The winners of Huawei’s first global Tech4Good contest were announced yesterday, with the Thai team “Are u OK?” taking gold for their solution that helps patients in Thailand receive faster emergency treatment.

They achieved this through advanced route planning and real-time communications enabled by 5G, AI and cloud technologies, reducing the time patients spend traveling to medical centers and improving their odds. of survival.

The Tech4Good competition is a new project launched in 2021 as part of Huawei’s flagship digital skills training program Seeds for the Future. Tech4Good asks students to identify a social problem and come up with a technical solution based on the ICT skills they acquire throughout the program. This competition is also designed to cultivate leadership and teamwork through group training and competition.

Seeds for the Future was launched in 2008 to develop skilled local ICT talent and bridge communication gaps between countries and cultures. In this program, young people from all over the world study advanced ICT technologies and acquire practical expertise and skills. The 2021 program had more than 3,500 participants from more than 117 countries, bringing the total number of participants over the past 13 years to 120,000 students representing 139 countries and regions.

In her opening remarks at the awards ceremony, Catherine Chen, Senior Vice President of Huawei, Director of the Board, explained how this year’s program was a particular success, saying: “The attendance of the Seeds for the Future program has broken records in 2021. Your feedback and love for this program has been truly heartwarming. Your generation’s passion and willingness to learn never fails to impress me.

The second and third prizes were awarded to Team Vietnam VNO1 and Team Libya Binary Brains respectively, and Team Brazil Digital4People won the People’s Choice Award with more than 40,000 votes according to an online popular vote. There were a total of 79 submissions for the competition and over 110,000 people took part in the final voting.

Winners will have private consulting or coaching sessions with Huawei executives and managers, and will be shortlisted to speak at international forums and other events. First place winners will also have the chance to meet with an investor to pitch their idea.

Chen also spoke at length during the event about the program’s goal of fostering unity and cooperation in a controversial international environment, as well as other social goals. She said: “In this year’s Seeds for the Future programme, more than half of the participants from more than 20 countries are women. Technology has no gender. A diverse, inclusive and innovative world needs the perspectives and strength of women. to see more women participating in science and technology in the years to come.”

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