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 11 — AL C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-employment (5 Projects)

E-recruitment
general personnel council — Palestine

Job vacancies were previously published at local newspapers. Today all vacancies are published through the electronic gate of the GPC. Newly graduates and job seekers are informed about vacancies by the website and social media . It helps reaching the bi… more »

E-Recruitment Exhibition
Ministry of Labour and Social Development — Bahrain

The project is an online website that targets job seekers to find a suitable job opportunity. It is a responsive platform that works both on desktop and mobile devices. It aims to: 1. Provide appropriate job vacancies to newly graduated students, job see… more »

ICT Training specialists
Universidad de La Punta — Argentina

The main objective of this program is the training of people with solid knowledge, so that they can be successfully inserted in the labor field, ensuring the acquisition of the skills required by it, through an adequate sequencing and integration of conc… more »

Jobs and Skills for Persons with Disabilities with Focus on ICT-Based Solutions
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology — Egypt

ICT has the potential to improve all aspects of PWDs’ lives such as education, health, transportation, and livelihoods. In Egypt, there are more than 8.6 Million persons with Disabilities (PwD), representing 10.5% of the population according to the last… more »

Women and Girls Pivoting Resilience In the Digital Economy in Africa
Association of Women in Technology in Nigeria — Nigeria

Women Pivoting Resilience In the Digital Economy in Africa (WomenPRIDE.Africa) is an initiative of Women in Technology in Nigeria(WITIN) which equips women and girls to thrive in the digital economy via three pivotal pillars: In-demand digital skills tr… more »

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