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 5 — AL C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs (5 Projects)

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Attack Detection and Prevention
ZTE Corporation — China

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is now an significant driving force for economic growth, however, recent incidents in which organized attackers severely compromised several large-scale enterprises and government agencies indicates that pro… more »

Central Biometric Verification Monitoring Platform
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission — Bangladesh

Project Description During the last decade the usage of cellular mobile phones has infiltrated and revolutionized peoples’ life style in Bangladesh. Although it has already been proved that such usage has positive impact on the development of various dis… more »

Digital Citizen
Facebook Brazil — Brazil

Digital Citizen (Cidadao Digital) is a mixture of capacity building and creative labs that aims to inspire, empower and support the protagonism of young people, by train the trainer model, to foster online safety, well-being, and media/digital literacy a… more »

NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY COMPETITION
TANZANIA COMMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AUTHORITY — United Republic of Tanzania

One of the TCRA’s strategic objective is to protect interests of stakeholders and enhance awareness of their rights and obligations. In order to fulfill the strategic objective TCRA implemented a project called cybersecurity competition. Cybersecurity co… more »

Security Awareness Training Platforms
El Djazaïr Information Technology — Algeria

The challenge of raising awareness is to develop a security culture within the company, so that all employees can contribute to strengthening the IT security of their company. For a company, information security awareness consists of : 1. Complying with … more »

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