WSA Global Congress 2022 | Hack The Gap | Event & Impact Report

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WSA GLOBAL CONGRESS 2022 HACKING GAPS & CONNECTING 4 IMPACT GLOBALLY The 17 UN SDGs are a global and urgent call to action to all countries and people on the globe.

Digital tools, creative entrepreneurship and global cooperation are among the most promising drivers to reach the UN SDGs. The WSA Global Congress empowers you to connect with creative and purpose-driven entrepreneurs, get to know inspiring solutions for the UN SDGs, and connect with a global community to collaborate, share and learn.

This year - due to the global pandemic, WSA Global Congress again needed to take place as virtual journey around the globe.

We met, discussed, engaged, shared and learned - virtually but sustainably.

“We all know the Internet has not only positive effects but also negative ones when it comes to social media campaigning, disinformation, and fake news. What we at WSA are looking at is just different. We look at different kinds of realities, facing different societal environments with all kinds of gaps – concerning content, gender, wealth, accessibility – and we gather people who use technology for a good purpose, for social impact and for narrowing the digital divides.

We create a society of mindful people.”

Prof. Peter A. Bruck, Chairperson of WSA Board of Directors

CONTENT OVERVIEW WSA WELCOME STATEMENTS STATISTICS INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSIONS WINNERS INNOVATION PITCHING SESSIONS GLOBAL CONGRESS JURY GLOBAL CHAMPIONS 2022 AWARD CEREMONY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM 1:1 MENTORING & PITCH TRAINING WSA WINNING PROJECTS 2021 Government & Citizen Engagement

Health & Well-Being

Learning & Education

Environment & Green Energy

Culture & Tourism

Smart Settlements & Urbanization

Business & Commerce

Inclusion & Empowerment

WSA Young Innovators

CONGRESS FEEDBACK & IMPRESSIONS CONGRESS BRANDING 3

CONGRESS PR & COMMUNICATIONS GLOBAL WSA COMMUNITY WSA TEAM

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WSA WELCOME STATEMENTS “[ ...] the German Development Ministry also wants to make its contribution to close the digital gap and build new bridges. Half of the world’s people have no access to the internet, and this means that many people are not only excluded from the opportunities and the possibilities of the digital transformation, this inequality also hampers political, economic, and social participation. Women and girls are especially disadvantaged in terms of access to and use of digital technologies. And in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic these inequalities have increased even more. And this must end. Together with the World Summit Awards all of us are collectively striving for inequitable and fair digitalization worldwide. The WSA has been a reliable and valuable partner since 2018 for my ministry’s Make-IT Alliance. Together we have already achieved a great deal. We have made good progress on identifying and using digital solutions to fight climate change [...]. We are working closely with the WSA in 16 Centers for Digital Transformation to jointly promote local digital innovations [...] This year’s WSA winning projects are all about innovative solutions that open up new opportunities to overcome gaps and build bridges. Let us use this year’s Global Congress to share and discuss successful ideas and to learn from another.’’

Svenja Schulze, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

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“UNIDO and WSA have collaborated closely for many years and (we are) pleased to continue to be part of this collaboration. [...] The way we live and work is fundamentally changing. The digitalization of learning, socializing, shopping, communicating has accelerated due to the pandemic. No sector has been left untouched by this rapid transformation. My particular concern are the many countries in the world that lack the necessary infrastructure, countries that struggle to prepare and train their workforce for the digital world and age. We must look for practical solutions, solutions that can be replicated and mainstreamed and ensure that no one is left behind. I congratulate the WSA for its promotion of digital innovation and youth entrepreneurship. It is so important to support and connect young technopreneurs and share the innovative solutions from around the world. [...] We must listen to and engage with young people and make sure that the ideas of young people are being realized. We cannot build a future that ignores the visions of the young generation. [...] We can solve hunger, poverty, or climate change. We need political will, and we need more partnerships and knowledge exchange. UNIDO will continue working with the WSA to bring fresh ideas and innovative solutions to the forefront of the sustainable development agenda.’’

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Bernardo Calzadilla Sarmiento, Managing Director, Directorate of Digitalization, Technology and Agri-Business, UNIDO

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WSA GLOBAL CONGRESS 2022 - CONNECT 4 IMPACT A VIRTUAL JOURNEY AROUND THE GLOBE WSA (World Summit Awards) has been initiated in 2003 as an Austrian activity in the framework of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and is since then, selecting and promoting digital innovation contributing to the achievement of the UN SDGs from all UN member states.

Digital technologies are one of the main drivers for the United Nations Agenda towards the Sustainable Development Goals towards the review in 2030.

Modern technology combined with a social cause and smart content not only solves problems, it enhances equality, information access and inclusion. The challenges of 2020 have caused the world to rethink its systems and structures. Especially digital content has become a real problem solver, be it for remote working, online learning, healthcare or creating more sustainability. The WSA Winners and WSA Young Innovators 2021 provide a meaningful selection of worldwide content driven applications with positive impact, focusing on the world’s most pressing issues – be it climate change, health, agriculture or gender equality – and providing digital solutions to react to the global pandemic.

WSA Global Congress - Connect 4 Impact 2021/22: presented 43 digital solutions for the UN SDGs brought together more than 400 people from +100 countries shared multi-stakeholder perspectives and discussed digital innovations for the UN SDGs around the world hosted the partner program Josef Umdasch Research Prize

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WSA GLOBAL CONGRESS STATISTICS

A VIRTUAL JOURNEY AROUND THE GLOBE

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WSA GLOBAL CONGRESS 2022 - HACK THE GAP A VIRTUAL JOURNEY AROUND THE GLOBE The WSA Global Congress featured the following formats - providing participants with a diverse learning journey

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Pitch Perfect Training for winners - peer training through international coaches Hack the Gap - Panel Discussion with experts and winners per category Connect 4 Impact - Panel Discussion featuring Africa, Asia, Arab Region, Europe and the Americas Innovation Pitches by WSA Winners in front of an international experts jury 1:1 Mentoring Sessions between WSA Winners and experienced mentors Interactive Networking & Roundtable Discussions Speed Networking - random matchmaking to connect participants with each other. Meet, connect, exchange, learn something new, have fun.

Community MeetUps - Meet old & new friends Final Pitches Josef Umdasch Research Prize WSA Award Ceremony - Champions Announcements

In order to facilitate an interacitve process, networking and engaging discussions, the WSA Global Congress 2022 took place on the virtual platform Airmeet.

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INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSIONS Over the course of the three congress days, international speakers connected to discuss digital Innovations for the UN SDGs, regional challenges & opportunities, how to hack gaps in the different WSA categories.

WSA Global Congress Opening In the opening session participants heard from political leaders and representatives of international organizations, sharing their vision and targets towards the UN 2030 Agenda. moderated by Peter A. Bruck, WSA Chairman, Austria with opening statements by Svenja Schulze, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany Bernardo Calzadilla Sarmiento, Managing Director, Directorate of Digitalization, Technology and Agri-Business, UNIDO

„Content always means context. Local content is the key.

