During the 2023 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Huawei and many Tech4All partners highlighted the most recent findings and practises on the digital inclusion and sustainability campaign.
Since its inception in 2019, the Tech4All initiative has benefitted over 600 schools throughout the world, as well as over 220,000 K12 teachers and students in rural regions. It has also permitted the introduction of animal monitoring devices in 46 natural reserves.
Jeffrey Zhou, Huawei’s head of ICT marketing, attended a media roundtable to provide an update on the effort.
“All of our efforts with the Tech4All initiative wouldn’t have been possible without taking technology and partnerships as key enablers,” Zhou said.
“Moving forward, we will keep innovating and using technology along with our global partners to build a more inclusive and sustainable digital world for all.”
Members of the media, as well as representatives from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (Unesco) and the worldwide Organization Close the Gap, accompanied Zhou.
Fengchun Miao, Unesco’s chief of the section for technology and artificial intelligence in education, delivered an update on the Huawei-enabled Open Schools for Everyone programme.
“The Unesco-Huawei project Technology-enabled Open Schools for All is having a ground-breaking impact on the building and testing of digital open schools in African countries,” he said.
“The project directly covers more than 20,000 students and more than 1 million teachers in Ghana, Ethiopia, and Egypt.”
Ngosa Mupela, business and investment manager at Close the Gap, explained the importance of the DigiTruck programme. Solar-powered vehicles outfitted with high-quality smart gadgets are used in the initiative to educate pupils digital skills.
“We have partnered with Huawei to develop and deploy DigiTrucks in Africa to rural and peri-urban communities specifically targeted at preparing the young people in those communities for the digital jobs of the future,” Mupela said.
Arno Cimadom, a representative from Austria’s National Park Neusiedler, also took part in the roundtable talks.
To monitor bird species, the nature reserve has put Huawei-enabled monitoring equipment.
“Thanks to the new technology provided by Huawei and its partners, we are now for the first time able to collect sound data 24/7, year-round, simultaneously from more than 60 sites and analyze them via AI models provided by Rainforest Connection,” Cimadom said.
“This makes research and management in difficult-to-access wetland areas more efficient and allows new investigations.”
