WSA Global Congress 2022 | Hack The Gap | Catalogue by WorldSummitAwards

2021

Faith Keza, Founder IremboGov, Rwanda WSA Winner 2019

Digital Solutions for the UN SDGs – Meet the winning projects 2021

CONTENT MEET THE WSA TEAM

Nora Wolloch Manuela Wagner Liene Ulmane WELCOME 4 WSA Executive Manager Global Community Manager Youth Community Social Media, Design nora@wsa-global.org manuela@wsa-global.org liene@wsa-global.org PATRON STATEMENTS 6

IMPRINT EDITORIAL TEAM Editor and Author: Peter A. Bruck Text Management: Manuela Wagner, Nora Wolloch Winners' texts (writing and editing): Hania Fedorowicz Layout and Design: floorfour, Herbert Ellinger Photo Credits unless otherwise mentioned: Philipp Benedikt & David Pan, Shutterstock WSA PROJECT TEAM Kordian Bruck, Thomas Erlinger, Pia Frizberg, Barbara Hinterleitner, Blanca Vidal i Jiménez, Luka Kalas, Matthias Kandler, Liene Ulmane, Miriam Rodriguez Gomez, Manuela Wagner, Katharina Weber, Nora Wolloch Produced by World Summit Award Office ICNM – International Center for New Media Leopoldskronstraße 30, 5020 Salzburg, Austria office@wsa-global.org www.wsa-global.org www.icnm.net

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

ABOUTPeter WSA A. Bruck WSA Chairman ABOUTand WSA CONGRESS ICNM president WSA UPCOMING

Barbara Hinterleitner WSA CONTEST 2021 Storytelling barbara@wsa-global.org WSA WINNERS

Katharina Weber Event Management katharina@wsa-global.org 16

WSA GRAND JURY 2021

WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS

WSA YOUTH AMBASSADORS

JOSEF UMDASCH RESEARCH PRIZE 2021

Nelly Cornejo, TAAL Projects, Mexico and Monika Fröhler, Ban Ki Moon Center, Austria at the WSA Global Congress Vienna 2020

13 14

WSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS 72 Blanca Vidal i Jiménez Pia Frizberg Project Assistant and European Volunteer WSA Event ManagementYouth SPONSORS & PARTNERS 74 blanca@wsa-global.org for Innovation Miriam Rodríguez Gómez pia@wsa-global.org Project Assistant and European Volunteer WSA TEAM 75 Miriam@wsa-global.org

Facebook: WSA

© 2021 ICNM All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, utilized in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission of ICNM in written form. This edition has been published by ICNM. Printed in Vienna by die2gstelle The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of ICNM concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The identified authors are responsible for the choice and the presentation of the facts contained in this book and for the opinions expressed therein, which are not necessarily those of ICNM and do not commit either organization.

Twitter: WSAoffice Linkedin: WSA Matthias Kandler WSA Partnerships, Events matthias@wsa-global.org

Instagram: worldsummitawards YouTube: World Summit Awards TV Luka Kalas ICNM Accounting, HR kalas@icnm.net

Flickr: World Summit Award

WELCOME H A C K I N G G A P S & C O N N E C T I N G 4 I M P A C T G L O B A L LY

WELCOME TO THE WSA GLOBAL CONGRESS 2022! WELCOME TO A JOURNEY AROUND THE GLOBE! LET´S CONNECT 4 IMPACT AND USE DIGITAL CREATIVITY TO LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND!

There

is much talk about the 'COVID connectivity boost' – and praise of its impact to accelerate the digital transition towards a climate-neutral, smart, and more inclusive world.

The WSA Board of Directors invites you to meet and join a unique community of purpose driven enthusiasts. I encourage you to leverage this unique network of people commitment to use ICT to hack the worldwide gaps.

However, many are left behind in the journey towards a digital world and social, economic, and cultural divides are deepening, not closing, whether it is lack of access to high-speed internet or new well performing devices, lack of digital literacy and of inclusiveness in product design or the mere lack of money.

WSA’s uniqueness arises from deep networking on a global level. And even if our event once more must happen online, we will not be stopped from creating long lasting and fruitful connections! With no visa restrictions or travel hassles, you will be able to enter an all-global journey of inspiration.

Thus, the continuous challenge is to bridge digital divides.

Thanks to Nora Wolloch and the WSA Team, the Global Congress presents an exceptional mix of local projects from which we can all learn wherever we are. This year’s WSA Global Congress program is full of interactivity and discussion, providing a stage for all. With the motto of Connect4Impact, you can dive into a community of people who want to evoke positive change through digital innovation.

WSA adds its own very special contribution in content driven applications and solutions to many other efforts. Our focus is on local innovations with potential global impact. WSA links the aspiration to use Digi Tech for the creation of a knowledge society to the achievements of the UN SDGs. The WSA Global Congress 2022 showcases the winners of the WSA21 global contest and invites you to act now, to connect4impact and to do so in a measurable manner in the context of the UN SDGs! Our questions are: How can digital content and interactive applications make a positive contribution? How can we leverage connectivity for collaboration and knowledge exchange? How can we use creativity and smart content to connect for impact? I welcome you to this year’s WSA Global Congress.

You will meet the 45 WSA21 Winners from 29 countries. They and their winning projects/products prove that content driven applications are enabling access to information, tackling environmental challenges, and fostering inclusion. From a Lebanese platform for educators built to serve the most vulnerable children in local communities suffering from weak internet connectivity, frequent blackouts, and poor digital skills to a business app from Ghana bridging the inclusivity gap for business owners in the informal sector, to a Cambodian mesh-grid solar power solution and Brazilian telemedicine for rural areas.