We as WSA see what the local context is but on a global level. “ Peter A. Bruck, WSA Chairman, Austria

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Connect 4 Impact - AFRICA & EUROPE Connect 4 Impact by joining and meeting the African & Europe WSA community and discuss regional challenges and opportunities.

Digital Innovation for the UN SDGs - perspectives from Africa & Europe

Moderated by: Dorothy Gordon, ICT4D Consultant, Ghana Sakhile Xulu, Seed South Capital, South Africa Tanja Madzarevic, Project Coordinator UNICEF, Bosnia & Herzegovina Nkemdilim Begho, Future Software Resources Lt., Nigeria Lena Hödl, Venture Architect, Trive Studio, Austria

„Innovation is always about exchanging, seeing things from a different perspective. We could all really benefit from engaging with other continents, with other mindsets, with other cultures.“

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Lena Hödl, Venture Architect, Trive Studio, Austria

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Connect 4 Impact - AMERICAS Connect 4 Impact by joining and meeting the American WSA Community and discuss regional challenges and opportunities.

Digital Innovation for the UN SDGs - perspectives from Americas with:

Moderated by: Peter A. Bruck, WSA Chairperson, Austria Matías Rojas, Socialab, Chile dd to: Calendar Maria Zaghi, ICT expert and entrepreneur, Guatemala Catherine Warren, CEO Innovate Edmonton, Canada

„Social innovation shows that you can have different truths. You can go back and develop your solutions. You can‘t have one top-down solution, you have to develop more complex solutions. You don’t have problems to solve, you have systems to optimize.“ MatÌas Rojas, Socialab, Chile

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Connect 4 Impact - ASIA & ARAB REGION Connect 4 Impact by joining and meeting the Asian & Arab WSA community and discuss regional challenges and opportunities.

Digital Innovation for the UN SDGs - perspectives from Asia & the Arab Region with: Moderation: Wiem Chamsi, Betacube, Tunisia Opening Statement by: Rola Dashti, Executive Secretary UN ESCWA Josie Stoker, The Capture Club, Singapore, UK Osama Manzar, CEO Digital Empowerment Foundation, India Ali H. Hilli, Acting Head of CER Unit, ZAIN, Iraq Mohamed Alsharkawy, Founder Alkhattat, Saudi Arabia

„The world is becoming online-centric, even for rations of food from the state or banking. But there is a gap in the ecosystem itself because people are not connected. We have to connect them.

This gap we must hack.“ Osama Manzar, CEO Digital Empowerment Foundation, India

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WSA GLOBAL CONGRESS 2022 The UN SDGs are the metrics of success also for digital content driven solutions

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WINNERS INNOVATION PITCHING SESSIONS The 40 WSA Winners already proved that their products are the most innovative solutions chosen in the democratic and tough selection process of the WSA. Each WSA Winner had to first succeed in a local competition to prove their product to be most promising from their country in the respective category. Each UN member state is eligible to nominate 1 product per WSA category.

For 2021 WSA received 293 submissions from 68 participating countries.

96 Online Jurors decided on a shortlist per category that was presented to the WSA Grand Jury, which then selected the 40 WSA Winners that have been invited to the WSA Global Congress - Connect 4 Impact 2022.

At the Global Congress the winners pitched their products in front of an expert jury. Each team had 3 minutes to pitch, followed by about 3 minutes Q&A to convince and impress the jury. The highest ranked winning teams in the criteria product. pitch and impact were awarded and announced as Global Champions at the WSA Award Ceremony.

The jury members voted on PRODUCT | IMPACT | PITCH. The WSA Winners demonstrate the richness and diversity of local content and prove that digital solutions are key to reach the UN SDG´s.

Each pitching session was followed by an interactive panel discussion with all winners of the category and selected experts.

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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Velotax, Brazil Arbor, Canada Lucinity - Make Money Good., Iceland Bina App, Iraq Chimege, Mongolia

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Moderated by: Jon Mark Walls, WSA National Expert, USA Expert panel discussion: Enrique Martinez-Hausmann, Speedinvest, United Kingdom Watch the Panel Discussion ‘‘Hack Economy Gaps’’

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INNOVATION PITCHING SESSIONS ENVIRONMENT & GREEN ENERGY Smart content addresses the climate crisis. It combines environmental goals with client-centred models, providing solutions for environmental engagement and supporting sustainable agriculture in developmental areas.

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Peer to Peer Solar Trading on Blockchain in Uttar Pradesh, Australia The Okra Pod, Cambodia Treeconomy, Canada Waves, Luxembourg ecording, Turkey

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Moderated by: Peter A. Bruck, WSA Chairperson Experts panel discussion: Atiek Fadhilah, expert on start-up support in digitalization & green energy, DTC Indonesia Huong Vu, lean start-up trainer & innovation enthusiast, DTC Vietnam Mark Holzberger, Expert Digitalization BMZ, Germany Watch the Panel Discussion ‘‘Hack the Climate Crisis’’ in partnership with:

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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SEX, baff!, Austria Skillio.net, Hungary National Digital Library of India (NDLI), India Angis, Lithuania Inspirelearn, Malawi

Moderated by: Rudy Laddaga, Founder Gnius Club, Mexico Expert panel discussion: Badr Ward, CEO Lamsa, UAE

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Watch the Panel Discussion ‘‘Hack Education Gaps’’

SMART SETTLEMENT & 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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The Tool for Systemic Change, Australia CREE LifeCycle Platform, Austria Reliance Foundation’s Machli, India

Watch the Pitching Session Moderated by: Alan Greenberg, Venture Partner, EDT Partners, UK Expert panel discussion: Eva Czernohorszky, Technology Services Vienna Business Agency, Austria

Watch the Panel Discussion ‘‘Hack Urban Gaps’’

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INNOVATION PITCHING SESSIONS 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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Financial Inclusion and Empowerment, Canada Naa Sika, Ghana Mobility Mojo, Ireland eFlow Education, Lebanon SPEAK, Portugal

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Moderated by; Tanzila Khan, Girlythings, Pakistan Experts panel discussion: Cid Torquato, Torquato, Brazil & Wilfried Kainz, Essl Foundation, Austria Watch the Panel Discussion ‘‘Hack Inequality Gaps’’

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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Rutopía, Mexico Placecloud, Netherlands zoomguide, Portugal kathuwaraya.com, Sri Lanka Iconic Moments, USA

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Moderated by: Madanmohan Rao, Storyteller & Consultant, India Experts panel discussion: Linda Skipnes Strand, Managing Director Baahdy&Birdy, Norway & Eyram Tawia, Co-Founder LetiArts, Ghana Watch the Panel Discussion ‘‘Hack Culture Gaps’’

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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FibriCheck, Belgium Anariá: digital oncology service, Brazil BokDoc, Egypt Clanbeat, Estonia RetinaRisk, Iceland

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Moderated by Tanja Wehsely, Wehsely, CEO Volkshilfe Wien, Austria Experts panel discussion: Steve MacFeely, Director of the WHO Department of Data and Analytics, WHO & Tomás Pessoa e Costa, Founder dioscope, Portugal Watch the Panel Discussion ‘‘Hack Healthcare Gaps’’

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INNOVATION PITCHING SESSIONS 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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ManoSeimas.lt, Lithuania IRMA, Netherlands FollowTheMoney, Nigeria Urban Platform by Ubiwhere, Portugal TASMU Platform by TASMU Program, Qatar

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Moderated by: Ieva Žilionienė, Consulting Business Lead at NRD Companies, Lithuania Experts panel discussion: Margus Mägi, eGovernment Principal Consultant Nortal, Estonia & Marta Tomovska, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Serbia, North Macedonia Watch the Panel Discussion ‘‘Hack Citizen Gaps’’ The WSA Young Innovators Award gives special recognition to young social entrepreneurs under the age of 26 years who take action on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with smart digital content and solutions. The WSA Young Innovators Call closed this year with 377 applications from over 85 countries. An especially selected youth expert jury evaluated all applications carefully and selected 5 WSA Young Innovators.

