WSA Global Congress 2021 | Connect 4 Impact | Catalogue

2020

Under the patronage of

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Digital Solutions for the UN SDGs – Meet the winning projects 2020 WSA Global Congress Vienna 2020 'The Corona Handshake' – Rita Isiba & Henry Dobson

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WELCOME 4 PATRON STATEMENTS 6

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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ABOUT WSA

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ABOUT WSA CONGRESS

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WSA UPCOMING

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WSA CONTEST 2020/21

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WSA WINNERS

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WSA GRAND JURY 2020

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WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS

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WSA YOUTH AMBASSADORS

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JOSEF UMDASCH RESEARCH PRIZE 2021

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WSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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SPONSORS & PARTNERS

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WSA Global Congress Vienna 2020 – Jury meeting – Gary Schwartz (Canada), Tanja Wehsely (Austria) , Ralph Simon (UK)(front to back) 2

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WELCOME C O N N E C T 4 I M P A C T – C O N T E N T D R I V E N D I G I TA L I N N O V AT I O N C L O S I N G D I V I D E S

WELCOME TO THE WSA GLOBAL CONGRESS 2021!

WELCOME TO A JOURNEY AROUND THE GLOBE! LET´S CONNECT FOR IMPACT.

The global pandemic has broken many relations. Communications have been transferred to online, meetings turned virtual.

Thus, more than ever the challenge is to bridge digital divides. Be it new solutions for remote working, digital health and online education, or gender inequality, environmental challenges and the access to information and infrastructure.

The global divides are manifold and affect us all.

Reflecting the changes caused by the pandemic, with new economic challenges, or the case of climate crisis and global warming, we see that the divides grow nationally and worldwide.

The WSA Global Congress 2021 invites you to act now, to connect4impact and to do so in a measurable manner in the context the UN SDGs and the UN World Summit on the Information Society process!

Questions are: In the face of the current societal challenges, how can digital solutions and interactive applications make a positive contribution? How can international collaboration and knowledge exchange disrupt current nefarious developments? And what benefits are hidden in the digital transformation?

I welcome you to the WSA Global Congress. You will meet and join a unique community of purpose driven enthusiasts. They will not be stopped in their commitment to use ICT for the betterment of society.

The purpose for most of us going to an event is networking. The serendipity that happens at events is the allure and magnetism that draws people back. Personal meetings and face2face interaction are WSA’s unique community’s

trademark. With Covid-19 outbreaks and travel restrictions across the world, WSA Global Congress will need to go digital and provide an all global journey from America to Oceania.

I look forward to welcoming you from all over the world. Participation this year will be even more diverse as the Congress will serve all time zones and thus will break the barriers of international travel.

The WSA21 program is full of intense discussion.

Interactive sessions will guarantee the formation of like-minded communities, evoking positive change through digital innovation. It might even feel like a family – to Connect4Impact.

2021, we want to deliver proof that online can make us more inclusive and sustainable.

The WSA Global Congress presents an exceptional mix of local projects from which we all learn globally.

You will meet 45 award-winning teams with their apps and solutions, carefully selected in a three-stage jury process by outstanding international experts. WSA awardees are impacting the daily lives of millions by meeting deeply rooted needs. They stand out in the ability to combine smart content, social aims, and digital innovation.

WSA awardees are winners because they solve real problems: Ranging from a Chinese AI for distance medical screening, an air monitoring application from North Macedonia to a machine learning solution to combat maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria - the 45 winners from 29 countries, selected from over 400 nominations from 182 participating countries, showcase what

digital innovation around the world can do to improve society.

During the past 18 years, WSA has established itself with a proven record of accomplishment within the framework of the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), mandated by the government of Austria 2003 and implementing the 2005 WSIS Plan of Action.

WSA is organised in collaboration with UN organisations such as UNESCO, UNIDO, UNCTAD, UNDESA and ITU. It would like to thank the unique global network of national and corporate experts and all the NGOs, governments, and professional associations who partner with WSA. This allows us to present quality content and digital innovation from over 180 UN-member states and supports a global movement for sustainable digital solutions.

I invite you to open your mind, to engage and explore. The three-day program lets you become part of a global community of people committed to using digital technologies as innovative content drivers for the UN SDG’s.

Please join me in thanking speakers and presenters and also all the WSA Global Congress Partners for providing a unique stage to this year’s outstanding purpose driven digital entrepreneurs and creative teams.

Engage in and share the power of smart, digital, and social solutions!

Connect4Impact!

Prof. Dr. Peter A. Bruck Chairperson, on behalf of the WSA Board of Directors and the WSA Team

WSA Global Congress Vienna 2020 Jury Meeting – WSA Chairman Peter A. Bruck 4

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PATRON STATEMENTS

UNESCO

recognizes that future innovation requires knowledge-based societies and lifelong education ecosystems that nurture and reward imagination, creativity, critical thinking, and a culture of collaboration, empathy and inclusion.

Innovation also will depend upon creating new economic livelihoods and opportunities aligned to a green and sustainable planet. Even as we close the global connectivity gap, education on digital skills will be needed, in every community across the world, to help address the spread of online disinformation, which acts in direct opposition to the right to universal access to information, as well as so many of the Sustainable Development Goals: including health, education, cultural diversity, peace building and the health of our climate.

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Guy Berger, Director for Strategy & Policy, Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO

Jayathma Wickramanayake, UN SecretaryGeneral’s Envoy on Youth

year we saw how the multidimensional challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the resulting socioeconomic crisis, and the ongoing climate emergency have revealed how far we are from creating a truly equal and sustainable future. But these unprecedented crises have also revealed how integral innovation and technology are to the continuity of our lives.

Connected to each other like never before, young people are at the center of this effort. Young people want to and already contribute to the resilience of their communities by proposing innovative solutions. Innovation in digital technology will only become more relevant as we look to recover better together, with youth-led innovation in particular playing a central role in ensuring we collectively deliver on the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

We

live in an ever-more digitalized and connected world with automated devices and algorithms influencing our daily lives in one way or another. This development is set to continue - whether we like it or not - but it is for us to decide how we shape it.

Specifically this year the global pandemic demonstrated how much ween need digital tools and content to stay connected, collaborate or teach our children.

Young inspiring innovators participating in the World Summit Awards teach us that digitalization can contribute to a more sustainable future; that it is possible to turn the digital revolution we are facing into climate action. They show us that digital transformation can be shaped to ensure it supports transitions towards more sustainable societies and towards taking climate action.

What it takes is inventiveness and courage to walk off the beaten track. Qualities also decision makers sometimes need to be reminded of. I would like to thank WSA winners for this re­ minder – for showing us that digitalization offers countless opportunities helping to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, if we take the right steps – now.

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all of us, the Covid 19 Pandemic has drastically changed our way of life and work environment in an incredibly short amount of time. Digitalisation saw a tremendous boost and will continue to do so. Digital tools have become ever more valuable and indispensable. Moreover, it looks like many of these changes have come to stay and will shape our economic and social environments in the future.

Digitalisation therefore constitutes a huge opportunity in this day and age.

tion with companies. A small number of institutions, such as the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), the Austrian Promotional Bank (aws) and the Christian Doppler Research Association (CDG) have been defined as core research promotion institutions by the Research Funding Act (Forschungsfinanzierungsgesetz).

This Act was passed in July 2020 and improves planning reliability and predictability for research institutions and for the research community as a whole.

One of the core tasks of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs is to further advance digitalisation and digital transformation in Austria. Widespread mobile phone signature and other reliable authentication methods are of crucial importance in this regard. Furthermore, key technologies such as Artificial Intelligence or Biotechnology will contribute to the success of Austria as a business location, due to their broad field of application.

In parallel, we prepare individuals to adapt to new technologies, which should in turn benefit our economies in the future. The platform “Fit4Internet” is a good example of this.

In order to further push these key technologies, a number of tailor-made research promotion programmes have been set up. They support fundamental and applied research, partly in coopera-

I am convinced that we are thus well prepared to meet present and future challenges.

BIM,

VR, AR…These terms are not dreams of the future, but current technology trends that affect the way we as a company operate and act in our day-to-day business. The Covid-Pandemic is not stopping us, but has shown that global challenges are accelerating the use of innovative technologies.

At Umdasch Group, with many different companies and branches under one umbrella, we are continuously involved with new technological trends. Therefore, we need stimulus from within the company, where the Umdasch Group is working on new technologies with numerous projects and initiatives. I believe that change also needs impulse from the outside and the WSA network is an excellent chance to reach a broad audience and open up to external ideas.

I am happy to support the WSA as Austrian initiative, selecting digital solutions for the UN SDGs and want to cordially congratulate the winners of this year.

I am particularly pleased that the youngest member of the Umdasch Group family, our innovation hub Umdasch Group Ventures, has developed this year's challenge and is awarding the Josef Umdasch Research Prize.

Margarete Schramböck, Federal Minister for Digital and Economic Affairs

Dr. Andreas J. Ludwig, Executive Chairman Umdasch Group

Leonore Gewessler, Federal Minister for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

WSA 2020– 2030

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

The 2030

Agenda for Sustainable De­velopment, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.

The UN SDGs are the metrics of success for digital content driven solutions and innovative applications The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all".

[2] The SDGs, set in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and intended to be achieved by the year 2030, are part of UN Resolution 70/1, the 2030 Agenda.

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The SDGs build on decades of work by countries and the UN, including the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

The Goals and targets will stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet:

Preamble

People

Peace

Planet

Partnership

This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan. We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which we are announcing today demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve. They seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.

They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental.

We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.

We are determined to protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change, so that it can support the needs of the present and future generations.

Prosperity

We are determined to ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature.

We are determined to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development.

We are determined to mobilize the means required to ­implement this Agenda through a revitalised Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, based on a spirit of strengthened global solidarity, focussed in particular on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable and with the participation of all countries, all stakeholders and all ­people.

The interlinkages and integrated nature of the Sustainable Development Goals are of crucial importance in ensuring that the purpose of the new Agenda is realised. If we realize our ambitions across the full extent of the Agenda, the lives of all will be profoundly improved and our world will be transformed for the better.

