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this end, Huawei will leverage its global Huawei scholarship training program to to build a nationwide Unified Government
expertise and success stories to support train university students, including visits Network Infrastructure standard to serve
the MCIT in finalizing the business case to Huawei headquarters to experience the all government entities. Steven Yi, the
and designing the required regulations company's technology first-hand. This President of Huawei Middle East and
to accelerate the 10Gbps society goal. initiative extends existing Huawei skills Central Asia Region, who had witnessed
An initial 10GB district pilot will be development programs in Saudi Arabia, the ceremony said, "This partnership
launched in 2023. Small businesses are including the ICT Academy and Seeds for aligns with Saudi Vision 2030 and the
the backbone of the Saudi economy, the Future. As Saudi Arabia accelerates Ministry's continuous efforts to advance
while its bourgeoning startup ecosystem the shift toward a digital government, the digital transformation, enhance ICT skills,
is inspiring unprecedented innovation Ministry and Huawei will also collaborate and foster a culture of innovation."
and disruption across various domains.
To support this evolution, Huawei will
work with the Ministry to support digital
entrepreneurs working on smart cities,
IoT, AI, gaming, fintech, e-commerce, and
blockchain projects. The two entities will
also jointly promote the HUAWEI CLOUD
startups program, a support program for
empowering SMEs to develop their cloud
capabilities. Additionally, the Ministry
pledged to provide Huawei with support
to build a cloud computing region in the
Kingdom as cloud adoption accelerates
in Saudi Arabia. Huawei will, on its part,
work to strengthen partnerships with
local data center service providers. Saudi
Arabia recognizes ICT talent development
as a key pillar of its Vision 2030. The MoU
establishes a joint framework to launch a

PTA Hosts Consultative Workshop on Gender Inclusion Strategy

Mercy Corp, People’s Primary Health Care
initiative (PPHI), and Health Education and
Environment Program Balochistan (HEEP)
etc. also participated. Director Wireless PTA
and the head of PTA’s initiative for gender
inclusion in ICTs informed the participants
that PTA is committed to ensuring the
provision of best quality of services to
all citizens of Pakistan including women.
PTA’s gender inclusion strategy is being
developed with support from UNESCO
Pakistan. It aims to recommend specific
amendments and additions in policies that
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority in Pakistan. The workshop was conducted can help achieve gender parity in use of
(PTA), in collaboration with UNESCO by Ms. Sadaf Khan, UNESCO consultant. internet, mobile phones and digital skills in
Pakistan, hosted the third consultative Experts from various stakeholder groups line with International Telecommunication
workshop for the development of digital including government organizations such Union’s 2030 goals. This strategy will help
gender inclusion strategy. The workshop as State Bank of Pakistan, PTV and others PTA, along with other public and private
was held in Quetta. The workshop, attended the workshop. Representatives sector stakeholders, to tackle various
organized at PTA’s Quetta Zonal Office from Global System for Mobile barriers to women’s use of mobile and
was the third of a series of five consultative Communications Association (GSMA), ICTs. The next workshop in the series is
workshops being held to gather multi- NIC Quetta, telecom operators, academia, scheduled in Karachi on 22nd of December
stakeholder experts’ recommendations for women entrepreneurs, tech start-ups and 2022.
a strategy to reduce digital gender divide non-governmental organizations such as
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