📋 Tender Overview
MTN Group and Huawei signed a Memorandum of Understanding MoU on 27 February at MWC Barcelona 2023 to strengthen strategic cooperation in the field of Environmental Social and Governance ESG.During a summit held by the two parties at MWC Barcelona the MoU is aligned with MTNs business strategy Ambition 2025 and Huaweis Corporate Sustainability Development CSD strategy including its TECH4ALL initiative.Leading digital solutions for Africas progress can only be achieved through the power of partnerships said MTN Group Chief Sustainability Corporate Affairs Officer Nompilo Morafo. Working with companies like Huawei we can pool our technologies and expertise to drive greater access to connectivity digital skills and greener and more sustainable solutions to the benefit of all.We believe that digital technology will become an important force driving social development and making the world more inclusive and sustainable. said Guo Ping Chairman of the Huawei Supervisory Board.In the area of digital skills training the Huawei DigiTruck project provides free training in digital skills for those in need including those in rural communities the elderly the unemployed and girls and women. Converted from a used shipping container mounted on a truck DigiTruck is a solar-powered mobile classroom equipped with laptops smartphones and 4G connectivity.Another project in the digital skills training area is Huawei ICT Academy. It trains university students in ICT skills such as 5G cloud computing and AI. There are 1900 Huawei ICT Academies in 110 countries serving around 150000 students a year.MTNs Skills Academy seeks to enhance the link between digital skills training and job market requirements to benefit producers consumers and innovators of digital technologies. The partnership seeks to accelerate efforts to reach even more rural and remote communities and to broaden the portfolio of available digital skills training.With a significant portion of Africas population living in rural areas MTN is committed to expanding its network to underserved communities and has set a target of 95 rural broadband coverage by 2025. MTNs partnership with Huawei gets the company closer to its goal. The company intends to expand the number of collaborations and the types of partnership models it has in place.MTN and Huawei are collaborating on deploying RuralStar an affordable connectivity solution for providing online access to remote and rural communities. The solution overcomes traditional barriers that make network connectivity in such scenarios unviable for carriers and will extend collaboration between the partners following in the footsteps of the completion of the worlds first RuralStar proof-of-concept in Ghana in 2017.In terms of reducing carbon emissions Huawei will support MTNs commitment to minimize its impact on the planet and achieve net zero by 2040. The partners will work on decarbonizing the operators telecommunications infrastructure spanning Radio Access Network RAN sites transport networks storage and data centers. This achievement of network decarbonization will be done via a mix of energy efficiency technologies and application of innovative green solutions.