WSA YOUNG INNOVATORS

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Hydroquo+, Bangladesh Colibri Charity, Hungary Lend an Arm, Nigeria CycleAI, Portugal CocoRemedy, Sri Lanka

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Moderated by: Peumi Rodrigo, CodeGen, Sri Lanka Expert panel discussion: Gloria Mangi, African Queens Project, Tanzania Watch the Panel Discussion ‘‘Hack Future Gaps’’

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WSA GLOBAL CONGRESS JURY WSA invited international experts to evaluate the pitches of the winning teams.

The jury had the challenge to select 1 Global Champion in each of the 9 categories, using the criteria product, pitch and impact To guarantee a smooth, fair and transparent process, WSA used the voting tool Innovote and the UN SDGs.

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MEET THE JURY MEMBERS Given Name Ediola Henry Sachi Jens Tanja Nina Andrea Gabriele Matthias Brigitte Isabel Renate Andreas Simrit Dudu Christian Michael Kambis Niklas Sabrina Tanja Tanja Tore Gica Babak Cid Suzanne Catherine Matías Anushka Margus Timo Damien Laurent Tim Ana Tim Daniel Alex Dorothy Eyram Karla Maria Attila Anshul Madan Ali Monicah Gakuu Patrick Hussein Ieva Bastien Nelly Rudy Francisco Kingsley Nkemdilim Marta Linda Skipnes Tanzila Tomás Christelle Tijana Nadja Sakhile Carlos Chitranganie Peumi Badr Geena Enrique Ting

Last Name Pashollari Dobson Wickramage Wirsching Sternbauer Kaiser Rauscher Tatzberger Weichhart Pfisterer Schmiedbauer Schnutt Gschöpf Sandhu Gencel Bauer Fembek Kohansal-Kohansal Benesch Petutschnig Wehsely Madzarevic Haugland Trierweiler Fakhmazadeh Torquato Stein Warren Rojas De Luca Purohi Mägi Rostedt Marchi Queige Steiner Alvarez Monge Steiner Schröder Ojo Gordon Tawia Ruiz Cofinho Zaghi Horányi Tewari Rao Hilli Nthiga Derrick Habib Ayoub Žilionienė Berg Cornejo Laddaga Contreras Iweka Uwaje Begho Tomovska Strand Khan Costa Uwamahoro Jakovljević Petrovic Xulu Breijo Linares Mubarak Rodrigo Ward Whiteman Martinez-Hausmann Shih

Country Albania Australia Australia Austria Austria Austria Austria Austria Austria Austria Austria Austria Austria Austria Austria Austria Austria Austria Austria Austria Austria Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Brazil Brazil Brazil Canada Canada Chile China Estonia Finland France France Germany Germany Germany Germany Ghana Ghana Ghana Guatemala Guatemala Hungary India India Iraq Kenya Kenya Lebanon Lebanon Lithuania Luxembourg Mexico Mexico Mexico Nigeria Nigeria North Macedonia Norway Palestine Portugal Rwanda Serbia Serbia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sri Lanka UAE United Kingdom United Kingdom USA

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WSA GLOBAL CHAMPIONS 2022 GOVERNMENT & CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT ManoSeimas.lt is an online tool making representative politics in Lithuania more transparent and increasing trust in political integrity by holding members of Parliament accountable. ManoSeimas.lt collects, analyses, and visualises data about parliamentary policymaking, indicating what interest groups and lobbyists affect decision-making.

Data obtained from various sources is systemised in user-friendly interactive charts.

HEALTH & WELL-BEING FibriCheck from Belgium is a free digital application for smart phones and watches, detecting cardiac arrhythmia to prevent strokes. Pioneered in 2014, FibriCheck is certified as a full medical device, super simple yet equal in accuracy to an ECG. Users download the app for heart rhythm monitoring as easy as putting one’s finger on the camera for 60 seconds. Feedback follows, clinical support can be requested.

LEARNING & EDUCATION The Inspirelearn mobile platform from Malawi is a simple, portable, offline, and affordable tool containing graphic educational content and an audio library in both English and Chichewa, the local language. The platform can be easily modified to work on Inspirelearn solar-powered display devices and is a great tool for secondary school youth in remote and underprivileged communities.

ENVIRONMENT & GREEN ENERGY Peer to Peer Solar Trading on Blockchain provides an operating system in Uttar Pradesh state for new clean energy markets. In P2P energy trading, individuals generate energy from rooftop solar (RTPV) and share excess energy. Power Ledger’s platform integrates with smart meter systems to enable households to set prices, track energy trading and settle surplus solar transactions in real-time through smart contracts executed on blockchain.

CULTURE & TOURISM Kathuwaraya.com is a unique platform nurturing Sri Lankan writers and offering texts in Sinhala via free web & mobile apps. With a secure copyright framework, over 200 authors publish without fear of theft, build their readership, and gain popularity. Kathuwaraya.com presents readers young and old with diverse works to enjoy and review, including voiced renditions.

16 SMART SETTLEMENTS & URBANIZATION The CREE LifeCycle Platform from Austria for the systematic construction of large-scale buildings, combines stunning design with urban sustainability. The CREE network of professionals improves and shares forward-thinking building practices. Users join a community of transparent, interactive expertise in globally applicable, sustainable, construction methods where perspectives come together to enhance the platform, and to radically digitize and reorganize conventional processes in the construction industry.

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WSA GLOBAL CHAMPIONS 2022 BUSINESS & COMMERCE Lucinity from Iceland is an AML software company using human and advanced AI systems to Make Money Good. Existing anti- money laundering (AML) systems based on manual processes only catch about 1% of the 2.5 trillion US dollars laundered through financial systems every year. With Lucinity, banks find money laundering behaviours in transaction data more efficiently, AML procedures become more targetted with every case.

INCLUSION & EMPOWERMENT Mobility Mojo from Ireland is a digital accessibility evaluation toolkit. Mobility Mojo helps workplaces and hotels evaluate, integrate, and display accessibility features. Using a smartphone office managers or hotel owners walk through and audit their premises, then integrate and display all the facilities they offer in a standardized way across all platforms. Mobility Mojo helps businesses to deliver a welcoming experience to people with accessibility needs.

