STORY: Huawei holds ICT competition in Indonesia
SHOOTING TIME: April 18, 2024
DATELINE: April 19, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:44
LOCATION: Jakarta
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta
2. various of the award ceremony
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Students from Thailand

STORYLINE:

The Huawei Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Competition 2023-2024 Asia Pacific Regional Final concluded in Jakarta on Thursday, with more than 6,000 university students from 14 countries and regions participating.
   
The winners of the 8th Huawei ICT Competition Asia Pacific 2023-2024 were announced at an award ceremony jointly held by Huawei and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foundation at the ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta.
   
The winning teams of the regional competition will participate in the global finals at the Global Final of the Huawei ICT Competition in Shenzhen next month.
   
Cebu Institute of Technology-University from the Philippines got the Grand Prize in the Innovation Track. Bandung Institute of Technology from Indonesia topped the Network Track, while the Grand Prize in the Cloud Track was awarded to Singapore Polytechnic.
   
Moreover, i-Academy from the Philippines emerged as the regional champion in the newly added Computing Track.

SOUNDBITE (English): Students from Thailand
"The project we made is an application called Larry Voice. It's a voice detector application that will help people to do a self-check before going to see a doctor. Its main function is used from Huawei technology, but we have more functions. We expect to use this technology to help the therapists in Thailand."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Jakarta.
(XHTV)