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)

5G Network Co-build and Co-share
China Telecommunications Corporation — China

This project is another major breakthrough and innovation in China's global leadership in 5G innovation development. Through the nationwide 5G co-construction, deployment, and application, we have achieved "one physical network and two logical networks".… more »

Government Network
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology — Qatar

The Government Network enables a secure and reliable environment for exchanging data between government agencies. The Government Network comprises more than110+ government entities, and facilitates access to the internet, in addition providing access to … more »

Jalinan Digital Negara Plan
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission — Malaysia

The COVID-19 pandemic had resulted in a new approach to be explored to address the new norm and cater for future connectivity demands. The government has come up with a comprehensive national digital infrastructure plan known as Jalinan Digital Negara (J… more »

Young Ecological Mobile Club
Joven Club de Computación y Electrónica — Cuba

Joven Club is a network of reference technology centers in the national territory, where children, adolescents, young people, older adults, women and men, have found a training space regarding the development of new technologies and where to deploy proje… more »

Zain Innovation Campus
Zain Jordan — Jordan

The establishment of Zain Innovation Campus (ZINC) in Jordan . Zain Innovation Campus was created to enable women youth to convert their innovative ideas into productive start-up projects, to be marketed locally, regionally and globally. In Q4 2013, Zain… more »

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