Huawei and the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu have signed an agreement to establish a training academy and smart city innovation centre in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. The deal was agreee during King Salman bin Abdulaziz's visit to China, during the 2017 ‘Saudi-China Investment Forum’.
The academy will open for training this year. Huawei will be supplying the latest in lab equipment, training instructors, monitoring talent development and other proactive knowledge sharing initiatives.
In addition, a smart city innovation centre is planned to open in 2017, to support the Saudi Arabia 2020 program to grow its digital economy. The centre will provide a platform for the two parties to create, build and deploy new services in Yanbu industrial city.
Source: https://www.telecompaper.com/news/huawei-to-open-training-academy-smart-city-centre-in-ksa--1188309
