Eng. Atef Helmy, Egypt's newly-appointed minister of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), has inaugurated on Wednesday the Huawei Authorized Network Academy (HANA)'s lab in the National Telecommunication Institution (NTI)'s headquarters in Smart Village. HANA's new lab aims to train Engineering Faculty's students and fresh graduates on the state-of-the-art technologies in communications networks. Eng. Atef Helmy, said the inauguration of this specialist lab comes as a sideline to the ministry's human development programs as well as to the NTI's specialized training programs. Furthermore, Eng. Atef Helmy indicated that HANA's lab will contribute to making more expansions for the purpose of developing skills and modernizing the telecoms' infrastructure. The lab will train the graduates, specialized engineers in field of communications and the public-sector employees on the state-of-the-art communications technology. Magdy El-Soudani, Director of the NTI, noted that as pursuant to the agreement signed between the institute and Huawei, the latter shall present the necessary technical support including providing the new lab with all the advanced devices, preparing the curriculum as well as teaching content and also training the NTI engineers and cadres in order to teach the engineering students and fresh graduates later. Moreover, the Regional Director of Huawei Robinson Hu, asserted that the official inauguration of HANA's lab comes as a sideline to the company's strategy to re-inject part of its profits in form of fresh investments in development-friendly countries.
