Huawei Technologies Ghana, in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy, has organized an ICT workshop for staff and management of the Ministry.

The three-day workshop, which benefitted 50 Civil servants from the Energy Ministry, focused mainly on highlighting digital transformation trends in the Energy sector as well as building the ICT skills capacity of participants.

The workshop is this year’s curtain-raiser for the Huawei Ghana Hi-Class (Huawei Intelligent Ghana Hub Class) initiative which is part of the HIT (Huawei ICT Training) programme targeted at benefiting 10,000 Ghanaians by 2024.

Mr Andrew Egyapa Mercer, the Deputy Minister for Energy, speaking at the workshop said the Ministry desired to build the ICT capacity of the staff.

“All around the world economies are bracing themselves for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and at the core of these preparations is Digital Technology or ICTs," he said.

He said industries needed to embrace digitalization to remain competitive in the new era… and as a Ministry "we are committed to building the capacity of our human resource to boost ICT literacy.”

The Deputy Minister commended Huawei for the initiative and called for more cooperation.

He said: “I will like to commend Huawei for organizing this workshop for the Ministry. I hope that the workshop will go a long way to facilitate the digitalization processes of the sector."

He said as an industry leader in ICT, the Ministry would also look forward to engaging Huawei to leverage on their global experience to transform the energy sector in Ghana.

Mr Robin Liu, Executive Vice President, Global Energy Business Unit, Enterprise Business Group at Huawei Global Headquarters, said, “All over the world, the Energy industry remained the bedrock of Economies and Industries.

He said almost every industry relied on Energy or Power to function properly in one way or the other and this made the sector the anchor of many economies.

He said it was, therefore, important that in going digital, the Energy Sector should be of critical interest for all.

The Executive Vice President said that “Huawei has helped many countries to digitalize key industries in the Energy Sector, mainly, Oil and Gas, and the Electricity or Power sectors.”

Mr Kweku Essuman Quansah, the Deputy Managing Director at Huawei Ghana, said, “The workshop forms part of activities geared towards fulfilling a commitment they made to the Government to build the ICT skill capacity of up to 10,000 Ghanaians by the year 2024.”

"Huawei as an industry leader believes that in order to fully achieve a digital Ghana and world at large, the ICT skill gap of countries and industries must be closed, hence as a socially responsible organization, the company will continue to invest resources to achieve this goal," he said.

The Participants were taken through the 10th – 14th five-year Plans of the China National Petroleum Company, spanning 2000 and 2025.

Participants also got the opportunity to embark on a virtual tour of Huawei’s ultramodern Enterprise Digital Transformation Exhibition Center to witness the real-time application of digital technologies that are transforming the energy industry.