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ABOUT WSA Digital

Innovation has brought about rapid advancement, transforming the way societies function. Especially during the global pandemic digital innovation offered support and new solutions.

More than ever, the challenge is and remains worldwide to bridge global ­divides and to work on reaching the UN SDGs. Be it the global pandemic and new solutions for remote working, digital health and online education, or gender inequality, environmental challenges and the access to information and infrastructure. The global divides are manifold and affect us all. Reflecting the changes caused by the pandemic, with new economic challenges, or the case of climate crisis and global warming, we see that the divides grow nationally and worldwide. It is high time to act now and connect4impact!

In the face of such societal challenges, how can digital solutions and interactive applications make a positive contribution? How can international collaboration and knowledge exchange disrupt current nefarious developments? And what benefits are hidden in the digital transformation?

With its worldwide, multi-stakeholder community of social entrepreneurs and digital innovation enthusiasts, WSA focusses on international knowledge exchange, collaboration, and the contribution to the UN SDGs. Founded in 2003 as part of the UN World Summit on Information Society, WSA awards yearly 45 outstanding best practice local digital content with a high societal value. WSA spans its community in over 185 countries, a network unique in its passion and reach, holding close cooperation with UN agencies, academia and the ­private sector alike.

Under the patronage of

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

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ABOUT WSA CONGRESS

WSA UPCOMING

The

WSA CALL 2021

for the first time fully virtual event will feature international speakers to discuss pressing topics as climate change, digital health, and the gender gap. 45 best practice winners from 29 countries will pitch their digital solutions live, and a diverse workshop program will offer hands on skills enhancement.

Digital solutions have the power to narrow economic and social divides.

Apply with your digital solution for WSA and demonstrate how digital innovation can deal with pressing challenges and contributes essentially to achieve the UN SDGs!

www.worldsummitawards.org @WSAOffice worldsummitawards

EXCELLENCE IN M-CONTENT 2013

worldsummitawards #WSACascais

2016

2015

WSA-mobile Global Congress Sao Paulo Partners 2015Brazil

2015

HOSTING & STRATEGIC PARTNER ABU DHABI

Singapore Singapore

Platinum Sponsor

Gold Sponsor

2013

Abu Dhabi UAE

SPONSORING PARTNERS

Sponsor m-Learning & Education

UN & STRATEGIC PARTNERS

Under the patronage of

Abu Dhabi UAE

UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

ABU DHABI

office@worldsummitawards.org

GRAND JURY

VIENNA 2018

WSA SHORTLIST

Vienna Austria

ONLINE JURY 70 international experts evaluate all entries online.

2018

Cascais Portugal

2020

ENTRIES from countries nominated for WSA

Connect 4 impact

2019

Vienna Austria

WSA partners organize local preselections.

1 submission / country / category

2020

Outreach supported by WSA partners in 184 countries

2021

Virtual

WSA PROCESS

So far, the WSA Global Congress took place already in Switzerland, Tunisia, Italy, Mexico,Canada, Egypt, UAE, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Singapore, Portugal and Austria.

CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONS

WSA WINNERS

APRIL 1ST – AUG 31ST

floorfour.at

www.wsa-mobile.org

2012

Colombo Sri Lanka

Cairo Egypt

Cairo Egypt

2010

2013

WSA-mobile Excellence in m-Content

MEDIA PARTNERS

2010

Abu Dhabi UAE

WSA YOUNG INNOVATORS 2021 You are a young digital innovator under 26 years of age?

2009

Monterrey Mexico

Then apply now for the WSA Young Innovators and present to the world how your digital innovation is taking action on the UN SDGs. Showcase your solution worldwide and join a global, multi-stakeholder community!

OPEN CALL FOR YOUTH TAKING ACTION IN THE UN SDG’S

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Venice Italy

2007

APPLY FROM

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Tunis Tunisia

https://wsa-global.org/wsa-young-innovators

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Geneva Switzerland

European Young Innovators Festival Graz 2021

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APRIL 1ST – AUG 31ST

EUROPEAN YOUNG INNOVATORS FESTIVAL 2021

DEC 1ST – 3RD GRAZ, AUSTRIA

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WSA CONTEST 2020/21 Government & Citizen Engagement 44

Start-up

Health & Well Being 50

NGO

Learning & Education 52

Social enterprise

Environment & Green energy 34

University

Culture & Tourism 36

Corporate

Smart Settlements & Urbanization 32

SME

Business & Commerce 48

Individual

Inclusion & Empowerment 46

Government

167 28 32 6

Nominees/Region

50

Asia

Europe

147

Arab countries & Middle East

41

Africa

12 27 16

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Africa

48

North America & Oceania

Belgium

Germany

3

3

3

2

2

Chile

Israel

Mexcio

Brazil

China

1

1

1

1

1

Australia

Austria

Canada

Estonia

Finland

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Ghana

Lebanon

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Nigeria

North Macedonia

Portugal

1

1

1

1

1

1

Qatar

Singapore

South Africa

Sri Lanka

Thailand

United Kingdom

Vanuatu

Europe

5

19

2 3 3

North America & Oceania

33

4

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Winners/Region

Asia

4

17

Other

Arab countries & Middle East

WINNERS /COUNTRY TOTAL 40 WINNERS | 26 COUNTRIES

Nominees Type of organization

78 countries Nominees/ Category 342 nominees

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Latin America & Caribbean

Latin America & Caribbean

+ Applications from 78 countries

YOUNG INNOVATORS 2020 76 countries 296 applications

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Asia 47

Europe Latin America & Caribbean North America & Oceania

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Arab countries & Middle East

42

Arab countries & Middle East

1

7

12

Asia

2

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Women CEO | Founders | Co-Founders | Projects leads: 22 → 22 of the 40 WSA Winners 2020 have female project leads.

Europe

Winners/ Country

Afrika

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Africa

1

1

Nigeria

Pakistan

1 2

2

Latin America & Caribbean

2 50% +

3

North America & Oceania

23 1

1

1

United States

Canada

Syrian Arab Republic

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CATEGORIES

Winners 2020

GOVERNMENT & CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT

HEALTH & WELL BEING

SERVICES | OPEN DATA | DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION

MEDICAL CARE | SPORT | LIFESTYLE

LEARNING & EDUCATION

ENVIRONMENT & GREEN ENERGY

KNOWLEDGE | SCIENCE | SKILLS

CLIMATE | SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES | AGRICULTURE

CULTURE & TOURISM

SMART SETTLEMENTS & URBANIZATION

HERITAGE | ENTERTAINMENT | SUBCULTURES

MOBILITY |PRODUCTIVE WORK | SUSTAINABLE LIVING

BUSINESS & COMMERCE

INCLUSION & EMPOWERMENT

INNOVATIVE SERVICES | SECURITY | FINANCE | MARKETING

DIVERSITY | GENDER | JUSTICE | HUMAN RIGHTS

WSA YOUNG INNOVATORS

YOUTH TAKING ACTION ON THE SDG'S | STRICTLY FOR PEOPLE UNDER 26

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Government & Citizen Engagement GOVERNMENT & CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT

Improving the quality of public administration & democratic processes, while integrating state of the art technology with content rich solutions to increase transparency and facilitate citizen participation.

Demonstration against the Criminal Code Law and the KPK Revision, at Singaraja, Bali - 2019 © Photo by Fajar Grinanda 18

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WINNERS

GOVERNMENT & CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT OS CITY GOVSTORE PLATFORM

JUDY

Jesus Cepeda, Lucas Jolias, Alejandro Garza

Charles Thompson, Sadiq Okocha, Bright Oleka

Mexico

Ghana

os.city/platform

judy.legal

Govstore is a Mexican software framework for public institutions using cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. With up to 5 billion people in cities by 2030 worldwide, local governments face an institutional crisis seen in missing revenues, low constituent trust and environmental degradation. The Govstore ecosystem offers access to knowledge and partners, facilitates innovation and safer modernization, distributes development costs and eases technology adoption. Govstore is turning governments across Latin America into integrated platforms of digital services.

JUDY is a platform for lawyers, judges, law students and anyone interested in the law seeking digitized legal materials including statutes and case law in Ghana and Nigeria going back to the 1930s. In addition to its user-friendly interface, the system uses AI to facilitate searches and upgrade content. A team of lawyers edits language, formats judgments and annotates principles established in a case.

JUDY’s mission is to support the legal profession and the administration of justice. When lawyers work better, it is easier for people to find justice.

MINING & MINERAL PRODUCTION (mmPro) MONITORING SOLUTION Sajjana de Silva, Sampath Kokila, Roshan Dayaratne Sri Lanka mmpro.aasait.com/app

HOPLR Jennick Scheerlinck, Jonas Heirwegh , Arnaud De Groote Belgium hoplr.com

Activating citizens is a challenge for local governments. Hoplr from Belgium offers citizens a free digital network encouraging offline encounters to get involved. Citizens use Hoplr to share goods and services, help each other, organise neighbourhood activities, participate in local topics and policymaking, find lost pets, and co-create their neighbourhood. Hoplr also offers a paid service dashboard to local governments, so they engage with local communities, moving together towards a caring and sustainable smart city.

mmPro from Sri Lanka is a digital solution for the management of mining licenses. Over-extraction in illegal locations, transport to unauthorized destinations, misuse of mining and transport licenses and bribing of law enforcement officers are common practices of a ‘mafia’ with political backing. The mmPro solution is a mobile app, web & SMS interface with portable printer digitizing operations for the license issuing officer, license owner, transporter, police, enforcement officers and management. mmPro enables the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau to end mining corruption in Sri Lanka.

EASY LAWS Eddy Sader, Patricia Sader, Eliane Keyrouz Lebanon easylaws.me/

EASY LAWS is a free mobile app and website in Lebanon that explains laws in everyday language, giving ordinary people access to legislation from a citizen’s rather than a legalistic perspective. With easy searches via a simplified database covering 380 legal topics, over 6000 questions and answers, explanatory notes, real life examples, a glossary of terms, and extensive legal references, EASYLAWS gives people equal opportunities and leads to the elimination of discriminatory policies and laws by empowering citizens in their quest for justice.

