Huawei and key TECH4ALL partners showcased the growing role of Huawei’s TECH4ALL initiative in Europe’s digital and green transformation at Huawei Connect Paris 2024.
The TECH4ALL Forum on day one of Huawei Connect explored several new and existing TECH4ALL projects and the value these are creating in driving sustainable development for the benefit of both people and the planet.
“We believe that technology and partnerships are at the heart of digital and green transformation and are central to building an inclusive and sustainable digital world,” said Jeffrey Zhou, President of ICT Marketing at Huawei. “That is the thinking behind our TECH4ALL initiative, which we launched five years ago in 2019 and which today is stronger than ever.”
At the event, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) introduced the Tech4Nature global partnership, which Huawei and IUCN jointly launched in 2020 to scale up success in nature conservation through technological innovation. Aligned with Huawei’s TECH4ALL initiative and the IUCN Green List, Tech4Nature has supported 11 flagship projects in eight countries with tailored solutions to conservation challenges.
“Tech4Nature is a global partnership between the nature conservation sector led by IUCN and the tech sector led by Huawei. It’s a crucially important partnership because technology needs to be part of the solution to the biodiversity and climate crises facing the planet. Tech4Nature is about tapping into the innovation and energy of the tech sector to help solve these issues,” said James Hardcastle, Global Protected and Conserved Areas Director for IUCN.
Phase II of Tech4Nature kicked off in 2024 with new projects launched or scheduled in five countries, including a biodiversity monitoring and protection project in Spain’s Sierra Nevada, which was launched last week.