WSA awardees are impacting the daily lives of millions by meeting deeply rooted needs. They stand out in their ability to combine smart content, social goals, and digital innovation. For the past 19 years, WSA has relentlessly worked to foster knowledge transfer and to showcase the diversity of social impact driven digital development. Through its work, WSA has established itself with a proven record of accomplishment within the framework of the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), mandated by the government of Austria 2003 and implementing the WSIS Plan of Action towards the year 2025. WSA is organised in collaboration with UN organisations such as UNESCO, UNIDO, UNCTAD, UNDESA and ITU. All of this is possible thanks solely to WSA’s unique global network of eminent national and corporate experts and the many NGOs, governments, and professional associations who partner with WSA. This strong network allows WSA to present quality content and digital innovation from over 185 UN member states. It supports a global movement for sustainable digital solutions. Open your mind, engage, and explore! The WSA Global Congress program lets you become part of a community of people who share with you the commitment to using digital technologies as innovative content drivers for the UN SDG’s. Let’s hack the gaps with the power of smart, digital, and social solutions. Connect4Impact! Prof. Dr. Peter A. Bruck Chairperson, on behalf of the WSA Board of Directors and the WSA Team

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

PATRON STATEMENTS

these challenging times as our world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, multidimensional crises and ongoing conflicts, the presence of young solutions-makers is more important than ever. Through youth-led solutions, young changemakers can help safeguard the recovery process and ensure our efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals get back on track. The perseverance of young people in delivering innovative solutions in times of global crises has time and time again demonstrated this generation's resiliency and leadership. It is critical for leaders and decision-makers from both the public and private sectors to acknowledge young people's expertise and to engage young solutions-makers as equal partners in recovery efforts. I encourage partners from across sectors to not only learn about youth-led solutions presented in the WSA Congress 2022 but also to help transform and scale these solutions on the ground." Jayathma Wickramanayake, UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth

Digitalization

is fundamentally changing the society and offers huge opportunities for the economy. As a global group of companies, with different branches under one umbrella, it is the undisputed driver when it comes to progress and innovation. Therefore, we need stimulus from within the company, where the Umdasch Group is working on new technologies with numerous projects and initiatives, but also from the outside. This is why we partner with the global WSA network – an excellent chance for us to get in contact with great minds and forward thinkers and open up to external ideas. Being part of this year's Josef Umdasch Research Prize, our company Doka – was putting its feelers out in search of innovative ideas that can make a key contribution to digitalization in shell construction. We are very much looking forward to the final pitches during the WSA Global Congress 2022.

Dr. Wolfgang Litzlbauer, CEO, Umdasch Group AG

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

WSA 2021– 2030

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

The 2030

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

The UN SDGs are the metrics of success for digital content driven solutions and innovative applications The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". [2] The SDGs, set in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and intended to be achieved by the year 2030, are part of UN Resolution 70/1, the 2030 Agenda.

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

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

Preamble

People

Peace

Planet

Partnership

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

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

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

Prosperity

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

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

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

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

ABOUT WSA Digital

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

More than ever, the challenge is and remains worldwide to bridge global divides and to work on reaching the UN SDGs. Be it the global pandemic and new solutions for remote working, digital health and online education, or gender inequality, environmental challenges and the access to information and infrastructure. The global divides are manifold and affect us all. Reflecting the changes caused by the pandemic, with new economic challenges, or the case of climate crisis and global warming, we see that the divides grow nationally and worldwide. It´s high time to act now and hack the gap. In the face of such societal challenges, how can digital solutions and interactive applications make a positive contribution? How can international collaboration and knowledge exchange disrupt current nefarious developments? And what benefits are hidden in the digital transformation?

WSA Global Congress 2020 – Grand Jury Meeting

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

Hope to see you in person in 2023 – Fingers crossed

ABOUT THE WSA GLOBAL CONGRESS

WSA UPCOMING

The

WSA CALL 2022

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

Digital solutions have the power to narrow economic and social divides. Apply with your digital solution for WSA and demonstrate how digital innovation can deal with pressing challenges and contributes essentially to achieve the UN SDGs!

Cascais Portugal

2020

www.worldsummitawards.org @WSAOffice worldsummitawards worldsummitawards #WSACascais office@worldsummitawards.org

2018

2016

Vienna Austria

VIENNA 2018

2015

WSA-mobile Global Congress Sao Paulo Partners 2015Brazil

2015

HOSTING & STRATEGIC PARTNER ABU DHABI

Singapore Singapore

Platinum Sponsor

Gold Sponsor

CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONS

Abu Dhabi UAE

SPONSORING PARTNERS

Sponsor m-Learning & Education

UN & STRATEGIC PARTNERS

Under the patronage of

GRAND JURY

Vienna Austria

WSA SHORTLIST

Connect 4 impact

ONLINE JURY 70 international experts evaluate all entries online.

Virtual

2019

ENTRIES from countries nominated for WSA

Virtual

2020

WSA partners organize local preselections. 1 submission / country / category

2021

Outreach supported by WSA partners in 184 countries

2022

WSA PROCESS

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

WSA WINNERS

APRIL 1ST – AUG 31ST

UNESCO

floorfour.at

United Nations Educational, Scientiﬁc and Cultural Organization

WSA YOUNG INNOVATORS 2022

wsa-mobile.org

WSA Strategic Partners

2009

2012

Colombo Sri Lanka

Cairo Egypt

You are a young digital innovator under 26 years of age?

2010

Abu Dhabi UAE

2013

ABU DHABI

2013

WSA-mobile Excellence in m-Content

MEDIA PARTNERS

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!

