Mohamad Morshidi (seated, third left) and Liu (seated, third right) sign the MoU, witnessed by Abang Johari (standing left), Li (standing right), Syeed Mohd Hussein (seated second left), Zaidi (seated left), Lin (seated second right) and Xu (seated right).
KUCHING: Huawei Malaysia has further strengthened its strategic partnership with the Sarawak government by signing a joint Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to continue supporting the state’s Digital Economy Transformation Agenda, specifically in the domain of digital talent development and technology innovation.
The joint MoU was signed with the Centre of Technical Excellence Sarawak (Centexs) and Sarawak Multimedia Authority (SMA) during a recent ceremony in Shenzhen, China where State Secretary Tan Sri Datuk Amar Mohamad Morshidi Abdul Ghani signed on behalf of the Sarawak government while Huawei Technologies Malaysia Sdn Bhd enterprise vice president Oliver Liu signed for Huawei.
The witness signatories for the MoU were Centexs chief executive officer Syeed Mohd Hussein Wan Abdul Rahman, SMA general manager Dr Zaidi Razak, Huawei Learning Services vice president Xu Chengxin and Huawei Openlab director Lin Xijiang.
Present to witness the signing were Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg and ICT Infrastructure of Managing Board of Office Supervisory Board executive member Li Dafeng.
Speaking at the ceremony, Abang Johari said Sarawak’s digital economy is crucial to stimulate the next phase of economic growth, create job opportunities and overall, improve the living quality of Sarawakians.
“It has always been our strategic mission to foster local talents and equip them with not just the necessary, but also latest ICT technology skills and certification that is in high demand to achieve a digital future.
“Through the establishment of Centexs Digital Academy, with the current and upcoming digital programmes pioneered by Centexs and Huawei, we are confident that the future ICT Digital talent supply pipeline is well guaranteed to support Sarawak in realising the vision of Digital Economy as a developed and high-income state by 2030,” he said.
As part of the strategic partnership to support Sarawak’s digital economy transformation, Huawei will also focus on bringing the latest ICT technology and knowledge required to support initiatives such as smart city, smart rural connectivity, smart campus, smart agriculture, smart building, smart education, smart tourism, safe city and more.
As stated in the MoU, Huawei will participate as one of the key anchor partner to the Centre of Excellence (CoE) lab to jointly conduct studies, research and development for localised digital smart solution with local universities and partners for these initiatives, through the adoption of 5G and Narrow Band IoT (NBIoT) technologies.
Meanwhile, Li said the company was very pleased to partner with Sarawak once again following the successful outcome of Centexs Huawei Phase 1 Digital Lab Talent Programme.
“We have experience of working with over 170 countries on high-speed broadband, rural connectivity solution, new submarine links, smart applications platform, cloud data centre, as well as Internet of Things (IoT).
“We are confident that this partnership will continue to contribute to the realisation of Sarawak’s vision in achieving its digital economy transformation agenda.”
In 2017, Huawei Malaysia and the Sarawak government signed an MoU to appoint the global ICT leader as its strategic partner in developing the state’s ICT infrastructure for digital transformation.
The two parties also recently launched the first-ever digital training lab in Kuching and Southeast Asia, to prepare Sarawak youths for a digital future.