JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On December 2, 2025, Huawei Cloud Summit Indonesia convened in Jakarta, attracting more than 500 representatives from governments, enterprises, and ecosystem. The summit focused on exploring new opportunities in the AI era and promoting leapfrog development to realize the vision of Digital Indonesia.

Xin Dajiang, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Huawei Indonesia, said in his address that Huawei Cloud collaborates with leading enterprises like Telkomsel, Indosat, XLSmart, PLN, and to serve local giants such as Bluebird, BCA, CT Corp, and Alfamart and hundreds of small- and medium-sized enterprises in Indonesia to foster ecosystem growth, generate employment, and nurture the next generation of digital talent. He noted that Huawei Cloud’s Jakarta Region has three availability zones (AZs). AI and cloud technologies not only offer technical support but also drive innovation in digital transformation of individuals, enterprises, and governments. Huawei Cloud embodies the gotong royong spirit in Indonesia, for Indonesia.

Indonesia’s large population and diverse industry scenarios are crucial for building an ASEAN AI engine. Sunny Shang, President of Huawei Cloud Asia Pacific emphasized Huawei Cloud’s commitment to continually enhancing local infrastructure and full-stack AI capabilities in Indonesia, accelerating industry intelligence and fostering a thriving ecosystem with more than 300 partners.

Enhancing local investment and ecosystem development to build a robust cloud foundation for the AI era

In 2022, Huawei Cloud’s 3-AZ data center entered operation, delivering active-active disaster recovery, 99.99% high availability, and 20 ms latency across the country for superior experience. Leon Fang, CEO of Huawei Cloud Indonesia, announced that Huawei Cloud will introduce the fourth AZ in 2026, as part its continued investment in local infrastructure.

Huawei Cloud is not just a technology enabler, but a long-term digital transformation partner for local enterprises. During the summit, Huawei Cloud and Telkomsel, Indonesia’s leading telecommunications company, announced an AI partnership to accelerate industry intelligence with full-stack AI capabilities.

Huawei Cloud has established a thriving digital ecosystem in Indonesia, collaborating with more than 300 partners to serve customers across industries. At the event, Huawei Cloud its key partner Telkom released a joint CDN service to improve local content distribution.

Full-stack AI: Innovating for Indonesian enterprises’ future

AI technology paradigms are shifting—from generative to agentic, from public data to industry-specific data, from commercial to open-source models, and from concentrated AI compute to a diverse landscape. Cloud data centers are adapting to these shifts, transforming into an intelligent foundation for the AI era. William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing, emphasized that Huawei Cloud keeps opening up full-stack AI capabilities to help local customers capitalize on AI opportunities.

Huawei Cloud continues to strengthen data and AI capabilities by offering leading databases, upgrading data services, and innovating AI platforms. At the data service level, Huawei Cloud launched the next-generation serverless AI-native lakehouse Data Fabric. This provides a high-performance unified lakehouse engine, enabling users to develop T+0 real-time lakehouse solutions. At the engine layer, the latest data warehouse service DWS 3.0 allows for independent scaling of storage and compute on demand. Huawei Cloud database TaurusDB, through in-depth integration with DFV distributed storage, achieves significant advancements in architecture, performance, elastic scaling, and high availability, further enhancing data processing efficiency. In terms of innovative AI platforms, Huawei Cloud offers the one-stop AI development platform ModelArts and the AI agent platform Versatile. These platforms support popular open-source AI models for efficient AI agent development.

Cloud for Good: Empowering sustainable development with cloud and AI

Huawei Cloud stays true to its Cloud for Good philosophy, harnessing cloud and AI technologies to benefit communities, the environment, and sustainable development. Aka Dai, Director of Huawei Cloud Marketing, showcased how Huawei’s Cloud for Good initiative is transforming Indonesia. Huawei Cloud works with local institutions, universities, and organizations to nurture local cloud and AI talent. To date, Huawei Cloud has signed talent cultivation cooperation agreements with more than 100 universities and academic research institutions, more than 20 government departments, and key customers, helping Indonesia cultivate more than 100,000 digital professionals, providing ongoing impetus to the local digital economy. Huawei Cloud plans to broaden collaboration with customers and partners to accelerate Indonesia’s digital transformation in areas like environment, agriculture, healthcare, and education, fostering an inclusive, sustainable, and intelligent Indonesia.

