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.
Colonia La Flor is located at 40 km from El Soberbio, in Misiones Province (Argentina) at the borderline with Brazil. This is the main virgin rainforest in the country where 800 families and four guaranies communities live. The doorman of a school was lo… more »
Satellite Communication can play a big role in India’s ambition to transform itself into a country empowered by digital technologies. In India, Satellite technology is especially suited for far flung and difficult terrain areas like North Eastern States,… more »
Ministry of Education and Higher Education of Qatar had undergone a significant transformation in the recent years, with massive investments in Education Facilities, Services, Technologies, Security and Infrastructure Transformation to ensure the educati… more »
The Galapagos Islands are one of the world’s top ecological tourism destinations. Nonetheless, one of the most significant challenges in the islands is the lack of connectivity, which is limited due to the absence of a direct fiber optic link to the main… more »
The Government of Bangladesh is actively adopting IT infrastructure in order to improve public services and also to ensure “Internet for All by 2021”. One of the important IT infrastructures of this government is “Development of National ICT Infra-Networ… more »
Wireless Broadband (WBB) is a 3-year flagship initiative of Saudi Telecom Company (STC), done in partnership with Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) to serve rural and remote areas in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, breaking … more »
The objectives established by the current of Mexico City government (years 2019-2024), are related to the implementation of policies in technology, data management fields, openness, and connectivity for optimising digital governance and strengthening cit… more »
Algeria is a vast country in which the use of frequencies is an important tool for communication and reducing isolation of remote areas (e.g. the sahara desert), for this we need a central point for the management of the frequency allocation. This projec… more »
The Fibre to the Home National Broadband Plan aims to connect 60% of Saudi households with FTTH from a baseline of 25% at the time of the launch of the program in 2017. The flagship government initiative for the National Broadband Plan (NPB) was the offe… more »
MyGov*Net is a centrally managed Government Integrated Telecommunications Network to support the Government's delivery service system. MyGov*Net provides a network platform to enable access to Electronic Government Applications, Agencies Internal Applica… more »
BACKGROUND: Starting in 2015, the ‘M-POWERED’ project (Mobile Connections to Promote Women's Economic Development) is a product of TATA Communications’ vision to empower 25,000 women with access to information - part of a greater vision to ultimately rea… more »
The NB-IoT Network Construction and Application Project aims at providing Information infrastructure in the rural poverty-stricken area in Yunnan Province, China, promoting the poverty alleviation in these areas. Through this project, more than 3,800 LTE… more »
The main objective of this project was to deploy a community-based network in rural Tanzania using TV White Space technology, which offers advantages in terms of coverage and spectrum availability. The community-based network has proved to be the feasibl… more »
Back in year 2016, 4 million people in rural areas had little or no access to telecommunication services in Ghana. Start from 2017, Huawei started to innovate a rural telephony project instrumental in bridging the digital divide in Ghana. 400 rural sites… more »
In its continued effort to bridge the digital divide, Orange Botswana in partnership with Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA), Ministry of Transport & Communications (MTC), Ministry of Basic Education (MoBE) and Ministry of Local Governm… more »
THE SOUTH ATLANTIC CABLE SYSTEM (SACS) The SOUTH ATLANTIC CABLE SYSTEM (SACS) went into commercial operation in September 2018. It was the first, high volume, ultra-low latency fibre optic cable to connect Africa to South America. SACS has been designe… more »
Tanzania aims to construct an IP network and IDC at a national level. Through this project, it is expected to promote resources sharing. Investing about 90 million dollars, the project built an IP backbone with coverage of 22 Regions of Tanzania to provi… more »
Crime and security are one of the main topics in the agenda of Buenos Aires City, for a long time. To address the challenges facing the public sectors, regarding the safety of the citizens has been a great point of discussions and multidisciplinary work.… more »
In order to achieve green and sustainable energy construction, smart grid operations emerge as the time requires. As its core technology, the power wireless private network can improve three major factor rates of automation business to 100% by complement… more »