WSA YOUNG INNOVATORS CocoRemedy is a mobile web-based application in Sri Lanka providing coconut growers with information from surveillance identifying coconut diseases and pest infestations early. In collaboration with the Coconut Research Institute of Sri Lanka (CRISL), CocoRemedy offers visualizations of infected areas or future danger areas using deep learning, image processing, and crowdsourcing.

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AWARD CEREMONY & ANNOUNCEMENT OF GLOBAL CHAMPIONS LAUDATORS Dr. Wolfgang Litzlbauer

Executive Chairman of the Umdasch Group announcing the winner of the Josef Umdasch Research Prize winner 2021

Austria

Manar AlHashash

WSA Board Member & eContent specialist, Dot Design

Kuwait

Alia El Kattan

Serial entrepreneur and WSA Jury Member

Egypt

Ubaydli Ubaydli

Member of the WSA Board of Directors and chairman of the Arab ICT Union

Kuwait

Dorothy Gordon

Member of the WSA Board of Directors, UNESCO Ifap Chair and Consultant for ICT 4 Development

Ghana

Osama Manzar

Member of the WSA Board of Directors, CEO and Founder of the Digital Empowerment Foundation

India

Ieva Žilionienė

WSA National Expert

Lithuania

Janine Warner

Founder of SembraMedia

USA

Ralph Simon

Member of the WSA Board of Directors, CEO Mobilium

UK

Tanja Wehsely

Member of WSA Board of Directors, CEO Volkshilfe Wien

Austria

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PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM | Josef Umdasch Research Prize Since 1990, the Umdasch Group has been supporting outstanding achievements in research and development through the Josef Umdasch Research Prize. The award was created by the company’s present owners Hilde Umdasch and Alfred Umdasch, who named the prize after their father, Josef Umdasch.

As a result of the cooperation with the World Summit Awards (WSA), which has been in existence since 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 project idea.

Making sure to sustainably connect the WSA Community with Umdasch Group, Carolina Rossi, WSA National Expert from Chile supported the finalists as mentors and WSA National Expert from Lithuania, Ieva Zilioniene contributed as a member of the jury.

Josef Umdasch Research Prize Finalists Pitches Pitching sessions of the Josef Umdasch Research Prize Finalists, offering new ideas and solutions around Digitalization in Shell Construction.

Host: Dr. Wolfgang Litzlbauer, CEO, Umdasch Group AG

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viAct, China Structure Plus, Canada HeronTrack, Belgium DataMesh Director, Singapore Samson Logic, Israel Sharemac, Germany

Winner: Samson Logic From 117 registrations from 48 countries, Samson Logic from Israel was selected as this year’s Josef Umdasch Research Prize winner!

Samson Logic convinced the jury with an intelligent management platform for construction materials.

Samson Logic‘s solutions save crane and labor time, optimize storage space, reduce material waste and increase safety.

The winner will now get the chance to realize the idea together with Doka.

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1:1 MENTORING & PITCH TRAINING Non-financial support is a vital factor behind the success of entrepreneurs and mentoring and training are crucial. Therefore, WSA matched each of the winning teams with 2 international mentors, using their vast experience and insights to provide new thoughts and ideas on business modeling, reaching the target group, going international or improve their reach through marketing and communication.

Pitching online is even more challenging than on stage - in order to support the Winning Teams, each received a Peergroup training by international experts, preparing them for their 3 minutes pitch.

Pitch Trainers

Nelly Cornejo Niki Skene

Jason Muloongo Connor Sattely

Mentors Jens Kambis Tanja Craig Tore Gica Catherine Matías Liisi Ana Karla Attila Anshul Rudy Nkemdilim Sakhile Jon Mark

Wirsching Business Angel Kohansal-KohanAustrian Federal Economic Chamber Wehsely Volkshilfe Wien Matthews Science Park Haugland Ouvi Alpha Beat Cancer, Glíteres Trierweiler Warren Innovate Edmonton Rojas De Luca Socialab Org Latitude59 Alvarez Monge Migrapreneur Ruiz Cofinho MilknCookies Horányi MOME Tewari Youth Ki Awaaz Laddaga Serial Entrepreneur Uwaje Begho Future Software Resources Ltd. Xulu Seedsouth Capital Walls Serial Entrepreneur

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Austria Austria Austria Austria Brazil Brazil Canada Chile Estonia Germany Guatemala Hungary India Mexico Nigeria South Africa USA

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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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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.

Unnamed – 2019 – Photo by Seven Shooter

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WINNERS

GOVERNMENT & CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT

URBAN PLATFORM

TASMU PLATFORM

Ricardo Vitorino, Rui A. Costa, Nuno Ribeiro

Reem Mohammed Al-Mansoori , Sheikh Nasser Bin Hamad Bin Nasser Al Thani , Lana Khalaf

Portugal

Qatar

urbanplatform.city

platform.tasmu.gov.qa

The Urban Platform is a cloud solution from Portugal collecting information and displaying it in intuitive, customisable dashboards. It provides cities’ decision-makers with an overview of the smart urban environment via a single integrated system. A real-time, location-based dashboard, integrating mobility, environment, and other data, displays the live status of the city and also links historical data. The Urban Platform enables a coordinated r­esponse by municipal decision-makers to changing population needs.

The TASMU Platform from Qatar integrates state of the art technologies and data capabilities to empower cross-sector collaboration and dynamic data sharing for developers, services providers, use-case owners, and other stakeholders.

With a robust governance framework, the TASMU Platform is powered by ample cloud storage and a computing system for high performance. The TASMU B2B Portal is a user-friendly interface to browse and subscribe to a wide range of technologies, making it a platform of platforms.

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MANOSEIMAS.LT Transparency International Lithuania Lithuania manoseimas.lt/

ManoSeimas.lt is an online tool making representative politics in Lithuania more transparent and increasing trust in political integrity by holding members of Parliament accountable. ManoSeimas.lt collects, analyses, and visualises data about parliamentary policymaking, indicating what interest groups and lobbyists affect decision-making.

Data obtained from various sources is systemised in user-friendly interactive charts. Making politics more accessible reduces corruption and fuels the growth of civil society.

IRMA | IRMA - een nieuwe manier van inloggen Bart Jacobs, Ineke van Gelder, Mike Alders Netherlands irma.app

IRMA is a free mobile app from the Netherlands, a kind of digital wallet with personal data, an innovative way to combat privacy violation. With IRMA the user logs in to the municipality and confirms their I.D. securely or signs documents digitally without sharing more data than necessary.

The user sees which data is requested, as well as what is shared. All personal data is stored on the user’s mobile phone only and is encrypted when shared. IRMA ensures all data are correct and issued by an official authority.

FOLLOW THE MONEY

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Hamzat Lawal, Busayo Morakinyo, Lucy Abagi Nigeria ifollowthemoney.org

FollowTheMoney is a web platform spurred by the social-accountability movement in Nigeria. The model enables citizen engagement, public accountability, and transparency in governance to challenge the corruption frequently crippling growth in developing countries. ­FollowTheMoney tracks budgetary allocations meant to provide quality education, healthcare facilities and infrastructure for water and sanitation, empowering marginalized communities and individuals to monitor inclusion, quality service delivery and social justice.