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Health & Well Being

HEALTH & WELL BEING

High-level technology combined with smart content to meet professional and private healthcare needs. Supporting professionals in client-centred care & private users in emergencies and during illness with reliable information about health.

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WINNERS HEALTH & WELL-BEING

PHELCOM EYER

CORONAI

ICOLUNG

José Augusto Stuchi, Diego Lencione, Flávio Pascoal Vieira Brazil

Anushka Purohit, Anupam Tiwari, Neel Desai

icometrix, VUB/UZBrussel, KULeuven

China

Belgium

phelcom.com.br/en

youtube.com/watch?v=TvKnGL0Nr6w&feature=youtu.be

icometrix.com/services/icolung

The Phelcom Eyer from Brazil is a high-resolution, non-­ mydriatic, portable and cloud-connected retinal camera.

While access to well-equipped ocular clinics is commonly available only in urban centres, exams are often unaffordable. With the Eyer, health professionals can diagnose challenging eye disorders in remote field campaigns, bedside exams, as well as via telehealth. Primary care exams can be done anywhere, in drug stores, basic health units or in a small general clinic, resulting in better diagnostics and savings for the health sector.

CoronAI from China is designed for real-time medical screening during the Corona pandemic, so as to monitor patients without having to interact with them. Using electrode frequencies tomographic images are formed providing real-time footage of organs to be examined, while maintaining physical distancing. CoronAI reduces diagnostic time and allows patients to conduct scans themselves, as well as share data later.

icolung, an AI-based tool from Belgium, has been developed to analyse chest CT scans for the diagnosis, triaging, and prediction of COVID-19. Fast and accurate diagnosis of COVID-19 is key to appropriate quarantine and therapeutic measures. Standard COVID-19 tests are limited in availability, give positive/negative outcomes with no insight into disease severity, and results are delayed, often delivering false negative results. With icolung, physicians can take faster reliable and more informed treatment decisions, enabling optimal healthcare resource allocation.

CUREOSITY MOBILE Thomas Saur, Stefan Arand, Marco Faulhammer.

Germany cureosity.de/products

DIGITAL SOLUTION FOR MONITORING LUNG CONDITION DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC Digitaalinen ratkaisu keuhkojen tilan seurantaan koronaviruspandemian aikana Seppo Salorinne, Yrjö Salorinne, Petri Louhelainen Finland kamuhealth.com/kamu-releases-free-app-for-asthmatics/

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KAMU Asthma is a free digital self-management service from Finland to monitor lungs, modified for users in 18 ­European countries, as a result of the pandemic. Both former COVID-19 patients, as well as people with chronic respiratory conditions benefit from regular lung monitoring resulting in a better balance of treatments and collaboration with professionals. The app allows daily tracking of medication, symptoms and external triggers, results are easily logged and summarized in trend reports. By predicting symptoms or declining lung performance, prompt action can be taken.

CUREosity is a mobile therapy system from Germany using VR technology to activate the neuroplasticity of the brain and restore a patient’s lost abilities. Over 700 million people worldwide need therapy caused by accidents, neurodegenerative factors or depression. Through gamefication, the patient’s motivation for high-frequency training is sustainably increased. CUREosity addresses the increasing need for affordable therapy and improves the quality of care. It is available face to face and around the world using remote technology.

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Learning & Education

LEARNING & EDUCATION

Using state of the art technology and focusing on learner needs in a complex and globalizing world, innovative educational content makes education, professional training, as well as science, accessible to everyone.

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WINNERS LEARNING & EDUCATION

ParentTV

MaGrid

Sam Jockel

Tahereh Pazouki, Veronique Cornu

Australia

Luxembourg

parenttv.com

magrid.lu

ParentTV is a digital library of on-demand videos, courses, and educational resources from Australia, to support the care of children from birth to teens. Experts are there at any time to provide evidence-based parenting advice in understandable language. As pandemic lockdown measures such as home office conflict for many parents with home schooling, the ParentTV video library offers mental health, anxiety, and suicide-related guidance, answering parents’ and educators’ concerns about physical wellbeing, social competence, emotional maturity or cognitive, language and communication skills.

Magrid is a language-independent pedagogical program in Luxembourg for the development of children’s early visual-spatial and mathematical abilities. 63.5% of young pupils in Luxembourg do not have access to education in their home language and are thus likely to miss out on learning opportunities. Magrid helps overcome language barriers or hearing difficulties by providing children with learning-by-doing tasks to visualize mathematical concepts and ideas. Magrid teaches maths skills to preschoolers intuitively, turning multilingualism into opportunity.

ANNOTO Kirill Slavkin, Hen Eytan, Genadi Sokolov Israel annoto.net Annoto from Israel provides an on-line solution to virtual classrooms by engaging students in a way critical to their motivation. Annoto bridges the gap created by the transition from the physical classroom to the online world by addressing decreased attention span encountered in online teaching. To keep students engaged, Annoto shifts video-watching from a passive, lean-back free ride to an active, lean-in, personalized experience, enabling young people to connect with each other, share knowledge and learn together digitally.

MYSKILLCAMP Kevin Tillier, Amandine Coutant, Mathieu Van Belle Belgium myskillcamp.com/en Myskillcamp is an all-in-one digital platform from Belgium for companies to centralize learning. By integrating platforms like Linkedin Learning, Goodhabitz, or Bookboon, businesses benefit from a single sign-on, single interface and enriched learning capabilities. Trainers take ownership of the platform both by creating their own trainings and by using existing resources purchased by the company, creating in-depth courses with video, quizzes, follow-ups, and editing onsite. With Myskillcamp, employers can better guide their workforce to meet upskilling and reskilling challenges.

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HPI SCHUL CLOUD HPI Schul-Cloud - Deine digitale Lernumgebung Christoph Meinel, Matthias Luderich, Jan Renz Germany hpi-schul-cloud.de

HPI Schul Cloud is an easy-to-use learning management system from Germany, enabling students and teachers to create digital media for all grades and school subjects. With HPI Schul-Cloud, users engage in collaborative and individual teaching/learning whether synchronically or asynchronically, via messaging, video conferences, file sharing, and intelligent tutoring systems. During school lockdown, all pupils using the platform reached their learning goals.

User-friendly and didactically flexible, HPI Schul Cloud is finding acceptance in school boards and schools.

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Environment & Green Energy

ENVIRONMENT & GREEN ENERGY

Smart content addresses the climate crisis. It combines environmental goals with client­centred models, providing solutions for environ­ mental engagement and supporting sustainable agriculture in developmental areas.

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WINNERS ENVIRONMENT & GREEN ENERGY

GREENPLAT | PlataformaVerde Chicko Sousa, Anauyla Batista, Raphael Guiguer Brazil plataformaverde.com.br The Green Platform traceability software monitors the extraction of raw materials, production processes and waste disposal across the entire supply chain. In Brazil, only 53% of waste is properly disposed of. Besides controlling production losses, waste creation and disposal, Greenplat also informs companies of municipal, state and federal environmental legislation and certified technical standards. With more transparency, cleaner production and responsible waste disposal, Greenplat contributes to environmental protection.

RICULT Aukrit Unahalekhaka, Gabriel Torres, Usman Javaid Thailand ricult.com

Ricult is a mobile app for farmers in Thailand leveraging machine learning and satellite imagery to help farmers increase productivity, access affordable loans, and lift them out of poverty. Plagued by climate unpredictability, low yields, lack of technology and know-how, as well as financial exclusion, farmers benefit from the app’s recommendations to make optimal decisions regarding seeds, fertilizers or planting, while connecting with consumer markets. Ricult aims to increase the overall food supply and food security in the region.

BEEWISE

THE CAPTURE APP Capture - The Fitbit for your Carbon Footprint Abdul Aziz, Josie Stoker, Bilal Shahid Singapore play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.thecapture.tracker

The GPS-based Capture app from Singapore enables users to track, reduce and remove CO² emissions from everyday life. Caring about climate change is not enough, individual habits need to be changed. With Capture, users become aware of the emissions created by their travel or food choices and begin to reduce emissions by making planet-friendly life choices or invest in verified carbon offsetting projects. Empowering people to get active, Capture has been dubbed ‘the Fitbit for your carbon footprint’.

Yossi Sorin, Boaz Peterzil, Eliyah Radzyner Israel beewise.ag Beewise from Israel is an AI-based robotic beehive that monitors bees 24/7 using computer vision, precision robotics and AI. Bees are crucial to the world’s food supply, pollinating 75% of crops. Diseases, climate change, pesticides and more are decimating bees at a scary rate: every year about 35% of all beehives die. Using advanced deep technology, Beewise identifies and meets the needs of bees in real time, while reversing the trend to bee colony collapse.

Beewise saves bees and secures food supplies worldwide.

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AIRCARE - KNOW WHAT YOU BREATHE! МОЈВОЗДУХ Gorjan Jovanovski, Dragan Gelevski, Elena Andreeva North Macedonia getaircare.com/index.html AirCare is an app from North Macedonia using air pollution data from government and volunteer measuring stations. Though North Macedonia has air pollution 20 times over EU limits, official data is too complex to be useful.

Aimed at both adults and kids, AirCare explains air quality simply and clearly, empowering users to take action against a silent killer by connecting them to local eco organizations. Pressure from AirCare has led to mandatory use of industrial filters, cleaner heating solutions in households or shut down of big polluters.

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Culture & Tourism

CULTURE & TOURISM

Exceptional content combined with best ­tech­nology connects travellers with locals, ­pre­­serves and reanimates valuable cultural ­heritage, and supports sustainable tourism for people to discover cultural gems worldwide.

