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 4 — AL C4. Capacity building (5 Projects)

"ABC" of the Internet - A Program to Teach Older Users and People with Disabilities to Work on a Computer and on the Internet
Public Join-Stock Company "Rostelecom" (PJSC "Rostelecom") — Russian Federation

The ABC of the Internet program helps to solve a number of social problems:  improvement of the quality of life through acquiring computer skills and Internet experience;  facilitating access of pensioners to government electronic services through the … more »

IT GIRLS
COMMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AGENCY BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA — Bosnia and Herzegovina

IT Girls initiative, supported by the UN, UNDP, UNICEF and UN Women which aims to increase the number of girls and women in the STEM area. The most number of events were focused on children, in the form of workshops in elementary schools across Bosnia a… more »

Mobile Connectivity for Teachers in Poor and Remote Areas Project
National Council for Educational Promotion — Mexico

CONAFE is a part of the Mexican Ministry of Education (SEP), and for the last 51 years has delivered educational services in the poorest, most disadvantaged, and remote areas of the country where SEP cannot establish a public kindergarten, elementary, or… more »

SMART Sistas Girls ICT Camp, Girls Mobile App Training Program & Girls Robotic Team
SMART Sistas Committee (Inc.) — Vanuatu

The Situation for ICT in Vanuatu is there is a lack of information communication technology training to empower girls ages 11-15 to become leaders in the ICT field. The SMART Sistas (Sisters Mastering Advanced Real Technology) ICT Camp for girls strive… more »

Women, technology and the 2030 Agenda
Consorcio Universitario del Centro Asociado a la UNED en Tudela — Spain

In this project, actions have been carried out in the three spheres of action that the 2030 Agenda indicates for a higher education centre: * Training: it addresses the trinomial of Women, technology and the 2030 Agenda, analysing the need for digital te… more »

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