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Health & Well-Being

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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 Nurse in a Moscow hospital – 2020 – Moscow, Russia, Photo by Vladimir Fedotov

about health.

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WINNERS HEALTH & WELL-BEING

CLANBEAT Kadri Tuisk, Tiina Pauklin, Christjan Schumann, Triin Noorkõiv Estonia clanbeat.com

Clanbeat is an app from Estonia giving students insight into their well-being and strategies for healthy, meaningful life and learning experiences. The app has the feel of social media, fosters strong relationships, and builds positive learning habits.

The self-directed reflection solution puts students at the heart of learning, providing a personalised learning experience supported by the community. With less stress and burnout, more students fulfil their potential, taking an active role in learning.

RETINARISK | RetinaRisk – Hjálpar fólki með sykursýki að koma í veg fyrir blindu Stefán Einarsson, Ægir Þór Steinarsson, Francisco Rojas

Iceland retinarisk.com

RetinaRisk is a clinically validated software solution from Iceland accurately calculating the risk of diabetic eye disease to prevent blindness. RetinaRisk can save the eyesight of millions of people with diabetes by assessing the risk of disease and taking steps necessary to prevent vision loss. RetinaRisk serves doctors, optimizes clinical outcomes, and enables healthcare systems to streamline diabetic eye screening programs. Personalized care based on risk modelling is the future of healthcare.

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ANARIÁ: DIGITAL ONCOLOGY SERVICE Plataforma de Teleatendimentos Oncológicos Adriana Mallet Toueg, Sabine Zink Bolonhini, Manuel Carneiro Brazil sasbrasil.org.br

Anariá: Digital Oncology Services is a telemedicine platform taking prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cervical cancer to low-income women lacking specialized medical treatment.

Volunteer doctors and nurses perform free consultations and examinations such as tele-colposcopy remotely. Through a network of partners, the material collected is analysed online, patients with symptoms are called for face-to-face care. The fourth most widespread fatal disease in Brazil, cervical cancer can be cured when diagnosed in its early stages.

BOKDOC Ahmed Elawady, Marina Henna Egypt bokdoc.com BokDoc is the first platform specialized in booking surgery and medical procedures in the Middle East and North Africa. A shortage of surgeons, high surgical fees, unequal distribution of healthcare services and long waiting lists is met by more than 37 different medical specialties, 1500 doctors and 75 hospitals, offering more than 3000 types of procedures. BokDoc offers surgery patients payment by instalment lasting up to five years with no advance payment and no interest charges.

FIBRICHECK Lars Grieten, Ine Van Loon, Inge Liebens Belgium fibricheck.com

FibriCheck is a free digital application from Belgium for smart phones and watches, detecting cardiac arrhythmia to prevent strokes. Pioneered in 2014, FibriCheck is certified as a full medical device, super simple yet equal in accuracy to an ECG. Users download the app for heart rhythm monitoring as easy as putting one’s finger on the camera for 60 seconds. Feedback follows, clinical support can be requested. Prescribed by over 2500 physicians around the world, FibriCheck has helped over 600,000 people.

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Learning & Education 29

LEARNING & EDUCATION

Using state of the art technology and focusing on learner needs in a complex and globalizing world, innovative educational content makes School Opens in Weapons Free Zone East of UNMISS – Juba, South Sudan – 2018 - UN Photo/Amanda Voisard

education, professional training, as well as science, accessible to everyone.

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ANGIS

WINNERS LEARNING & EDUCATION

Sandra Rutkauskaite Lithuania angis.lrt.lt

Angis is a different kind of EduTech platform from Lithuania to teach teenagers IT skills, appealing to both teen girls and boys.

Modern, engaging, and equality-based, online lessons with real-life expert teachers are free and accessible, successful professionals guide young learners. Attractive artwork and gamification make it fun, and exciting assignments keep teens interested. Angis offers next-level education overcoming geek stereotypes and showing that programming is … simply cool.

INSPIRELEARN Sam Masikini, Chisomo Banda, Blessings Mlundira, Rhema Amanda Phiri, Ndapile Mkuwu Malawi inspirelearnmw.com

The InspireLearn mobile platform from Malawi is a simple, portable, offline, and affordable tool containing graphic educational content and an audio library in both English and Chichewa, the local language. The platform can be easily modified to work on InspireLearn solar-powered display devices and is a great tool for secondary school youth in remote and underprivileged communities. With basic phone functionalities and a sizable screen display for videos, the platform makes full use of resources and minimises text to ease use.

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SEX, BAFF! Corina Malicek, Thorben Pachler, Nadine Dlouhy Austria sexbaff.at

SEX, baff! gives deaf people barrier-free access to information about sex, love, body image, and identity. Texts are not easily understood, leading to false myths and ignorance among deaf teenagers. Produced with deaf young people, SEX, baff! is a comprehensive website with 220 videos in Austrian Sign Language. The site captivates by the range of topics on a diversity of bodies, identities, and practices. SEX, baff! supports deaf people in developing a self-determined, non-violent sexuality based on equality.

SKILLIO Gábor Kaizer, Bettina Tigyi Hungary skillio.net

Skillio is a free, socially curated, gamified learning platform from Hungary to overcome the “skills gap” between users’ current skills, and those needed in the job market of tomorrow.

The platform offers expert-curated modules of selected, freely available web contents – articles, blog posts, videos, tutorials, papers. These are edited and snipped according to streamlined learning paths, packed into two gamification layers, and a university-like virtual credits program for every learning achievement.

NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY OF INDIA (NDLI) Prof. Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, Prof. Partha Pratim Das, Dr. Plaban Kumar Bhowmick India ndl.iitkgp.ac.in

The National Digital Library of India, NDLI, is a public digital library offering free access to over 55 million educational resources. Responding to COVID, the library pioneered two services to minimize disruptions during lockdown. ‘Study at Home’ is a curated archive, structured by subject and learning level for students in school and higher education, the ‘COVID-19 Research Repository’ is for developers of COVID solutions. NDLI also runs an online advocacy programme to mobilize learners and influencers across India.

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Environment & Green Energy 32

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 Tree Planting Initiative in South Sudan – Juba, South Sudan, 2018 – UN Photo/Nektarios Markogiannis

agriculture in developmental areas.

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ENVIRONMENT & GREEN ENERGY

WAVES Armin Neises, Matthias Brinkert, Dr. Tom Goeckel Luxembourg waves-sustainability.com

Waves from Luxembourg is a cloud-based platform enabling the transport and logistics industry, as well as other sectors to reduce their carbon footprint. With the Sustainability Management Platform (SMP), WAVES B2B customers get relevant sustainability indicators such as CO² emissions or working conditions. Emission and other problem sources are identified, improvements implemented and evaluated in a norm-compliant way, providing reliable sustainability updates to stakeholders, and paving the way to the circular economy.

