Huawei Donates ICT Study Equipment to Kyambogo Uni, Uganda Martyrs

Huawei, a leading ICT global solutions provider Monday donated ICT study equipment worth 30,000USD to Kyambogo and Uganda Martyrs Universities. This equipment is to aid in the hands-on study in the Huawei ICT Academy that was started within the different universities in Uganda in 2019.

Thedonation handover took place Monday at Serena Hotel Kampala was graced by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of ICT and National Guidance, Vicent Bagiire, Huawei Managing director, Gaofei, the Vice Chancellors
Kyambogo and Nkozi Universities.

The Huawei ICT Academy was launched in May 2019 at Makerere
University and spread to seven other universities with Kyambogo and
Nkozi inclusive. Huawei’s mission is to train 1000 students free of charge
in the next two years as pledged to His Excellence Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

According to Huawei’s Managing Director Mr. Gaofei, “we shall also
donate ICT Academy equipment to the following universities, Kyambogo
and Uganda Martyrs University as pledged. We hope that these shall aide and ease the teaching and learning process of the students.”

“With this donation, we believe that we shall trigger exploration which lights the way forward. And further more we believe that this exploration
begins with sharing wisdom, and exchange of ideas to open up exciting new possibilities in a digital world”, he added.

The permanent secretary and chief guest, Bagiire,
emphasized that the skills imparted through the ICT Academy should be
able to help students to create their own enterprises.

“For us it is important because we realize and recognize that ICT can be
used for efficiencies in whatever we do but that it’s also a business. So we
hold the view that the skills that have been imparted unto you the students
can be used to create your own enterprises instead of looking for
employment,” he said

Huawei has now opened approximately eight ICT academies in Ugandan
Universities namely; Makerere, Muni, Kyambogo, MUBs, Kabale,
Soroti, Nkozi and Mbarara. The Huawei ICT Academy course combines
both theories and practical operations which range from Enterprise
Networks such as Routing and Switching, Advanced Network and
Network technology, information technology such as Storage, Cloud
computing and big data among others.