WSA Global Congress 2020, Vienna Catalogue

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DIGITAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE UN SDGS

Hosting Partners

In the framework of Under the patronage of

UNESCO United Nations Educational, ScientiďŹ c and Cultural Organization

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WELCOME TO VIENNA 4 PATRON STATEMENTS 8

IMPRINT EDITORIAL TEAM Editor and Author: Peter A. Bruck Text Management: Manuela Wagner, Nora Wolloch Winners Descriptions Text Editing: Hania Fedorowicz Layout and Design: floorfour, Herbert Ellinger WSA PROJECT TEAM Kordian Bruck, Luka Kalas, Diogo Paciência, Liene Ulmane, Manuela Wagner, Nora Wolloch WSA GLOBAL CONGRESS TEAM Philipp Benedikt, Ali Alfihdawee, Pia Frizberg, Javier Tello Garcia, Luka Kalas, Matthias Kandler, Birgit Kolb, Diogo Paciencia, David Pan, Anna Rechberger, Natalia Osuna Sala, Liene Ulmane, Nora Wolloch

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 2019/20

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WSA WINNERS

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WSA INNOVATION DAYS & GRAND JURY 2019

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WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS

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WSA YOUTH AMBASSADORS

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WSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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SPONSORS & PARTNERS

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WELCOME H A C K T H E G A P – C O N T E N T D R I V E N D I G I TA L S O LU T I O N S F O R A S U S TA I N A B L E W O R L D

WELCOME TO THE WSA20 GLOBAL CONGRESS! WELCOME TO A LEARNING JOURNEY IN VIENNA!

Yes, Yes,

ICTs must be leveraged to achieve gender justice and sustainability as measured by the UN SDGs. But how?

USA and Brazil renege on their commitments to the Paris accords on climate change.

creative digital content needs to narrow economic and social divides. But how?

The United Nations’ goals for sustainable development (SDGs) and for the transformation of the information society (WSIS), play a key role as international guidelines for a better future. The UN SDGs are their measure – of what to look at, where to look and how to judge.

The World Summit Award with its Global Congress 2020 in Vienna offers you answers to these questions.

WSA20 provides a window to see solutions, assess their impact, talk to creators and developers, network with experts and connect with many of those who are not comfortable with “normal” global developments: The climate crisis looms stronger every day, biological diversity diminishes by the minute, inequalities in access to resources and wealth increase rapidly.

“Hack the Gap”: Move from talk to walk

“Hack the Gap” is the motto of this year's WSA Global Congress and it is a call to all of us • … to not be satisfied with what is being done and achieved, • … to address the need for change, • … to undertake three intensive days of learn ing from each other.

The WSA20 Global Congress starts on March 8, International Women’s Day. And while there is much to celebrate in rising awareness and changing social norms, equality and gender justice needs much more action, in nearly all ­ countries.

The WSA20 Global Congress takes place as the EU starts implementing its Green Deal, while the

Connect on the United Nations level

Since 2003, WSA reaches out in 182 UN member countries to showcase and award best practices for digital solutions and applications, transforming the information society into a knowledge society and implementing sustainability goals.

WSA combines two major perspectives in its initiative: • commitment to the UN SDGs and to using ICTs for development • commitment to the development of a global knowledge society An exceptional mix of local projects with global relevance

I welcome you to participate in the WSA Global Congress 2020 as a learning journey. Together with our Austrian partners Erste Bank and the City of Vienna, we bring many of the most interesting digital creatives and social entrepreneurs to meet here. They come from all corners of the world to share with you their insights and achievements, their difficulties and successes.

At the WSA Global Congress, you join a global, multi-stakeholder community. You will discuss purpose driven innovation and see best-practice from around the world.

You will meet 45 award-winning teams with their apps and solutions, carefully selected in a three-stage jury process by outstanding international experts.

The WSA awardees, coming together at the WSA Global Congress in Vienna, have proven themselves, demonstrating how digital innovation can deal with pressing challenges. Their work contributes essentially to a better future.

Unique panorama of best solutions

WSA awardees are winners because they solve real problems. Among them you will find Mapalytics from Pakistan, offering photorealistic 3D models of historical sites, South Korean Dot Incorporation with their first Braille wearable, and Kea Medicals from Benin, providing a digital Universal Medical ID platform to assure that patients’ information is accurate and available on time - the 45 winners from 26 countries, selected from over 400 nominations from 182 participating countries, offer a panorama of digital innovations addressing the challenges of the 21st century.

WSA has a proven record within the framework of the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2003-2025, mandated by the government of Austria since 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. I invite you to become an active part of this growing global network, to engage and to share the transformative power of smart, digital and social solutions.

I wish you an inspiring learning journey in these three days in Vienna and beyond.

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

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WELCOME TO VIENNA Vienna

shall become the capital of digitization in Europe. We understand digitization as a rapid development that should serve the people, which is why we have to actively shape it. In Vienna, we do this together with our citizens, no matter how young or old they are. In the most liveable city in the world, everyone must have access to the benefits of digitization. Efficient and effective administrative structures are also very important to me.

Whether it be to save costs, or to save the citi-

zens’ time. To achieve this, we want to make greater use of opportunities and technologies.

The WSA, as a global initiative linking digital and social, fits perfectly to the city of Vienna and we are happy that the event is back in our city by 2020.

Welcome

perhaps one of the most important things we can do in a region where millions of people are still left behind, at risk of poverty. But it is also true to say that if we are to transform things on a meaningful scale, we need to partner with multipliers and change makers. So we have engaged very energetically with NGOs and social entrepreneurs, and we are doing everything in our power to help them expand their services, outreach and impact.

to Erste Campus, headquarters of Erste Group Bank and a thriving, open venue in the heart of Europe.

Having created George, the largest pan-European digital banking platform, we at Erste Group believe that meaningful digital innovation can improve the financial lives of millions. Our original purpose, for more than 200 years now, has been to democratise access to finance. This is the most direct way we know of empowering people in our region. In our current context of social polarization, this purpose has become ­ more relevant than ever -- and technology will help us broaden financial inclusion and financial education.

For more than a decade, Erste Group has been fostering social banking activities across Central and Eastern Europe through a combination of financial solutions, education and mentoring. It is

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One thing is clear: finding practical solutions to today's complex social problems can only be achieved by harnessing the power of networks.

The World Summit Award – WSA Global Congress is known for connecting digital pioneers with societal impact and we are looking forward to hosting inspiring presentations, workshops and exchanges at Erste Campus in March 2020!

© Erste Bank / Wolfgang Zac

foto © david bohmann

Peter Hanke City Councilor for Finance, Economics, Digitization and International Affairs City of Vienna

Bernd Spalt CEO of Erste Group Bank

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UNIDO’s

mandate is to promote inclusive and sustainable industrial development in our Member States. Over the decades, industrial development has proven to play a key role in development, and in particular in poverty reduction through the generation of income-earning opportunities. Industrial development that is sustainable and inclusive also holds the potential to address environmental and climate change issues.

At UNIDO, we strongly believe that the realization of SDG 9 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will have positive spillovers on the attainment of the other SDG’s.

The future of manufacturing and the evolving industrialization process is undergoing a change, particularly during this era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). UNIDO foresaw these changes - in 2016, our Industrial Development Report estimated that benefits arising from cutting-edge technologies would be between 16 and 35 US dollars per year by 2025. To ensure smooth transformation to 4IR, it is imperative that Member States foster technological learning, innovation and entrepreneurship – especially among youth

and women. This is confirmed by the findings from our Industrial Development Report 2020 indicating that when the right capabilities are in place, new technologies offer huge potential to advance economic growth and human well-being and to safeguard the environment.

UNIDO is actively engaged in supporting entrepreneurship development in our Member States.

Among the many ongoing entrepreneurial activities, a key initiative that has had tangible results is our Entrepreneurship Curriculum Programme (ECP). Through this programme, UNIDO assists authorities in developing their own curriculum with syllabus, teachers’ guides, textbooks, monitoring and evaluation tools, assessment guidelines, training ECP teachers, piloting and ultimately embarking on a nationwide rollout of an entrepreneurship curriculum with the full involvement of the national authorities.

The ECP supports inclusivity by engaging with girls and boys in rural and urban areas. Entrepreneurship is included as a general subject in secondary, technical or vocational schools on a nationwide basis. Universities and colleges serve

as centres of excellence to support national efforts to promote entrepreneurship and technology absorbing capacities.