ECORDING Mert Karslıoğlu, Burak Eren Taşkın, Ahmet Umut Alkan, Fatma Ece Önel Turkey ecording.org/en

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PEER TO PEER SOLAR TRADING ON BLOCKCHAIN IN UTTAR PRADESH Jemma Green, John Bulich, Vinod Tiwari, India Smart Grid Forum Australia powerledger.io/clients/uttar-pradesh-government-india Peer to Peer Solar Trading provides an operating system in Uttar Pradesh state for new clean energy markets. In P2P energy trading, individuals generate energy from rooftop solar (RTPV) and share excess energy. Power Ledger’s platform integrates with smart meter systems to enable households to set prices, track energy trading and settle surplus solar transactions in real-time through smart contracts executed on blockchain. What works in Uttar Pradesh, can work for everyone on the planet.

TREECONOMY Rob Godfrey, Harry Grocott Canada treeconomy.co

Treeconomy is a Canadian start-up to avert climate change, restore biodiversity, and improve livelihoods. Treeconomy leverages remote sensing and AI to more accurately quantify carbon dioxide captured as biomass by forests. With an integrated suite of data science and green finance tools, Treeconomy revolutionizes the voluntary forest carbon offsetting market and addresses financial barriers that undermine reforestation by landowners. Treeconomy aligns personal and planetary criteria to effectively scale ecosystem restoration.

THE OKRA POD Afnan Hannan, Damian Veling, Nithya Menon Cambodia okrasolar.com/

The Okra Pod from Cambodia is on a mission to energize underserved communities world-wide using advanced remote digital monitoring and decentralized mesh-grids. The Okra Pod’s software and hardware solutions make rural electrification more affordable, modular design allows ­expansion to match growing energy demand. The Okra Pod pod offers 1.2kw of clean productive energy, enabling households to enter the digital economy. Low-voltage grid lines are safe for local technicians, empowering community members to maintain the systems.

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Culture & Tourism

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Exceptional content combined with best ­tech­nology connects travellers with locals, ­pre­­serves and reanimates valuable cultural Henna Hands – 2017 – Vitaliy Lyubezhanin

­heritage, and supports sustainable tourism for people to discover cultural gems worldwide.

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WINNERS KATHUWARAYA.COM

CULTURE & TOURISM

Rajeeva Obeyesekera, Amila Senevirathna, Madurajith Perera Sri Lanka kathuwaraya.com

Kathuwaraya.com is a unique platform nurturing Sri Lankan writers and offering texts in Sinhala via free web & mobile apps. With a secure copyright framework, over 200 authors publish without fear of theft, build their readership, and gain popularity. Kathuwaraya.com presents readers young and old with diverse works to enjoy and review, including voiced renditions. More than a platform, Kathuwaraya.com is a robust community of readers, writers, designers, editors, reviewers, at home and overseas, making it the single, largest digital repository of Sinhala books.

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Chris Cummings, Wendy Overton, Gregory Ostermayr United States of America iconicmoments.co

Iconic Moments is a turnkey cloud-based digital storytelling platform enabling cultural institutions to create online & touchscreen experiences engaging the visitor community digitally.

Comprised of world-class technologists and designers, paired with Pulitzer-nominated storytellers, the Iconic Moments team believes in the power of stories. From iconic brands and large municipalities to small museums, organizations big and small use Iconic Moments to create beautiful immersive award-winning storytelling, enabling tourism to blossom.

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RUTOPÍA Sebastián Muñoz Amezcua, Emiliano Iturriaga Tovar, Nubia Murillo, Leslie Pérez, Marisol Herrera, Ana Serna Mexico rutopia.com/en

Rutopía is a Mexican online travel agency and social enterprise facilitating regenerative tourism for indigenous communities. It connects local initiatives with the travel market, enabling travellers to access ecologically rich areas. With a unique digital platform, Rutopía offers authentic, safe multi-day trips, while ensuring that tourists’ visits positively impact on the local environment, economy, and social issues. Rural entrepreneurs improve marketing and customer service, and share ancient knowledge, all the while preserving their natural paradise.

PLACECLOUD

ZOOMGUIDE

George Fort, Babak Fakhamzadeh

Afonso Cunha, Pedro Carvalho, Valeria Meneses

Netherlands

Portugal

placecloud.io

zoomguide.pt

On the Placecloud platform researchers at the forefront of global cultural research tell the world’s stories through “Viewpoints” – short podcasts about special places with local history, biographies, histories of gender (in)equality, (anti)colonialism, urban change, architecture, arts, literature, and more. Illustrated with photos and Google Street View images, Placecloud brings the physical world to life with human stories, histories, and meaningful knowledge, reconnecting users to realities beyond their smartphones.

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Zoomguide is an AI-powered guide to places of touristic or cultural significance in Portugal with innovative search methods adapted to the needs of various publics. The multi-lingual web app enables in-depth exploration. Simply take a photo of what is in front of you at an indoor location to access multimedia content from audio to AR. Zoomguide enriches cultural patrimony with integrative and immersive experiences, while providing organizations with digital tools to reach new audiences and new revenue.

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Smart Settlements & Urbanization 38 SMART SETTLEMENTS & URBANIZATION

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

Urban populations require smart and innovative Bosco Verticale, Milan, Italy – 2018 – Photy by Gábor Molnár

content to meet the challenges of urbanization, ranging from clever transport solutions to logistical apps and disaster management.

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RELIANCE FOUNDATION’S “MACHLI”

WINNERS

SMART SETTLEMENTS & URBANIZATION

S Senthilkumaran, Raghuram Lanka, Balakumar S India machli.reliancefoundation.org

Machli is an easy-to-use AI mobile app from India providing automated audio-based, personalised life-saving information to marine fishermen in nine Indian languages and English.

Advisories from authorised sources, like the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, provide safety information on weather, wave height, wind direction, and wind speed 24/7 to make decisions about going to sea. Information about fish aggregation enables better catches, thereby better income, and improvement of livelihoods.

TXAPITA APP APLICATIVO TXAPITA Eddie Massinga, Dário Cassolo Mozambique apps.apple.com/mz/app/txapita/id1477256714

TXAPITA™ is the first Mozambican digital exchange for passenger mobility. The app integrates smart sensors and real-time tracking devices on public buses in the Maputo network, allowing operators, managers, and passengers to see where buses are at any moment. Using mobile phones, users can activate alerts on approach and departure, receive real-time traffic information, and GPS locations of public institutions or road stops. This integrated solution converges technology and digitization for the benefit of society.

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THE TOOL FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE Emily Humphreys, Dr Sharon Zivkovic, Tom Tuddenham Australia wickedlab.co

Wicked Lab’s Tool for Systemic Change from Australia maps, tracks and measures systems change to deal with the multi-casual and interconnected nature of “wicked problems”, i. e. change-resistant social policy challenges. The tool helps change-makers to address climate change, place-based disadvantage, food insecurity, in fact, any sustainable development goal, by strengthening solution ecosystems. Stakeholders gain insight into the dynamics and structure of complex change, and how to strengthen collective efforts.

CREE LIFECYCLE PLATFORM Wolfgang Simma-Wallinger, Alexandra Fink Austria creebuildings.com/platform

The CREE LifeCycle Platform from Austria for the systematic construction of large-scale buildings, combines stunning design with urban sustainability. The CREE network of professionals improves and shares forward-thinking building practices. Users join a community of transparent, interactive expertise in globally applicable, sustainable, construction methods where perspectives come together to enhance the platform, and to radically digitize and reorganize conventional processes in the construction industry.

