Leading telecom provider Zain Bahrain has entered into a strategic partnership with Bahrain Polytechnic in a move to develop the ICT sector in the kingdom.

Under its key initiative, the Future University Network (FUN), which provides young Bahrainis with skills for the workforce, Zain has been a strategic partner of the Bahrain Polytechnic's Annual ICT Exhibition in which students display their graduation project, reported the Gulf Daily News, our sister publication.

With this partnership, Zain Bahrain focuses on providing students an opportunity to develop new ideas that improve customer experience and internal processes.

“The FUN programme concentrates on benefiting the youth by developing their employability and creating a pool of diversified Bahraini talent who will add value to the corporate world,” said CSR manager Pakiza Abdulrahman.

“With this focal point, this partnership has been a step forward towards grooming and nurturing final-year university students to develop their graduation projects. Our mentorship is in line with our corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategic approach which focuses on education and empowering the youth.

“This term we were pleased to mentor student Tuqa Hasan Sanad on her graduation project which was to develop a Cloud '“ Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI),” she added.

“The main objective of the FUN programme is to support university students, and the ICT exhibition provides the right platform for students to translate their work experience into graduation projects. We are very proud of Tuqa who joined Zain Bahrain as a FUN team member, working her way from the call centre to the IT department. Throughout her mentorship, she has worked closely with the IT team to develop her virtualisation project,”  Abdulrahman concluded. – TradeArabia News Service