The ECP empowers youth to acquire personal qualities such as self-confidence, innovation and creativity, the ability to take initiatives, as well as the willingness to take calculated risks and to collaborate. These competencies help them select and shape their career path as employees or entrepreneurs.

Gender Empowerment and Equality is an important component in our work. Our efforts in this area is guided by our “Strategy for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women: 2020– 2023” that systematically helps us to plan, steer, deliver and report more effectively on progress towards its gender equality commitments at the global, regional, national and organizational ­levels.

UNIDO stands ready to support the role of entrepreneurship to drive towards the vision that we want as envisaged in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Li Yong, UNIDO Director-General

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UNESCO

is committed to harnessing digital innovation and transformation to attain the Sustainable Development Goals. Technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence provide important opportunities to ensure inclusive development, based on human rights. We must, as the theme of this congress underlines, hack the gap, and ensure that marginalized communities, as well as youth and women, are empowered with the necessary tools to actively create a future that is sustainable, diverse, and inclusive.

Today, women and girls are 25 percent less likely than men to know how to leverage digital technology for basic purposes, four times less likely to know how to programme computers and 13 times less likely to file for technology patent. At a moment when every sector is becoming driven by the rapid technological evolution, these gaps should alarm policy-makers, educators and everyday citizens. I salute the WSA Global C ­ ongress 2020, which begins on International Women's Day, for putting women and girls at the heart of the discussion and ensuring that these technologies do not widen the digital and knowledge divides but are rather harnessed to reduce it.

As a

transformative force, digitalisation plays a crucial role in our status as a future hub of innovation and business. There are countless ways that society can benefit from the positive impact of digital innovation. Exploiting the opportunities of this immense technological progress is one of the most important tasks in ensuring a successful, sustainable future. The United Nations has also demonstrated a commitment to this task as part of its Sustainable Development Goals.

However, digitalisation also poses certain challenges that we must tackle over the long term. In this regard, particular importance is attached to developing a high-performance infrastructure to bridge the digital gap through digital education, strengthening the country’s position as a business location by supporting companies during the process of digital transformation, or disseminating technological content and offers. Austria is already among the EU pioneers in certain areas here. However, the Federal Government has set itself the goal of becoming one of Europe’s leading digital nations. Everyone in our country ought to benefit equally from this effort, whether they live in urban hubs or rural areas.

The World Summit Award acknowledges the work of exceptionally creative young entrepreneurs from over 180 countries worldwide, awarding prizes in recognition of their outstanding digital concepts and practices. The commitment demonstrated by these young entrepreneurs is crucial to ensuring that modern technology has a positive impact on our society while also promoting equal opportunities. The active contribution of these skilled young people also serves as an example for later generations, showing that we can deal with the challenges of digitalisation responsibly and in the best possible way, now and in the future.

I would like to offer my warmest congratulations to all the winners. Thank you for recognising digitalisation as a driving force for the long-term implementation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and for making such an important contribution towards achieving these aims.

Sebastian Kurz Federal Chancellor of Austria

Moez Chakchouk Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO

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Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs aims to further improve Austria as a business location, to promote growth and ensure a stable upswing. To develop the business location, considerable endeavours in the area of research and innovation are still necessary, and efforts must be made to spread digitisation in all economic and social areas.

Both are top priorities for the new Austrian Federal Government, and they are centrally coordinated by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs.

All activities toward digital transformation are combined in the “Digital Austria” scheme (www. digitalaustria.gv.at/EN). Currently we are working on new “strategic action plans on digitisation”.

The aim is to bolster Austria’s role as a leading digital nation in order to guarantee and increase prosperity, job opportunities and quality of life in the long term. Modern technologies offer enormous opportunities and require entrepreneurs to fully unlock their economic potential.

The World Summit Award presents the most innovative young people from more than 180 countries together with their outstanding digital projects, each with the capacity to make a deep impact and improve our society. I would like to thank all participants and winners of this year’s Award for their courage and patience in working on new digital solutions for a better world.

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. 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 the winners of the World Summit Awards for this reminder – for showing us that digitalization offers countless opportunities to help solving the challenges of the 21st century, if we take the right steps – now.

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

Megatrends

such as digitalisation, individualisation and neo-ecology are affecting how companies develop business strategies and operate. At Umdasch, with many different companies and branches under one umbrella, we adapt, learn and grow with new challenges. We do think holistically about how we design, produce and sell our products and solutions in the future.

This is why umdasch The Store Makers, one of our companies, is looking for answers, fresh ideas and striking approaches how responsible consumption can be realised through digitalisation.

Innovation needs 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.

Dr. Andreas J. Ludwig, Executive Chairman Umdasch Group

Margarete Schramböck, Federal Minister for Digital and Economic Affairs

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

WSA 2020– 2030 The UN SDGs are the

metrics of success for digital content driven solutions and innovative applications

We are determined to protect the planet from degradation

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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.

The 2030

Agenda for Sustainable De­v elopment, 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-inhand 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 SDGs build on decades of work by countries and the UN, including the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Preamble

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.

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

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.

Planet

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.

Peace

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.

Partnership

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 The world

remains divided. Global disparities in terms of access to resources, education, information, opportunities are manifold

and affect us all.

In the face of these huge societal divides, how can digital solutions and interactive applications make a positive contribution? How can purpose driven innovation disrupt the status quo? And what benefits are hidden in the digital transformation?

WSA is a unique awards system, selecting and promoting purpose driven digital solutions solving local issues. Combining an ongoing series of international events and activities with a global multi-stakeholder network of start-ups, social entrepreneurs, mentors, jurors, speakers, experts, government leaders, academia and civil society, WSA acts in over 180 UN-member states.

Since 2003, WSA reaches out in 182 UN member countries to showcase and award best practices for digital solutions and applications, transforming the information society into a knowledge society and implementing sustainability goals.

WSA is conducted within the framework of the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2003-2025 and executed in collaboration with UN organisations such as UNESCO, UNIDO, UNCTAD and ITU.

WSA was initiated in 2003 as Austrian initiative, contributing to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and is since then contributing to the Tunis action plan, specifically in regard to action line C7 – ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life

Under the patronage of

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

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ABOUT WSA CONGRESS

WSA UPCOMING

The WSA

Global Congress is an international conference and workshop format to present and promote the 45 international WSA winners and discuss in an interactive process how ICTs and digital innovation can have a positive impact on society and present global Best-Practice examples.

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

WSA CALL 2020

www.worldsummitawards.org

WSA PROCESS

@WSAOffice worldsummitawards worldsummitawards #WSACascais office@worldsummitawards.org

WSA-mobile Global Congress Partners Sao Paulo 2015

HOSTING & STRATEGIC PARTNER ABU DHABI

2016

2015

2015

SPONSORING PARTNERS Platinum Sponsor

Singapore Singapore

Gold Sponsor

Sponsor m-Learning & Education

Abu Dhabi UAE

UN & STRATEGIC PARTNERS

Brazil

Under the patronage of

UNESCO

floorfour.at

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

WSA WINNERS

MEDIA PARTNERS

2013

Abu Dhabi UAE

ABU DHABI

With its focus on concrete solutions and content and its societal impact instead of economic EXCELLENCE IN M-CONTENT 2013 success and technological innovation, it is a unique interactive, dynamic and process oriented event, with more than 400 start-ups, social entrepreneurs, experts and speakers from 80 countries attending.

GRAND JURY

VIENNA 2018

WSA SHORTLIST

Vienna Austria

ONLINE JURY 70 international experts evaluate all entries online.

2018

Cascais Portugal

ENTRIES from countries nominated for WSA

2019

2020

Vienna Austria

WSA partners organize local preselections.

1 submission / country / category

2020

Outreach supported by WSA partners in 184 countries

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!

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2012

Colombo Sri Lanka WSA Strategic Partners

CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONS

Cairo Egypt

APRIL 1ST – JULY 31ST

Cairo Egypt

WSA Key Partners

2010

WSA-mobile Excellence in m-Content

www.wsa-mobile.org

2010

Abu Dhabi UAE

WSA Sponsor Partners

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2007

Monterrey Mexico

Venice Italy

World Summit Award

ICNM - International Center for New Media Moosstrasse 43 a | 5020 Salzburg | Austria T: + 43.662.63 04 08 | F: + 43.662.630408.22 wsa@icnm.net

www.wsis-award.org

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WSA YOUNG INNOVATORS 2020 You are a young digital innovator under 26 years of age?