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Business & Commerce 41 BUSINESS & COMMERCE

Smart and innovative content drives economic development and process-optimization by providing secure commerce solutions, data mining New pathways of digital entrepreneurship – Lagos, Nigeria – 2018 - Photo by Mars

tools and much needed ways of job creation

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WINNERS BINA APP

BUSINESS & COMMERCE

Ranoo Hiwa Mohammed, Bnar Salahadin Said Iraq bina-app.com

Bina App is a digital platform for the Iraqi construction sector to connect service providers or suppliers of construction materials with clients. Clients may be construction firms, engineers, or homeowners. Bina App’s users can upload their tenders and easily obtain prices for their work. The Bina app also finds job vacancies for professional workers. Users can choose service providers based on reviews of their previous work and find professionals in all construction categories to build their house from A to Z.

CHIMEGE Badral Sanlig, Tuguldur Erdene-Ochir, Munkh-Uchral Enkhtur Mongolia chimege.com

Chimege is ground-breaking technology for Automatic Speech Recognition and natural speech synthesizing, developing AI solutions for low resource languages, starting with Mongolian. Speech technology plays a vital role in people’s lives, such as talking to robots performing daily routine tasks, controlling devices, aiding the visually and hearing-impaired, or enabling hands free technology. Chimege connects people to modern technologies by building AI assistants that speak their native language.

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VELOTAX Victor Savioli, Eduardo Esmanhotto Brazil velotax.com.br

Velotax is a Brazilian start-up digitizing investors’ income tax payment. Current means of calculating and declaring income tax on investments are time-consuming. Democratizing access to investment depends on simplifying the entire investment and tax process. From tax calculation to invoice emission, to AI solutions helping investors to understand Brazilian IRS rules, Velotax is a reliable platform that calculates and automatically processes monthly taxes on investments in Brazil and abroad.

ARBOR DASHBOARD

LUCINITY - MAKE MONEY GOOD. Peningaþvætti sem glæpur er rót annarra glæpa.

Danny Grande, Ben Grande, Alex Todorovic, Abdullah Choudhry

Guðmundur Kristjánsson

Canada

Iceland

arbordb.co

lucinity.com

Arbor is a data science platform utilizing proprietary environmental and societal datasets to empower companies to measure, improve, and showcase the sustainability of their products. Using customized tools and visualizations, Arbor informs consumers of the environmental and social impacts of their purchasing habits, leading to more sustainable product choices. Arbor helps brands improve the sustainability of manufacturing and supply chain processes to meet today’s demands for values-based shopping.

Lucinity is an AML software company using human and advanced AI systems to Make Money Good. Existing anti-money laundering (AML) systems based on manual processes only catch about 1% of the 2.5 trillion US dollars laundered through financial systems every year. With ­Lucinity, banks find money laundering behaviours in transaction data more efficiently, AML procedures become more targetted with every case.

With increasing effectiveness Lucinity promotes a secure financial system for all and nips crime in the bud.

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Inclusion & Empowerment 44 INCLUSION & EMPOWERMENT

Digital innovation and creative content help to reduce digital divides by supporting integration and self-help, strengthening social cohesion Moment of laughter – Photo by Nathan Anderson – USA 2016

and enabling active participation.

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WINNERS MOBILITY MOJO

INCLUSION & EMPOWERMENT

Stephen Cluskey, Noelle Daly, Katie Burns Ireland mobilitymojo.com

Mobility Mojo is a digital accessibility evaluation toolkit.

15% of the world faces barriers due to lack of accessibility information. Mobility Mojo helps workplaces and hotels evaluate, integrate, and display accessibility features. Using a smartphone office managers or hotel owners walk through and audit their premises, then integrate and display all the facilities they offer in a standardized way across all platforms.

Mobility Mojo helps businesses to deliver a welcoming experience to people with accessibility needs.

EFLOW EDUCATION Bassel Jalaleddine, Samer Bawab, Ghadeer Taki Lebanon eflow.app

eFlow is a user-friendly platform serving vulnerable children in Lebanon. Educators create and deliver content on various instant messaging apps to learners with poor digital skills facing weak internet connectivity. Courses are converted into short videos, images, and voice notes, learners receive individual messages through the educational chatbot and reply with text, emojis, images, videos, or voice notes. eFlow is popular in remote areas and among refugees, ensuring quality education and adaptive learning.

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Hugo Menino Aguiar Portugal speak.social

SPEAK connects migrants, refugees, and locals in Portugal through language and cultural exchange. People sign up on a web platform to learn or to help others learn a language, meeting online or offline in groups for 12 sessions of 90 minutes. In the experience of communicating, participants break down prejudices and create friendships, building an informal support network that facilitates the resolution of problems. In the SPEAK community cultural heritage is cherished and everyone participates actively.

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FINANCIAL INCLUSION AND EMPOWERMENT | MICC Jonah Chininga, Sergio Fernandez, James Muhato, Maryheth Cabrera Canada micc.app

MICC is a social lending platform to pool funds with friends, access interest-free loans, and build a credit history. Lack of a credit score affects 35.3% of Canadians, many of them immigrants to Canada.

This metric allows people to access low-interest rates on small business loans, approval for houses or apartments, and more. With the MICC mobile app and a prepaid credit card partnered with a trust bank (People’s Trust Company) and Mastercard, users can create an account in two minutes, becoming financially credible.

NAA SIKA Ralph Menz, Maxline Chelsy Sey, Linda Essah, Kwaku Asante, Kofi Boateng Ghana

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Naa Sika is a Ghanian e-Micro bank for the informal sector made up of low-income earners excluded from financial institutions, often women, with volatile income and expenditures. Naa Sika provides options to save, access credit, or make payments for goods and services with no monthly fees, no minimum deposit, no transfer fees, and more. Social protection is important, Naa Sika provides insurance, pension, and long-term investments. Easy to use, Naa Sika works through various channels, so customers can use what they know best.

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WSA Young Innovators 47 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 UnitPortrait of Maurice Crow with Christmas Gifts, Victoria, 1919 – Museums Victoria

ed Nations Sustainable Development Goals with smart digital content and solutions.

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WSA YOUNG INNOVATORS

CycleAI Luís Rita, Miguel Peliteiro, Codrin Bostan Portugal cycleai.net

The CycleAI from Portugal empowers micro mobility u ­ sers. Sustainable cities of the future build on active mobility, reliable routes are of utmost importance. Using advanced computer vision and AI algorithms in a large empirical study, CycleAI designed a neural network to estimate the safety score of images from the bicycle user’s perspective. With this data safety maps were drawn for entire cities. The CycleAI app sets up a route from A to B on the shortest, fastest, safest circuit available.

