Huawei Launches ‘Seeds for the Future’ Program in Pakistan

Higher Education Commission HEC and Huawei Pakistan have launched the 2020 Seeds for the Future Program, a five-day long-culture and ICT technology learning program in which 32 brilliant Pakistani engineering students will participate in online training together with Kenyan students.

The technology was first introduced in 2015 in Pakistan. 55 students have learned from it since then. The selection criteria is extremely comprehensive each year. The Higher Education Commission nominated 32 students out of 1173 applicants for the fifth time that seeds for the future are taking place in Pakistan. All of them are undergraduate students in engineering.

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Chinese culture and the Chinese language are the initial steps of learning. Huawei and industry ICT experts will also undergo professional training to share their expertise in a wide variety of courses covering 5G, cloud computing, AI, strategic leadership, smart homes, IoT, and cybersecurity.

Unlike previous years when the entire batch of nominated students could fly to China for the study trip, the program was moved online due to COVID-19. However, two top students will be picked at the end of the week and sent to China for further study in 2021.

Since the first batch of Pakistani students traveled to China in 2015, the Seeds for the Future program has been a productive addition to Huawei's social-enterprise partnership objective in Pakistan. The program's goal, which has been thriving since its launch in Thailand in over 126 countries & regions, has been to develop upcoming STEM talent from around the world. As a global ICT leading company, Huawei has taken on supporting local ICT industries in their functional regions as part of development.

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The ICT industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. In our emerging, globally-connected online world, the demand for skilled and market-ready professionals in the sector is overgrowing; it is becoming a need. With sufficient foresight, initiatives such as Seeds of the Future resolve this long-term probability of deficiency.