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 APPLY FROM

2005

Tunis Tunisia

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APRIL 1ST – JULY 31ST

2003

Genevre Switzerland

www.worldsummitawards.org/contest/submission-guide

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WSA CONTEST 2019/20 Government & Citizen Engagement 46

Start-up

Health & Well Being 58

NGO

Learning & Education 66

Social enterprise

Environment & Green energy 44

189 28 58

University 10

Culture & Tourism 41

Corporate

18

Smart Settlements & Urbanization 42

SME

26

Business & Commerce 65

Nominees/Region

Government

39

Other

41

68

Asia

17

7 Arab countries & Middle East

55

19

50

2

2

2

2

2

Belarus

Chile

Colombia

Germany

Ghana

Republic of Korea

Lithunia

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Bangladesh

Belgium

Benin

Botswana

China

Ethiopia

India

1

Africa

Latin America & Caribbean

Africa North America & Oceania

3 North America & Oceania

Latin America & Caribbean

162 34

103

Europe Latin America & Caribbean

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North America & Oceania 8

18

1

1

1

1

Palestine

Portugal

Singapore

United Kingdom

+ Women CEO | Founders | Co-Founders | Projects leads: 20

Africa

2

87

1 Pakistan

1

1

India

Bangladesh

Europe

Asia

Arab countries & Middle East

Winners/ Country

Afrika

1 Netherlands

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YOUNG INNOVATORS 2019 91 countries 407 applications

1 Israel

7

Applications from 101 countries

Asia

3 Spain

2

5

Arab countries & Middle East

3 Mexico

2

Europe

161

68

3 Austria

Winners/Region Europe

Arab countries & Middle East

3 Australia

Individual 12

Inclusion & Empowerment 59

Asia

WINNERS /COUNTRY TOTAL 40 WINNERS | 25 COUNTRIES

Nominees Type of organization

101 countries Nominees/ Category 421 nominees

1 4

8

3

2 50%

2

Latin America & Caribbean North America & Oceania

1

1

1

1

Philippines

Syrian Arab Republic

Serbia

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WSA CATEGORIES 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

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.

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WINNERS GOVERNMENT & CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT

TERRITORIAL STATISTICS SYSTEM – TERRIDATA

CITIZENLAB

National Planning Department of Colombia (DNP)

CitizenLab

Colombia

Belgium

terridata.dnp.gov.co.com

citizenlab.co

TerriData is the main archive, search engine and visualization tool for territorial statistics in Columbia. Official, standardized and similar indicators accounting for the economic, social and environmental status of 1101 municipalities and 32 departments, are offered to governments, citizens, academia and national groups for free. TerriData saves about 2 months’ work in collating indicators needed to diagnose a territory’s development, a saving of US $ 6,000 to 12,000. The tool is vital to mayors and governorates ahead of upcoming elections, to consolidate investment plans. TerriData is visited daily about 380 times, also internationally.

CitizenLab helps governments to involve citizens. The platform has worked with over 100 cities from Brussels to Vancouver, featuring participatory tools for consultation processes. Citizens make their voices heard by discussing ideas, by voting on budgets, or by starting initiatives to influence the political agenda. The start-up has raised two million euros for the international roll-out of the citizen platform, making public decision-making more inclusive.

Using the SDGs to measure impact, CitizenLab is a fantastic example of how social entrepreneurship, hand in hand with global scalability and business excellence, is going places.

COMMUNITEER Victor Lee, Vincent Feng Australia communiteer.org

Communiteer is a social enterprise with a mission to facilitate social impact through cross-sector collaboration, making it easy to get involved. Communiteer brings corporations, charities & purpose driven people together to do social good. Through crowd sourcing, Communiteer encourages citizen engagement by facilitating an accessible, flexible, measurable & scalable process for all stakeholders, thus amplifying collective efforts. Based on a holistic approach and mapped against the SDGs to measure impact, Communiteer guides people to build a habit of giving

GIVE.ASIA John Kim, Aseem Thakur, Hannah Kim Republic of Korea give.asia MEUPARLAMENTO.PT GIVE.asia is a crowd funding platform harnessing human compassion. In innovative ways, GIVE.asia helps adult and child patients with hospital bills, enables rural children to study, delivers free food to elderly people, and helps organizers raise funds for worthy causes. GIVE.asia gives humanitarian support to countries in need, also helping to kick-start corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs.

The giving culture in Korea (ranking 65th in 2015) is still underdeveloped, as compared to other OECD countries.

GIVE.asia is breaking new paths to overcome inequalities.

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Nuno Moniz, Arian Pasquali, Tomás Amaro Portugal meuParlamento.pt

meuParlamento.pt is an award-winning digital application enabling citizens to engage with the work of Portugal’s national Parliament. Users are invited to vote on ten legislative proposals, finding out which party voted similarly, while receiving contextual information. The app is aligned with SDG 16 – Peace, Justice and Strong Insti­ tutions, for accountable and transparent institutions, re­ sponsive, participatory and representative political de­ cision-making and public access to information. meuParlamento.pt aims to revitalize the relationship between elected representatives and those who elect them.

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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

CHESTEYE CAD

REDUCEPT

Oxipit

Margryt Fennema, Louis Zantema

Lithuania

Netherlands

oxipit.ai/products/chesteye/#chesteye-cad

reducept.com

ChestEye CAD is a digital solution for next-level health care. A fully automatic computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) chest X-ray application, ChestEye CAD provides preliminary reports to radiologists. Based on deep learning neuron networks technology, this solution saves precious time, increasing accuracy of test data readings by providing trustworthy second opinions. ChestEye CAD is tested in practice, certified and being used in hospitals across Europe, its unique quality validated by multiple awards.

One in five adults worldwide suffers from chronic pain, while the overuse of pain medication is a factor in the socalled opioid epidemic. Reducept is a virtual reality training tool for the treatment of chronic pain, offering patients an interactive journey through the nervous system, with no side effects and no thresholds. Patients develop strategies to better cope with pain and teach their brains to perceive pain differently. The effects carry on even after they stop using the app. Reducept reduces dependency on ever stronger medication and can be used alongside existing pain treatments.

MJN-SERAS, NEXT STEP FOR EPILEPSY SEIZURE PREDICTION (Proper pas per preveure atacs epilèptics) MJN Spain mjn.cat People suffering from epilepsy live in a world of permanent uncertainty. MJN’S Next Step is a solution that records brain activity, detecting risks of having an epileptic seizure before it happens, so as to improve safety. A wearable earbud tracks brain activity and assess risk of seizure for epilepsy patients and caregivers, easing prevention and improving quality of life. The objectives of MJN Next step go beyond health technology, challenging the social stigma of epilepsy, providing support and collaborating closely with affected communities.

VOKA.IO Pavel Arlou, Veronika Olesik Belarus voka.io

A breakthrough in applied medicine and medical education, VOKA.IO enables surgeons to look inside a patient’s body, see damaged fractures/organs as holograms, and interact with them. With VOKA.IO, doctors can easily determine the exact place of incision, and consult with each other remotely using the same visualization. VOKA.IO enables students to see operations through the eyes of their professors, while training skills with VR headsets and mannikins, also remotely, to improve the quality of education and surgery.

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THE UNIVERSAL MEDICAL ID Dr. Vèna Arielle Ahouansou, Vita Sounouvou Benin keamedical.net

Patient information is rarely available in developing countries, where patients can die because they do not know their blood type. Kea Medicals offers a universal medical ID so people can access their medical information anywhere, providing doctors with precise patient information for better health services.

Patients also save money by avoiding repetitive medical exams, sistored exam results are accessible at any time. KEA Medicals allows doctors to consult a patient’s medical history, as well as update current health information.

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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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JANA READING Rima Zuhair Alkurdi, Rasheed Awad Albasha Palestine ijana.com

A local Palestinian study reveals that only 17% of first and second graders learn to read proficiently. Jana Reading is a literacy program at the elementary level to teach young children to read in the Arabic language. Aimed at children both local and in the diaspora, the program uses practical and authentic Arabic language tools and interactive games to make learning fun. Jana Reading helps young learners to acquire reading mastery, in both phonetic and comprehension skills, supporting slow readers and children with special needs, and offering parental mentoring.

