Champion Projects

ITU announced 90 Champions of the prestigious WSIS Prizes contest while the 18 Winners, out of these 90 Champions, will be recognized at a ceremony at Geneva International Conference Centre on the 9th of April, as part of the annual WSIS Forum 2020.

The International Telecommunication Union has announced the top 90 ICT-related projects recognized for implementing the WSIS Action Lines, competing for the prestigious WSIS Prizes 2020. With participants emerging from across the globe, 72 champions will be honoured and 18 winners will be awarded for each of the 18 categories at the WSIS Prizes 2020 Ceremony, to be held during the WSIS Forum 2020 in Geneva. Since 2012, WSIS Prizes has been recognizing remarkable efforts made by entities and organizations from around the globe that focus on accelerating the socio-economic progress of the whole world as a community.

The submission phase, which began on 2 July 2018 to 5 December 2018, received a record number of 1,140 submissions, out of which 1,062 exceptional projects were nominated for WSIS Prizes 2020. This is a 216% increase since WSIS Prizes 2018, where we had 492 nominated projects. From 21 December 2018 to 10 February 2019, over 2 million votes were cast for these projects, and following a comprehensive review by the Expert Group, 90 extraordinary ICT-related projects and initiatives were selected for the eighth edition of the WSIS Prizes contest.

Project submission this year was distributed by region as follows: 16.9% from Africa, 29% from Asia and the Pacific, 6.5% from Eastern Europe, 19.4% from Latin America and the Caribbean, 27.7% from Western Europe, and 0.5% are international projects.

Projects in Figures

WSIS Prizes 2019 stats

Champion Projects

Category 12 — AL C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-environment (5 Projects)

China Unicom “Smart Blue” Public Service Big Data Platform
Network Intelligent Operation Research Center of China Unicom Research Institute — China

As one of the world's largest telecom operators, China Unicom provides services to billions of mobile subscribers. Therefore, China Unicom has a large amount of telecom big data, which contains rich network and user information. In order to give full pl… more »

Scream to Survive Intelligent System to Life-Saving in Disasters Relief for Devlopping and Poor Countries
University Center Abdelhafid Boussouf of Mila — Algeria

Disasters are becoming more and more common around the world, making technology important to guarantee people's lives as much as possible. One of the most modern advances of recent years is how AI is used in disaster relief. Researchers propose works bas… more »

Sidewalk Predictive Model of Buenos Aires City
General Directorate of Information Sciences — Argentina

Cities are constantly growing and with them, the need to develop and maintain an infrastructure that allows neighbors to live with good quality conditions. It is a challenge for local governments to be able to meet these demands, which is why it is very … more »

The Blue Sky Guard System
China International Telecommunication Construction Corporation — China

The project aims at building an automatic straw-burning monitoring system to reduce air pollution. From this perspective, this project is closely related to WSIS Action Line E-environment, it will foster cooperation between the ICT communities, the envir… more »

Transforming Urban Tree Management
National Parks Board — Singapore

The Digitalisation of Tree Management aims to meet the challenges of managing Singapore’s greenery, which includes declining labour workforce, rising public expectation, urbanisation and climate change. NParks transformed its urban tree management throug… more »

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