2010

Abu Dhabi UAE

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

WSA Key Partners

APPLY FROM

2007

WSA Sponsor Partners

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

2007

APRIL 1ST – AUG 31ST

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

2005

Tunis Tunisia

2003

Geneva Switzerland

EUROPEAN YOUNG INNOVATORS FESTIVAL 2022 European Young Innovators Festival Graz 2022

15 European Young Innovators – young founders of the best digital solutions improving European societies will meet international speakers, mentors, thought-leaders and ecosystem shakers from the European WSA community.

MAY 3RD & 4TH AND NOV 28TH – 30TH 2022 GRAZ, AUSTRIA

https://wsa-global.org/european-young-innovators-festival-2021

WSA CONTEST 2020/21 Nominees/ Category

Government & Citizen Engagement 36

Start-up

Health & Well Being 41

NGO

Learning & Education 45

Social Business

Environment & Green energy 33

University

Culture & Tourism 31

Corporate

Smart Settlements & Urbanization 28

SME

Business & Commerce 42

Individual

Inclusion & Empowerment 35

Government

145 16 24 2 24

Nominees/Region

6 33

Asia

Europe Arab countries & Middle East

136 Arab countries & Middle East

20 Africa

Latin America & Caribbean

North America & Oceania

India

Lithuania

Netherlands

74 47

Europe

Cambodia

Egypt

Estonia

Ghana

Hungary

Iraq

Ireland

Lebanon

Luxembourg

Malawi

Mexico

Mongolia

Nigeria

Qatar

Russian Federation

Sri Lanka

Turkey

United States

Women CEO | Founders | Co-Founders | Projects leads: 22 → 22 of the 40 WSA Winners 2020 have female project leads. Europe 12 Asia 1 Arab countries & 2 Middle East 2 Africa

Asia

1 Belgium

Mozambique

Nominations from 77 countries

Arab countries & Middle East

2 Iceland

Winners/ Country

Africa

North America & Oceania

2 Brazil

YOUNG INNOVATORS 2021

Latin America & Caribbean

2 Austria

Latin America & Caribbean

85 countries 377 applications

Portugal

North America & Oceania

Canada

Europe

Africa 16

Australia

Winners/Region

Other

Asia

WINNERS /COUNTRY TOTAL 40 WINNERS | 29 COUNTRIES

Nominees Type of organization

77 countries 291 nominees

Bangladesh

Hungary

2 55%

Latin America & Caribbean North America & Oceania

23 1

Nigeria

Portugal

Sri Lanka

CATEGORIES

Winners 2021

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

Government & Citizen Engagement GOVERNMENT & CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT

Improving the quality of public administration & democratic processes, while integrating state of the art technology with content rich solutions to increase transparency and facilitate citizen participation. Unnamed – 2019 – Photo by Seven Shooter 18

WINNERS

GOVERNMENT & CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT 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

URBAN PLATFORM

TASMU PLATFORM

Bart Jacobs, Ineke van Gelder, Mike Alders

Ricardo Vitorino, Rui A. Costa, Nuno Ribeiro

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

Netherlands

Portugal

Qatar

irma.app

urbanplatform.city

platform.tasmu.gov.qa

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.

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-theart 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.

FOLLOW THE MONEY 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.

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. Nurse in a Moscow hospital – 2020 – Moscow, Russia, Photoy by Vladimir Fedotov 22

WINNERS HEALTH & WELL-BEING

CLANBEAT

ANARIÁ: DIGITAL ONCOLOGY SERVICE Plataforma de Teleatendimentos Oncológicos

Kadri Tuisk, Tiina Pauklin, Christjan Schumann, Triin Noorkõiv

Adriana Mallet Toueg, Sabine Zink Bolonhini, Manuel Carneiro

Estonia clanbeat.com

Brazil sasbrasil.org.br

Clanbeat is an app from Estonia giving students insight into their wellbeing 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.

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

RETINARISK | RetinaRisk – Hjálpar fólki með sykursýki að koma í veg fyrir blindu

Ahmed Elawady, Marina Henna

Stefán Einarsson, Ægir Þór Steinarsson, Francisco Rojas

Egypt

Iceland

bokdoc.com

retinarisk.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 thirty-seven different medical specialties, 1500 doctors and seventy-five hospitals, offering more than three thousand types of procedures. BokDoc offers surgery patients payment by instalment lasting up to five years with no advance payment and no interest charges.

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.

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.

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. School Opens in Weapons Free Zone East of UNMISS – Juba, South Sudan – 2018 - UN Photo/Amanda Voisard 26

WINNERS LEARNING & EDUCATION

SEX, BAFF!

ANGIS

Corina Malicek, Thorben Pachler, Nadine Dlouhy

Sandra Rutkauskaite

Austria

Lithuania

sexbaff.at

angis.lrt.lt

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.

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.

SKILLIO

INSPIRELEARN

Gábor Kaizer, Bettina Tigyi

Sam Masikini, Chisomo Banda, Blessings Mlundira, Rhema Amanda Phiri

Hungary

Malawi

skillio.net

inspirelearnmw.com

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.

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.

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.

Environment & Green Energy ENVIRONMENT & GREEN ENERGY

Smart content addresses the climate crisis. It combines environmental goals with clientcentred models, providing solutions for environ mental engagement and supporting sustainable agriculture in developmental areas. Tree Planting Initiative in South Sudan – Juba, South Sudan, 2018 – UN Photo/Nektarios Markogiannis 30

WINNERS ENVIRONMENT & GREEN ENERGY

PEER TO PEER SOLAR TRADING ON BLOCKCHAIN IN UTTAR PRADESH Jemma Green, John Bulich, Vinod Tiwari, Holly Hyder 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

SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT PLATFORM (SMP) Armin Neises, Matthias Brinkert, Dr. Tom Goeckel

Rob Godfrey, Harry Grocott

Luxembourg waves-sustainability.com

Canada

Sustainability Management Platform (SMP) 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.