BITDEGREE

OVANTE- BOOSTING PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES Ovante- impulsando personas y negocios

Danielius Stasiulis, Ervinas Rimdeika

Accion

Lithuania

Colombia

bitdegree.org

ovante.org

The gap between the need for professionals with digital skills and the supply of such a workforce is widening. BitDegree is a global learning platform for online courses making digital skill acquisition attractive and simple. Gamification, economic incentives and employer involvement help motivate participants and ensure that potential employees see the benefits of the skill they are acquiring. Offering content in eight languages, BitDegree has 490,000 registered users and 200,000 currently enrolled, a smart way to bring high-quality education to people worldwide.

Ovante is a digital platform supporting low-income microentrepreneurs, regardless of education level or current access to funds. Using behavioural economics, Ovante helps users identify and change the practices, habits or beliefs that prevent their businesses from growing, as well as strengthen management, financial and digital capabilities. Users can access interactive modules and tools, receiving nudges to boost their behavioural change.

Ovante produces a behavioural credit score for financial entities to use in the assessment of credit worthiness. Ovante targets gender inclusion, while closing the digital divide.

AMBOSS – Medical knowledge and training platform | Medizinwissen- und Aus- & Weiterbildungsplattform Madjid Salimi, Benedikt Hochkirchen Germany amboss.com

SCHOOL OF FISH Digital Literacy Solution – Prepare Kids for Jobs of the Future Jonathan Chan Singapore juleszone.com School of Fish – SoF is the first digital literacy curriculum focused on computational thinking skills for 5-7 years old, developed by a global team of early childhood educators, game designers, animators, neuropsychologists and digital technologists. SoF uses gamification to promote problem-solving aptitude in children, providing basic skills to function in the digital world. Teachers with minimal training can use SoF with consistent quality, providing education both in urban and rural areas. SoF is being deployed across S.E. Asia and China.

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AMBOSS – Medical knowledge and training platform has changed the way medical know-how is acquired and utilized. Students use the interactive library and high-yield question bank for general study and exam preparation, while doctors make effective clinical decisions guided by evidence-based recommendations. Founded by doctors for doctors, the team at AMBOSS has grown to more than two hundred physicians, scientists and software engineers, enabling more than half a million healthcare professionals in over 180 countries to provide the best possible care for their patients.

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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 environmental engagement and supporting sustainable agriculture in developmental areas.

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WATER | NSUO Gloria Pascucci

SHUFOLA: A WEATHER-SENSITIVE AGRO-ADVISORY Mridul Chowdhury, Badal Kumar Dash, Shah Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahman

Ghana play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech. rootsdigital.nsuo_users&hl=gsw NSUO is a water distribution system with mobile and USSD apps, using smart supply chain management. With only 5% recycled, 300 tons of plastic waste, mostly packaged water, are produced daily in Ghana. Under the National Plastic Management Policy, Ghana’s government partners with NSUO to recover 100% of plastics used.

Powered by cloud infrastructure, big data analysis and AI algorithms, the NSUO solution tracks plastic flow, recommending optimal routing of distribution, pick up and transfer to recycling start-ups. NSUO can be scaled up in all of Africa, and partnership with Governments to involve public servants in recycling, will be a major game changer.

Bangladesh ifc.mpower-social.com:4001 National weather forecasting in Bangladesh is often inaccurate in specific locations. Farmers fail to see how adverse weather endangers their specific crops. Shufola is a service combining localized weather forecasts with best crop management practices to generate customized advice for individual smallholder farmers. Cross-referencing weather forecasts with expert validated agro-advisories allows Shufola to send appropriate SMS and voice messages to registered farmers’ mobile phones. The result is adaptive crop management sensitive to respective crops and stages of growth.

ECOSIA | Ecosia die ökologische Suchmaschine Ecosia Team Germany ecosia.org

Ecosia is a search engine using advertising profits to plant trees in areas affected by deforestation and desertification. With a bank of 500 different species of trees, the start-up has planted over 69 million trees in 22 reforestation sites worldwide. Ecosia weekly plants on average 500,000 trees, 90% of which are native. The remaining non-native 10%, such as mango or cashew, produce food for local communities. Ecosia has its own solar plant and is now embedded in the Purpose Foundation, to assure that profits plant more trees. Doing good can be so easy!

PYLON NETWORK Gerard Bel Spain pylon-network.org

ONESOIL OneSoil Team Belarus onesoil.ai

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Overuse of fertilizers and pesticides, and ineffective land use lead to soil exhaustion. Using satellite imagery and AI, OneSoil provides farmers with online tools to manage and increase crop yield, apply variable rate technologies, use fields more efficiently and optimize resource use. Precision farming practices enable reliable agricultural decisions leading to a smaller ecological footprint.

With a user-friendly interface and design, OneSoil mobile and web-based apps are free to farmers all over the world, making sustainable farming easy.

Pylon Network is a near real-time digital communication platform and neutral energy data-hub, specially designed to serve multiple energy stakeholders in a modern, digital electric grid. Putting the end-user at the center of the energy transition, the fast, scalable open-source blockchain code requiring minimal energy, allows increased distributed assets in the energy market. Pylon Network transmits data efficiently, tracking and certifying the source of energy, and including new digital services to save money and energy. Join the energy market of the ­future.

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Culture & Tourism

CULTURE & TOURISM

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

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LIVING FIRST LANGUAGES PLATFORM Eric Brace, Prof. Tom Calma AO Australia livingfirstlanguages.alnf.org

The Living First Languages Platform LFLP revitalises Indigenous languages, creating dynamic, community-led and interactive digital literacy apps. LFPL stems language loss, empowering children to learn their mother tongues. A cross-platform solution with associated training, it equips parents and teachers to create resources in local languages. With LFLP, speakers can organise and share literacy knowledge. When dying languages are recovered, not only words, but culture, identity and the connection to tradition is won, ensuring sustainable health, education and a future for Indigenous people.

ARTIVIVE Codin Popescu, Sergiu Ardelean Austria artivive.com

Artivive is an AR tool allowing artists to link physical with digital art, while adapting its features to artists’ specific needs. The digital layer opens doors to a world of new possibilities. Artists can take visitors on a journey in time to show what lies behind their work, enhance it with illustrations, or reveal how the artwork was made. No coding or tech knowledge is required, so creatives can focus on the narrative and the art. Artivive is just what the art business needs to transform how art is experienced today and to engage the next generation of buyers.

SUDA Exequiel Lira, Jose Antonio Bulnes Chile suda.io Suda is an app to do tourism in a new way, using everyday content to build routes and connect people. Suda uses technology to position adventure tourism in countries seeking global tourists, but also connects communities to people that want to discover Latin America in a sustainable way. Suda uses local content smartly, so anyone in the region can go out and explore. Tourism is not only built by good content, but especially by people who want to teach others where to go and how to connect with nature.

MAPALYTICS Abdullah Tariq, Osama Gillani Pakistan mapalytics.org

Cultural heritage sites are lost through natural disasters, wars or urbanization, just think of the recent fire in Notre Dame Cathedral. Partnering with UNESCO, Mapalytics creates realistic 3D images of unique historical sites in digital libraries. The startup has digitized over 450 endangered sites and artefacts. 3D models enable accurate reconstruction in case of damage. Using the 3D data, heritage and archaeological organizations can act to conserve sites. Mapalytics aims to not only preserve today’s culture, but also promote digital tourism in the future.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON, DIGITAL COLLECTIONS PROGRAMME Digital Collections Programme, The Natural History Museum London United Kingdom nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/ digital-collections.html The National History Museum NHM Digital Collections Programme (DCP) has taken on the momentous task of digitising the 80 million items in its collection, accessible to only a handful of scientists. Citizen scientists, researchers and data analysts across the world can now access images and data released freely on the data portal, creating advocates for the planet. Unlocking the secrets within the NHM’s vast collection could hold the key to conserving biodiversity and finding new ways of combating disease, or to answer the big questions of today.

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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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RASPECT SUN Chi Chun China raspect.co Critical to environmental safety, building inspection work is often done by out-dated manual and visual means.

RaSpect is an AI-powered predictive inspection company for safer and smarter architecture. RaSpect combines a wide range of data, including satellite data for macroscopic inspection, loT sensors in building structures, as well as robots and drones for autonomous inspections. Analysis of data allows comprehensive architectural risk assessment, producing effective predictive analyses. With higher accuracy, RaSpect is more cost and time effective than existing methods.

