Today, June 23, 2020, an online meeting was held in attendance of Dr. Omar Talaat – Minister of Communications and Information Technology.
And with participation of Prof. Ahmed Ghallab Mohamed – Aswan University President – to launch and open Huawei’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Aswan University, Under patronage of Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
Prof. Ghallab stressed that in frame of digital transformation and in light of the crisis the country is going through for confronting Corona virus, Innovation and development are the words that must be in our minds for an effective way out of the current global crisis as the digital transformation is a step in overcoming the economic crisis.
The opening of Huawei Academy of Artificial Intelligence at Aswan University is an essential pillar of the digital transformation of foundations and companies. The academy also provides smart data processing.
Huawei Academy at Aswan University aims to provide students with smart knowledge essentials and working to develop skills and improve students’ innovative capabilities for more creativity opportunities.
Prof. Ahmed Ghallab expressed his happiness with establishing the Huawei Academy in Aswan University to serve all faculties students at the university and also work to raise their efficiency, through various training courses throughout the Academic year to qualify them to compete in labor market.
Prof. Ahmed Ghallab added that Huawei Academy will contribute in developing and refining students’ skills in the field of information and communication technology through serious practical training that prepares them to labor market and the ability to compete in digital transformation field.
Dr. Loay Saad Al-Din Nasrat – Dean of faculty of Engineering – indicated that a memorandum of understanding (MOU) was concluded between Aswan University, faculty of Engineering and Huawei Academy and during January 2020, it was also approved to establish a branch in South Upper Egypt to be the first academy for Huawei at Aswan University to serve the university and the governorate,whereas students are educated through the ICT infrastructure and smart devices.
There are also four main fields for students to be trained in (communications networks – information technology – smart devices – cloud services).
Dr. Loay Saad El-Din explained that Aswan Governorate is among 8 governorates at level of Republic to which the digital transformation system will be applied.
Therefore, the role of Huawei Academy and Aswan University will have a major impact in graduating student cadres in the field of artificial intelligence in Aswan.