The 'Huawei ICT Competition 2019-2022' event, which has been held face-to-face for the first time since 2023, has been completed. Gazi, MEF, TED and Yalova University teams representing Turkey in the finals in the informatics competition, to which more than 74 thousand students from more than 2 thousand universities in 120 countries and regions applied, received 'Innovation', 'Tech4All Honor Award', 'Cloud Informatics' and It managed to win different awards in the 'Computer Networks' categories.
Gazi University students Uğurhan Kutbay, Ali Gözüm, Onat Bulut and Yasin Buğrahan Tapik won the second prize in the 'Innovation' category, while Yalova University student Zeynep Kucur, MEF University student Arda Gökalp Batmaz and TED University student Deniz Özcan came third in the 'Cloud Computing' category. they got it. The third place in the 'Computer Networks' category was the team of Kumsal Arslan, Hilal Elif Mutlu and Muhammed Emin Delice from Yalova University.
Xiao Haijun, Head of Global Partner Development and Sales, Huawei Enterprise Business Group, said:
“Digital capabilities and digital skills will be the foundation for the development of the digital economy. Huawei will continue to deliver IT education resources to more schools around the world. We aim to establish a total of 2026 thousand Huawei Informatics Academy by 7 and to provide education to more than 1 million students every year. Another important goal is to greatly improve students' digital literacy and skills for a more dynamic and inclusive digital world.”
Stefania Giannini, UNESCO Deputy Director-General for Education, gave the following statements:
“This Huawei competition not only improves students' digital skills, but also contributes to the development of viable solutions for sustainable development.”
In his speech at the closing ceremony, Xiao Ran, Vice President of Huawei Strategic Research Institute; “Huawei has created an important IT talent ecosystem. By increasing the number of informatics academies and organizing more such competitions, Huawei is also accelerating the digitalization of the world in a sense.”
Vicky Zhang, Vice President of Huawei's Corporate Communications Department, said, "Huawei launched the 'Women in Technology Awards' to encourage female IT professionals and promote gender equality and social inclusion in the IT industry. In this year's competition, the proportion of female competitors participating in the global final exceeded 8 percent, an 21 percent increase compared to three years ago.” he said.
The 'Huawei ICT Competition', an important project of Huawei's Seeds for the Future 2.0 initiative, is a common platform established for university students to compete globally and communicate with each other in the field of informatics. By the end of 2022, Huawei collaborated with 2 universities to establish Huawei informatics academies, contributing to the education of more than 200 students each year. Since the first competition held in 200, more than 2015 students from 85 countries and regions around the world have entered the competition.