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Developing ICTs

China As Strategic Partner
C ameroon’s Information  and Communication  Technologies (ICT) is  striving to keep pace  with global evolutions of the  irresistible socio-economic  development  tool.  Given  that practice makes perfect,  Cameroon has been partnering  with countries and institutions  that have gone steps further in  the sector. China for instance,  has demonstrated her goodwill  to stand by Cameroon as that  strategic partner to bridge the  gap between theories in ICTs and  practice so that the country’s  budding talents could grow  and  conveniently  contribute  in advancing the course here.  In 2016, China’s telecoms giant,  Huawei, picked 10 best Cameroonian ICT students for training  at its headquarters in Shenzhen,  Guangdong Province of China.  The students from ICTs-related  higher institutions of learning in  the country were laureates of  Huawei Cameroon’s 2016 “Seed  for the Future Programme,” a  lead platform began in 2008 to  nurture professionals increasingly needed to drive the development of Information and  Communication Technologies  (ICT)  industry  in  beneficiary  countries.  Huawei sources say the mismatch  between talent supply and demand hinders social progress  and creates social problems.  Reason why the programme  offers opportunity for hands-on  training, witnessing and practising evolutions in ICT. The fact  that the training of participants  from one country almost always  coincides with that of other  countries (the ten Cameroonians were trained alongside ten  others each from South Africa  and  Sri  Lanka)  gives  them  a  rare opportunity for experience  sharing and networking for  mutual benefits. Trainees are  also given an opportunity to  meet fine experts during the  training through whom they can  be inspired to strive for...

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