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 2 — AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure (5 Projects)

“AFAQ” initiative to provide broadband service to remote villages
Telecomunicatin regulatory Authority — Oman

“AFAQ” (means Horizons) initiative was launched by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) in the Sultanate of Oman in April 2020. The initiative main objective was to deliver broadband internet to remote villages in Oman which did not have an… more »

Internet of Light
Tsinghua University — China

With LED-based lighting lamps now being popularized all over the world, the concept of Internet of Lights (IoL) on existing LED illumination network using Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) including the visible light communications (VLC) … more »

National Implementation of the Financial Inclusion Initiative in China
China Academy of Information and Communications Technology — China

National Implementation of the Financial Inclusion Global Initiative is a three-year action plan (2018-2020) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented in partnership with ITU, the World Bank Group, and the Committee on Payments and Ma… more »

Starlink
SpaceX — United States of America

Starlink is a constellation of low Earth orbiting satellites designed to deliver high speed, low latency broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable. While still in beta operations, Starlink has … more »

TELECONOMY FROM TOP UP AND GET REWARD LTD
TELECONOMY FROM TOP UP AND GET REWARD LTD — Nigeria

TELECONOMY, is an innovative digital telecom platform for providing basic telecom services and income to the masses without much physical contacts and interactions even during COVID-19 Pandemic . Through this project, data and airtime subscriptions were … more »

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