WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion Success Stories of WSIS Action Lines Implementation and SDGs Advancement
WSIS
Session 181
Join us in unique opportunity to learn how ICTs are making economic, social, and environmental impact on the ground around the world in 2020. The WSIS Prizes, as an integral part of the WSIS Stocktaking, have been serving as a major international repository since 2012 for sharing and promoting good information and communication technology solutions which are advancing development. Since April this year, with the world struck by the Coronavirus pandemic, this online platform started collecting projects and activities on how ICTs are assisting stakeholders in their everyday life, work, and responding to challenges caused by this extraordinary disease.
As part of a series of five virtual Interactive Sessions on WSIS Prizes 2020 Champion Success Stories of WSIS Action Lines Implementation and SDGs Advancement to be held this summer (24 June, 25 June, 21 August, 24 August, 26 August) and moderated by the WSIS Team, the second session will host eight speakers from different regions and various stakeholder types, including three from Africa, one from Americas, two from Asia and Pacific, and one from Europe; as per the stakeholder type: two are representatives of governments, four are from private sector, one from civil society, and one from and international organization.
This series will seek to provide useful, replicable, and actionable information to WSIS community and beyond, and invite all to make good and timely use of this data, reach out to our speakers, and promote ICTs as enablers of SDGs.
Maintained by ITU, the WSIS Stocktaking, as an international repository of good practices, has been collecting relevant information and communication technology projects advancing development since 2004. With more than 13,000 entries, since 2015, it also started collecting data on how ICTs are helping advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This year, 800 projects will be showcased through the global WSIS Stocktaking 2020 Report, and six Regional WSIS Stocktaking Reports, which will be launched during the WSIS Forum 2020 in September.
As an integral part of the WSIS Stocktaking, the 9th edition of the WSIS Prizes are recognizing best 90 ICT projects through series of virtual workshops starting from 22 June, culminating with the virtual WSIS Prizes 2020 Ceremony, which will take place on 7 September with the announcement of this year’s 18 winners. Since its launch in 2012, more than 3,000 projects were submitted to this globally recognized contest.
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