Huawei: 2018-2019 Huawei ICT Competition Southern Africa Regional

Students from Nigeria and Tanzania were the overall joint winners of this year’s Sub-Saharan regional finals of Huawei's global ICT Competition.

Together with second prize winners, Angola and Kenya, the four teams will travel to China for the finals, which will see 40 teams from around the world compete for the championship title.

The competition challenged participants in latest ICT technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, mobile networks and big data. Almost 30,000 students from over 100 universities in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Botswana and Mauritius participated.

It came down to 42 students in 14 teams to sit for theory and practical exams in the final at Huawei’s regional HQ in Woodmead, Johannesburg.