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 6 — AL C6. Enabling environment (5 Projects)

Community Networks in the strategy of connecting rural and remote areas as licensees in Argentina
ENTE NACIONAL DE COMUNICACIONES — Argentina

Argentina has been working to include and encourage a different type of solutions that allow connectivity throughout the country. Rural and remote areas, with low population density, have represented a challenge from the geographical point of view as wel… more »

Empowering lives in prisons through Information and Communication Technologies
Department of Information and Communications Technology - Region IV-A — Philippines

Technology Empowerment for Education, Employment, Entrepreneurs and Economic Development (Tech4ED) is a program of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) aimed to harness ICT resources and opportunities to bridge digital divid… more »

Implementation of a National Central Equipment Identification Register
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche des Télécommunications — Tunisia

The parallel market of ICT devices, counterfeiting and theft have become a growing problem with serious economic and social consequences. In Tunisia, the illegal importation of mobile phones and tablets makes up 60 percent of the mobile phone market, cos… more »

Kampung Penggerak Literasi TIK Madiun ( Madiun Village ITC Empowerment )
Kelompok Informasi Masyarakat Pandan Arum — Indonesia

Information and Communication Technology Literacy Driving Village ( Kartika ) is a facilitation program, campaign and education on the use of information and communication technology implemented by KIM Pangongangan Madiun City with full support from the … more »

MOBIGIRLZ: Empowerment of Young Women in ICT
eMobilis Mobile Technology Institute — Kenya

MobiGirlz is an initiative by eMobilis Mobile technology Academy that targets young women in marginalized areas/ slums as well as underprivileged women in Universities that are passionate about technology. We focus on redressing the gender imbalance in A… more »

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