Egyptian ICT Minister inaugurates Huawei's Customer Solution Innovation & Integration Experience Center in Egypt

[Cairo, Egypt, March 26, 2017] Eng. Yasser ElKady, Minister of Communications and Information Technology and Song Aiguo, Chinese Ambassador in Egypt inaugurated on Sunday Huawei’s Customer Solution Innovation & Integration Experience Center (CSIC) at Smart Village in the presence of Han Bing , China's Economic and Commercial Counselor in Egypt and Terry Liu, CEO of Huawei Egypt.

Egyptian ICT minister and Chinese ambassador cut the ribbon to open Huawei CSIC

At a cost of USD 5million, the CSIC covers an area of 450 square meters and was established under the concept of “Cloud”. It includes three “Clouds”. The experience cloud is the showcase of Global operator’s successful cases and the innovation center of new business solutions and models. The customer solution cloud contains big data of network and user experiences which would do the multi-dimensional data analysis. The knowledge is the internal knowledge society, could do remote expert support communication.

ICT Minister Eng. Yasser El Kady said at the opening ceremony:”CISC will be considered a valued element in achieving continuous comprehensiveness in technological field on the level of services provided in Egypt, developing human capital and training them to gain the field's experience and finding technical innovative solutions for regional business community which shall achieve by this an economic integration based on innovation."

In his speech, the Chinese Ambassador, Song Aiguo, pledged full support to Huawei’s development in Egypt stating, "Huawei is considered a leading pioneer for Chinese enterprises seeking overseas development. We will continue to support Huawei’s drive to bring more benefits to the Egyptian people by providing advanced ICT products and services.”

From his side, CEO of Huawei Egypt, Terry Liu, said: “Huawei has always been committed to understanding the latest trends and creating innovative solutions to master the challenges that might face our customers in Egypt. We will continue moving towards empowering Egypt’s digital transformation, exploring new innovative ideas for local enterprises, industries and operators. With the help of the CSIC, we will continue our innovation mission in Egypt, bringing our global experiences to the region, serving more needs of the ICT industry."

Terry said, "With the rapid growth of ICT industry in Egypt, Huawei will double our effort to play a major role in developmental contribution. Huawei will continue to provide quality products, services and solutions to customers for our confidence that Egypt is a regional investment promising market."

Terry added, “We always see Egypt as one of our most strategically important markets and attaches great importance to local human and technical resources in the country. We will continue investment in Egypt .The opening of the regional CSIC today is part of our commitment to increase investment in Egypt. Besides, we are building a regional OpenLab in Egypt, which would be a new center of excellence to foster joint, customer and business-driven ICT innovation with local partners. We are in the process of preparing for more capacity building programs in cooperation with universities, government departments and local partners in Egypt. Last month, we signed a MOU with Ain Shams University to set up Huawei Academy. Besides, we will launch again Seeds for the Future program in Egypt, which is Huawei’s global flagship CSR program.”