Chinese Telecom Huawei supported Bangladesh’s ongoing Book Fair by providing cloud service

on Mar 08, 2022

Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2022 is Bangladesh’s largest ongoing annual book fair. It kicked off on February 15th and will continue till March 17th at Dhaka’s Bangla Academy premises adjacent Suhrawardy garden. It is great news that Chinese telecom Huawei is providing cloud service for the virtual edition of the fair.

Considering the changed realities into account of how everything is digital in present times, the Bangla Academy, organizer of the fair, had launched a website so that the visitors and interested people can attend the virtual edition. It was launched with an aim to give access to people for the information and updates about the fair through the digital platform. This was announced by Huawei on Monday.

Poet Nurul Huda, Director General of the Bangla Academy said that Bangladesh is moving towards digital services and the government is facilitating the transformation. Accordingly, the Bangla Academy has launched a website for people to attend the fair on a virtual platform so that they can gain information digitally. "This is appreciable that Huawei has come forward as a cloud partner in this initiative," he said.

Yuying Karl, director for Public Affairs and Communications Department at Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Limited, said Huawei has been participating in the development of ICT sector and supporting Bangladesh through introducing world's most innovative technologies, such as Huawei Cloud platform "As part of our commitment, we are happy to provide cloud service to facilitate the fair's virtual site. We believe that this website will add a new dimension to the book fair and help the Bangla Academy in many ways," he said.

Huawei Cloud started its journey in Bangladesh in 2018 and initially facilitated the e-government execution in the country. It also provides solutions for media, e-commerce, manufacturing industry to help their digital transformation with local service support.