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Education4ALL: Supporting Equal Access to High-quality Education

Knowledge and skills are the cornerstone of progress. ICT technologies promote equal access to education, and
serve as a building block of digital skills education. In education, Huawei focuses on four types of programs: skills
on wheels, connecting all schools, empowering the unempowered, and building a thriving ICT ecosystem. Together
with its partners, Huawei is committed to providing equal access to high-quality educational opportunities for
people of different regions and groups using ICT.

On the Road to Digital Skills with DigiTruck

To help Kenyans in remote rural areas improve their

digital awareness and digital skills, Huawei set up the

DigiTruck mobile digital classroom, in partnership with

the Belgian nonprofit organization Close the Gap, the

UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa, GSMA,

Computers for Schools Kenya (CFSK), the Kenyan

telecom carrier Safaricom, and Kenya’s Ministry of ICT.

DigiTruck is the latest program under Huawei’s

TECH4ALL initiative that supports access to high-quality

education. It focuses on providing digital skills training

for rural teachers, unemployed young people, and

women in Kenya.

Huawei’s DigiTruck is a shipping container that has been

converted into a mobile digital classroom. The 12-meter

classroom is equipped with smart devices like laptops,

LED screens, smartphones, and virtual reality (VR)

Trainees in digital skills training in the DigiTruck Huawei’s DigiTruck mobile digital classroom

headsets. Students can use smartphones and laptops to

learn Internet skills thanks to wireless broadband access.

The VR equipment on the truck provides a new level of

resources to be incorporated into the classroom. The

entire truck is solar-powered, so classes can be held in

remote areas without power supplies.

DigiTruck hugely benefitted local communities in a

number of ways: Local residents better understand the

benefits of digital skills. Teachers in villages can use

digital technologies so that students can access the

world of digital information as early as possible. Young

entrepreneurs can study e-commerce and earn more

revenue through the Internet. Rural women can become

more financially independent thanks to computer

technologies. Moving forward, DigiTruck will provide

digital skills training to even more people in remote

regions.

2019 Annual Report (^161)