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LOOP Mirrors of time LRCT Live Remote Creation Theatre | LOOP espejos del tiempo TCRV Teatro de creación remota en vivo Vivian Cruz Juárez, Héctor Cruz Juárez, Flor Velasco Prado Mexico landscape.com.mx LRCT, Live Remote Creation Theatre, developed in Mexico, is the first integrated platform for creative digital scenic arts. Using an open-source software to synchronize, monitor, link and organize video and audio across different online media, it provides producers and directors with a seamless dramaturgical experience. Faced with the closing of entertainment venues during the Corona pandemic, LRCT enables valuable cultural assets to be streamed, while providing performance artists and producers all over the world with digital technology to transcend frontiers.

WHEEL THE WORLD Alvaro Silberstein, Camilo Navarro Chile gowheeltheworld.com

TRAVAXY ACCESSIBLE TRAVEL SOLUTIONS

NAVICUP AUDIO GUIDE Navicup audiogiid – kaardirakenduse platvorm Asko Berens, Janek Mander, Einari Kipper

Israel

FLIGHT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC Skrydis per Atlantą Erika Kisieliūtė, Tomas Blažauskas, Andrius Paulauskas Lithuania

data.travaxy.com

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lt.vrlab.lituanica

navicup.com/audio-and-e-guides/?lang=en

Michall Benassayag, Nir Ben Levi

Travaxy is a travel app from Israel for seniors and travellers with disabilities seeking to book a worry-free holiday.

Using a disability certificate with over 60 special needs parameters, Travaxy enables offline and online travel agencies and flight wholesalers to find the right accommodation in minutes, turning conventional travel agents into accessibility problem-solvers. Travaxy gives those with disability issues -- often excluded from cultural life -- a chance to engage with the world, while encouraging solutions from the tourism industry.

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Flight Across the Atlantic is an interactive educational game about two heroic Lithuanian pilots who crossed the Atlantic in a legendary uninterrupted flight from New York to Kaunas in 1933. Historical facts are presented in an interactive, immersive form, engaging players at every stage of the story from preparation to crossing on the airplane Lituanica. Flight Across the Atlantic allows children and adults to relive an iconic event in Lithuania’s history, firing the imagination while preserving cultural heritage.

Wheel the World is an accessibility travel platform from Chile for people with special needs. Lack of accurate information about accessibility holds back more than 500 million potential travellers with disabilities. Users detail their needs in profiles, then search for destinations and travel products with specific accessibility information. Using automated emails and system integration, the Wheel the World service provides users, as well as hotel and tour operators, with all the information required to satisfy traveller needs.

Estonia

Navicup Audio Guide from Estonia is a map application platform making cultural map and tour-making simple and affordable. As tourism is challenged by the global pandemic, traditional guided group tours are being replaced by safer individual digital tours. Navicup offers a platform where anyone can create their own automatic and multilingual location-based audio tour. Text to Speech technology turns multilingual texts into speech, while the app tells the user’s story like a real guide. Tourism innovation and living heritage stories are the result.

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Smart Settlements & Urbanization SMART SETTLEMENTS & URBANIZATION

55 % of today’s global population live in cities.

Urban populations require smart and innovative content to meet the challenges of urbanization, ranging from clever transport solutions to logistical apps and disaster management.

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SMART SETTLEMENTS & URBANIZATION

Georgie Midgley, Devin Govindasamy, Angela McCann

HAWA DAWA - AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT Luftqualitätsmanagement Karim Tarraf, Matt Fullerton, Birgit Fullerton

South Africa

Germany

m4jam.com

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M4JAM (PTY) LTD

M4Jam is a technology company in South Africa connecting businesses to people seeking work via a mobile app.

Through gig work M4Jam links jobbers with organisations needing micro-tasks completed. Armed with smartphones, the people most in need can earn all or additional income by taking on micro-jobs ranging from surveys, education and mystery shopping to product and concept testing and more. The M4JAM platform enables start-ups, SMEs or big business, as well as NGOs and governments, to connect directly with rural and peri-urban communities.

Hawa Dawa Air Quality Management from Germany is an air monitoring device using AI, machine learning, and modern Iot and sensor technology to gather air pollution data in real time. Hawa Dawa, Arabic for “good air,” correlates data with information from weather, traffic, land use, and public health to generate deeper insights, analyse correlations and simulate scenarios for upfront evaluation of urban planning measures. Hawa Dawa helps integrate environment data into the decision-making processes of cities, companies and citizens to ensure clean air.

ROMWARE Evert Bulcke, Kimball Felix, Nico Janssens Belgium

FLUIDTIME: Giving customers, employees and citizens new options to travel Michael Kieslinger, Stefanie Pichler, Stefanie Wappel Austria fluidtime.com/en/fluidhub

Fluidtime is an Austrian data platform and app with tailor-made technology to give commuters and employees green choices for daily travel. A feature-rich, open platform for the integration of public transport and service-sharing, coupled with a multimodal mobility app with route planner, booking and payment features, ensures that every company can quickly realize its mobility plans. Fluidtime partners with private companies, cities and regions wanting to change the way people travel, while individuals benefit from environmentally friendly urban mobility.

rombit.be/worker-safety-solutions/ Romware from Belgium uses plug-and-play IoT technology to make industrial sites safe. Accidents at work have significant human and economic consequences. Romware wearables prevent man-machine collisions, notify emergency response teams in man down scenarios, and support evacuation procedures. The Romware scale-up adapted the industrial safety wearable into a bracelet for social distancing at work. Romware Covid prevents the spread of the coronavirus among employees, by com­ bining physical distancing alerts with follow-up contact tracing.

CITYSENSE Antonio Garcia Chile citysense.co Citysense is a shared infrastructure to deploy and scale solutions for smart cities. The cloud-based service platform from Chile connects a network of urban satellites that provide the tools needed to develop IoT solutions. Each urban satellite is loaded with environmental and digital sensors, and a complete set of IoT communication systems which connect with other network nodes in cities around the world. Citysense enables the community to be part of a new universe of solutions, making their cities a better place to live.

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Business & Commerce BUSINESS & COMMERCE

Smart and innovative content drives economic development and process-optimization by providing secure commerce solutions, data mining tools and much needed ways of job creation

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MODATTA

ÜBANK

Rodrigo Moretti, Eduardo Pinto Basto

Fernando Reyes, Mijael Feldman

Portugal

Chile

modatta.org

ubankapp.com

Modatta from Portugal is a marketplace for consented personal data empowered solutions. Today, personal data is collected and monetised by big tech companies with harmful consequences for both citizens and brand names.

Modatta allows companies to pay users directly for their data, while users keep control and are free to interact or not. Instead of random profiles and intrusive cold contacts, Modatta gives companies a way to establish meaningful relationships that are compliant with General Data Protection Regulation while promoting the UN SDGs.

JUNI | Pngme

OPERAIZE – Cognitive Operations

IPIFICATION

Cate Rung, Brendan Playford, Adeola Olasewere

Christoph Lieth, Hossam Alzamly, Alexander Kouril

Harry Cheung; Stefan Kostic, Aleksandar Brankovic

Nigeria

Germany

China

lay.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pngme

operaize.com

ipification.com

Juni from Nigeria is a unified data and banking platform for financial institutions and developers in Sub-Saharan Africa providing best-in-class financial data infrastructure.

In difficult emerging markets where data is often fragmented, unreliable and incomplete, Juni provides tools to create innovative products for the under/unbanked. Offering a user-permitted, single source of verification for the customer’s complete financial profile, Juni is an innovative simple technical solution to lending at scale.

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Übank from Chile is a digital savings solution that helps people to save. Contrary to the ubiquitous pressure to spend, Übank promotes habits of incremental saving to improve financial resilience regardless of economic status.

Using saving rules, people can turn everyday activities like buying coffee or cheering on their favourite team, into micro-savings to pay debts or create reserve funds. Übank’s solution is a white label API that can be integrated directly into the mobile apps of banks, giving over 200 million people in Latin America access to a new culture of saving.

Operaize – Cognitive Operations is a software from Germany aimed at production companies and combining mathematical optimization methods with next gen AI learning methods. In situations where plants may see up to 1.200 alarms daily, Operaize offers an optimal trans­ parent overview of production, autonomous quick problem-solving and adaptive learning by which learned data is converted into decision rules for optimal production control. With Operaize resources are saved, while business process and environmental optimizations are the ­result.

IPification is a Chinese mobile authentication solution revolutionizing authentication and enhancing user experience without compromising security and privacy. IPification verifies phone numbers, SIM and other devices via IP addresses using a seamless auth technology based on secure protocol in which sensitive data is not shared with third parties. SMS one-time passwords and biometrics verification belong to the past. IPification‘s fraud preventing patented technology is trusted by leading technology, payment and OTT companies.

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Inclusion & Empowerment INCLUSION & EMPOWERMENT

Digital innovation and creative content help to reduce digital divides by supporting integration and self-help, strengthening social cohesion and enabling active participation.

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WINNERS INCLUSION & EMPOWERMENT

DIVERSIO Laura McGee, Anya Klimbovskaia, Maxi Heidenblut Canada diversio.com Diversio is a Canadian people intelligence platform that measures and improves diversity and inclusion within organizations. Despite the clear business case against bias, women and minorities are still chronically missing in many sectors and at executive levels. Diversio collects employee data through a short survey, creates an inclusion score and report card, adding advanced analytics to create a tactical Action Plan. Diversio tracks impact over time, helps business leaders to learn and quickly move to sustainable inclusive action in their organizations.

CONEXIÓN MIGRANTE Paticia Mercado Sánchez, Andrea Ornelas Negrete Mexico conexionmigrante.com/

Conexión Migrante is an independent digital information hub for Mexican and Latino immigrants in the US, of whom some 12 million are undocumented. The media outlet offers journalism, a call centre and chatbot giving migrants personalized information and advice on procedures. It offers WikiMigrante, a powerful search engine with hundreds of fact sheets, and free membership to create a formerly invisible migrant community and to find lost people. Conexión Migrante is an example of information technologies helping a vulnerable population.