The event features a packed agenda of keynotes, sessions, and exhibitions. During the sessions, Huawei Cloud highlighted its full-stack AI capabilities, discussed technological innovations with partners from sectors like e-commerce & retail, FinTech, local life, media & entertainment, and logistics, and shared the latest cloud native practices in typical scenarios with enterprises such as detikcom, , FancyTech, ConnectNow AI, Speakly AI and OnePro. At the enterprise session, Huawei Cloud reaffirmed its commitments to leading technologies, localized services, and an open ecosystem to support the growth of local governments and businesses. Customers including Bank Neo Commerce, Telkom, and Alfamart showcased their industry innovation achievements using Huawei Cloud. Alongside Ulearning, Cloudwise, Talk Cloud, Wattwise, Cognify, and Dyna.AI, they launched the Huawei Cloud Indonesia AI Partner Alliance for Governments and Enterprises to accelerate the intelligent development for local enterprises. At the partner session, Huawei Cloud engaged in deep discussions with local customers and partners on ecosystem strategies, unveiled new ecosystem cooperation measures, and presented annual awards to partners such as Paratekno、Weefer、Solusi. In the exhibition area, Huawei Cloud displayed cutting-edge experiences, along with the latest advancements in databases, big data, and distributed cloud. Leading partners from the AI, FinTech, Internet, and retail fields, such as Fortius, Soltius, and Ayodya Dialog Semesta, joined to showcase joint innovation achievements.

APIA, Samoa, Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Phemex, a user-first crypto exchange, announced the Second Edition of its Futures Trading Apex Competition, a global year-end challenge running December 4–31, 2025 with a total prize pool of 450,000 USDT. The event reinforces Phemex’s commitment to building a high-energy, rewarding derivatives ecosystem for traders worldwide.

Designed to celebrate the diversity of the Phemex community, the competition structure ensures inclusivity for traders of all styles and levels. This dual-track system allows new community members to shine alongside seasoned veterans, with 30% of the prize pool dedicated specifically to newcomers.

Event Highlights:

• Dynamic Community Rewards: Prize pools for weekly and monthly rankings unlock dynamically based on total trading volume, encouraging collective participation.
• Daily Engagement: Traders can join 28 daily ROI battles, each with a fixed 2,000 USDT pool and a minimum entry volume of 1,000 USDT — offering constant opportunities to rank and earn.
• Gamified Experience: Four cycles of Mystery Box missions worth 94,000 USDT add a gamified layer and fun to the competition. Traders can collect ETH, Gold, and other bonuses. Tasks refresh every cycle, allowing active participants to earn up to 13 boxes throughout the event.

For full rules and to join the challenge, please visit: https://phemex.com/.

About Phemex

Founded in 2019, Phemex is a user-first crypto exchange trusted by over 10 million traders worldwide. The platform offers spot and derivatives trading, copy trading, and wealth management products designed to prioritize user experience, transparency, and innovation. With a forward-thinking approach and a commitment to user empowerment, Phemex delivers reliable tools, inclusive access, and evolving opportunities for traders at every level to grow and succeed.

For more information, please visit: https://phemex.com/

Partnership aims to bridge the digital divide and equip youth with future-ready skills

BEIJING, Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — UNESCO has signed a partnership agreement with Walnut Coding, a leading digital education platform for young learners, to strengthen global efforts in promoting inclusive and accessible digital learning.

The collaboration aims to advance the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development 2024–2033 (IDSSD) by strengthening international cooperation on digital learning, and promoting the inclusion of young voice and talents within technological innovation.

The UNESCO-Walnut Youth Innovation Project demonstrates this vision by engaging young people and equipping them with the skills and values needed to address global challenges and contribute to a sustainable future.

Through this partnership, Walnut Coding and UNESCO will launch initiatives under the IDSSD framework, including the organization of an international youth coding competition to foster creative digital problem-solving, as well as other awareness-raising activities. 

As the world’s lead organization on education and science, UNESCO provides an important global platform for promoting sustainable development, setting educational standards, and fostering international collaboration.

Through this collaboration, UNESCO and Walnut Coding will work together to expand access to quality digital education, share best practices, and foster innovation in teaching and learning. The partnership aims to empower young people with the skills needed to thrive in the digital age and contribute to sustainable development worldwide.