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

ECORDING

Afnan Hannan, Damian Veling, Nithya Menon

Mert Karslıoğlu, F. Ece Önel and Zehra Solmaz

Cambodia

Turkey

okrasolar.com/

ecording.org/en

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.

Ecording is a web-based green social enterprise in Turkey developing sustainable and innovative environ mental initiatives to reverse the global climate crisis through solutions developed to promote forests and biodiversity, and to mitigate social inequality. Ecording enables individuals and corporations to work together, distributing tree germinating seed balls with ecoDrones for services and products sold. The seed balls are produced by women affected by income inequality due to climate change.

Culture & Tourism

CULTURE & TOURISM

Exceptional content combined with best technology connects travellers with locals, preserves and reanimates valuable cultural heritage, and supports sustainable tourism for people to discover cultural gems worldwide. Henna Hands – 2017 – Vitaliy Lyubezhanin 34

WINNERS CULTURE & TOURISM

RUTOPÍA

KATHUWARAYA.COM

Sebastián Muñoz Amezcua, Emiliano Iturriaga Tovar, Marisol Herrera

Rajeeva Obeyesekera, Amila Senevirathna, Madurajith Perera

Mexico

Sri Lanka

rutopia.com/en

kathuwaraya.com

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

ICONIC MOMENTS

George Fort, Babak Fakhamzadeh

Afonso Cunha, Pedro Carvalho

Chris Cummings, Wendy Overton, Gregory Ostermayr

Netherlands

Portugal

United States

placecloud.io

zoomguide.pt

iconicmoments.co

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.

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.

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.

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. 37

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. Bosco Verticale, Milan, Italy – 2018 – Photy by Gábor Molnár 38

WINNERS

SMART SETTLEMENTS & URBANIZATION THE TOOL FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE

RELIANCE FOUNDATION’S “MACHLI”

Emily Humphreys, Dr Sharon Zivkovic, Tom Tuddenham

S Senthilkumaran, Raghuram Lanka, Balakumar S

Australia wickedlab.co Wicked Lab’s Tool for Systemic Change from Australia maps, tracks and measures systems change to deal with the multi-causal 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.

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 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.

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.

MOSCOW TRANSPORT APP МОСКОВСКИЙ ТРАНСПОРТ

Olga Noyan, Nikita Skorik, Anastasia Plekhanova Russian Federation moscowtransport.app The Moscow Transport app combines all, that commuters could wish for: an interactive subway map, city parking, transport on demand or information on traffic congestion and more. The app builds the fastest, cheapest trip, indicating closures, line changes and total cost, to build multimodal routes and services – from metro, buses, or trams to car sharing, kicksharing, bikes, or taxis. Users can top up the Troika transport card right in the app or find the nearest electro-charging station. Convenience is tops.

Business & Commerce BUSINESS & COMMERCE

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

New pathways of digital entrepreneurship – Lagos, Nigeria – 2018 - Photo by Mars 42

WINNERS BUSINESS & COMMERCE

VELOTAX

BINA APP

Victor Savioli, Eduardo Esmanhotto

Ranoo Hiwa Mohammed, Bnar Salahadin Said

Brazil

Iraq

velotax.com.br

bina-app.com

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

CHIMEGE

Guðmundur Kristjánsson

Tuguldur Erdene-Ochir, Bat-Orgil Tserenjargal, Temuujin Yavuuzandan

Canada

Iceland

Mongolia

arbordb.co

lucinity.com

chimege.com

Danny Grande, Ben Grande, Alex Todorovic, Abdullah Choudhry

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

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.

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.

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.

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. Moment of laughter – Photo by Nathan Anderson – USA 2016 46

WINNERS INCLUSION & EMPOWERMENT

MOBILITY MOJO 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 FINANCIAL INCLUSION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | 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 naasika.com 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.

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.

SPEAK 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.

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. Portrait of Maurice Crow with Christmas Gifts, Victoria, 1919 – Museums Victoria 50

WINNERS

WSA YOUNG INNOVATORS

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 patterns 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 CycleAI

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 programme and for buyers – a transparent check of companies, worthy of support.

Portugal cycleai.net

LEND AN ARM

COCOREMEDY

Tunde Oyebamiji, Imodoye Abioro

Samitha Vidhanaarachchi, Divyani Rajapaksha, Gnanod Akalanka, Tinali Gunasekara

Nigeria

Sri Lanka

lendanarm.ng

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

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.

Luís Rita, Miguel Peliteiro, Codrin Bostan

The CycleAI from Portugal empowers micro mobility users. 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 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.

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

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

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

The jury members Sachi Wickramage, Australia Tanja Wehsely, Austria Rahat Hossain, Bangladesh Chicko Sousa, Brazil Chanchamnap Sok, Cambodia Jason Muloongo, Canada Witman Hung, China Ana Brigovic, Croatia Lan Anh Vu, Czech Republic Jean Luc Scherer, France Elene Jvania, Georgia Jan Schwaab, Germany Tim Steiner, Germany Dorothy Gordon, Ghana Osama Manzar, India Madanmohan Rao, India Shinta Dhanuwardoyo, Indonesia Madara Ogot, Kenya Lorraine Kageni Maina, Kenya Manar Alhashash, Kuwait

Alan Greenberg, UK Gabriel Deek, Lebanon Nibal Idlebi, Lebanon Ieva Žilionienė, Lithuania Tom Baumert, Luxembourg Zikry Kholil, Malaysia Rudy Laddaga Lopez, Mexico Zouheir Lakhdissi, Morocco Jehan Ara, Pakistan Ashraf Al-Astal, Palestine Marco Espinheira, Portugal Sandra Almeida Fazenda, Portugal Ana Maria Bujor, Romania Ivana Kostic, Serbia Houda Ghozzi, Tunisia Irene Kaggwa, Uganda Carlos Abler, USA Jon Mark Walls, USA Silumesii Maboshe, Zambia

WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS Mr

Sher Shah Rahim Afghanistan

Intellectual Applications & Products

Dritan Mezini Albania

DM Consulting Services / duapune.com

Joan Font Andorra

Government of Andorra

Adrian Carballo

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

Bagrat Yengibaryan Armenia

Enterprise Incubator Foundation

Christian Rupp Austria

Eureopean Joint Innovation Lab

Haas Mathias Austria

SuperSocial

Ubaydli Ubaydli Bahrain

Bahrain Technology Companies Society & Arab ICT Union Service Development Manager

Nawaf Abdulrahman Bahrain

Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Salman Cardiac Center

Arafatul Islam Akib Bangladesh

Startup Chattogram

Abir Ashraf Bangladesh

MCC

Mikalai Kavaleuski Belarus

T&C

Frederik Tibau Belgium

Agoria

Dorji Cigay Bhutan

Thimphu TechPark Ltd.

Tanja Madžarević Bosnia and Herzegovina

Education Development Center Inc.

Kesego Tumisang Botswana

Google Developer Group Gaborone

Tore Haugland Brazil

OUVI HQ

Pavel Varbanov Bulgaria

European Software Institute – Center Eastern Europe

Argentina Mr

182

WSA EXPERTS IN UN MEMBER STATES

WSA Global Congress Vienna 2020 - Dorothy Gordon, WSA National Expert and Board Member, Ghana 56

Abdulbari Ahmadzai Afghanistan

Afghanistan Holding Group

Abdellah Aouf Algeria

Go Platform

Nelson Simon Antigua and Barbuda

Networking Systems Solutions

Olga Cavalli Argentina

Governmental Adivisor Committee of ICANN

Sachi Wickramage Australia

i4T Global

Lena Hödl Austria

Trive Studio

Shanay Gulusoy Azerbaijan

E-Gov Development Center Public Entity

Ahmed AlHujairy Bahrain

Gulf Future Business

Rashed Al Snan Bahrain

Bahrain Technology Companies Society (BTECH)

Ananya Raihan Bangladesh

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

Troy Weekes Barbados

EZLearner In

Sergei Enin Belarus

NGO "Information Society"

Abdelaziz Lawani Benin

Benin Flying Labs

Daniel Ponce Bolivia

CityHeroes Inc.

Agang K. Diltlhogo Botswana

The Clicking Generation

Cid Torquato Brazil

ICOM Libras

George Sharkov Bulgaria

ESI Center Eastern Europe

Sylvestre Ouedraogo Burkina Faso

Yam Pukri

Chanchamnap Sok Cambodia

Inclusion+

President/CEO Mr

CEO / Co-Founder Mr

Head of the Audiovisuals & Comunications Department

Director Ms

Chief Innovation Officer Ms

Founder and CEO

Head of Information Technology

CEO

CEO and Managing Director Mr

Manager Mr

Digital Innovation & Growth / Lead Scaleup Programs Mr

CEO Ms

Business Development Manager Mr

GDG Lead Mr

CEO Mr

EU Projects coordinator

Jean Paul Nkurunziza DSF-FSN Project in Burundi Burundi National Animator

Director

Founder

CEO

Argentina Representative

CoFounder, COO & CPO

Venture Architect

Leading Specialist on International Projects

CEO

Board member

Chief Executive Officer

Executive Director

Director

Co-Founder and CEO

CoFounder

CEO

Director

Founder

Co-founder 57

WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS Mr

Kuy Chheng Treng Cambodia

Inclusion+

Gary Schwartz Canada

Location Based Marketing Association

Catalina Boetsch Chile

CasaCo

Matias Rojas Chile

Socialab

Yvonne Wong China

Qianhai International Liaison Services Ltd

Sergio Llano Colombia

Universidad del Norte

Arsene Tungali Congo, Democratic Republic

Rudi International

Carlos Watson Costa Rica

ISOC Costa Rica Independent consultant & Founder, President of ISOC Costa Rica Chapter International Foundation

Juan Alfonso Fernandez Gonzalez Cuba

Ministry of Communications of Cuba

Co-founder Mr

Global Director Ms

Co-Founder Mr

General Manager Mr

Professor Mr

Co-founder and Executive Director

Advisor

Magda De La Caridad Ministry of Communications Brito D Toste Cuba Computerization

George Malekkos Cyprus

Powersoft Computer Solutions Ltd

Panayiotis Andreou Cyprus

School of Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus Assistant Professor in Computing

Per Bach Denmark

Sociale Entreprenører i Danmark (SED)

Arturo Valerio Lopez Dominican Republic

Cámara Dominicana de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación Director

Ernesto Kruger Ecuador

Kruger Corporation

Ahmed El Sobky Egypt

ITIDA

Rafael Ibarra El Salvador

Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas

Dagmawi Lemma Gobena Ethiopia

Addis Ababa University

Craig Vezina France

Z-School

Jongo Hub

Safi Abdelsalam Chad

WenakLabs

Carolina Rossi Chile

Moon Advisors

Sebastian Andres Diaz Mesa Chile

LeaP

Jacky Lam China

Internet Professional Association

Karim Attoumani Comoros

Telecom Comores – Telma Group branch in Comoros

Baudouin Schombe Congo, Democratic Republic

Centre Africain dÂ´Echange Culturel (CAFEC)

Ana Brigovic Croatia

ACT Group

Lissette Perez Cuba

International Relations and Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Communications of Cuba Official of the Directorate

Founder

Chairman of the Board

Founder Mr

Vice CEO

IT Director Mr

Executive Director Mr

Co-founder and Co-CEO

Ketevan Ebanoidze Georgia

Impact Hub Tbilisi

Dorothy Gordon Ghana

Technology for Development

Co-founder

Yiannis Doxaras Greece

warp.ly

Dimitros Tsolis Greece

High Performance Information Systems Laboratory, University of Patras Assistant Professor

Glendon Langaigne Grenada

Adjunct Lecturer St. Georges University

Maria Zaghi Guatemala

Ergocom

Elisabeth Sagno Guinea

Centre Dream Benoit Xvi

Malisa Richards Guyana

BrainStreet Group Inc.