SEKURA | Rotem Shochat, Nadav Lachish

PPA – PEOPLE’S PROTECTION APP It-willbe.org Spain ppaproject.org

Israel Poverty, war and natural disasters cause millions of people to lack proof of identity, making it difficult for ngos and governments to track such vulnerable groups as refugees, street children or victims of trafficking. PPa – People´s Protection app, is a multifactorial biometric mobile and desktop app to accurately identify transient groups. Thanks to facial, fingerprint and palm vein recognition, people without ID can manage their data efficiently. With data encrypted and saved in the cloud, PPa ensures security, is easy to use, with pay per use affordable for any size of organisation, and multilingual.

Sekura helps girls and women to feel safer when walking alone at night, a need shared all around the world. Simple to use, yet allowing different solutions, the Sekura mobile app has two main features. The first helps women walking alone: four emergency buttons send the user’s location to key contacts, call an emergency number, fake an incoming call and sound a loud police alarm. The second feature is a safety map providing the safest walking routes, based on users’ input. Thanks to its simplicity, Sekura can be applied to other countries for real impact, by empowering women to feel safe.

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VIENNA PROVIDES SPACE | WIEN GIBT RAUM

Jorge Rios

David Vladar, Matthias Griessenberger

Mexico

Austria

bridgefy.me

wiengibtraum.at

One billion people worldwide do not have access to the internet according to U.N. reports. Bridgefy is a global offline communication platform enabling mobile apps to work without internet and keep the world connected when internet is not available. With bluetooth-based technology, Bridgefy provides communities in disaster, refugee, war, and poverty situations with an accessible, affordable, and reliable means of communicating via smart devices, by filling the gap when companies and government fail.

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sekurapp.com

Public urban space is a modern calling card where different interests and needs collide. Vienna provides space is a digital platform evaluating and re-designing citizen and business use of public space. Vienna provides space reorganizes the administration of objects and activities in public space, supported by a new, digital interface with customer needs in mind, and the possibilities of further digitization. While legal requirements are evaluated and modernized, a mobile mapping campaign generating high-precision three-dimensional geodata of public space aims to generate imperceptible end-to-end digitalization.

Implementation of Vienna provides space is set for 2022.

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SOCIALSUITE IMPACT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

MEDA CHAT

Damian Hajda, Dr. Clara Ong, Brad Gurrie

Biruk Desta, Biniam Assefa

Australia

Ethiopia

socialsuitehq.com

meda.chat Meda Chat is a platform making life easier in Ethiopia by combining the convenience of messaging with mobile banking. The app seamlessly combines Ethiopian lifestyle with money transfer and payment options. Meda Chat ­allows users to share, learn and do business in their own language and culture within an ecosystem of mini-apps, self-help, mobile banking, gaming & social media. Unlike foreign apps disconnected from local culture, Meda Chat allows non-technical users to access digital contents, while small businesses gain knowhow and scale their operations.

Socialsuite makes monitoring an organisation’s impact on people and community easy. Simple, automated data-collection and analysis tools on the impact management platform help show whether social investments meet their program objectives. Information is synthesised into interactive visuals and performance measures that can be cut and diced for further analysis. Socialsuite assists its stakeholders locally, avoiding wastage of funds and creating a snowball effect to impact global contexts as well.

VIMOSURE

PAYMHO

Refiloe Matlapeng

Miguel Angel Parada, Alejandro Lira

Botswana

Mexico

vimosure.com

paymho.com

Vimosure is an insurance service platform in Botswana.

Machine Learning models synthesize data from over twenty-eight different factors (weather, traffic, satellite imagery, road layout, accident records etc), in order to predict the likelihood of an accident at a given place and time, for any vehicle type, while offering safe alternative routes. Vimosure connects people with insurers directly, reducing premiums and road accidents, while making insurance ­affordable for low-income groups and accessible to digitally savvy young people.

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Pay My Honest Opinion (PAYMHO) is a social marketing tool turning users into professional influencers. The digital platform and app uses blockchain to protect and trace the use of members’ profiles and data as they generate information. As data ownership laws are too weak to protect privacy, PAYMHO links and encrypts information, allowing influencers to sell their assets in dynamic markets without compromising identity. PAYMHO allows the common digital citizen to take a share of the big data multi-billion market, while retaining definitive usage rights.

SOCIALAB ZapayoS Chile comunidad.socialab.com

Socialab is driving social innovation in Latin America by empowering business to positive social impact. More than 58,000 solutions by Socialab entrepreneurs have impacted millions of people, reducing the gap between the wealthy and have-nots. Over 700 startups go after social and environmental issues in workshops, boot camps and online learning resources. With more than 200 challenges across the region to create innovative, sustainable products and services, while reducing existing digital, educational or economic gaps, ­Socialab is moving market economy thinking to a new business paradigm built on love.

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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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DOT BRAILLE SMART DEVICE

SIMAX, THE SIGN LANGUAGE AVATAR SYSTEM

Dot

Sign Time GmbH

Republic of Korea

Austria

dotincorp.com

simax.media

DOT Incorporation develops innovative technology for the visually impaired. The DOT Watch is the world’s first smartwatch for those who read Braille. Its Braille learning program is a simple, intuitive and entertaining way to learn and practice Braille letters and words. The DOT mini is like a Kindle for the blind, alongside which a tactile graphic display is being developed (like an iPad for the blind). Through the sustained efforts of people committed to inclusion, DOT Incorporation is also working on other digital solutions to create a strong ecosystem for the visually impaired.

While deaf people do not understand audio content, they also have difficulty accessing texts as an abstract form of spoken language. 80% of deaf people are functional illiterate, needing sign language to participate in digital society.

SiMAX is the first 3D animated avatar system for sign language, using translation software to render texts semi-automatically into various sign languages. The embedded learning system (AI) continuously improves, increasing efficiency and reducing costs. SiMAX can be used for translation of text, video, film, announcements and other digital language-based content.

MISSING – GAME FOR A CAUSE Leena Kejriwal, Satyajit Chakraborty India savemissinggirls.com/missing-game-for-a-cause 16 million women are victims of sex trafficking in India, growing 25% annually, with an average age today of 12.

Traffickers prey on ignorance in remote areas, where poverty and illiteracy make outreach difficult. Missing – Game for a Cause aims to change this reality, addressing trafficking in a serious, engaging manner. Available in twelve languages on smartphones and using role plays, Missing puts players into the shoes of the survivor. Invoking discomfort and intense, claustrophobic experiences, the storyline provides a real-time depiction of the experiences of a trafficked victim. Missing promotes mass awareness and empathy with victims of prostitution, the first step to prevention.

BLOOM IMPACT David Hutchful, Carol Caruso Ghana bloomimpact.net

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Most families in Africa are dependent on small business (MSME) for daily survival, i.e., whether children go to school, elders get health care and whether a family will eat or not. Bloom Impact, a mobile-based financial services marketplace, saves time, frustration and money for business owners by digitally connecting them with financial service providers. MSME, 42% of them women, improve their financial literacy, using tools including SMS, app notifications, the multilingual Bloom Support Call Centre and social media channels. Bloom Impact is key to low-income and underserved segments.

STRAP TECHNOLOGIES Diego Roel Mexico strap.tech

Since 1921, the year of its invention, the white cane has been the only tool available for blind people. Today, STRAP is a smart device changing the history of the white cane, transforming it into a wearable able to detect obstacles, with sensors that recognize obstacles at the head, chest, or lower levels. Thanks to a vibration code system, users are alerted to possible collisions, helping them to navigate easily without help. Blind people can now do once-impossible things with confidence and security. STRAP enables their integration into society.

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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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SHUTTLE |

LIBERATE: MY OCD FIGHTER

Reyasat Chowdhury, Jawwad Jahangir, Shah Sufian Mahmud Chowdhury Bangladesh

Kaajal Gupta

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com. easytransport.shuttle

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com. bluepilltech.liberate.ocdapp&hl=en_IN

All women using public transport in Bangladesh have experienced physical, verbal, or some form of sexual harassment. Shuttle is an app-based pick and drop service for women only, providing safe, affordable, and comfortable transportation. Shuttle runs on specific routes with pickup and drop-off points and enables 10-11 women to travel together in women-only air-conditioned mini vans at an affordable fare. To ensure utmost passenger safety, ­Shuttle includes a trip manager in every vehicle. All drivers and trip managers are trained and verified, and ­Shuttle vehicles are under surveillance.

In India, little attention is given to mental health problems, making it difficult to access resources regarding stereotyped disorders and even more difficult to regularly visit a therapist. Liberate: My OCD Fighter is an online selfhelp tool acting as an online diary for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder OCD, essentially providing them with the necessary resources to fight their anxieties.

