted digital strategy recently will largely depend on skilled youth. Huawei, as a responsible partner of ICT development, has fixed a solid plan for talent development,” he said.

“By the end of 2022, we established Huawei ICT Academies with more than 2,200 universities across the globe. Through this programme, we train an average of more than 200,000 students each year,” he added.