WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion Success Stories of WSIS Action Lines Implementation and SDGs Advancement


WSIS

Session 328

13:00–14:00 CEST (UTC+02:00), Friday, 21 August 2020 WSIS Prizes

Join us in unique opportunity to learn how ICTs are making economic, social, and environmental impact on the ground around the world in 2020. The WSIS Prizes, as an integral part of the WSIS Stocktaking, have been serving as a major international repository since 2012 for sharing and promoting good information and communication technology solutions which are advancing development. Since April this year, with the world struck by the Coronavirus pandemic, this online platform started collecting projects and activities on how ICTs are assisting stakeholders in their everyday life, work, and responding to challenges caused by this extraordinary disease.

As part of a series of five virtual Interactive Sessions on WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion Success Stories of WSIS Action Lines Implementation and SDGs Advancement to be held this summer (24 June, 25 June, 14 August, 21 August, 26 August) and moderated by the WSIS Team, the second session in August will host eleven speakers from different regions and various stakeholder types, including two from Arab States, three from Americas, six from Asia and Pacific, as per the stakeholder type: six are representatives of governments, two from civil society, and three from academia

This series will seek to provide useful, replicable, and actionable information to WSIS community and beyond, and invite all to make good and timely use of this data, reach out to our speakers, and promote ICTs as enablers of SDGs.

Maintained by ITU, the WSIS Stocktaking has been collecting relevant information and communication technology projects advancing development since 2004. With more than 13,000 entries, since 2015, it also started collecting data on how ICTs are helping advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This year, 800 projects will be showcased through the global WSIS Stocktaking 2020 Report, and six Regional WSIS Stocktaking Reports, which will be launched during the WSIS Forum 2020 in September.
As an integral part of the WSIS Stocktaking, the 9th edition of the WSIS Prizes are recognizing best 90 ICT projects through series of virtual workshops starting from 22 June, culminating with the virtual WSIS Prizes 2020 Ceremony, which will take place on 7 September with the announcement of this year’s 18 winners. Since its launch in 2012, more than 3,000 projects were submitted to this globally recognized contest.

Panellists
Mr. Catalin Marinescu Head, Corporate Strategy Division ITU

Opening Remarks


Mr. Vladimir Stankovic ICT Policy Analyst ITU Moderator

Ms. Elena Estavillo Conectadas, Mexico

WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion in CATEGORY 10: Ethical dimensions of the Information Society, for the PROJECT – Conectadas


Mr. Rezwanul Haque Jami a2i, ekShop, Bangladesh

WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion in CATEGORY 7: ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-business, for the PROJECT – ekShop


Mr. Haythem Mehouachi Ministry of Communication Technologies and Digital Economy, Tunisia

WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion in CATEGORY 6: Enabling environment, for the PROJECT – Start-Up Tunisia


Dr. Alfonso Hernández Maya Federal Telecommunications Institute, Mexico

WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion in CATEGORY 3: Access to information and knowledge, for the PROJECT – Mobile Data Consumption Simulator


Mr. Sanjay K Thade Backward Classes Welfare Department, India

WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion in CATEGORY 7: ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-government, for the PROJECT – Sabooj Sathi Online 3.0


Mr. German Rueda Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies, Colombia

WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion in CATEGORY 7: ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-business, for the PROJECT – Business Digital Transformation Centers


Ms. Poornima Meegammana Shilpa Sayura Foundation, Sri Lanka

WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion in CATEGORY 5: Building confidence and security in use of ICTs, for the PROJECT – NextGen Girls-Internet Security Ambassadors


Dr. Jianzhao Zhang National University of Defence Technology, China

WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion in CATEGORY 6: Enabling environment, for the PROJECT – The Global Governance Principles and Methods for High Frequency Electromagnetic Environment


Ms. Nardjes Bouchemal Siari University Center Abdelhafid Boussouf of Mila, Algeria

WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion in CATEGORY 7: ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-environment, for the PROJECT – Scream to Survive Intelligent System to Life-Saving in Disasters Relief for Devlopping and Poor Countries


Ms. Meimei Dang China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, China

WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion in CATEGORY 7: ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-government, for the PROJECT – Big Data Platform of Universal Service for Targeted Poverty Alleviation


Mr. Hemant Prasad Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit, Malaysia

WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion in CATEGORY 6: Enabling environment, for the PROJECT – Digital Document Management System 2.0


Topics
5G Technology Cloud Computing Cultural Diversity Cybersecurity Digital Divide Digital Economy Digital Inclusion Digital Transformation Education Environment Ethics Health
WSIS Action Lines
  • AL C1 logo C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
  • AL C2 logo C2. Information and communication infrastructure
  • AL C3 logo C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C4 logo C4. Capacity building
  • AL C5 logo C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs
  • AL C6 logo C6. Enabling environment
  • AL C7 E–GOV logo C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-government
  • AL C7 E–BUS logo C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-business
  • AL C7 E–LEA logo C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-learning
  • AL C7 E–HEA logo C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-health
  • AL C7 E–EMP logo C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-employment
  • AL C7 E–ENV logo C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-environment
  • AL C7 E–AGR logo C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-agriculture
  • AL C7 E–SCI logo C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-science
  • AL C8 logo C8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
  • AL C9 logo C9. Media
  • AL C10 logo C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
  • AL C11 logo C11. International and regional cooperation
Sustainable Development Goals
  • Goal 1 logo Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • Goal 2 logo Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
  • Goal 3 logo Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
  • Goal 4 logo Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • Goal 5 logo Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Goal 6 logo Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
  • Goal 7 logo Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
  • Goal 8 logo Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
  • Goal 9 logo Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
  • Goal 10 logo Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Goal 11 logo Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
  • Goal 12 logo Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
  • Goal 13 logo Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
  • Goal 14 logo Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
  • Goal 15 logo Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
  • Goal 16 logo Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
  • Goal 17 logo Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development