Huawei (October 2nd, 2014, Hammamet), the world's leading ICT solutions and services provider held "Huawei Broader Way" during the "ICT4ALL 2014" , and actively promoted to build a better connected digital world in Tunisia and across North Africa region.
Sponsored by Madam Bian Yanhua, Ambassador of People’s Republic of China to Tunisia, and Mr Tawfik Jelassi, Minister of higher education, scientific research & ICT, "Huawei Broader Way 2014" forum was successfully held in Tunisia resort of Hammamet. Around 100 Guests from Tunisia, Mauritania, China, Romania, France and other countries attended the forum, including officials, experts and scholars from multiple fields such as health, culture and education, information communication, transportation, administration. A warm discussion has been engaged centering on the theme of E-government in Cloud computing Era.
Mr Tawfik Jelassi, Minister of higher education, scientific research & ICT addressed in the Broader way. He expressed appreciation of Huawei several years’ consecutive participation in ICT4ALL activities and the insisting support of ICT development in Tunisia. In terms of the theme of Huawei hosted broader way, the envision of building a better connected world completely coincides with the national plan of Digital Tunisia 2018. Benefitted from Tunisia’s favorable talents resources and the geographical advantage connected between Africa, Europe and Asia, he expressed confidence in realizing the plan of digital Tunisia 2018 by means of successful cooperation between the government and enterprises.
Mr. Xuyong, Vice President of Huawei North Africa gave the opening remarks, introducing Huawei Technologies convincible performance of this year in the global and North Africa region in the range of ultra broadband, mobile broadband, enterprise network and smart devices, and emphasizing Huawei’s technology and services innovation in multiple areas to meet the needs of sustainable development raised by the government and carrier customers. The globally distributed R & D centers and training centers have been providing strong support to the North Africa as well as Tunisia’s the ICT transformation and digital economy development.
Experts and scholars pointed out, the mankind has already entered the cloud computing era and the era calls for "Big data, Cloud computing and Trans-boundary collaboration". The construction of "service oriented e-government cloud services platform" was to represent the universal trend. Currently it is the striving direction steered by the governments and organizations. A better connected world is in sight! At the same time, concerning how to construct e-government platform based on cloud computing, what kind of service platform to be constructed, the guests also actively offer suggestions and advocated the building of "one net, one data, one common service platform", calling on the government to follow the methodology of Top-Design, namely, building up higher level leadership and organization. It was necessary to release the matching strategy and policy and establish organized, orderly, efficient tracking system. About the construction modes and methods, the experts share the successful experience of South Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Angola and other countries.
For the Tunisian construction of digital economy, the grand goal of e-government, the participating experts and scholars were full of confidence. They thought Tunisia have better infrastructure, excellent ICT culture and talents, endowed by nature fascinating geographical position, thus a better connected digital society is coming soon.
As the biggest event in ICT sector of Tunisia, ICT4ALL2014 forum was held on September 22-25 in HAMMAMET City. The theme of this year is digital economy and e-government.
