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SAP and UNHCR complete Refugee Code Week following Africa
Refugee Code Week builds on the huge success of Africa Code Week, which trained more than 89,000 participants in 2016, four times the original goal.
Refugee Code Week initiative is in collaboration with Galway Education Centre, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and more than 25 local partners.
SAP, UNHCR, and partners from public, private sector and non-governmental organisations, launched SAP Refugee Code Week, an initiative that aims to train 10,000 youth refugees and nationals in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. First announced at the recent World Humanitarian Summit, the initiative supports the United Nations New York
Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, which aims to strengthen the economic and social contribution of migrants to their local communities and host countries. Refugee Code Week initiative is in collaboration with Galway Education Centre, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and more than 25 local partners.
Building sustainable student engagement, Refugee Code Week is partnering with a number of Jordanian educational institutions, including Al-Balqa Applied University, German Jordanian University, The Hashemite University, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Rum International School, The University of Jordan, University of Petra, and Zarqa University.
With millions of refugees in the Middle East, Refugee Code Week has partnered with ReBootKamp RBK to extend their coding initiative, offering the opportunity to join Amman-based RBK coding education camp. The successful launch of RBK’ s first 16-week coding camp of which 50 % were refugees and 50 % Jordanians, graduated with a competitive edge resulting in near 100 % job placement.
Ciena GeoMesh to help integrate networks at Telecom Egypt
Telecom Egypt is deploying Ciena’ s GeoMesh solution and packet-optical platforms for reliable, low-latency connectivity to meet surging demands for high-bandwidth services on its national terrestrial network and submarine links between the Mediterranean and Asia. With a more agile and scalable network, Telecom Egypt’ s wholesale carrier, service provider, internet content provider and consortium customers will be able to provide diverse data transit routes for international datacentre interconnect, disaster recovery, cloud-based services, and other high-capacity services for enterprise and consumer end-customers.
With more than 160 years of operational history, Telecom Egypt is the largest provider of fixed line services in the Middle East and Africa. Telecom Egypt offers a complete range of international telecommunications services, including voice, data, dark fibre, colocation and tailored data solutions. Its geographic location spans about 1,000 km on the Red Sea and 1,000 km on the Mediterranean Sea, and connects more than seventeen cable systems through seven diversified routes and five landing stations across Egypt.
A key benefit of the Ciena-enabled mesh restoration of interconnected terrestrial and submarine networks is that Telecom Egypt can extend its offerings with a suite of high-availability networking services that can survive unexpected hardware and fiber route failures. Ciena’ s GeoMesh also allows Telecom Egypt to proactively resolve unexpected issues and maintain network reliability.
Ciena’ s 6500 and 5430 packet-optical platforms, powered by WaveLogic Extreme coherent optics, allows Telecom Egypt to offer a diverse mix of services over high-capacity wavelengths; supporting any type of traffic, including fully transparent optical transport networks OTN, virtual private networks VPN, optical VPN and Ethernet services, all with stringent SLAs. www. intelligentcio. com INTELLIGENTCIO
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