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 5 — AL C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs (5 Projects)

Global Accredited Cybersecurity Education Scheme: Centre of Excellence for Capacity Building and Lifelong Learning
CyberSecurity Malaysia — Malaysia

The Global ACE Scheme defines the holistic competencies expected of skilled personnel in the cybersecurity area. It describes the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to perform in a particular occupation with emphasis on enhancing related skillsets. T… more »

NextGen Girls-Internet Security Ambassadors
Shilpa Sayura Foundation — Sri Lanka

NextGen Girls aims upscaled ISOC 25 Under 25 Award winner "Respect Girls on Internet", project by developing a network of University and high school girls studying IoT. The goal of the project is developing females to pursue emerging IoT security careers… more »

Oman National Public Key Infrastructure
Ministry of Technology and Communication — Oman

Oman National PKI provided excellent solutions to the complicated challenges that eGovernments always face; physical existence for identification (KYC) and signing documents. Oman National PKI is a security architecture that augmented the eGovernment (eO… more »

Security Antivirus
Consulting and Information Security Company — Cuba

With the increasing development of computer applications in Cuba, dependence on automated services has increased, which are threatened by the action of computer viruses that can cause economic and social damage. Reason for which and with the increasingly… more »

The Cloud-Linked Privacy Security Protection System and Public Welfare Services
China Mobile Communications Corporation — China

With the deepening of APP services to users, the personal privacy information stored in smart terminals and applications becomes increasingly rich, and the disclosure of user privacy becomes increasingly serious. Illegal use of personal information is ve… more »

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