Mayor Sebastian Duterte open to partnership with Huawei in addressing CCTV security and traffic concerns of city as part of ‘digital transformation’ initiative

In a courtesy call and business meeting today with Huawei Technologies Philippines, Inc., Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte expressed his openness to pursue a partnership with Chinese giant company, Huawei.

Huawei Philippines Regional Department Director Mr. Leon Guo expressed interest in working with the Mayor via a public-private industrial collaboration on renewable energy and education. He stated that Huawei has long been providing the country with communications technology infrastructure and the company would want to pursue more partnerships towards digital transformation.

The Mayor positively responded to the invitation, including a visit to Huawei’s headquarters in China sometime this year. He showed interest in what the company can do to improve Davao City’s security system and traffic signalization projects.

Mayor Duterte further expressed support after hearing Mr. Jeffy Zhu, Huawei Mindanao Regional Account Manager, present possibilities on smart cities, renewable energy projects, and modernization of City Hall transactions such as online and paperless business registration and permit applications.

Both parties are optimistic about job generation, cargo, and logistics prospects after pledging to actively collaborate and firm up details in their first public-private industrial partnership focused on digitalization and technology.