Huawei has an­nounced that it will be join­ing with the UN­ESCO Glob­al Al­liance for Lit­er­a­cy (GAL) as part of the com­pa­ny’s lead up to the Mo­bile World Con­gress 2023.

The an­nounce­ment was made at a Dig­i­tal Tal­ent Sum­mit co-host­ed by Huawei and the In­sti­tute for Life­long Learn­ing (UIL) which serves as the Sec­re­tari­at of the GAL.

At the Sum­mit, Huawei and the UIL agreed to joint­ly pro­mote the use of tech­nol­o­gy to raise lit­er­a­cy. The two par­ties al­so signed a co­op­er­a­tion agree­ment un­der which Huawei will fund an ex­pan­sion of the UIL’s cur­rent ini­tia­tives to en­hance ed­u­ca­tors’ use of tech­nol­o­gy in de­vel­op­ing coun­tries. Cur­rent­ly, the UIL ini­tia­tive op­er­ates in Bangladesh, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Nige­ria, and Pak­istan.

Huawei is the first pri­vate com­pa­ny to be­come an as­so­ciate mem­ber of the GAL and the com­pa­ny is ex­cit­ed to align its own goals with the GAL’s vi­sion of erad­i­cat­ing dig­i­tal il­lit­er­a­cy in young peo­ple.

UIL di­rec­tor David Atchoare­na ex­plained at the event, “Our rapid­ly chang­ing world calls for con­cert­ed ef­forts and strong part­ner­ships to achieve qual­i­ty ed­u­ca­tion and life­long learn­ing for all.”

Atchoare­na con­tin­ued, “Huawei’s ex­per­tise in the area of in­no­va­tion in learn­ing will be a great as­set to the Glob­al Al­liance for Lit­er­a­cy. Col­lab­o­ra­tive projects such as ours will en­sure that no one is left be­hind on this jour­ney.”

Huawei’s vice pres­i­dent of Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Vicky Zhang al­so com­ment­ed, “Get­ting the right ed­u­ca­tion is of­ten the key to suc­cess in life. As a ma­jor play­er in the tech­nol­o­gy sec­tor, Huawei feels it has a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to pro­vide tech­nol­o­gy skills in all parts of the world, try­ing our best to in­clude as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble.”

“We are proud to join forces with UN­ESCO to bet­ter de­liv­er on this re­spon­si­bil­i­ty,” Zhang added.

Since 2008, Huawei has of­fered a wide and ex­pand­ing range of tal­ent pro­grams as it sees dig­i­tal tal­ent as a key dri­ver in achiev­ing dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion. Un­der its Seeds for the Fu­ture um­brel­la, Huawei pro­vides tens of thou­sands of peo­ple every year with schol­ar­ships and dig­i­tal train­ing cours­es tar­get­ing all age groups. The com­pa­ny al­so or­ga­nizes and spon­sors tech com­pe­ti­tions where stu­dents can ex­pand their knowl­edge, win prizes, and make new friends.

Dr Piti Srisang­nam, ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of ASEAN Foun­da­tion ap­plaud­ed Huawei’s con­tri­bu­tion to the lo­cal tal­ent com­mu­ni­ty. “The ASEAN Seeds for the Fu­ture pro­gram that we launched in 2022 to­geth­er with Huawei has al­ready be­come a re­source­ful plat­form for hun­dreds of lo­cal stu­dents in ten ASEAN coun­tries to learn ICT knowl­edge and have cul­tur­al ex­changes,” he said.