BONOCLE Abdelrazek Aly, Ramy Soliman

WELCOME WelcoMe - Inclusive Customer Service Platform Gavin Neate, Allan Hutcheon United Kingdom Neatebox.com/welcome WelcoMe is a low-cost web-based service enabling any person with a disability to forewarn participating businesses of their visit and special needs. 70% of disabled people report experiencing poor customer service. Using WelcoMe, businesses can ensure that staff are aware of their responsibilities and possible best practices. By connecting the arrival of the person with disabilities to their smartphone and using location-aware technology, WelcoMe trains staff to expect, welcome, and know exactly how to help the client. Everyone wins.

Qatar bonocle.co Bonocle is an affordable portable braille platform from Qatar offering productivity, gaming, and education apps.

Most braille products are too limited and expensive to change braille illiteracy, a barrier to studying at university or finding a job. Bonocle apps provide visual and tactile feedback, so users can pass on content to sighted and blind family members, friends, and colleagues. Bonocle aims for an unsegregated world of braille literacy where the blind and sighted share classrooms and workplaces.

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UNBLOCKED CASH: Piloting Accelerated Cash Transfer Delivery in Vanuatu Sandra Uwantege Hart Vanuatu policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/unblocked-cash-piloting-accelerated-cash-transfer-delivery-in-vanuatu-620926

UnBlocked Cash from Vanuatu is a blockchain payment platform featuring community inclusion, transparent finance, and blended service delivery. While suited to distribution of humanitarian aid, UnBlocked Cash is an open-ended, opensource payment solution for local communities to shape technology according to their own needs, as well as independently operate the process of delivering payments. UnBlocked Cash integrates digital financial inclusion with decentralized networks for a more collaborative economy at the community level.

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WSA Young Innovators WSA YOUNG INNOVATORS

The WSA Young Innovators Award gives special recognition to young social entrepreneurs under 26 years of age who take action on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with smart digital content and solutions.

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WINNERS

WSA YOUNG INNOVATORS

NATAL CARES

DOC TRACKER

Uche Kenneth Udekwe, Joy Chioma

Kasyap Chakravadhanula, Ritvik Warrier

Nigeria

United States

natalcares.com/service.php

opencureai.org/doc-tracker.html

Natal Cares combines mobile technology, machine learning and low-cost innovation to combat maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria. Due to a lack of health care information in under-served communities, superstition rather than medically approved information is widespread. Natal Cares reaches out to women via their mobile phones in rural areas and Internally Displaced Persons Camps, providing mental healthcare support, affordable delivery kits, medical monitoring and emergency services to at-risk pregnant women and nursing mothers.

DOC Tracker from the USA is a convenient, inexpensive, and safe mobile device for improved monitoring of diabetes and its ocular and cardiovascular complications. ­Diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma are serious threats to millions of people worldwide. The DOC Tracker consists of a smartphone and two small attachments: an acetone sensor and a retinal fundus imaging attachment. DOC ­Tracker enables rapid, continuous monitoring of diabetes and its important complications to improve early intervention before irreversible damage happens.

ARBOR Abdullah Choudhry, Ben Grande, Danny Grande Canada CONNECTHEAR Arhum Ishtiaq, Azima Dhanjee Pakistan connecthear.org ConnectHear offers a VRS application with interpretation services for the deaf in Pakistan. Global stats on deafness indicate over 900 million people will have disabling hearing loss by 2050. ConnectHear also addresses the need for sign language interpretation by working with local governments to standardize the profession with private certification programs. ConnectHear is Pakistan’s largest sign language content producer, giving the deaf a voice by normalizing sign language literacy.

yourarbor.com/your-browser-extension Arbor is a shopping platform and mobile app developed in Canada for consumers with ethical buying preferences.

80% of consumers want to know which companies are environmentally and socially responsible. By providing reliable and unbiased data on corporations across the globe regarding resource use, fair labour practices, diversity hiring, environmental impact and more, Arbor empowers consumers to align their everyday purchases with their personal values and influence global change.

FUTURE LABY Taher Hassan, Hasan Dayoub Syrian Arab Republic futurelaby.com Future LabY from Syria is a virtual lab bringing e-learning to those who do not have access to proper laboratories and equipment. While e-learning has made strides in university studies such as civil engineering, other specializations like dentistry or medicine lag far behind. Future LabY has created the Operative Dentistry Lab, augmented with information necessary to dentistry students shown interactively. Learning is made possible anywhere, at any time with digital technology.

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WSA GRAND JURY 2020 Dec 7-11 2020

The WSA

Grand Jury meeting 2020 took place as Online Meeting, gathering international experts from all relevant stakeholders and world regions – guaranteeing a fair, democratic and transparent process.

The jury members dig deep into each shortlisted solution, understanding the local value and circumstances, comparing the technology and innovation grade, as well as the local impact and the value add for the achievement of the UN SDGs. A truly tough and job – the result speaks for itself – a diverse and inspiring list of WSA Winners 2020.

The jury members Sachi Wickramage, Serial Entrepreneur | Australia Christian Rupp, Chief Innovation Officer | European Joint Innovation Lab | Austria Rahat Hossain, Digital Health Specialist | Ayat | Bangladesh Carolina Rossi, Senior Partner | Moon Advisors | Chile Witman Hung, Principal Liaison Officer for Hong Kong | Shenzhen Qianhai Authority | China Liisi Org, | Startup Estonia | Estonia Jan Schwaab, Head Digital Transformation in Africa | GIZ | Germany Dorothy Gordon, Consultant | Ghana Maria Zaghi, Operations Director | Ergocom | Guatemala Shinta Dhanuwardoyo, CEO | Bubu,com | Indonesia Omri Boral, Co-Founder | Tech for Good | Israel Michael Madara Ogot, Deputy Vice-Chancellor | University of Nairobi | Kenya Manar AlHashash, Founder | Dot Design | Kuwait Gabriel Deek, General Manager | OmniSystems | Lebanon Ieva Žilionienė, Director of Strategy | Communications Regulatory Authority of the Republic of Lithuania | Lithuania 54

Zikry Kholil, Chief Inciter | The Incitement | Malaysia Rudy Laddaga, Founder | Gnius Club | Mexico Zouheir Lakhdissi, CEO and Co-Founder | Dial Technologies | Morocco Marta Tomovska, Consultant | North Macedonia Agha Hamza, Country Head and Ambassador | Hello Tomorrow Pakistan Hub | Pakistan Ashraf Al Astal, Founder | 1plus1.business | Palestine Sandra Fazenda Almeida, Executive Director | APDC | Portugal Christelle Scharff, Founder | MobileSenegal Hub | Senegal Neeti Virmani, Start-Up Coach and Mentor | Global Startup Campus | South Korea Chitranganie Mubarak, ICT4D Consultant | Sri Lanka Fadwa Murad, Director, ICT Incubator | Syrian Computer Society, Syria | Syria Houda Ghozzi, Co-founder and Program Director | Open Startup Competition | Tunisia Ralph Simon, Chief Executive & Founder | Mobilium International | UK Carlos Abler, Consultant and Content Marketing Specialist | USA

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WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS Mr Ahmadzai Abdulbari Afghanistan

Mr Mezini Dritan Albania

Mr Font Joan Andorra

Mr Adrian Argentina Carballo Argentina

Yengibaryan Bagrat Armenia Mr

Mr Haas Mathias Austria

Mr Rupp Christian Austria

Director DM Consulting Services Managing Director Government of Andorra Head of the Audiovisuals & Comunications Department

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Aouf Abdellah Algeria

Global Opportunities

Simon Nelson Antigua and Barbuda

Networking Systems Solutions

Cavalli Olga Argentina

Government of Argentina

Wickramage Sachi Australia

i4Tradies

Fassl Lisa-Marie Austria

Female Founders

Gulusoy Shanay Azerbaijan

E-Gov Development Center Public Entity

Abdulrahman Nawaf Bahrain

Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Salman Cardiac Center

Abir Ashraf Bangladesh

MCC Ltd.

Enin Sergei Belarus

NGO "Information Society"

Tibau Frederik Belgium

Agoria

Lawani Abdelaziz Benin

Benin Flying Labs

Ponce Daniel Bolivia

CityHeroes Inc.

K. Diltlhogo Agang Botswana

The Clicking Generation

Torquato Cid Brazil

Torquato.org

Sharkov George Bulgaria

European Software Institute – Center Eastern Europe

Ouedraogo Sylvestre Burkina Faso

Institut Panafricain pour le Développement Afrique de l Ouest et du Sahel Directeur Régional

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Latin America and Caribbean at the South School on Internet Governance, SSIG. Director of Institutional Relations

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Enterprise Incubator Foundation

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Director SuperSocial Founder and CEO European Joint Innovation Lab eGovernment Chief Innovation Officer

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Raihan Ananya Bangladesh

D.Net- Development through Access to Network Resources Executive Director

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Mr Enin Nicholas Belarus

Ms Balthazar Tricia Belize

Service Development Manager

Founder JSC "Technics and Communications" Executive Director CANTO Service Development Manager

Dorji Cigay Bhutan

Thimpu Tech Park

Madžarević Tanja Bosnia and Herzegovina

UNICEF

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Mr Haugland Tore Brazil

Mr Varbanov Pavel Bulgaria

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Project Coordinator Google Developer Group Gaborone Lead OUVI HQ CEO European Software Institute – Center Eastern Europe Project coordinator

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AfricaCom Network

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Mr Rojas Matias Chile

Mr Andrés Díaz Mesa Sebastián Chile

Canadian Lenders Association President Socialab Co-Founder LeaP CEO

Wong Yvonne China

Qianhai International Liaison Services Ltd

Llano Sergio Colombia

Universidad del Norte

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Watson Carlos Costa Rica

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Vu Lan Anh Czech Republic

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Pemberton Cedric Dominica

General Manager

Professor Centre Africain d´Echange Culturel (CAFEC) Coordinator ISOC Costa Rica Chapter International Foundation Independent consultant and Founder and President

Kruger Ernesto Ecuador

Ms Rossi Carolina Chile

Founder

Kruger CEO

Brigovic Ana Croatia

ACT Group

Pérez Pérez Lissette Cuba

Ministry of Communications

Andreou Panayiotis Cyprus

University of Nicosia

Bach Per Denmark

Sociale Entreprenører i Danmark (SED)