Equipped with a plethora of exercises, tools, resources and compulsion trackers, Liberate educates users and normalizes therapy, a must for everyone with OCD.

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ALMETA | Almeta Syrian Arab Republic almeta.io Tackling false or fake news, bias and extremism in any text content, such as news broadcasts, blog posts, facebook posts, or twitter feed, is crucial in conflicted societies. ­Almeta is an AI system using Natual Language Processing (NLP) methodologies to give a metric indicator of how biased any piece of content on the web can be. With cloud-based infrastructure and open interface, Almeta works to make the platform community-driven and community-regulated. Users can vote to identify any bias in the machine-learning models.

VIRTUALAHAN Google Business Group Team, TV8Media Team Philippines virtualahan.com

Virtualahan is a pioneering virtual school equipping disadvantaged people from low-income backgrounds with digital skills and a mindset to become competitive employees and entrepreneurs of technology. The holistic Virtualahan approach integrates life-coaching into the curriculum with a focus on well-being, career guidance, leadership development, community-based therapy and restoration of human dignity, to make learning more effective and positively impact wellbeing. Virtualahan uses hearts and technology to get people out of poverty by building the future of work where no one is left behind.

FOREST AND CLIMATE | Šume i klima Center for Development of non-formal Education, Serbian Case for Space, One Degree Serbia Serbia sumeiklima.org Forest and Climate is an online platform for successful afforestation, the process of planting trees in barren landscapes. Forest and Climate uses an algorithm with nine criteria and 20 sub-criteria to identify suitable areas in Serbia for three different tree species: silver birch, sessile oak and black pine. Satellite Earth observation data and a geographic information system bring results onto an interactive map. Users can check suitability, plant the appropriate tree and mark its location. Once considered mere mitigation to absorb carbon dioxide, afforestation is now seen as a solution to tackle climate change.

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The past days, evaluating all the nominations from more than 100 countries was a truly enriching experience.

I feel like I just did a PhD in Social Innovation.

Saba Khalid Co-Founder Raaji, Pakistan

WSA INNOVATION DAYS & GRAND JURY 2019

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WSA Grand Jury is one of the most important meetings and events in the whole WSA process. Since 2003, WSA has united renowned multimedia experts from all parts of the world - Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania, North and Latin America, and Europe - to learn about and judge the best content and most innovative applications, forming a unique college of evaluation and knowledge.

In partnership with Cogite and Tunisian Start-Ups, WSA organized the Tunis Innovation Forum, sharing insights and perspectives about female entrepreneurship and business modelling for social entrepreneurs.

International experts with different professional and regional background discuss in a democratic process, who

should be selected as WSA winner 2019 and guarantee a truly fair and transparent selection process.

They dig deep into each shortlisted solution, understanding the local value and circumstances, the potential impact and the technical quality of the solutions. A truly tough job.

WSA Grand Jury meetings took place in past years in Bahrain, Croatia, India, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Germany and Ghana.

In partnership with Proxym Group, WSA organized a B2B networking dinner – connecting local entrepreneurs and relevant stakeholder with the WSA Grand Jury members, guaranteeing a sustainable knowledge transfer.

The WSA Grand Jury was supported and organized in the framework of the Tech Entrepreneurship Initiative ‘Make-IT in Africa’ (GIZ) working on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

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Peter A. Bruck | Austria Ralph Simon | UK Ian Lorenzen | Kenya, Denmark Osama Manzar | India Rudy Laddaga | Mexico Matteo Landi | Italy Tom Baumert | Luxembourg Kasia Klimek | Poland Milad Sebaaly Lebanon

Saba Khalid | Pakistan Barbarita Martinez | Chile Maria Baumgartner | Austria Houda Ghozzi | Tunisia Marta Tomovska | North Macedonia Arsene Tungali | Dem. Rep. of Congo Dorothy Gordon | Ghana Manar AlHashash | Kuwait Marie Haller | USA

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WSA EXPERTS Abdul Bari Ahmadzai Afghanistan

Afghanistan Holding Group

Mezini Dritan Albania

DM Consulting Services

Font Joan Andorra

Government of Andorra

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Managing Director

Head of the Audiovisuals & Comunications Department

Intellectual Applications & Products

Aouf Abdellah Algeria

Global Opportunities

Simon Nelson Antigua and Barbuda

Networking Systems Solutions

Cavalli Olga Argentina

Government of Argentina

Wickramage Sachi Australia

i4Tradies

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

JSC "Technics and Communications"

Balthazar Tricia Belize

CANTO

Dorji Cigay Bhutan

Thimpu Tech Park

Madžarević Tanja Bosnia and Herzegovina

UNICEF

Tumisang Kesego Botswana

Google Developer Group Gaborone

Haugland Tore Brazil

OUVI HQ

Varbanov Pavel Bulgaria

European Software Institute – Center Eastern Europe

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

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Yengibaryan Bagrat Armenia

Enterprise Incubator Foundation

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Rupp Christian Austria

Chief Innovation Officer

Balthazar Tricia Bahamas

CANTO

Raihan Ananya Bangladesh

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

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Weekes Troy Barbados

EZLearner In

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Boers Karen Belgium

BeCode

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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Inclusion+/ DifferentbutBetter

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Canadian Lenders Association

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Nkurunziza Jean Paul ISOC BURUNDI Burundi Vice-president

Nsoga John Cameroon

AfricaCom Network

Abdelsalam Safi Chad

WenakLabs

Wong Yvonne China

Qianhai International Liaison Services Ltd

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Internet Professional Association

Attoumani Karim Comoros

Comores Telecom (ex-SNPT)

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Schombe Baudouin Congo, Democratic Republic

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Brigovic Ana Croatia

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Pérez Pérez Lissette Cuba

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Directeur de l'Informatique & des Nouvelles Technologies Centre Africain d´Echange Culturel (CAFEC) Coordinator ACT Group Business Development Manager Ministry of Communications Direction of Foreign Relations

Andreou Panayiotis Cyprus

University of Nicosia

Bach Per Denmark

Sociale Entreprenører i Danmark (SED)

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Universidad del Norte

Tungali Arsène Congo, Democratic Republic

Rudi International

Watson Carlos Costa Rica

ISOC Costa Rica Chapter International Foundation

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Mr Fernández González Juan Alfonso Cuba Ms De La Caridad Brito D Toste Magda Cuba

Vu Lan Anh Czech Republic

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Pemberton Cedric Dominica

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

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El Sobky Ahmed Egypt

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

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Ibarra Rafael El Salvador

Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas

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Lemma Dagmawi Ethiopia

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Kurkela Ilkka Finland

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Ileleji Poncelet O. Gambia

Mr

IT Director Addis Ababa University Assistant Professor Laurea University of Applied Sciences Development Manager The Gambia YMCAs Coordinator

Kruger Ernesto Ecuador

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Fiji

Balthazar Tricia Haiti

Ms

Horvath Noemi Hungary

Ms

IT Manager CANTO Service Development Manager Hungarian Association of Content Industry EU Project Director

Solution Oriented Freelance Systems Analyst and Software Developer Kruger CEO

E-Estonia Showroom Managing Director Pasifika Nexus Executive Director

Shubitidze George Georgia

ICT Business Council of Georgia

Gordon Dorothy Ghana

Technology for Development

Doxaras Yiannis Greece

Niobium Labs

Zaghi Maria Guatemala

Comercializadora de Tecnologia

Richards Malisa Guyana

DevNet

Isaula Maria Honduras

Sustainable Development Networking Honduras (RDS-HN) National Coordinator

Mr

Ms

CENTRE DREAM BENOIT XVI

Founder

Startup Sesame

power951

Sagno Elisabeth Guinea

Vunela

Vezina Craig France

Mr

Langaigne Glendon Grenada

Ms

Computerization

Ms

Ms

Szász József Hungary

Mr

CEO & Founder

President

Consultant

Founder and CEO

International Business Development

Project Officer

Professor and Serial Entrepreneur bubu.com CEO Five One Labs

Boral Omri Israel

Tech for good

Ms

Mr Ronchi Alfredo Italy

Ms Brown Saffrey Jamaica

Ms Yamamoto Mio Japan

Mr Kremenchutskiy Anatoliy Kazakhstan

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Kiribati

Mr

Founder

Ministry of Communications

University of Iceland

Bosley Alice Iraq Ms

Piperal Anna Estonia

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

Mr

Information Technologies and Advanced Telematic Services (CITMATEL) CEO

Industry Capacity Building Department Manager

Tsolis Dimitros Greece

Mr

Independent consultant and Founder and President

Ms Dhanuwardoyo Shinta Indonesia

Lorenzen Ian Kenya

Ms

Strategy & Alliances

Co-founder and Executive Director

Malmquist Johann Iceland

Mr

Elsheikh Samar Kamal Information Technology Industry Development Agency- ITIDA Egypt