Maria Isaula Honduras

Sustainable Development Networking Honduras (RDS-HN) National Coordinator

Balazs Horváth Hungary

Founder Institute

Johann Malmquist Iceland

University of Iceland

Osama Manzar India

Digital Empowerment Foundation

Shinta Dhanuwardoyo Indonesia

bubu.com

Erwin Arifin Indonesia

PT Bubu Kreasi Perdana

Ehssan Esfehani Iran

Hamsafar eSolutions

Alice Bosley Iraq

Five One Labs

Ali Hilli Iraq

Zain Iraq

Martin Casey Ireland

Arekibo Communications

Nir Shimony Israel

Tech for good

Alfredo Ronchi Italy

MEDICI Framework

Directeur Exécutif

Digita Strategist

Senior Partner

CEO Ms

PMO & Regulatory Project Manager Mr

Coordinator Ms

Business Development Manager Mr

Constantinos Pyrkettis Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Business Development, Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry Cyprus

Irene Polycarpou Cyprus

University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus Professor of Technology and Innovation in Education, Head of the School of Sciences

Lan Anh Vu Czech Republic

Vunela

Cedric Pemberton Dominica

Dominica State College Solution Oriented Freelance Systems Analyst and Software Developer

Francesca Marsetti Ecuador

Kruger Corporation

Sara Caracasso Ecuador

Kruger Corporation

Founder

Administrative Assistant Mr

Administrative Assistant

Kamal Elsheikh Samar Information Technology Industry Development Agency- ITIDA Egypt

Liisi Org Estonia

Latitude59

Ilkka Kurkela Finland

Laurea University of Applied Sciences

Poncelet Ileleji Gambia

Jokkolabs Banjul

CEO Ms

Development Manager

Lead / CEO

Impact Hub Tbilisi

Partners Development Unit Manager

Elene Jvania Georgia

Alexander Felsenberg Retresco Germany

Industrial Development officer

CEO & Software innovation architect

Founder & Executive Director

Gabriel Ashu Cameroon

VP Sales and Product Development (Caribbean)

IT Manager

Professor and Serial Entrepreneur Mr

CEO Ms

IT Consultant Mr

The Youth & Entrepreneurship Consultant, Acting Head of CER Unit

Omri Boral Israel

Tech for good

Carmel Sandler Israel

Tech for good

Kudzo Tay Ivory Coast

Coopération Conseil International

Saffrey Brown Jamaica

The Leap Co.

Ismail Wahdan Jordan

Greater Amman Municipality

Douglas Ogeto Kenya

LudiqueWorks

Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro Kiribati

Pasifika Nexus

Manar Alhashash Kuwait

Dot Design

Elena Chigibaeva Kyrgyzstan

Co-Founder and Professional Director Mr

hargé de programme, CCI - LSDA Ms

Co-founder Mr

Head of E-government Section Mr

CEO Ms

Executive Director Mr

Founder Techaim Public Foundation Co-Founder

Consultant

Operations Director

Web Services Manager

Country Leader

Founder & Director

Country Leader

Co-founder and Executive Director

Managing Director

Co-Founder and Professional Director

General Secretary

Suzanne Shaw Jamaica

The Leap Co.

Mio Yamamoto Japan

WIT (World in Tohoku)

Co-founder and Head of Innovation

Executive Director and Co-Founder

Anatoliy Kremenchutskiy Kazakhstan

IKCEICT

Ian Lorenzen Kenya

Growth Africa

Director

Executive Director and Partner

Neeti Verami Korea, Republic Of

Global Startup Lab

Aziz Kin Kyrgyzstan

KG Labs Public Foundation

Begaim Zuratbekova Kyrgyzstan

KG Labs Public Foundation

Start-up Advisor, Coach and Mentor

Manager of Projects and Communications

Manager of Projects and Communications 59

WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS Mr

Vorasone Dengkayaphichith The Land Information Working Group Lao Peoples Democratic Republic National Coordinator

Andris Melnudris Latvia

Latvian Information and Communications Technology Association (LIKTA) Managing Director

Kristine Zunde Latvia

Latvian IT Cluster

Tsitso Tlali Lesotho

KoL Starts

Ben Hamed Khaled Libya

Faculty of IT, University of Tripoli

Ieva Žilionienė Lithuania

NRD Companies

Vincent Kumwenda Malawi

MHub

Kian Yew Ong Malaysia

PIKOM

Mariko Simbara Mali

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

Marcelle Attard Malta

Malta Communications Authority

Ahmed Baya Mauritania

BAFSI Conseil

Rudy Laddaga Lopez Mexico

Gnius Club

Badruun Gardi Mongolia

GerHub

Slobodan Franeta Montenegro

Lucha Science Institute

Elma Hot Dervic Montenegro

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Zouheir Lakhdissi Morocco

Dial Technologies

Tatiana Pereira Mozambique

Ideialab.biz

Anicia Peters Namibia

Namibia University Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Development

Ananda Raj Khanal Nepal

Nepal Telecommunications Authority

Projects Manager Mr

Founder & CEO Mr

Lecturer Mr

Consulting Lead Ms

CEO Mr

Executive Director

Project Coordinator Information Society Mr

Director-general Mr

Entrepreneur Ms

Co-Founder and Chairman Mr

Founder Mr

Resident scientist Mr

CEO and Co-Founder Mr

Executive Catalyst

Director and Acting Chief

Aiga Irmeja Latvia

Latvian IT Cluster

Inese Murniece Latvia

Latvian IT Cluster

Gabriel Deek Lebanon

Internet Society - Lebanon Chapter

Abraham Massaley Liberia

Press Union of Liberia

Thomas Duenser Liechtenstein

Government Of Liechtenstein

Pelagia Baxevani Luxembourg

1,2,3 Go Social

Grace Lee Malaysia

Multimedia Development Corporation

Yusuf Shunan Maldives

UtotoAI, Inc.

