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 17 — AL C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society (5 Projects)

“Mobile Based Age Verification before Marriage Registration to Stop Child Marriage”
Access to Information — Bangladesh

Bangladesh has the fourth-highest rate of child marriage in the world. According to a UNICEF study 29 percent of girls in Bangladesh married before age 15, 2 percent of girls in Bangladesh are married before age 11 and 66 percent of girls are married bef… more »

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and Ethics Initiatives in Singapore
Personal Data Protection Commission, Infocomm Media Development Authority — Singapore

The objectives of the AI Governance and Ethics Initiatives are to (i) setup AI governance structures and frameworks that balance the need for business and technology innovation and consumer trust and confidence in adopting AI; and (ii) develop internatio… more »

DataSense
Cognigo Inc. — United States of America

Data is the new currency. We manage and protect it. Maximizes data governance, security and compliance with minimal effort through artificial intelligence. Data is our expertise. We understand that a risk to data is a risk to the business. That is the … more »

WHY DO I EXIST ?
KUKI NDIHO RWANDA ORPHANS SUPPORT PROJECT — United States of America

Kuki Ndiho Rwanda Orphans Support Project , an organization that she established in 2005 to raise awareness on the genocide in Rwanda, help survivors, and aid orphans of HIV. In her personal capacity, she also serves as a mentor to many of the children, … more »

Women / Research / Data
Women Research Data — Kenya

WORD is an initiative to improve the capacity of women led initiatives to collect gender disaggregated data. We work with organizations and government institutions working in areas that have technology challenges such as low internet access and language … more »

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