KATHMANDU, JUNE 24
With the goal of sharing ICT solutions that help make life better, businesses smarter, and society more inclusive, Huawei hosted its "Lighting up the Future" exhibit at Huawei Digital Nepal Conclave jointly organized by ICT Foundation Nepal and Huawei.
The 2-day exhibit was visited by more than 600 guests from the government, telecommunications and overall ICT sector. The exhibit was graced by His Excellency Vice President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal - Nanda Kishor Pun, Hon'ble Minister of Communications and Information Technology - Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, Hon'ble Secretary of Minister of Communications and Information Technology - Baikuntha Aryal, Managing Director of Nepal Electricity Authority - Kulman Ghising and other dignitaries from the government.
The exhibit featured Huawei's "Intelligent World 2030" vision on how the coming decade could look like with universal adoption of ICT technologies and presentations on "Gigaverse" MBB networks, Network for Cloud, Green ICT, 5G and its use cases, Huawei's public and hybrid cloud solutions and Huawei's data center solutions.
At the conclave, Huawei's Global Public Service Industry Expert, Patrick Low spoke on digital transformation and the need for user-centricity to achieve sustainable growth. He demonstrated how Huawei's "intelligent-twin architecture" is an enabler for digital transformation. Essentially a Cloud+AI solution, it emphasizes the right infrastructure - made up of an integrated intelligent system with collaboration across cloud, network, edge, and device - to support innovative applications.
In his special remarks delivered during the inauguration session of Huawei Digital Nepal Conclave, CEO of Huawei Nepal, William Zhang highlighted the role of ICT for economic development. He said, "The post-pandemic recovery will be fueled by the digital economy.
In 2020, the world's GDP fell by 2.8% but ICT investments increased by 5%. It is expected that by 2025, 50% of the world's economy will be converted to digital economy." Speaking on localization trends of data storage, he said "The need of the hour for Nepal is a sovereign data center that is reliable and secure. Not only is this needed to collect and preserve data belonging to Nepal's citizens, but to provide integrated government services and truly serve as the foundation for Digital Nepal." He also highlighted the need for universal and quality broadband coverage for realizing Nepal's potential for digital transformation.
