Telecommunications solutions provider Huawei Technologies has launched its Digital inCloud service centre for Eastern and southern Africa.

Huawei's Digital inCloud centre aims to build Africa's digital eco-system through the cooperation of operators and local and global partners, to introduce digital services to Africa and vice versa.

And South Africa and Kenya are the latest regions to be added to Huawei's global Digital inCloud commercial sites.

Currently Huawei Digital inCloud has over 2,000 partners with over 200,000 high-quality digital content and has served over 140 million carrier users.

Mac Taylor, chief business consultant for Huawei digital services product line explained that the platform enables Huawei to aggregate partners who provide content services, video services, games and applications on a global platform.

Huawei acts as a broker between aggregated content, games, applications and video partners, and bring those to operator customers in local geographic domains, he added.

Taylor further explained that for a market like South Africa they aggregate games from China, US and other parts of the world so that local operators can distribute content to their consumer customers.

Kenya's hosting centre is planned to provide services to leading East African mobile operator, Safaricom. And in South Africa Huawei has partnered with MTN.

Felix Tang, director of Huawei Eastern & Southern Region carrier software department said, "We are signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with three local partners who plan to provide digital services together with Huawei in Eastern and Southern Africa."

The local content partners are Globetom, GM Gaming and the GMSA, said Tang.

It's very important for Huawei to work with local partners because there is a lot of talent in every geographical domain but they don't often have a portal to the world, Taylor stated.

"Through this Digital inCloud centre we hope to encourage local content providers, local businesses, local applications providers to reach not only consumers in their local markets but also reach a global audience," said Taylor.

He added, "We can leverage all the best technologies of the internet and the cloud and give this opportunity to local businesses as well."