Valerio Arturo Dominican Republic

Cámara Dominicana de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (CámaraTic) Director

El Sobky Ahmed Egypt

Information Technology Industry Development Agency- ITIDA ITIDA VP for ICT Markets Development

Ibarra Rafael El Salvador

Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas

Lemma Dagmawi Ethiopia

Addis Ababa University

Kurkela Ilkka Finland

Laurea University of Applied Sciences

Ileleji Poncelet O. Gambia

The Gambia YMCAs

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Startup Estonia Startup Community Development Manager Pasifika Nexus Executive Director

Vezina Craig France

Startup Sesame

Shubitidze George Georgia

ICT Business Council of Georgia

Gordon Dorothy Ghana

Technology for Development

Doxaras Yiannis Greece

Niobium Labs

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Comores Telecom (ex-SNPT)

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Ministry of Communications Computerization

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Information Technologies and Advanced Telematic Services (CITMATEL) CEO

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Direction of Foreign Relations

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Comercializadora de Tecnologia

Richards Malisa Guyana

DevNet

Isaula Maria Honduras

Sustainable Development Networking Honduras (RDS-HN) National Coordinator

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Malmquist Johann Iceland

University of Iceland

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Vista Samaneh Asia

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Mr Casey Martin Ireland

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Professor and Serial Entrepreneur

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Sandler Carmel Israel

Tech for good

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Coopération Conseil International

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Mr Wahdan Ismail Jordan

Mr Masyuko Nathan Kenya

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Kiribati

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Sagno Elisabeth Guinea

CENTRE DREAM BENOIT XVI

Balthazar Tricia Haiti

CANTO

Horvath Noemi Hungary

Hungarian Association of Content Industry

Manzar Osama India

Digital Empowerment Foundation

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EC-MEDICI Framework

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Mr Kremenchutskiy Anatoliy Kazakhstan

Lorenzen Ian Kenya

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Irmeja Aiga Latvia

Latvian IT Cluster

Zunde Kristine Latvia

Latvian IT Cluster

Tlali Tsitso Lesotho

KoL Starts

Khaled Ben Hamed Libya

Faculty of IT, University of Tripoli

OmniSystems sal.

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Langaigne Glendon Grenada

power951

Massaley Abraham Liberia

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KG Labs Public Foundation

Deek Gabriel Lebanon

Press Union of Liberia

Growth Africa

Kin Aziz Kyrgyzstan

Cultural Heritage Management and New Technologies Department University of Patras Assistant ConsultantProfessor

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TravelHub

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India-Kazakhstan Centre of excellence in ICT

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Latvian Information and Communications Technology Association (LIKTA) Managing Director

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Yamamoto Mio Japan

Ms

Mr Melnudris Andris Latvia

Director Innovation & Strategy

Co-Founder

The Leap Co.

Felsenberg Alexander STERNWALD Group Germany

Mr

Co-founder and Executive Director

Brown Saffrey Jamaica

Ms

Ms

Coordinator

CEO

Ronchi Alfredo Italy

Mr

Mr Dengkayaphichith Vorasone Mahosot Consulting Company Ltd. / Jhai Foundation Lao Peoples Democratic Republic General Manager / Country Coordinator

Mr

bubu.com

Tech for good

Ms

Manager of Projects and Communications

Founder & Director

Boral Omri Israel

Ms

Mr

Development Manager

EU Project Director

Five One Labs

Ms Muratbekova Begaim KG Labs Public Foundation Kyrgyzstan

Mr

Service Development Manager

Bosley Alice Iraq

Ms

President of the South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) President

eContent Alchemist & Activist

IT Manager

Mr

Start-up Advisor, Coach and Mentor

CEO

Manager of Projects and Communications

Executive Director

Coordinator

Founder & CEO

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WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS Ms Žilionienė Ieva Lithuania

Ms Arazafindrakoto Raft Madagascar Ms Lee Grace Malaysia

Acting Deputy Director ISOC Madagascar President Multimedia Development Corporation Stakeholder Engagement Division

Shunan Yusuf Maldives

Maldicore Group Pvt Ltd

Bone Kenneth Malta

Seasus New Media

Mr

Mr

Ms Schembri Mark Malta

Baya Ahmed Mauritania

Mr

Mr Laddaga López Rudy Mexico

Managing Director

Managing Director Malta Communications Authority Project Coordinator Information Society Mauritel CEO Gnius Club Entrepreneur

Poștaru Andrei Moldova

MUUME

Gardi Badruun Mongolia

GerHub

Kerdoudi Ilhem Morocco

MNC

Abneusa Stefania Mozambique

Mozdev

Peters Anicia Namibia

Namibia University

Mr

Mr

Mr

Ms

Ms

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Nauru

Oorschot Herman Netherlands

Mr

Mr Wilson Alfredo Nicaragua

CTO

Co-Founder and Chairman

CEO

President

Dean: Faculty of Computing and Informatics South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) President Fullmoon Interactive Solutions Partner & CEO Guegue Communications Director

Iro Adamou Niger

Technologies Informatique & Télécoms

Lazarovska Natasha North Macedonia

Startup Macedonia

Al Sabti Zawan Oman

eOman Portal

Mr

Ms

Ms

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RRT

Expert Juriste-Manager

Co-Founder and Executive Board Member

Director

Baxevani Pelagia Luxembourg

Nyuko

Lakudzala Derek Malawi

BUMAS International

Ong Kian Yew Malaysia

Multimedia Development Corporation Head, Enterprise Global Development/APICTA Technopreneur Development Division/Manager

Ms

Simbara Mariko Mali

Agance des technologies de l'information et de la communication (AGETIC) Training manager

Mr

Attard Marcelle Malta

Malta Communications Authority

Mr

Mr

Mr

Ms

Ms

Ms

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Marshall Islands Mr Kissoondoyal Dave Mauritius

Project Manager

Partner

Project Coordinator Information Society South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) President Internet Society of Mauritius President

Agha Hamza Pakistan

Hello Tomorrow Pakistan

Al-Astal Ashraf Palestine*

1plus1 Business

Kevin Priscilla Papua New Guinea

PNG Digital ICT Cluster and WiSTEM

Jaime Jorge Peru

Red Científica Peruana

Lebuda Jakub Poland

Clipatize

Mr

Mr

Ms Tazenda Almeida Sandra Portugal

Oo Thein Myanmar

Mr

Myanmar Computer Federation President

Mr

Kostic Ivana Serbia

Health Tech Lab

Mr

Tan Alaric Singapore

The creative Alliance

Jerman Blazic Borka Slovenia

Jožef Stefan Institute

Rabana Rapelang South Africa

Rekindle Learning

Vea Andreu Spain

European Commission

Aleman Mario Nicaragua

ICANN

Ms

Amos Emmanuel Nigeria

Programos Foundation

Bruarøy Kristian Norway

Bridj

Ara Jehan Pakistan

The Nest I/O Technology Incubator & Accelerator

Mr

Ms

Founder & President

Founder & Consultant

Founder

ICT Chamber, Rwanda Private Sector Federation

Pace University Chairperson of Computer Science / Associate Professor / Computer Scientist

Ms

Mr

Ntale Alex Rwanda

Scharff Christelle Senegal

Ms

Auckland University of Technology, School of Engineering, Computer & Mathematical Sciences Director of Women in Technology, Senior Lecturer

Member of Technical Staff

SIVECO Romania

Digital Design srl

Mr

Mr

Bujor Ana Maria Romania

Capello Luciano San Marino

Mr

Government of Nepal (Ministry of Information and communication) News Reporter/Broadcast Journalist

Mr Mohaghegh Mahsa New Zealand

Fundação Escola Portuguesa de Macau

ICT4dev and Internet Governance

Raj Khanal Ananda Nepal

Mr

Carneiro Roberto Portugal

Mr

Daniel Rudolph Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Mr

Mr

HOD and Senior Lecture

MOST Foundation

Ministry of Technology

Beukes-Amiss Maggy Namibia University Namibia Ms

Klimek Katarzyna Poland

Ms

Wharton Wesley Saint Kitts and Nevis

BeeAnd.me

CEO and Co-Founder

TRACE College

Mr

Hot Dervic Elma Montenegro

Dial Technologies

Executive Director

Tinio Eloisa Philippines

Ms

Rossiya Segodnya | International information agency

Mr

Mr Lakhdissi Zouheir Morocco

APDC

Kiyo Group Organización

Priemov Dmitry Russian Federation

GerHub

Founder and CEO

CEO

Pedersen Marina Paraguay

Ms

Ms

Batjargal Enkhjin Mongolia Mr

Co-Founder

Mr

Mubarak Chitranganie Sri Lanka

Director of Mobile Projects Department

Director, Technology

Independent Consultant

Chairman

Co-Founder

Founder

Head of Laboratory for Open Systems and network

Founder & Chair

Digital Champion for Spain

Ms

Balthazar Tricia Suriname Ms

Digital Society Development Consultant CANTO Service Development Manager

President Ingeniería Informática S.A.

