Namibian President: Looking Forward to Further Cooperation with Huawei on ICT

[Beijing, China, March 30th, 2018] President of Namibia Dr. Hage Geingob, who is on an official visit to China, led a delegation of government officials of the country to visit the Huawei Beijing Executive Briefing Centre (EBC) and held talks with Li Dafeng, senior vice president of Huawei. During the talks, Dr. Geingob said that it is important to leverage ICT to further advance national development.

The two sides conducted in-depth exchanges on how ICT can promote Namibian economic and social development and enhance the well-being of the people.

Dr. Geingob pointed out that in the information age, ICT technology is playing an increasingly important role in the country's economic and social development and the improvement of people's livelihood. He added that Huawei’s solutions on display for digitization of various industries was very impressive.

Li Dafeng introduced Huawei's business in Namibia and the fulfillment of corporate social responsibility. He said that Namibia has a relatively complete ICT infrastructure and Huawei is willing to further cooperate with local partners under the strategic guidance of the Namibian government to make full use of these infrastructures and continue to contribute to Namibia’s national development and improvement of people’s livelihood.

Li Peng, president of Huawei Southern Africa region(3rd from right) handing over smart educational solutions and equipment to Namibian Higher Education, Training and Innovation Minister Dr. Itah Kandjii-Murangi(4th from left), with witness by Dr. Hage Geingob(3rd from left), Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, deputy prime minister and minister of international relations & cooperation of the republic of Namibia(2nd from left) , Namibian Ambassador to China Elia Kaiyamo(1st from left), Chinese Ambassador to Namibia Zhang Yiming(1st form right) and Li Dafeng, senior vice president of Huawei(2nd from right)

After the meeting, Dr. Geingob attended a donation ceremony of smart educational solutions and equipment. The program includes a set of online learning system, interactive teaching platform and multimedia classroom hardware and software and supporting equipment, aims to promote the rational distribution of educational resources in the country through online and remote education technologies and platforms, and improve educational resources to solid talent base for Namibia’s economic and social development.

Since 2005, Huawei entered the market in Namibia, it has actively participated in ICT infrastructure construction, promoted local economic and social development, and explored the broad prospects for digital development with related parties. At present, Huawei products serve more than 80% of the country's population. In 2016, Huawei and local operators conducted the first 4.5G network application demonstration in Africa in the country. In the next three years, Huawei will also work with local operators to strengthen rural connectivity and help achieve the goal of 100% population coverage of communications services. In addition, as a responsible corporate citizen, Huawei attaches great importance to strengthening the country’s capacity building in ICT, through the “Seeds of the Future” ICT talent training program, donation of university research laboratories, and the sponsorship of the National ICT Summit to actively promote the country’s ICT industry.