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 7 — AL C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-government (5 Projects)

Balloting and Electoral Services
Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa — South Africa

Through innovative and trust-based partnerships throughout the African continent and beyond, EISA engages in mutually beneficial capacity reinforcement activities aimed at enhancing all partners` interventions in the areas of elections, democracy and gov… more »

Big Data Platform of Universal Service for Targeted Poverty Alleviation
China Academy of Information and Communications Technology — China

The Big Data Platform of Universal Service for Targeted Poverty Alleviation (the “Platform”) innovates applications of ICT-enabled information collection, big data analytics and visualization technologies to provide an effective tool for government capac… more »

e-Justice for Citizen Mobile Application
Ministry of Justice of Turkey General Directorate of IT — Türkiye (Republic of)

Signed many reforms within the scope of a trusting and accessible justice approach, The Ministry of Justice of Turkey has also facilitates access to justice services by using the opportunities of technology. Accessing to case files brought into mobile pl… more »

Sabooj Sathi Online 3.0
Backward Classes Welfare Department — India

State Government's endeavor and commitment has established primary and upper primary schools within walking distance.The students, particularly from economically and socially disadvantaged background and especially Girls many a times had to drop out from… more »

The Public Services Quality Monitoring System “Your Control”
Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation — Russian Federation

The Government of Russia launched the Public Services Quality Monitoring System “Your Control” in 2011 as a part of the State Program “Information Society”. The aim was to establish a framework for objective feedback from citizens on the quality of provi… more »

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