During Phase II, an Expert Group revised the projects referring to the rules for project submission and nomination criteria. The outcome of the Expert Group's work was a list of nominated projects listed below. The Expert Group consisted of professionals working on the implementation of WSIS outcomes. The decisions of the Expert Group are final and without appeal.
All nominated projects will also be part of the WSIS Stocktaking Report.
This crowd-sourcing transcription project is a collaboration between historians, social scientists and the African American Civil War Museum. Our goals are to improve our knowledge of the African Americans who fought for freedom in the American Civil War… more »
The Boston Public Library's Anti-Slavery collection—one of the largest and most important collections of abolitionist material in the United States—contains roughly 40,000 pieces of correspondence, broadsides, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and memorabili… more »
A computer aided diagnosis system is designed to assist doctors and radiologists for early ischemic stroke detection. Our system consists of three modules. The intelligent early infarct detection module improves the diagnosing time and also the accuracy … more »
This system employs Multilayer Neural Network for breast cancer classification. Through the employed algorithm, it can classify the medical images into benign, malignant cancer and normal patient without prior information regarding the images. It is desi… more »
This project seeks to harness state-of-the art Digital Humanities approaches and technologies to make pioneering forays into the vast corpus of digitised Arabic texts that has become available in the last decade. This is done along the lines of four case… more »
EMESENT IS AUTOMATING THE COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS OF VALUABLE DATA IN UNDERGROUND ENVIRONMENTS EMESENT IS BUILT ON MORE THAN 10 YEARS OF DRONE AUTONOMY AND MAPPING EXPERTISE FROM AUSTRALIA’S PRE-EMINENT RESEARCH ORGANISATION. Our Founders and core techni… more »
SHOA is a Public–private partnership (P.P.P.) project between Private Sector, Government and Academia SHOA is Iranian National Research and Education Network (NREN), A National Research and Education Network (NREN) is a specialised internet service provi… more »
The overall goal of the project is to improve interdisciplinary collaboration in research and education through the sharing of scientific data organized in space, time and semantics. The project addresses various kinds of resources, ranging from project-… more »
This network idea goes around establishing a network of students from their early stages in primary school till professors in universities and decision makers in industrial and social organizations for all who are interested in nanotechnology so we can b… more »
National Research information system (NRIS) is a state information system, which collects data about scientific activity in Latvia from various stakeholders. All scientific institutions (universities, institutes etc.) registered in Latvia report informa… more »
NeSI - New Zealand eScience Infrastructure - is New Zealand's computing research infrastructure. We provide high performance computers and support systems to enable the country's researchers to tackle the world's largest problems. NeSI's strengths surrou… more »
The largest academic digital source of information resources in the Middle East, including more than (200 million)scientific materials covering all academic disciplines and more than 174 Arab and foreign databases. SDL vision: lead in acquisition and ava… more »
Scientists 3.0 seeks to use low-cost scientific tools that expand access to science and share the experience with all students in the province. Convinced that in San Luis each student must carry a microscope in his pocket, the initiative manages to break… more »
During the 19th and 20th centuries, thousands of ships sailed across the Southern Ocean. These ship voyages included cargo transport, emigration from the Old World to the New World, hunting for resources (e.g. whales), as well as epic missions of explora… more »
In the field of sports, research and the use of advanced technology are promoted with a view to obtaining and generating a database that promotes growth and sports inclusion throughout the province. The access is open to all medium and high performance a… more »
The VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey is an ESO Public Survey that is mapping the central region of the Milky Way, that we call the “bulge”, in near infrared light. It is also acquiring ~100 repeated exposure in the Ks band, so we can constr… more »
Today’s libraries provide online access millions of bibliographic records. Librarians and re-searchers require tools that allow them to manage and understand these enormous data sets. Most libraries only offer textual interfaces for searching and browsin… more »
WorldWideScience.org provide a simultaneous search of over 100 national and international scientific databases containing more than 500 million pages of information. WorldWideScience.org allows users to find the precise information they need, via a singl… more »
