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)

Contract Termination in eCommunication
Information and Communication Technologies Authority — Türkiye (Republic of)

Subscribers were not able to terminate contracts easily, faxes were asked by operators and consumers were struggling to fulfil the procedural requirements, by this project using e-Government portal any subscribers submit their termination request to oper… more »

Digital Land Tax
Ministry of Land — Bangladesh

The people of Bangladesh largely depend on land for their livelihood, social norms, and economic activities. But unfortunately most of the people here have to go to the Union Land Offices with great difficulties to pay land tax. It costs them money and w… more »

eOffice
National Informatics Centre (NIC) — India

EOffice is one of the key IT projects of NIC, aimed at improving internal efficiencies in organization through electronic administration leading to informed and quicker decision making, which in turn results in better public service delivery. It promotes… more »

My NTRA Application
National Telecom Regulatory Authority — Egypt

The National Telecom Regulatory Authority launched its My NTRA interactive application for individual and corporate users, through which a set of interactive services can be obtained with a mobile phone without the need to communicate with call centers o… more »

The Building Information System
The State Construction Control Bureau of Latvia — Latvia

Since 1 January 2020, the processing of construction documentation in Latvia has become completely digital. All the administrative documentation necessary for the construction process – from the coordination of a construction conception to the commission… more »

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