{"id":18128,"date":"2026-04-15T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2026\/04\/15\/accelerating-digital-skills-ict-academy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:46:49","slug":"accelerating-digital-skills-ict-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2026\/04\/15\/accelerating-digital-skills-ict-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerating Digital Skills with COMSTECH Huawei ICT Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OIC Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation and Huawei Technologies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and inaugurated the joint COMSTECH-Huawei ICT Academy at the OIC-COMSTECH Secretariat in Islamabad, a move aimed at strengthening digital capacity across 57 OIC member and five observer states.<\/p>\n<p>The newly opened ICT Academy features advanced digital learning infrastructure to support virtual instruction, hands-on ICT training and real-time collaboration, enabling students and professionals across the OIC region to access blended learning and Huawei&#8217;s global training ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major General (R) Hafeez Ur Rehman<\/strong>, Chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and chief guest at the ceremony, described the initiative as a timely investment in Pakistan&#8217;s ICT ecosystem that will also support broader capacity-building efforts across OIC member states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary<\/strong>, Coordinator General OIC-COMSTECH, said the MoU and the ICT Academy represent a transformative step toward digital self-reliance for member countries, adding that the programme will enable youth to acquire cutting-edge skills and contribute to innovation-led socio-economic development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ethan Sun<\/strong>, CEO Huawei Pakistan, reiterated Huawei&#8217;s commitment to empowering youth with industry-relevant digital skills and noted that the company&#8217;s long-running Seeds for the Future programme and similar initiatives will feed into the academy&#8217;s training activities.<\/p>\n<p>The COMSTECH-Huawei ICT Academy will deliver specialised certification programmes in 5G, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity, aimed at bridging the talent gap and equipping young professionals with industry-ready skills that are in demand locally and regionally.<\/p>\n<p>The inauguration concluded with a tour of the facility and live demonstrations of Huawei&#8217;s digital learning technologies, attended by ambassadors and senior diplomats from Somalia, Malaysia, Morocco, Mauritius, Azerbaijan, Algeria and Brunei Darussalam, along with representatives of various international and national organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OIC-COMSTECH and Huawei launch ICT Academy in Islamabad to accelerate digital skills, 5G and AI training across OIC member states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}