Ministry of Transport and Communications Assistant Undersecretary for Digital Society Sector Development

Mr

CEO and Co-Founder

Founder & Managing Director

South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS)

Prado Amaya Matias Panama

Mr

Al Mansoori Reem Qatar

Ms

Ms South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Micronesia, Federated States Of President Ms

Country Head

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Palau

Balthazar Tricia Saint Lucia

Ms

CEO

CEO

Vice President for Academic Affairs

Advisory

Presidente do Conselho de Administração

Educational content project manager

Executive Director CANTO Service Development Manager

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Samoa

President of the South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) President

Almaimuni Hana Saudi Arabia

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

Ms

Manager, Awards & Intern.Competitiveness at E-Government

Damnjanović Damjan Health Tech Lab Serbia Co-Founder

Ibrahim Mohamed Sierra Leone Burcik Vladimir Slovakia

Mr

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Solomon Islands

Ochuodho Shem J. South Sudan

Mr

Kodikara Indumini Sri Lanka

Ms

Mr Abdelrahman Noureldien Sudan

Gustafsson Micael Sweden Mr

Sensi CEO iLearn Online Learning Centre CEO President of the South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) President Ministry of Telecom & Postal Services Senior Advisor Information & Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) COO Faculty of Computer Science at University of Science & Technology Dean Clusterlang Sweden Managing Director 61

WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS Ljung Maria Switzerland

SEIF - Driving Social Innovation

Murad Fadwa Syrian Arab Republic

Syrian Computer Society, Syria

Ms

Ms

Program Lead

Director, ICT Incubator

van der Wolde Aimée Switzerland

Ms

Ms Suleymanova Mahinakhon Tajikistan

Ms Kinu Innovations Barretto Catherinerose Tanzania, United Republic Co-Founder

Mr

Shelters David Thailand

Digital Innovation & Corporate Startup Engagement (CSE) Advisor

Mr

Kouami Olévié Togo

INTIC4DEV

Mr

Mr

Mr

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Tonga

Consultant & Formateur South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) President

Zaghbib Faouzi Tunisia

R2i

Kambur Duygu Turkey

imece

Mr

Ms

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Tuvalu

South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) President

Sugdagroserv Consulting Director MagilaTech Company Limited

Wang Chulee Thailand

RISE IMPACT

Amekudji Cyriaque Togo

INTIC4DEV

Gaspard Taylor Gia Trinidad and Tobago

Network of Rural Women Producers Trinidad and Tobago (NRWPTT) President

Saidane Amel Tunisia

Tunisian Startups

Karryev Batyr Turkmenistan

Center of Information Technologies "SIBIS"

Ndyaguma Brian Uganda

Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL)

Ms

Mr

Head of business development and strategy

Managing Partner

Magila Godfrey Tanzania, United Republic of

Ms

General Manager

SEIF - Driving Social Innovation

Mr

CEO & Co-Founder

Co-founder

Consultant & Formateur

President

Main IT expert

Business Development Manager

Mr Stern Daniel Uganda

Mr Perohanych Yuri Ukraine

Uconnect Director Association of IT Enterprises of Ukraine (AITEU) General Director

Popova Tatiana Ukraine

Ms

Association Telecommunication chamber of Ukraine Chairman of the Board

E-Government Operations Departmen Ali Tariq United Arab Emirates

Mr

Internet Governance Specialist

Ms Telecommunication Regulation Authority (TRA) Al Jallaf Hind United Arab Emirates

Mr

Abler Carlos United States

Myhre Joel United States

Pacific Disaster Center

Di Giovanni Laura Uruguay

Plan Ceibal

Temar Mathew Vanuatu

Vanuatu Government

Lam Long Viet Nam

Quang Trung Software City Development Co., Ltd.

Makayi Mbuyu Zambia

BongoHive

Mbira Tatenda Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Youth Council

Senior ICT Analyst

Mr

Walls Jon Mark United States

Ms

Mr Yusupov Alisher Uzbekistan

Tschernig Peter Venezuela

Mr

Mr Alsheikh Abubakr Abubakr Yemen

Favell Andy United Kingdom

Ms

Digital transformation leader UNCTAD Consultant, Technology Innovation and Logistics brand.uz CEO CAVEDATOS / ISOC / WordOnTech.com Executive Vice President Hadramout University of Science and Technology Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems

Ms

Mr

Mr

Mr

Mr

Freelance consultant, web editor & journalist

Senior Disaster Management Specialist

Head of Content

Chief Technical Officer for IT Assist.

CEO

Developer

Information and Communication Technology Officer

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WSA Global Congress Cascais 2019 – Audience participation

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WSA YOUTH AMBASSADORS

Banushi Alda

Polytechnic University in Tirana

Mohamed Medani

Go Platform

Allmayer Franz Josef

Simgo

Hossain Rahat

AYAT

Albania

Student

Algeria

Project Manager

Austria, Guatemala

International Business Development Executive

Bangladesh

Digital Health Specialist

Atoyan Arman

X-TECH, CityBugs, ARLOOPA

Aghajanyan Hovhannes

CityBugs

Mujkić Amila

University of Pennsylvania

Vasiljevic Branko

DVC Solutions

Armenia

Co-Founder & Product Manager

Armenia

Co-Founder

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Student

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Business developer

Weiss David

Kenne deine Rechte

Steinfelder Georg

City of Graz Department for Economic and Tourism Development

Selimović Dženana

University of Sarajevo

Brljak Ema

Youth Press Association of BiH

Austria

Project Coordinator

Austria

Founding, Start-Ups, N4

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Electrical Engineering Student

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Board of Directors

Camillo Poveda Juan

Dialoghi in Architettura - New Humanity NGO

Kambis Kohansal Vajargah

Austrian Federal Economic Chamber

Hadžić Leila

NGO “Laboratorium” Tuzla

Carvalho Camila

Tem Açúcar

Austria

Communication manager

Austria

Head of Startup-Services

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Co-founder

Brazil

Founder & CEO

Bizolm Mehdi

UniCredit Bak Austria AG

Alois Paul Spiesberger Höckner

Woody

Schuler Emily

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Oap Marcos

AnnuitWalk Accessibilities

Austria

Senior Software Engineer

Austria

Software Developer

Brazil

Research Assistant

Brazil

Co-Founder & CEO

Cancar Sanja

Blogger and Information Specialist

Polovenko Tetyana

ks actuaries

Ashumanyi Ako Agbor

GiftedMom

Knowles Eileen

Columbia University in the City of New York

Austria

Research Industrial Systems Engineering

Austria / Ukraine

Actuary

Cameroon

Co-founder and Medical Director

Canada

Sustainability Consultant

Hamberger Stephan

Red Bull Media House

Elashkr Taghrid

SimCorp

Corriero Jennifer

TakingITGlobal

Almarza Juan Jose

Austria / USA

Head of Digital Platforms

Austria, Egypt

Scrum Master

Canada

Co-founder and Executive Director

Chile

Student

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WSA YOUTH AMBASSADORS Fung Jordan

Pedosa Group

Bustamente Sebastian

Empréndelo

Dreyer Charlotte

Hasso Plattner Institute

Gürtner Hans Peter

Boxwise

China

Founder and CEO

Colombia (US, Spain)

co-Founder Verdéate.com / Entrepreneurship Consultant

Germany

Project Development, HPI School of Design Thinking

Germany

Project Lead

Pantelic Ana

UNICEF Uganda

Azhar Bacar

CbonBusiness

Consonni Matteo

EIT Urban Mobility

Ojo Alexander

The Royal Senchi Resort & Hotel

Colombia / Serbia

Social Policy Manager

Comoros

CEO

Italy

Business Creation Manager

Ghana

Head of IT

Drača Ljubica

Court interpreter and translator & private language tutor

Schubert Lucie

inovátoři.cz

Barley Ivy

Developers in Vogue

Acquah Moses

Afrolynk

Czech Republic

Freelance Trainer and Facilitator, Team Member

Ghana

Co-Founder

Ghana

Founder / Brainchild

Xulu Sakhile

Qisimah (Audio Insights)

Appier-Sign Solomon

NextNerds

Croatia

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Hauerslev Jensen Alexander

Be My Eyes

Hoffmann- Schröder Anne Sofie

Denmark

Product, Partnerships and Business Developement

Denmark

Independent Journalist

Ghana

Co-Founder and CEO

Ghana

Founder

Bonea Paul

Bonea Creative Studio

Adel Abbas

smava GmbH

Atmatzidou Avgi-Maria

Mykonos Multimedia Festival

Tewari Anshul

Youth Ki Awaaz

Denmark

CEO

Egypt

Technical Project Owner

Greece

Founder & President

India

Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Mosaad Abdullah

What´s Up Youth Professional Services

El Kattan Alia

O-MUN

Pasricha Japleen

Feminism in India

Krishnan Jithin

Spaceboat.in

Egypt

Founder & CEO

Egypt

Assistant Director

India

Founder & Editor-in-chief

India

Co-Founder

Adly Noran

Active Artist Egypt

Hatem Shady

Advicenode

Bajwa Maninder

Espranza

Shaik Khasim Shareef

Friends2Support.org

Egypt

Founder

Egypt

Founder and CEO

India

CEO & Founder

India

Founder & Chairman

Sobhy Amr

PushBots, Inc.

Viik Joosep

Sirkel & Mall OÜ

Siddharth Kumar Sah

BioP

Gaddafi Sanny

8villages

Egypt, UK

CEO

Estonia

3D Modeller

India

Founder

Indonesia

CEO

Puikkonen Arto

Build | Gofore Ltd.

Rostedt Pihla

Rostedt & Co

Berg Aviram

Eyelight

Battaglia Giulia

Learning Solutions

Finland

Business Manager

Finland

First Lady

Israel

Co-founder

Italy

eLearning Specialist

Rostedt Timo

GOFORE

Bourdu Sébastien

Carrai Luca

Ethicjobs

Najjar Saleem

Sharqi Shop

Finland

Lead Designer

France

Web developer and UX designer Freelance

Italy

CEO

Jordan

Co-founder

Mazmishvili Ana

State Audit Office of Georgia (SAOG)

Bestavashvili Giorgi

Sign and Sound

Gakuu Derrick

Ifarm360

Cakaj Arbnore

Dots Studio

Georgia

Senior Budget Analyst

Georgia

Co-Founder

Kenya

Co-founder

Kosovo

Architect & Co-Founder

Chakvetadze Giorgi

State Audit office of Georgia

Kakhidze Mariam

State Audit Office of Georgia (SAOG)

Uka Fidan

Blood Donor

Nushi Valon

UNICEF Sierra Leone Country Office

Georgia

Head of State Budget Analysis unit

Georgia

Senior Analyst of State Budget and Strategic Analysis Department

Kosovo

CEO

Kosovo

Youth Innovation Specialist

Rahman AlAshraf Abdul

FreeCom

Wegener Adrian

Chairman of the Board | gamesAHEAD e.V.

