Middle East teams triumph at Huawei ICT Competition Global Finals

Middle East teams triumph at Huawei ICT Competition Global Finals

- Other teams from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, and Pakistan also excelled in the competition

Middle East: Regional teams performed with distinction in the Huawei ICT Competition Global Finals 2021-2022 held in Shenzhen, China. The Competition's sixth edition attracted 150,000 students from more than 2000 universities in 85 countries and regions worldwide, competing in three categories: Practice, Innovation and Industry.

A team from Salahaddin University in Iraq beat teams from all over the world to win the Innovation Competition Grand Prize. The group, comprised of Rwaid Luqa Hanna, Nyaz Irfan Mustafa, Steven Sliwa Matti and supervised by Ms. Silva Hekmet Matti, developed a mobile app to serve deaf, blind and deaf-blind people. The application uses audio, vibration and visual cues to help them communicate with each other and with others. The Iraq team also took the Tech4all Digital Inclusion Award, part of Huawei's long-term digital inclusion initiative for using technology, applications and skills to empower people and organizations everywhere.

The second and third prizes in the Innovation Competition went to Pakistan with teams from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and the National University of Science & Technology (NUST), respectively.

The Practice Competition saw teams from Iraq and Pakistan take the First Prize, together