Huawei South Africa and the Department of Communication and Digital Technologies (DCDT) have officially launched partnership programmes aimed at enhancing broadband deployment as a foundation for a digital economy and providing digital skills training for SMMEs.
The programmes were launched at an official event attended by Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Mondli Gungubele. They additionally form part of a wider cooperation agreement between the two parties that was signed earlier this month, and which will see Huawei share global best practices for the planning of digital economy policies and technology rollouts, among other things. Africa Analysis and Digital Coucil Africa are alost stakeholders in the broadband pact.
“South Africa has got huge socio-economic potential,” said the minister. “What we want to do is unlock that potential and unleash it and see…
