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.
The WHO-ITU Be He@lthy, Be Mobile initiative was set up in 2013 to support the scale-up of digital health services for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Its mission is simple: to see digital health make a tangible contribution to creating a healthier wor… more »
cRGS will be developed to tackle unsolved problems in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cognitive impairments after stroke, dementia and depression, that affect more than 400 million people worldwide, creating a severe health-related burden adding… more »
Objective: This project aimed at aiding the radiologist in the early detection of Breast Cancer by analyzing mammograms using AI thereby saving the patient’s life and reducing the costs associated with treatment of cancer. In addition, because there ar… more »
Edusmarthealth is a mobile application which maintains the health data of every student and it also maps the health record with the learning that is happening through the Health , Hygiene and safety courses conducted in class rooms. Edusmarthealth Mobile… more »
Violence in Rakhine State has driven approximately 723,000 Rohingya refugees since August of 2017 across the border from Rakhine. The speed and scale of the influx has resulted in a critical humanitarian emergency. At present, there are 70 INGOs, 40 Nati… more »
Zipline Rwanda was established in Rwanda to increase accessibility to medical products: insulin, vaccine, etc and also the blood products: red cells, platelets, cryo, etc to remote and rural locations. By the end of our expansion contract our two distrib… more »
We designed, implemented and produced a system for robotic remote surgery. The system can be used when ultra-emergency surgery is required to save a patient's life in cases that qualified surgeons are not physically present at the site of the accident. I… more »
"InnovCare combines ICT eHealth solutions, services and products by adapting and integrating different innovative AAL solutions. The high level of interoperability and standards of use of the InnovCare platform make the difference, allowing a high flexib… more »
Kwido Mementia has been developed along with psychologists and geriatricians with broad experience in performing cognitive stimulation therapies with elderly people, healthy or suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's. Its multi-platform scope (Android t… more »
mHealth4Afrika has co-designed and validated a standards-based, comprehensive patient-centric health platform for use in resource constrained environments. mHealth4Afrika integrates Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) funct… more »
Being able to concentrate data from a wide variety of sensors, NITICS offers for the first time a real solution to caregivers assisting elderly persons affected by mild dementia, cardiologic illnesses or diabetes, and unharnesses the novel capabilities o… more »
The Omoguru mobile application offers a set of specific tools that facilitate reading for dyslexics. The tools have been developed by our specialised team that has over 10 years of experience in the field and scientific research. The core of the system i… more »
Byonyks is Pakistan’s first biomedical engineering startup that exclusively focuses on developing affordable portable healthcare devices for the one billion that do not have access to these by using state-of-the-art existing medical technology. As a firs… more »
RSD system is established to monitor and control the whole drug supply chain in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. RSD has also a free mobile app for citizens to be able to check the status and recall information of a drug by just scanning. RSD is recently awarded… more »
In recent years, we have heard about noticeable number of deaths among Algerian pregnant women that died before giving birth to their babies. Either this was mainly due to the overloaded hospitals in the Algerian big cities, such as the capital Algiers, … more »
ScVision is a mobile app that detects and classifies skin cancer using the latest cutting edge deep learning and image processing technologies, the app is very handy and simple to use for non-technical users. The only tool used for diagnoses is the mobil… more »
With pervasive poverty, poor healthcare financing and high maternal mortality, Less than 3% of Nigeria’s 200 million population have health insurance as it is considered an expensive luxury. Again, Nigeria generates over 34 million tons of waste yearly a… more »
In Senegal, the blood stock deficit is estimated at 40% in 2017. This situation, arising in many african countries is becoming more and more alarming and is worrying the biggest actors in the health sector. Despite all the messages launched by the Nation… more »
OpASHA has developed a community driven, doorstep delivery model for healthcare that leverages technology alongside human intervention. Communities are empowered by recruiting and training local, semi-literate youth who make door-to door visits, find sym… more »
VACAM is an artificial Intelligence powered software that was programmed to detect the deficiency of vitamin A in the body by taking the picture of the face of the person It is targeted to help detect vitamin A deficiency even at the first stage. it is d… more »
