BEIRUT – The Lebanese Minister of Labor,
HE Mr. Moustafa Bayram, has inaugurated the Technology and Skills Training
Hall, which was equipped in cooperation between Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global
(TAG.Global), Huawei and the American University of Science and Technology
(AUST) in Beirut.

During the ceremony, the Minister
expressed his pride in the three-institutions cooperation, underlining the
continuous support of HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, TAG.Global founder and
chairman, to the Ministry, including the provision of 67 free of charge
laptops, an initiative that saved the Ministry tens of thousands of dollars to
implement.

Based on the existing cooperation between
the University and Huawei, AUST Vice President, Dr. Riad Sakr, stated that the
Center is dedicated to training everyone, especially public sector employees,
in the field of Information and Communications Technology ICT) under the
supervision of the Ministry of Labor to enhance their ICT-related skills,
knowledge, and expertise.

For his part, Mr. Burhan Al Ashkar,
representative of Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh for Culture and Media in Lebanon, said
that Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh’s contribution  to
complete the equipment of this Hall is part of his responsibilities  towards Lebanon, pointing to the readiness of
TAG.Global Digital Training Platform to offer its 300 training programs to meet
the training needs of the Ministry’s employees.

He continued by announcing the opening of
the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh for Technology (TAGTech) factory in Lebanon at the
beginning of 2024 to be the first of its kind in the country, that manufactures
and produces a range of state-of-the-art technological devices including
laptops, tablets, and smartphones at the headquarters of the Lebanese
University.

Meanwhile, Mr. Mohammad Sharara, representative
of Huawei, expressed the Company’s pride in such cooperation, reaffirming its
ongoing role in the field of training programs, especially in the areas of
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and the perspectives of
the Fifth Generation Mobile Communications, among other cutting-edge
applications and technologies that have become more of a necessary.