WSIS Prizes 2025 Winners' Ceremony
WSIS
Session 135
The 2025 19 WSIS Prizes Winners (one in each of the 18 Action Line Categories plus a Special Recognition) represent the top 2% of ICT for development projects submitted to the WSIS Prizes 2025! Selected from the most voted and highest-rated Champions, these projects were ultimately chosen by an expert group convened by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for their outstanding merit, originality, impact, and contribution to sustainable development. Being a Winner is the highest honor in the WSIS ecosystem. It affirms a project’s role in helping to shape the future of our global information society and setting a benchmark for innovation, scalability, and positive change across the ICT sector.
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes, facilitated by ITU, is a prestigious global platform recognizing outstanding initiatives that leverage ICTs for sustainable development. Since its first edition in 2012, the WSIS Prizes event has become an integral part of the WSIS Stocktaking process, in conjunction with the WSIS Action Lines and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The contest spans all 18 Action Line Categories, each linked to the WSIS Geneva Plan of Action and the SDGs. These include areas such as e-government, e-health, cybersecurity, e-learning, media, and enabling environments, reflecting the diversity and potential of ICTs as enablers of inclusive development.
In 2025, the WSIS Prizes saw 973 project submissions from stakeholders across governments, private sector entities, civil society, academia, and international organizations. Following a rigorous review and public voting process, the foremost projects have been selected and will be celebrated in three distinct tiers of recognition: Nominees, Champions, and Winners.
Be a part of the WSIS Prizes 2025 Winner’s and Champion's Ceremony and join us in acknowledging the innovators who are shaping the future of the information society and driving sustainable development through the power of ICTs!
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C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
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C2. Information and communication infrastructure
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C3. Access to information and knowledge
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C4. Capacity building
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C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs
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C6. Enabling environment
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-government
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-business
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-learning
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-health
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-employment
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-environment
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-agriculture
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-science
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C8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
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C9. Media
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C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
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C11. International and regional cooperation
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Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
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Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
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Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
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Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
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Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
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Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
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Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
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Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
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Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
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Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
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Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
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Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
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Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
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Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
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Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
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Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
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Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