About Walnut Coding

Walnut Coding is a leader in coding education in China. Founded in 2017, The Company offers differentiated, fun, and engaging coding learning courses for young learners, covering various subjects including Scratch, Python, and C++. Its courses feature adaptive software products with definitive learning objectives and interactive content for learners, as well as individualized guidance from full-time learning assistants throughout the learning process. As of February 2024, Walnut Coding had 7.2 million cumulative paying users.

About UNESCO

With 194 Member States, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization contributes to peace and security by leading multilateral cooperation on education, science, culture, communication and information. Headquartered in Paris, UNESCO has offices in 54 countries and employs over 2300 people. UNESCO oversees more than 2000 World Heritage sites, Biosphere Reserves and Global Geoparks; networks of Creative, Learning, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities; and over 13000 associated schools, university chairs, training and research institutions. 

“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed“ – UNESCO Constitution, 1945.

More information: www.unesco.org

News Summary

• Emerging economies, particularly India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa, are leading global adoption of generative AI, with younger adults showing the highest usage, trust, and engagement.
• Significant generational and geographic divides exist, with under-35s far more likely to use and trust AI, while older adults remain less engaged and less certain.
• High recreational screen time, especially among youth in emerging markets, is linked to decreased well-being, highlighting the need for a balanced focus on digital well-being as AI becomes widespread.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Generative AI is moving rapidly from novelty to habit. But adoption rates may not tell the full story. Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking and security, partnered with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on the Digital Well-being Hub to study the relationship between technology’s risks and benefits, and how AI is impacting people’s lives. New data from the Hub reveals that, beneath the headlines of youthful enthusiasm for AI, geographic and generational divides are emerging, shaping who benefits from AI, who bears the risks, and how digital life can affect well-being. This research provides Cisco’s Digital Impact Office with essential insights that can support its aim to connect millions of people to the digital economy, help close the digital divide, and build a global learning culture through initiatives like Cisco Networking Academy and Country Digital Acceleration programs.

AI adoption is only part of the story

According to the current research, young adults, globally, are voracious consumers of digital content, with under-35s showing the highest use of social media, online devices and active use of GenAI. But the real standouts are people in emerging economies, particularly India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. They lead AI adoption globally with the highest usage rates, greatest trust levels, and most active engagement in AI training. In contrast, those surveyed in European countries show less trust and more uncertainty around the use of AI. This marks a departure from historical trends where emerging economies are typically slower to access and use new technologies.

However, these same populations, in India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa, report the highest recreational screen time, greatest reliance on digital-only socializing, and the most pronounced emotional highs and lows from tech use, when compared to those surveyed in other countries. The research also shows that, globally, more than five hours of daily recreational screen time is associated with decreased well-being and lower life satisfaction. While correlation is not causation, it’s clear we need to focus on digital well-being so advances in technology don’t come at the cost of health and happiness.

“Empowering emerging economies with AI skills is not just about technology, it’s about unlocking the potential of every individual to shape their future. With the rapid integration of AI into our daily lives and workplaces, we must ensure that these tools are designed responsibly, with transparency, fairness, and privacy at their core. AI’s greatest potential can be realized if it enhances well-being, by streamlining tasks, improving collaboration, and creating opportunities for growth and learning. When technology, people, and purpose come together, we create the conditions for resilient, healthy, and thriving communities everywhere,” said Guy Diedrich, Senior Vice President and Global Innovation Officer, Cisco.

From generative AI to generation AI

Generational splits are equally stark, tracking existing trends in digitalization. Younger adults worldwide report that most or all of their social interaction takes place online and they express higher confidence in AI’s usefulness. More than 50% of under-35s surveyed actively use AI, more than 75% say it is useful, and almost half of 26 to 35-year-olds have completed some training.

In contrast, adults over 45 are less likely to view AI as useful, and more than half do not use it at all. Among over-55s surveyed, many say they “don’t know” if they trust AI, suggesting their uncertainty may be driven by a lack of familiarity rather than outright rejection. This familiarity gap also mirrors differences in expectations for AI’s impact on jobs, with under-35s and those in emerging economies anticipating the highest impact.