Kenneth Bone Malta

Seasus

Mark Schembri Malta

Malta Communications Authority

Dave Kissoondoyal Mauritius

Teleforma ltd - a US Upstream Co.

Andrei Poștaru Moldova

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

Enkhjin Batjargal Mongolia

GerHub

Anton Jurovicki Montenegro

Jankari Consulting

Alaoui Bassam Morocco

MNC

Ilhem Kerdoudi Morocco

MNC

Oo Thein Myanmar

Myanmar Computer Federation

Executive Director Mr

Digitalization project manager Mr

President Mr

Former President Mr

Director of the Office for Financial Market Innovation Mr

Manager Mr

Stakeholder Engagement Division Mr

CEO Ms

Managing Director Ms

Project Coordinator Information Society Ms

Director of Information Technology

CEO and Co-Founder Mr

Director Mr

Product Manager Ms

CEO Mr

President

Maggy Beukes-Amiss Namibia University Namibia

Herman Oorschot Netherlands

Head of Department Fullmoon Interactive Solutions Media entrepreneur

Mahsa Mohaghegh New Zealand

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

Alfredo Wilson Nicaragua

Guegue Communications

Mario Aleman Nicaragua

CIDENIC

Adamou Iro Niger

Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications et de la Poste/ Cabinet du Premier Ministre Conseiller Technique

Emanuel Amos Nigeria

mNCS, FIIM

Natasha Lazarovska- TNW Trajcheski Program Manager, WSA National Expert North Macedonia

Kristian Bruarøy Norway

Bridj

Agha Hamza Pakistan

The Nest I/O Technology Incubator & Accelerator

Jehan Ara Pakistan

P@Sha

Ashraf AlAstal Palestine*

1plus1

Matias Prado Amaya Panama

University of Technology of Panama

Priscilla Kevin Papua New Guinea

PNG Digital ICT Cluster and WiSTEM

Ernesto Garbarino Paraguay

Contino Solutions Ltd

Marina Pedersen Paraguay

Kiyo Group Organización

Jorge Jaime Peru

Interbank

Eloisa Tinio Philippines

Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators (PSITE) Foundation Incorporated Co-Founder

Anna Laudy-Nagy Poland

MOST Foundation

Jan Kaczmarek Poland

MOST Foundation

Barbara Domaradzka Poland

MOST Foundation

Roberto Carneiro Portugal

Universidade Católica Portuguesa Dean of Institute for Distance Learning & Professor at School of Human Sciences

Sandra Fazenda Portugal

APDC

Radwa M Ali Qatar

Ministry of Transport and Communications

Reem Al Mansoori Qatar

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

Ana Maria Bujor Romania

Risky Business

Dimitry Priemov Russian Federation

Rossiya Segodnya

Alex Ntale Rwanda

ICT Chamber, Rwanda Private Sector Federation

Wesley Wharton Saint Kitts and Nevis

Ministry of Technology

Luciano Capello San Marino

Digital Design srl

Christelle Scharff Senegal

MobileSenegal Hub

President and Founder

Chief Software Architect / Ceo - Founder

Founder & Consultant Mr

President Ms

Professor Ms

Account Principal

Growth Manager

Grant and International Projects Manager

SMEs advisor on sustainable development

Executive Director

Head of Mobile Mr

Director, Technology Ms

Chairman Mr

Founder

Ivana Kostic Serbia

Health Tech Lab

Alaric Tan Singapore

The Project Crew

Vladimír Burcik Slovenia

ILearn Online Learning Centre

Founder

Managing Director

Co-Founder

CEO

President of the Board

Project Specialist

Vice-President

Executive Director

Rudolph Daniel Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

ICT4dev and Internet Governance

Hana Almaimuni Saudi Arabia

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

Independent Consultant

Manager, Awards & Intern.Competitiveness at E-Government

Damjan Damnjanović Health Tech Lab Serbia Co-Founder

Co-Founder Mr

Project Director

CEO

Director

Mohamed Hemoh Sierra Leone

Sensi CEO

Felix Lee Singapore

SCash Technologies

Borka Jerman Blazic Slovenia

Josef Stefan Institute and Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana Head of Laboratory for Open Systems and network

Mentor, Connector

WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS Mr

Mohamed Ibrahim Somalia

Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications

Rapelang Rabana South Africa

Rekindle Learning

AChiranthi Balapatabandi Sri Lanka

ICTA

Abdelrahman Noureldien Sudan

University of Science and Technology Dean, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology

Micael Gustafsson Sweden

Cluster 55

Fadwa Murad Syrian Arab Republic

Syrian Computer Society, Syria

Advisor to Minister of Posts & Telecommunications Mr

Founder & Chair Ms

Director - Industry Development

Tegan Crous South Africa

Rekindle Learning

Andreu Vea Spain

WiWiW.org

Batyr Karryev Turkmenistan

Founder and Director

Brian Ndyaguma Uganda

Chitranganie Mubarak Consultant, Digitization for Social Good; Sri Lanka

Tricia Balthazar Suriname

Centre for Women's Research ( CENWOR) CANTO Service Development Manager

Director, ICT Incubator

Pamoja Initiatives Ltd and Kinu Group Ltd Catherinerose Barretto Tanzania, United Republic Co-Founder

