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

Session Recording

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

C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
C2. Information and communication infrastructure
C3. Access to information and knowledge
C4. Capacity building
C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs
C6. Enabling environment
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-government
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-business
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-learning
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-health
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-employment
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-environment
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-agriculture
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-science
C8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
C9. Media
C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
C11. International and regional cooperation

Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

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