Huawei and CCK Launched the Global Intelligent Education Showcase

[Tunis City, Tunisia, December 10, 2024] Recently, the CCK-HUAWEI 2024 Technology Summit was held in Tunis under the theme "Accelerating Intelligence for Education," with the participation of thought leaders, renowned experts, and academics from African and Middle Eastern countries specializing in the education sector. During the summit, Huawei and CCK (Khawarizmi Computing Center) jointly launched the Global Intelligent Education Showcase, aimed at promoting digital talents, accelerating intelligent transformation in various sectors, and building a smart future with global perspectives for Tunisia.

Present at the summit were Sofiene Hemissi, Minister of Communication Technologies of Tunisia; Prof. Saoussen Krichen, Director General of the CCK; Professor Khaled Kchir, Director General of the National Library, Ministry of Culture, Tunisia; Sami Saoudi, Head of the Data Office at the ONSR, Ministry of the Interior of Tunisia; and Christina Ng, General Manager of ULearning International. They all agreed that, with the strengthening of ICT infrastructure, education will become the cornerstone of the future digital economy.

Colin Hu, President of Enterprise & Cloud Business for Huawei Northern Africa, stated that Africa's intelligent development is closely linked to the modernization of educational resources. Huawei is committed to accelerating the digital transformation of the education industry in Africa through next-generation ICT technologies such as cloud computing, IoT, and AI. We hope to work closely with educational organizations in the region to create a dynamic and intelligent Africa.

Rock Qin, Vice President of Huawei Northern Africa, said: "In recent years, Huawei has co-built educational clouds and backbone networks with clients in Egypt and Ethiopia, and collaborated with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Tunisia to create Huawei's first education and research cloud in North Africa." In the future, Huawei will deepen its cooperation with governments and educational institutions in Pan-Arab and African countries to accelerate infrastructure development in the education sector.

Frank Huang, Director of Huawei Education Solutions, explained that Huawei has built a next-generation backbone network for education and research. This intelligent, simplified, secure, and ultra-high-speed network is based on optical transmission, intelligent metropolitan routing, and cloud technologies. It provides flexible and intelligent network connections, cloud services, as well as application management and collaboration services for research. This network enables information exchange and fully stimulates scientific research and innovation, offering researchers, teachers, and students the opportunity to make the best use of digital technologies (learning and research activities, efficient resource utilization, and accelerating the digital transformation of the education sector).

During the summit, Leon Liang, General manager of Huawei Tunisia, Marshall Chen, President of Huawei Northern Africa’s Public Sector, Naoufel Hamrouni, Cloud Manager of CCK Tunisia, and Jamel Aloui, Marketing Manager of CCK Tunisia, launched the Global Intelligent Education Showcase for Tunisia. This cloud infrastructure is Huawei’s first in North Africa, integrating computing, networking, storage, and backup capabilities for the education and scientific research sectors. It offers strong support for intelligent education applications such as smart collaboration, smart classrooms, campus security, and enables all-optical network connections between different universities, aiming to improve the overall network application experience. The launch of this showcase will provide advanced concepts and practical examples for the digital transformation of the education industry in Tunisia and North Africa.

With the rapid development of technology, thousands of industries around the world are at a critical stage of digital transformation. In the future, Huawei will continue to deepen its cooperation with African educational organizations to accelerate talent development, seize growth opportunities, and help Africa accelerate its journey into the intelligent era.