Felsenberg Alexander Retresco Germany

Mr

Professor

Mr

Valerio Arturo Dominican Republic

Mr

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Llano Sergio Colombia

Mr

Mr

Co-founder and Executive Director

Co-Founder EC-MEDICI Framework General Secretary The Leap Co. Co-founder and Head of Innovation WIT Executive Director India-Kazakhstan Centre of excellence in ICT Director Growth Africa Executive Director and Partner

Manzar Osama India

Digital Empowerment Foundation

Esfehani Ehssan Iran

Vista Samaneh Asia

Casey Martin Ireland

Arekibo Communications

Shimony Nir Israel

Tech for good

Tay Kudzo Ivory Coast

Coopération Conseil International

Mr

Mr

Mr

Mr

Mr

Ms Shaw Suzanne Jamaica

Founder & Director

Chairman

Managing Director

CEO

Hargé de programme, CCI - LSDA The Leap Co. Co-founder and Head of Impact Investment

Wahdan Ismail Jordan

Greater Amman Municipality

Masyuko Nathan Kenya

LudiqueWorks

Mr

Mr

Head of E-government Section

Head of Games and Co-founder

Gakiria Andrew Kenya

Mr

Verami Neeti Korea, Republic Of

Global Startup Lab

Chigibaeva Elena Kyrgyzstan

TravelHub

Muratbekova Begaim KG Labs Public Foundation Kyrgyzstan

Kin Aziz Kyrgyzstan

KG Labs Public Foundation

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

Ms

Irmeja Aiga Latvia

Latvian IT Cluster

Mr Melnudris Andris Latvia

Ms Zunde Kristine Latvia

Ms Alhashash Manar Kuwait

President of the South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) President

Ms

Dot Design

Ms

eContent Alchemist & Activist

Ms

Manager of Projects and Communications

Mr

Mr Deek Gabriel Lebanon

Mr Massaley Abraham Liberia

Žilionienė Ieva Lithuania Ms

Ms Andriamampianina Lala Madagascar Ms Lee Grace Malaysia

Latvian Information and Communications Technology Association (LIKTA) Managing Director OmniSystems sal.

General Manager Press Union of Liberia Coordinator RRT Acting Deputy Director NIC-MG President Multimedia Development Corporation Stakeholder Engagement Division

Mr

Mr Tlali Tsitso Lesotho

Mr Khaled Ben Hamed Libya

Start-up Advisor, Coach and Mentor

CEO

Manager of Projects and Communications

Executive Director Latvian IT Cluster Coordinator KoL Starts Founder & CEO Faculty of IT, University of Tripoli Lecturer

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

Mr

Mr

Ms

Project Manager

Partner

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WSA EXPERTS Mr Shunan Yusuf Maldives

Mr Bone Kenneth Malta

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Marshall Islands

Kissoondoyal Dave Mauritius Mr

Maldicore Group Pvt Ltd Managing Director Seasus New Media Managing Director South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) President Internet Society of Mauritius President

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

Attard Marcelle Malta

Malta Communications Authority

Baya Ahmed Mauritania

Mauritel

Ms

Mr

Mr Laddaga López Rudy Mexico

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

Mr

Mr Jurovicki Anton Montenegro

Mr

Mr Hot Dervic Elma Montenegro

Jankari Consulting Director The Lucha Institute President & Co-Founder

Lakhdissi Zouheir Morocco

Dial Technologies

Oo Thein Myanmar

Myanmar Computer Federation

Mr

Mr

CEO and Co-Founder

President

MNC

Abneusa Stefania Mozambique

Mozdev

Peters Anicia Namibia

Namibia University

Ms

Ms

Wilson Alfredo Nicaragua

Guegue Communications

Mr

Iro Adamou Niger

Technologies Informatique & Télécoms

Ms Lazarovska Natasha North Macedonia

Ms Al Sabti Zawan Oman

Mr Agha Hamza Pakistan

Startup Macedonia Co-Founder and Executive Board Member eOman Portal Director Hello Tomorrow Pakistan Country Head

Al-Astal Ashraf Palestine*

1plus1 Business

Pedersen Marina Paraguay

Kiyo Group Organización

Mr

Ms

Ms Tinio Eloisa Philippines

Founder & Managing Director

CEO TRACE College Vice President for Academic Affairs

President & Co-Founder

Kerdoudi Ilhem Morocco

Mr

Mr

Expert Juriste-Manager

Entrepreneur

The Lucha Institute

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

Mr

Gnius Club

Franeta Slobodan Montenegro

Mr Raj Khanal Ananda Nepal

Director

CEO

Technical University of Moldova Lecturer at the Software Engineering and Automatics Department

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Nauru

Mr

Project Coordinator Information Society

Poștaru Andrei Moldova

Ms Beukes-Amiss Maggy Namibia University Namibia

HOD and Senior Lecture

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Simbara Mariko Mali

Ms

CEO

President

Dean: Faculty of Computing and Informatics South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) President

Oorschot Herman Netherlands

Fullmoon Interactive Solutions

Aleman Mario Nicaragua

ICANN

Amos Emmanuel Nigeria

Programos Foundation

Bruarøy Kristian Norway

Bridj

Ara Jehan Pakistan

The Nest I/O Technology Incubator & Accelerator

Mr

Mr

Ms

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Palau

Partner & CEO

Member of Technical Staff

Founder & President

Founder & Consultant

Founder South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) President

Prado Amaya Matias Panama

Ingeniería Informática S.A.

Jaime Jorge Peru

InterBank

Lebuda Jakub Poland

Clipatize

Mr

Mr

Mr

CEO

Growth Manager

CEO

Ms Klimek Katarzyna Poland

MOST Foundation CEO

Carneiro Roberto Portugal

Fundação Escola Portuguesa de Macau

Bujor Ana Maria Romania

SIVECO Romania

Ntale Alex Rwanda

ICT Chamber, Rwanda Private Sector Federation

Mr

Ms

Mr

Ms Balthazar Tricia Saint Lucia

Presidente do Conselho de Administração

Educational content project manager

Executive Director CANTO Service Development Manager

Ms Tazenda Almeida Sandra Portugal

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

Priemov Dmitry Russian Federation

Rossiya Segodnya | International information agency

Wharton Wesley Saint Kitts and Nevis

Ministry of Technology

Daniel Rudolph Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

ICT4dev and Internet Governance

Capello Luciano San Marino

Digital Design srl

Scharff Christelle Senegal

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

Kostic Ivana Serbia

Health Tech Lab

Tan Alaric Singapore

The creative Alliance

Jerman Blazic Borka Slovenia

Jožef Stefan Institute

Rabana Rapelang South Africa

Rekindle Learning

Vea Andreu Spain

European Commission

Mr

Mr

Mr

President of the South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) President

Mr

Ms Almaimuni Hana Saudi Arabia

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

Ms

Damnjanović Damjan Health Tech Lab Serbia

Mr

Ibrahim Mohamed Sierra Leone

Mr

Mr

Co-Founder

Mr

Mr Burcik Vladimir Slovakia

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Solomon Islands

Sensi CEO iLearn Online Learning Centre CEO

Ms

President of the South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) President

Ms

Ochuodho Shem J. South Sudan

Ministry of Telecom & Postal Services

Mr

Kodikara Indumini Sri Lanka

Information & Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) COO

Ms

Faculty of Computer Science at University of Science & Technology Dean

Ms

Clusterlang Sweden

Ms

Mr

Ms

Mr Abdelrahman Noureldien Sudan Mr Gustafsson Micael Sweden

Ms van der Wolde Aimée Switzerland

Senior Advisor

Managing Director SEIF - Driving Social Innovation Managing Partner

Suleymanova Mahinakhon Tajikistan

Sugdagroserv Consulting

Magila Godfrey Tanzania, United Republic of

MagilaTech Company Limited

Ms

Mr

Mr Wang Chulee Thailand

Director

CEO & Co-Founder

Executive Director

Al Mansoori Reem Qatar

Ms

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Samoa

Manager, Awards & Intern.Competitiveness at E-Government

APDC

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

Digital Society Development Consultant

Balthazar Tricia Suriname

CANTO

Ljung Maria Switzerland

SEIF - Driving Social Innovation

Idlebi Nibal Syrian Arab Republic

UN-ESCWA

Ms

Service Development Manager

Program Lead

Chief of Innovation Section

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

Shelters David Thailand

Mr

Mr Kouami Olévié Togo

Digital Innovation & Corporate Startup Engagement (CSE) Advisor INTIC4DEV Consultant & Formateur

