On 11th June 2015, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Huawei Technologies (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim to establish an industry centre of excellence and talent development program. This is a great partnership to promote the industry academia collaboration that align with Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015-2025 (Higher Education) focusing on Upskilling and Reskilling programs leading to the necessary human capital building in supporting information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure and developments and in creating world class graduates and professional ICT talents for the country.
The purpose of the industry centre of excellence is to leverage UTM’s and Huawei’s innovation capabilities to develop future oriented technology and application, including but not limited to digital media, energy, healthcare, future cities and life sciences domains, exploring Huawei will work together with UTM Centre for Information and Communication Technology (CICT), Media and Game Innovation Centre of Excellence (MaGIC-X) and Wireless Communication Centre (WCC) to encourage more technology leaders, government organizations, regulators and policy makers to develop a dialogue platform to build a better connected ICT network in Malaysia.
The partnership also aims to build state-of-the-art showcase for the general public, including Huawei’s client base (“Technology Showcase”) and to build a successful and ambitious application ecosystem, which focuses on impacting industry and society through commercialization of research outputs, bringing new ideas to market through licensing and spin-out company formation.
The joint ICT talent development programs is to support the Malaysia ICT talent requirements to build sustainable talent pipelines from the institutions of higher learning and to realign raw talents from the pool of fresh graduates to the high-growth telecommunication sectors, and increase the pool of professionals and experts to enhance service depth and competitiveness.
Ministry of Education (MOE) had aspire to make innovation a major driver of economic growth by emphasizing shift number 7, Innovation Ecosystem under the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015-2025 (Higher Education). In virtue of it by smearing the concept of Quadruple Helix whereby entail four influential elements which are Industry, Academia, Government and Community. MOE through one of its anchor department, Industry Relations Division, had put a countless effort trhough the industry academia collaboration between Huawei and UTM. In addition, the CEO of Huawei, Mr Abraham Liu, has been recognized and appointed for the CEO Faculty Program. This effort is in line to shift number 2, Talent Excellence under the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015-2025 (Higher Education).
The MoU exchange ceremony was held in conjunction with the launching of the Huawei Asia Pacific Digital Cloud Exchange in Nusajaya by YAB Tan Sri Dato’ Hj. Muhyiddin bin Hj. Mohd. Yassin, the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia. The MoU was signed by UTM Vice Chancellor, YB Datuk Professor Ir Dr Wahid Omar and the CEO of Huawei Technologies, Mr Abraham Liu.
Sourced from UTM News Portal.