“Generational divides in digital and AI adoption are not inevitable, they are challenges we can all address through targeted action. While younger generations may readily embrace new technology, people of all ages bring their own unique and invaluable experience and insights,” said Diedrich. “So far at Cisco, 26,000 of our staff have undergone AI training and we are a founding member of the AI Workforce Consortium, a group of 10 leading companies working to prepare the workforce to leverage the transformational opportunity of AI on ICT jobs across all industries. A key measure of AI’s success should not be speed of adoption, but whether people across all ages, skill levels, and geographies can use AI to genuinely improve their lives. That way we can ensure ‘Generation AI’ truly includes everyone,” he continued. 

This research provides a call to action for citizens, business and government leaders worldwide to bridge the digital skills gap, foster digital literacy at every age, and prioritize well-being alongside innovation. Only then can we ensure the digital future we build is truly for everyone.

About the Digital Well-being Hub

In 2024, Cisco and the OECD launched a joint initiative, grounded in the OECD Well-being Framework and aligned to Cisco’s Country Digital Acceleration program, to present existing and emerging OECD data, and to examine the complex nature of digital transformation. The hub also features an interactive platform used to gather new statistics and people’s insights on digital well-being, including the impact of the digital divide and inequalities in the uptake and use of digital technologies.

About the Research

This analysis was conducted using data from 14 countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States), collected in early 2025 by a specialized research agency in collaboration with Cisco. Data collection followed OECD best practices essential for ensuring data reliability, comparability, and national representativeness.

The data collection yielded statistically valid responses from 14,611 individuals and was selected to reflect a broad range of socio-economic and cultural contexts in each country. Each is represented by a sample of just over 1,000 respondents, except for India, which includes 1,500 respondents. All participants completed the full 20-question poll as well as the accompanying demographic and profile questions of the Digital Well-being Poll.

Additional resources:

* OECD Research: Screen time and subjective well-being
* OECD Research: How do people experience new technologies and generative AI?  
* Guy Diedrich blog: Making sure AI becomes the global equalizer and not the great divider

About Cisco

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that is revolutionizing the way organizations connect and protect in the AI era. For more than 40 years, Cisco has securely connected the world. With its industry leading AI-powered solutions and services, Cisco enables its customers, partners and communities to unlock innovation, enhance productivity and strengthen digital resilience. With purpose at its core, Cisco remains committed to creating a more connected and inclusive future for all. Discover more on The Newsroom and follow us on X at @Cisco.

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50 Best, the organisation behind The World’s 50 Best Bars, launches brand-new list and awards programme in Europe for the first time

LONDON, Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — 50 Best will launch the inaugural list of Europe’s 50 Best Bars establishing a new ranking honouring the continent’s most outstanding drinking destinations and celebrating the creativity and excellence shaping Europe’s bar culture.

Joining The World’s 50 Best Bars, North America’s 50 Best Bars and Asia’s 50 Best Bars, this new regional list will celebrate the continent’s finest drinking destinations and provide consumers with the most trusted, expert-curated guide to exceptional bar experiences.

Emma Sleight, Head of Content for Europe’s 50 Best Bars, says: “We couldn’t be more excited to launch our new bar awards programme in Europe. Following the growing success of our regional lists in Asia and North America, we’re confident this new addition will become a vital part of the regional bar landscape, shining a light on both established and, excitingly, emerging destinations across the continent. The result will be a list of the most memorable bars experiences from the region, celebrating its passion, talent and hard work and providing a credible and trustworthy guide for discerning drinkers.”

Europe’s 50 Best Bars will unfold over several days of celebrations, including the well-loved Bartenders’ Feast hosted on the eve of the ceremony. The hotly anticipated list of Europe’s 50 Best Bars will be unveiled at a grand awards ceremony, featuring red-carpet arrivals and a drinks reception ahead of the live countdown. The event will culminate in the reveal of a number of special awards for both individuals and establishments, as well as the coveted title of The Best Bar in Europe, sponsored by Perrier.

The inaugural ranking for Europe’s 50 Best Bars will reflect the best bars experiences based on the votes of 300 anonymous European bar industry experts from across the region. Members of the 50 Best organisation do not vote; that is the collective role of the voting Academy. Bars cannot apply to be on the list and sponsors do not have any influence on the list.

The first list will be unveiled at an awards ceremony next year, the date and location of which will be announced in due course.

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