Botswana students third in Huawei's Sub-Saharan Africa ICT Comp

Botswana Team during ICT competition
Botswana Team during ICT competition

A Botswana team of three students emerged one of the winners in this year’s Sub Saharan regional finals of Huawei’s global ICT Competition.

The competition covered latest ICT technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, mobile networks and big data. Almost 30, 000 students from over 100 universities in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Botswana and Mauritius participated.

At the finals, held last week in Johannesburg, it came down to 42 students in 14 teams. They sat for theory and practical examinations at the finals at Huawei’s regional headquarters in Woodmead, Johannesburg.

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