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WSA EXPERTS Mr Amekudji Cyriaque Togo

Ms Gaspard Taylor Gia Trinidad and Tobago

Consultant & Formateur

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Tonga

Kambur Duygu Turkey

IT Law Institute at Bilgi University

Saidane Amel Tunisia

Tunisian Startups

Ms

Karryev Batyr Turkmenistan

Center of Information Technologies "SIBIS"

Mr

Mr Ndyaguma Brian Uganda

Ms Popova Tatiana Ukraine

Main IT expert Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) Business Development Manager Association Telecommunication chamber of Ukraine Chairman of the Board

President R2i

Mr

President

South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS)

Zaghbib Faouzi Tunisia

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

Ms

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INTIC4DEV

Ms Tamanikaiwaimaro Salanieta Tuvalu

General Manager

Director South Pacific Computer Society (SPaCS) President

Stern Daniel Uganda

Uconnect

Perohanych Yuri Ukraine

Association of IT Enterprises of Ukraine (AITEU)

Mr

Mr

Director

General Director

Mr E-Government Operations Departmen Ali Tariq United Arab Emirates

Ms

Mr Favell Andy United Kingdom

Ms

Internet Governance Specialist

Freelance consultant, web editor & journalist

Di Giovanni Laura Uruguay

Plan Ceibal

Temar Mathew Vanuatu

Vanuatu Government

Ms

Mr

Mr Lam Long Viet Nam

Mr Makayi Mbuyu Zambia

Head of Content

Chief Technical Officer for IT Assist.

Quang Trung Software City Development Co., Ltd. CEO BongoHive Developer

Telecommunication Regulation Authority (TRA) Al Jallaf Hind United Arab Emirates Senior ICT Analyst

Tenby Susan United States

Caravan Studios

Yusupov Alisher Uzbekistan

brand.uz

Tschernig Peter Venezuela

CAVEDATOS / ISOC / WordOnTech.com

Mr

Mr

Mr Alsheikh Abubakr Abubakr Yemen

Mbira Tatenda Zimbabwe

Mr

Director of Community and Partnerships

CEO

Executive Vice President Hadramout University of Science and Technology Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems Zimbabwe Youth Council Information and Communication Technology Officer

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Haas Mathias

SuperSocial

Hamberger Stephan

Red Bull Media House North America

ElKattan Alia

O-MUN

Adel Abbas

smava GmbH

Austria

CEO

Austria / USA

Director of Product Management & User Experience

Egypt

Assistant Director

Egypt

Technical Project Owner

Medani Haithem

Goplatform

Hossain Rahat

Hatem Shady

Advicenode

Sobhy Amr

PushBots, Inc.

Algeria

Project Manager

Bangladesh

Serial Entrepreneur

Egypt

Founder

Egypt, UK

CEO

Martins Dornelas Renato

Skidmore-Saratoga Consulting Partnership (SSCP)

Schuler Emily

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Bourdu Sébastien

Freelance

Kakhidze Mariam

State Audit Office of Georgia (SAOG)

Brazil

Student Consultant

Brazil

Research Assistant

France

Web developer and UX designer

Georgia

Senior Analyst of State Budget and Strategic Analysis Department

Carvalho Camila

Tem Açúcar

Oap Marcos

AnnuitWalk Accessibilities

Mazmishvili Ana

State Audit Office of Georgia (SAOG)

Bestavashvili Giorgi

Sign and Sound

Brazil

Founder & CEO

Brazil

Co-Founder & CEO

Georgia

Senior Budget Analyst

Georgia

Co-Founder

Ashumanyi Ako Agbor

GiftedMom

Corriero Jennifer

TakingITGlobal

Schmid Carina

The Global Experience and CoFounder at Easy Languages

Dreyer Charlotte

Hasso Plattner Institute

Cameroon

Co-founder and Medical Director

Canada

Co-founder and Executive Director

Germany

CEO

Germany

Project Development, HPI School of Design Thinking

Knowles Eileen

Columbia University in the City of New York

Fung Jordan

Jet Tung-Pedosa Enterprises

Ojo Alex

The Royal Senchi Resort & Hotel

Appier-Sign Solo

NextNerds

Canada

Sustainability Consultant

China

CEO and Co-Founder

Ghana

Head of IT

Ghana

Founder

Bustamente Sebastian

Empréndelo

Pantelic Ana

Fundación Capital

Acquah Moses

Afrolynk

Barley Ivy

Developers in Vogue

Colombia (US, Spain)

co-Founder Verdéate.com / Entrepreneurship Consultant

Colombia / Serbia

Director of Business and Partnership Development

Ghana

Founder / Brainchild

Ghana

Co-Founder

Azhar Bacar

CbonBusiness

Mosaad Abdullah

What's up Youth Professional Services

Allmayer Franz Josef

Simgo

Tewari Anshul

Youth Ki Awaaz

Comoros

CEO

Egypt

Founder & Managing Director

Guatemala

International Business Development Executive

India

Founder and Editor-in-Chief

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Krishnan Jithin

Spaceboat.in

Shaik Khasim Shareef

Friends2Support.org

India

Co-Founder

India

Founder & Chairman

Pasricha Japleen

Feminism in India

Kumar Siddharth

BioP

India

Founder & Editor-in-chief

India

Founder

Bajwa Maninder

Espranza

Gaddafi Sanny

8villages

India

CEO & Founder

Indonesia

CEO

Consonni Matteo

Centre for Innovation Leiden University

Habib Patrick

Drosbox

Italy

Project Design and Delivery

Lebanon

Co-Founder

Beylouni Yorgui

Drosbox

Kumbaroska Bistra

Social Impact Award gGmbH

Lebanon

Co-Founder

North Macedonia

Scaling and Partnership Manager

Hot Elma

BeeAndMe.

Beylouni Yorgui

Yassine Bentaleb

Montenegro

Founder

Morocco

Iweka Kingsley

Africa on the rise

Mushtaq Momal

Patteri Entrepreneurship Society

Nigeria

Founder

Pakistan

Digital Project Manager

Varind Rohayl

Times of Youth Magazine

Sivaramakrishnan Sharmishta

UN

Pakistan

CEO & Editor-in-Chief

Singapore

UN Youth Representative for Caring for Cambodia

Muloongo Jason

TelliGram

Ossendryver Nadav

Latest Sightings Pty Ltd

South Africa

Co-Founder

South Africa

CEO

Rodrigo Peumi

CodeGen

Elbadwi Mahmoud

oPercetion

Sri Lanka

Assistant Manager Marketing & Communications

Sudan

Founder

Hawasly Sana

Daraty

Silas Mangi Gloria

African Queens Project

Syria

Co-founder of Daraty

Tanzania

Founder and President

Walls Jon Mark

GovFaces

Itzkowitz Adam

Better World Club

USA

CEO

USA

Vice President of Marketing and Communications

Samples Tori

Leaf Global Fintech

Machirori Fungai

Her Zimbabwe

USA

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Zimbabwe

Researcher and Media Consultant / Founder & Director

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WSA GLOBAL COUNCIL Thomas Stelzer, Former UN Assistant Secretary General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs | Austria & MANAGEMENT Rodrigo Assumpcao, eGovernment and Telco Consultant | Brazil BOARD George Sharkov, Adviser to the Minister of Defense, National Cybersecurity | Bulgaria Witman Hung, Managing Director Qianhai International Liaison Services Ltd | China Maria Flachsbarth , Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and 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 | UK/USA Ralph Simon, CEO Mobilium | United Kingdom Janine Warner, Founder SembraMedia | USA Tanja Wehsely, CEO Volkshilfe | Austria Tore Haugland, CEO Ouvi | Brazil Carolina Rossi, CEO CoMedia and Innovarock | Chile Adam Montandon, Lecturer and Event Organizer | Denmark Jakob Detering, Managing Director Social Impact Award | Germany Alexander Felsenberg, Innovation Consultant | Germany Dorothy K. Gordon, ICT for Development Consultant | 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, Content Marketing Strategy 3M | USA 72

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