Xhafce Zejd

Turkish Embassy

Habib Patrick

Drosbox

Germany

Software Engineer and Consultant, MHP-A | Founder, Freecom

Germany

Founder | Eye Build It

Kosovo

Local Expert

Lebanon

Co-Founder

Haufschild Alexander

Socialbnb

Schmid Carina

The Global Experience and Co-Founder at Easy Languages

Beylouni Yorgui

Drosbox

Iseviciute Odeta

Dealoyal

Germany

Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder

Germany

CEO

Lebanon

Co-Founder

Lithuania

Co-Founder & CEO

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WSA YOUTH AMBASSADORS Hot Dervic Elma

BeeAnd.me

Bentaleb Yassine

CitizenUp

Muloongo Jason

TelliGram

Ossendryver Nadav

Latest Sightings Pty Ltd

Montenegro

Founder

Morocco

Entrepreneur and Consultant

South Africa

Founder

South Africa

CEO

Sattely Connor

SEMA - East Africa public feedback system

Bozhinoski Darko

Cognitive Robotics, 3mE | Delft University of Technology

Rodrigo Peumi

CodeGen

Elbadwi Mahmoud

WisdomBox FZ LLE

Netherlands

Co-Founder and CTO

Netherlands

Postdoctoral researcher

Sri Lanka

Assistant Manager Marketing & Communications

Sudan

Founder

Iweka Kingsley

Africa on the Rise

Kumbaroska Bistra

Social Impact Award gGmbH

Mohammadi Allen Ali

Hippogriff AB

Abu Taleb Deyaa

Sales Training Project Management

Nigeria

Founder

North Macedonia

Scaling and Partnership Manager

Sweden

Co-Founder & CEO

Switzerland/Jordan

Mushe Eda

Makedonski Telekom AD

Cebova Elizabeta

University of Geneva

Atoline Rebecca

Zürich Council

Hawasly Sana

Daraty

North Macedonia

Senior Associate For Digital Experience and Innovation

North Macedonia

Master Student

Switzerland

Immigrants Representative

Syrian Arab Republic

Co-founder

Zdravkovikj Jovana

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics

Dimitrievska Simona

WSA

Muhammad Ali AlHasan

Daraty

Khattab Joud

Yarmouk Private University

North Macedonia

Student

North Macedonia

Project assistant

Syrian Arab Republic

Co-founder

Syrian Arab Republic

Business and Data Analyst, Instructor

Ilieva Viktorija

University of SS. Cyril and Methodius

Silas Mangi Gloria

African Queens Project

Jemni Khaled

Microsoft Ireland

Zdravkovski Teo North Macedonia

Student

North Macedonia

Assistant Professor

Tanzania

Founder and President

Tunisia

Cloud Specialist

Sawyer Taylor

SammTalk

Mushtaq Momal

SAP

Taghouti Mohamed

Smart Logger

Holovachenko Anton

UniExo

Norway

Co-founder

Pakistan

Syndication Manager (C-user)

Tunisia

Founder

Ukraine

Founder

Varind Rohayl

Times of Youth & Share To Aware

Gersava Ryan

Virtualahan

Carmouche Ayesha

The Care Quality Commission

Whiteman Geena

Cardiff University

Pakistan

CEO

Philippines

Founder

United Kingdom

Senior Parliamentary Adviser

United Kingdom

PhD

Paciência Diogo

European Travel Commission / Visit Europe

Costa Ricardo André

Würth Portugal

Carmona Luna

Achieve More! Scotland

Shah Shwetal

MediaCom

Portugal

Online Marketeer

Portugal

Graphic Designer and Web Specialist

United Kingdom

Marketing Officer

United Kingdom

Technology Partnership Manager

Pop Tiron Cristina

Babeș-Bolyai University

Birovljević Dušica

Nomcentar

Williams Timothy

Bundeswehr University Munich

Itzkowitz Adam

Better World Club

Romania

PhD Researcher

Serbia

Founder & Owner

United Kingdom

Junior professor of insecurity and social order

USA

Vice President of Marketing and Communications

Janković Marko

MEF Faculty

Petrović Nađa

MEF faculty

Samples Tori

Leaf Global Fintech

Machirori Fungai

Her Zimbabwe

Serbia

Marketing assistant

Serbia

President of Student Parliament and member of Career Guidance

USA

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Zimbabwe

Researcher and Media Consultant / Founder & Director

Zivkovic Sandra

Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

Sivaramakrishnan Sharmishta

Young Global Leaders Asia

Singapore

Community Manager

Serbia

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JOSEF UMDASCH RESEARCH PRIZE 2021!

In retail and construction, a new era has started: digitalisation transforms these business areas fundamentally! Already, planning of huge construction sites is achieved completely digitally and augmented reality technology supports workers on site. In addition, retail stores use digital solutions to promote their products and their brands and create an unforgettable shopping experience for consumers.

We, Umdasch Group Ventures, want to lead this trend of digitalisation in retail and construction! We are the youngest subsidiary and innovation hub of the Umdasch Group. We are incubator, accelerator, company creator, startup investor and above all, a solution provider, focusing exclusively on innovations along the entire building value chain (construction) as well as consumer buying processes (retail).

This year, Umdasch Group Ventures is looking for new ideas, technologies or innovative use cases for artificial intelligence and computer vision.

About the Josef Umdasch Research Prize: The Josef Umdasch Research Prize was created by the company’s present owners, Hilde Umdasch and Alfred Umdasch, who named the prize after their father - Josef Umdasch. The award was originally initiated in 1990 to support outstanding achievements in research and development.

Since the cooperation with World Summit Awards (WSA) has started in 2018, the Josef Umdasch Research Prize is increasingly aimed at start-ups, entrepreneurs and future-oriented thinkers around the globe who can inspire enthusiasm with an innovative and unique idea.

OUTCOME 87 registrations from 41 different countries ...17 shortlisted ideas ...and 5 finalists

OUR JURY Consisting of members of Umdasch Group, experts from Umdasch Group Ventures and experienced WSA experts

THE PRIZE The winner gets the opportunity to realise the idea with Umdasch Group Ventures

MORE INFORMATION ONLINE www.umdaschgroup.com/ researchprize

Josef Umdasch Research Pitching Sessions at the WSA Global Congress Vienna 2020

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WSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2020 Prof.Dr. Peter Bruck Prof. Dr. Peter A. Bruck, Chairman of the WSA Board of Directors

WSA GLOBAL COUNCIL

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Christian Rupp CIO European Joint Innovation Lab eGovernment | Austria Thomas Stelzer Former UN Assistant Secretary General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs | Austria Ubaydli Ubaydli Chairman Arab ICT Union | Bahrain Rodrigo Assumpcao eGovernment and Telco Consultant | Brazil George Sharkov Adviser to the Minister of Defense, National Cybersecurity | Bulgaria Witman Hung Managing Director Qianhai International Liaison Services Ltd | China Adam Montandon, Lecturer and Event Organizer | Denmark Maria Flachsbarth , Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation& Development | Germany Paul Hughes, Ten Meters of Thinking | Ireland Matteo Landi, Managing Partner Allmende | Italy Anne Githuku-Shongwe, UN Women | Kenya/South Afria Manar Alhashash, eContent Alchemist and Founder Dot Design | Kuwait Adama Samassekou, President African Academy of Languages | Mali Tomi Davies, President African Business Angels Network | Nigeria Miguel Pinto Luz, Deputy Mayor of Cascais and Deputy Chairman of the Regional Tourism Entity of Lisbon | Portugal Paula Ingabire, Minister of ICT and Innovation | Rwanda Chitranganie Mubarak, Consultant | Sri Lanka Marcus East, Technical Director, Office of the CTO Google | UK/USA Ralph Simon, CEO Mobilium | United Kingdom Janine Warner, Founder SembraMedia | USA

WSA MANAGEMENT BOARD

Tanja Wehsely, CEO Volkshilfe | Austria Tore Haugland, CEO Ouvi | Brazil Catherine Warren, CEO Innovate Edmontoni | Canada Carolina Rossi, Senior Partner Moon Advisors | Chile Jakob Detering, Managing Director Social Impact Award | Germany Jan Schwaab, Head of Digital Transformation Africa, GIZ | Germany Dorothy K. Gordon, ICT for Development Consultant | Ghana Moses Acquah, Founder Afrolynk | Ghana Osama Manzar, CEO and Founder Digital Empowerment Foundation | India Shinta Dhanuwardoyo, Founder and CEO bubu.com | Indonesia Omri Boral, Co-Founder Tech for Good | Israel Gabriel Deek, General Manager OmniSystems | Lebanon Rudy Laddaga Lopez, Founder and CEO Gnius Club | Mexico Zouheir Lakhdissi, CEO Dial Technologies | Morocco Marta Tomovska, Digital Innovation Expert | North Macedonia Agha Hamza, Hello Tomorrow Pakistan Hub | Pakistan Sandra Almeida Fazenda, Executive Director APDC | Portugal Jon Mark Walls, Consultant UNCTAD | USA Carlos Abler, Digital transformation leader | USA

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WSA SPONSORS & PARTNERS

MEET THE WSA TEAM

Sponsoring partners

Nora Wolloch WSA Executive Manager nora@wsa-global.org

Manuela Wagner Global Community Manager manuela@wsa-global.org

Matthias Kandler WSA Partnerships, Events matthias@wsa-global.org

Peter A. Bruck WSA Chairman and ICNM president

Pia Frizberg WSA Event ManagementYouth for Innovation pia@wsa-global.org

Network Austria

Strategic partners

Liene Ulmane Youth CommunitySocial Media, Design liene@wsa-global.org

Media partners Simona Dimitrievska WSA Project Assistant European Yolunteer simona@wsa-global.org

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Margot Bres Jurado WSA Project Assistant European Yolunteer margot@wsa-global.org

Luka Kalas ICNM Accounting, HR kalas@icnm.net

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Instagram: worldsummitawards

Twitter: WSAoffice

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DIGITAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE UN SDGS

WSA IMPLEMENTING WSIS ACTION LINE C7 - eAPPLICATIONS -

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