COCOREMEDY Samitha Vidhanaarachchi, Divyani Rajapaksha, Gnanod Akalanka, Tinali Gunasekara

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Sri Lanka samitha-vidhanaarachchi.github.io/Research-Website/

CocoRemedy is a mobile web-based application in Sri Lanka providing coconut growers with information from surveillance identifying coconut diseases and pest infestations early. In collaboration with the Coconut Research Institute of Sri Lanka (CRISL), CocoRemedy offers visualizations of infected areas or future danger areas using deep learning, image processing, and crowdsourcing. Symptom severity and disease progression are shown, facilitating decisions on effective control measures or remedial action.

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HYDROQUO+ Zahin Razeen Bangladesh hydroquo.com

Hydroquo+ from Bangladesh is an app for intelligent management of water and safety indicating needed action to prevent pandemic outbreaks. Hydroquo+ enables ­water operators to correlate data with planning models, to understand consumer behaviour, and forecast usage p ­ atterns improving custom operations. As a result, ­Hydroquo+ can get on top of issues including compliance concerns, maintenance requirements, water usage, and water quality anomalies to reduce scarcity and improve health security.

COLIBRI CHARITY András Bodó Hungary colibricharity.com

Colibri Charity is a platform and free browser extension for shoppers, companies, and non-profits. Users turn everyday online shopping into a charitable act by activating the Charitable Purchase at checkouts in their favourite stores. The charitable organisation selected gets a share of store gains on eligible purchases in cooperation with ­Colibri. For non-profits – a new way to fundraise, for companies – a marketing/social responsibility program and for buyers – a transparent check of companies, worthy of support.

LEND AN ARM Tunde Oyebamiji, Imodoye Abioro Nigeria lendanarm.ng

Healthbotics is a Nigerian health technology start up focusing on rural-urban health access disparity in Africa. Its digital product, Lend an Arm (LAA), connects patients to emergency services using a mobile app, a call centre, and an AI chatbot. Medium-range cargo drones deliver blood and defibrillators in emergencies within 30 minutes. Asake, an AI bot, guides the public in delivery of first aid or conducts Basic Life Support (BLS) training. LAA also runs blood donation awareness campaigns. Save lives everywhere.

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Winners 2021 Process oriented, transparent, fair and multi-stakeholder.

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WSA GRAND JURY 2021/22 Jan 17th – 28th 2022

The WSA Grand Jury meeting 2021/22 took place as ­Online Meeting, gathering 40 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. For the first time the WSA Grand Jury members met the founders of the most promising solutions in interviews, making sure to understand the local circumstances, sustainability models, impact and entrepreneurial skills of the teams.

A truly tough job – the result speaks for itself – a ­diverse and inspiring list of WSA Winners 2021.

The jury members Sachi Wickramage, Australia

Lorraine Kageni Maina, Kenya

Tanja Wehsely, Austria

Manar Alhashash, Kuwait

Rahat Hossain, Bangladesh

Alan Greenberg, UK

Chicko Sousa, Brazil

Gabriel Deek, Lebanon

Chanchamnap Sok, Cambodia

Nibal Idlebi, Lebanon

Jason Muloongo, Canada

Ieva Žilionienė, Lithuania

Witman Hung, China

Tom Baumert, Luxembourg

Ana Brigovic, Croatia

Zikry Kholil, Malaysia

Lan Anh Vu, Czech Republic

Rudy Laddaga Lopez, Mexico

Jean Luc Scherer, France

Zouheir Lakhdissi, Morocco

Elene Jvania, Georgia

Jehan Ara, Pakistan

Jan Schwaab, Germany

Ashraf Al-Astal, Palestine

Tim Steiner, Germany

Marco Espinheira, Portugal

Dorothy Gordon, Ghana

Sandra Almeida Fazenda, Portugal

Osama Manzar, India

Ana Maria Bujor, Romania

Madanmohan Rao, India

Ivana Kostic, Serbia

Shinta Dhanuwardoyo, Indonesia

Houda Ghozzi, Tunisia

Madara Ogot, Kenya

Irene Kaggwa, Uganda Carlos Abler, USA Jon Mark Walls, USA Silumesii Maboshe, Zambia

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CONGRESS FEEDBACK & IMPRESSIONS

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CONGRESS BRANDING & PUBLICATIONS WSA Global Congress 2021 branding in the theme - Hack The Gap. Congress winners catalogue and winners certificates produced and printed in Austria, shipped worldwide. In cooperation with ‚‚Oupas Design‘‘ (Portugal) created and produced DIY winners trophies from ecologically friendly paper, producing less energy during the shippment process - shipped worldwide.

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CONGRESS PR & COMMUNICATIONS WEBSITE, NEWSLETTER

www.wsa-global.org

Special event section for the WSA Global Congress 2022, to give a special feature for all speakers, the agenda, online event access, sponsors and partners. Curated website article content for WSA Winners and Global Champions. Newsletters to 13.000+ big audience, global PR.

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CONGRESS PR & COMMUNICATIONS PRESS & MEDIA Read the WSA Clippings

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SOCIAL MEDIA In order to spread the word about ongoing activities, sessions and discussions, WSA used Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin and YouTube to reach its online communities.

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The WSA Global Congress 2022 is brought to you

by WSA’s global community - connect 4 impact

WSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS The WSA Board of Directors consists of high level international ICT experts under the lead of WSA founder and chairperson Prof. Dr. Peter A. Bruck. Responsible for the strategic and contextual execution of the WSA, the WSA Board aims to keep the WSA up to date with new developments and meets in regular intervals.

WSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS One of the major pillars of the WSA network are the WSA National Experts. Offering their vast experience in the ICT and entrepreneurial sector, their diverse backgrounds and their own social engagement, the WSA National Experts are responsible for the national pre-selection of entries to the WSA. WSA leverages this network in over 180 UN member countries.

WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS

WSA YOUTH AMBASSADORS To make sure that one of the major goals of WSA, engaging young innovators and supporting youth in entrepreneurship, WSA leverages its worldwide network of Youth Ambassadors. Together with the WSA National Experts, they offer their vast experience in the ICT and entrepreneurial sector, their diverse backgrounds and their own social engagement, to support the national pre-selection of entries to the WSA. WSA leverages its network in over 180 UN member countries.

WSA YOUTH AMBASSADORS

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Meet the WSA Team

Nora Wolloch

Peter A. Bruck WSA Chairperson & ICNM President

Katharina Weber

Event Management katharina@wsa-global.org

Liene Ulmane

Youth Community Social Media, Design liene@wsa-global.org

Blanca Vidal i Jiménez Miriam Rodríguez Gómez Project Assistant, ESC Winners Support blanca@wsa-global.org

Manuela Wagner

Executive Manager nora@wsa-global.org

Project Assistant, ESC Communications miriam@wsa-global.org

Global Community Manager manuela@wsa-global.org

Barbara Hinterleitner Youth for Innovation Storytelling barbara@wsa-global.org

Pia Frizberg Event Management Youth for Innovation pia@wsa-global.org

Luka Kalas

ICNM Accounting, HR kalas@icnm.net

WSA is an activity organized by ICNM - International Center for New Media Leopoldskronstraße 30 5020 Austria co-financed by:

WSA / World Summit Award WSAoffice WSA worldsummitawards World Summit Awards TV / WSA World Summit Award www.wsa-global.org

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