{"id":928,"date":"2020-08-28T13:13:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T08:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/?p=928"},"modified":"2023-03-17T12:11:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T08:41:59","slug":"with-its-new-innovation-center-huawei-wants-to-build-a-smart-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/08\/28\/with-its-new-innovation-center-huawei-wants-to-build-a-smart-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"With its new innovation center, Huawei wants to &#8220;build a smart Africa&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span>During the Huawei Cloud Africa 2020 Summit with the theme &#8220;Building a Smart Africa,&#8221; Ray Rui, President of Huawei Cloud Africa Region, announced the opening of the Huawei Cloud &amp; AI Innovation Center.\u00a0Located in South Africa, the center is designed to drive innovation, knowledge transfer and economic growth.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Ray Rui linked this initiative to the essential nature of AI for the evolution of society and for growth.\u00a0&#8220;AI will be essential for social change and industrial growth in the future.\u00a0We also believe that when you develop economic opportunities, everyone benefits.\u00a0For this reason, we are opening up the Huawei Cloud &amp; AI Innovation Center to application developers from all economic sectors, &#8220;he said.<\/span\n\n<span>AI is one of the themes and one of the most important tools for today&#8217;s digital transformation.\u00a0<\/span><span>It enables innovations such as smart cities, connected cars, automated mining, precision agriculture, and so on.\u00a0<\/span><span>Huawei Cloud&#8217;s new innovation center is part of its &#8220;AI inclusive&#8221; strategy.<\/span\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Huawei Cloud Africa 2020 Summit with the theme &#8220;Building a Smart Africa,&#8221; Ray Rui, President of Huawei Cloud Africa Region, announced the opening of the Huawei Cloud &amp; &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,209,1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}