Huawei Thailand CSIC to provide customers with ICT solution building opportunities

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By Shannon Jayawardena

The recently launched Huawei Customer Solutions Innovation and Integration Experience Centre (CSIC) in Thailand is to provide customers with ICT solution building opportunities while sharing best practices and exchanging ideas that will benefit the rising digital Asia Pacific.

“Thailand has a dream of transforming our digital structure to a digital economy which will develop the country immensely. The CSIC will create more opportunities for start-ups and strengthen them for a more holistic approach,” said Thailand Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak at the Huawei Asia Pacific Innovation Day held earlier this month.

The state of-the art centre is furnished with a 4K video, public safety demonstration devices and over 120 global show cases for business, technology and society. The CSIC has been formulated with the aim of providing customers with a prospect to experience, plan, authenticate and build ICT solutions.

Compared to the traditional exhibition centre, the CSIC is built on the concept of Cloud and Huawei has incorporated its global resources to build an efficient and larger cloud system which will include entities such as Huawei global best practices. The CSIC’s physical environment has also been set up in a manner which both infrastructure and environment is easy to work with, efficient with mindfulness to all employees.

The ICT sector currently stands at 6.4% to 9% as a proportion of Global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the global ICT industry is growing at 2.6%, faster than the 2.4% average growth rate for the world GDP. Analysts at the innovation day highlighted that the ICT industry contributes 30%-40% of economic growth annually, whilst a 20% increase in ICT investment could accelerate GDP growth by 1%.

Huawei Southeast Asia Region President James Wu noted: “Huawei will officially open an Open Lab in Delhi in August this year. This Open Lab, along with the one in Bangkok, will serve as open innovation platforms where Huawei joins forces with local partners to develop industry solutions for the Asia Pacific region.

Likewise Huawei opened a similar CSIC in Sri Lanka in 2017 to further strengthen and support Sri Lanka’s digital economy. The centre not only enables customers to experience, architect, validate and build ICT solutions but is built on the concept of cloud and leading IT infrastructures.

Huawei believes that if Sri Lanka as a country wants to move forward in an ever developing and faster moving world while positioning it along with competitive developed East Asian Economies, the country must focus on ICT infrastructure development in order to add more value to the country’s educated generations and future generations.