Chulee Wang Thailand

RISE IMPACT

Cyriaque Amekduji Togo

INTIC4DEV

Gia Gaspard Taylor Trinidad and Tobago

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

Faouzi Zaghbib Tunisia

R2i

Houda Ghozzi Tunisia

Tunisian Startups

Co-founder Mr

Consultant & Formateur

General Manager

Amanda Weilenmann SEIF - Driving Impact Innovation Switzerland

Mahinakhon Suleymanova Tajikistan

Neksigol Navovar

Godfrey Magila Tanzania,

MagilaTech Company Limited

United Republic of

CEO & Co-Founder

David Shelters Thailand

Mekong Strategic Partners

Olévié Kouami Togo

Institute of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (INTIC4DEV) CEO/IT specialist

Farah Miled Tunisia

Open Startup

Amel Saidane Tunisia

Tunisian Startups

Mustafa Özer Turkey

Imece

Co-founder and Program Director

Co-founder and Chairman of the Board Ms

Entrepreneur-In-Residence

Community Development Manager

President

Director

Main IT expert Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL)

Business Development Manager Association of IT Enterprises of Ukraine (AITEU)

General Director

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

Laura Di Giovanni Uruguay

Carlos Abler USA

National Research and Innovation Agency of Uruguay (ANII) Head of Cooperation Unit

Consultant

Elena Selezneva Uzbekistan

brand.uz

Peter Tschernig Venezuela

Cavedatos / ISOC / WordOnTech.com

Abubakr Alsheikh Abubakr Yemen

Hadramout University of Science and Technology

Silumesii Maboshe Zambia

BongoHive Consult

Gift Banda Zambia

BongoHive Consult

Daniel Stern Uganda

Mobile Monday Kampala

Tatiana Popova Ukraine

Association Telecommunication chamber of Ukraine

Director

Chairman of the Board

E-Government Operations Department - TRA Tariq Ali United Arab Emirates Business Development Officer

Senior ICT Analyst

Project Manager

Managing Director

Yuri Perohanych Ukraine

Center of Information Technologies "SIBIS"

Assistance Mr

Director Mr

Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems Ms

Co-Founder and Director Mr

Software Developer Mr

Andy Favell United Kingdom Jon Mark Walls USA

Freelancer Freelance consultant, web editor & journalist

Consultant

Alisher Yusupov Uzbekistan

brand.uz

Mathew Temar Vanuatu

Vanuatu Government

Long Lam Viet Nam

Quang Trung Software City Development Co., Ltd.

Rhoda Kakoma Zambia

BongoHive Innovations

Taonga Grace Banda Zambia

InnoGen

John Soneka Zambia

Zamtel

Tatenda Mbira Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Youth Council

CEO

Chief Technical Officer for IT Assist.

CEO

Entrepreneurship Associate

Founder

Application Developer / UI designer

IT Officer

Sachi Wickramage, Global Congress Vienna 2020 62

WSA YOUTH AMBASSADORS

Carolyn Lai, AIESEC, Austria at the WSA Global Congress Vienna 2020

Alda Banushi

Polytechnic University in Tirana

Mohamed Haithem Medani

Go Platform

Rahat Hossain

AYAT

Branko Vasiljevic

Albania

Student

Algeria

COO

Bangladesh

Program Manager

Bosnia and Herzegovina Business developer

Arman Atoyan

X-TECH, CityBugs, ARLOOPA

Hovhannes Aghajanyan

CityBugs

Ema Brljak

Youth Press Association of BiH

Amila Mujkić

Armenia

Co-Founder & Product Manager

Armenia

Co-Founder

Bosnia and Herzegovina Board of Directors

Bosnia and Herzegovina Student

Juan Camillo Poveda

Dialoghi in Architettura New Humanity NGO

David Weiss

Kenne deine Rechte

Dženana Selimović

Leila Hadžić

Austria

Communication manager

Austria

Project Coordinator

Bosnia and Herzegovina Student

Bosnia and Herzegovina Co-founder

Sanja Cancar

Blogger and Information Specialist

Mehdi Bizolm

UniCredit Bak Austria AG

Emily Schuler

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Camila Carvalho

Tem Açúcar

Austria

Blogger and Information Specialist

Austria

Senior Software Engineer

Brazil

Research Assistant

Brazil

Founder & CEO

Paul SpiesbergerHöckner

Woody

Georg Steinfelder

Woody

Marcos Oap

AnnuitWalk Accessibilities

Agbor Ashumanyi Ako

GiftedMom

Austria

Software Developer

Austria

Co-Founder, Graphic Designer & Illustrations

Brazil

Co-Founder & CEO

Cameroon

Co-founder and Medical Director

Kambis Kohansal-Kohansal

Austrian Federal Economic Chamber

Tetyana Polovenko

ks actuaries

Jennifer Corriero

TakingITGlobal

Eileen Knowles

Columbia University in the City of New York

Austria

Head of Startup-Services

Austria / Ukraine

Actuary

Canada

Co-founder and Executive Director

Canada

Sustainability Consultant

Franz Josef Allmayer

Simgo

Stephan Hamberger

Red Bull Media House

Juan Jose Almarza

Jordan Fung

Pedosa International Limited

Austria, Guatemala

International Business Development Executive

Austria, USA

Head of Digital Platforms

Chile

China

Founder and CEO

University of Sarajevo

Student

DVC Solutions

University of Pennsylvania

NGO “Laboratorium” Tuzla

WSA YOUTH AMBASSADORS

Anushka Purohit

CoronAI

Ana Pantelic

UNICEF Uganda

Hans Peter Gürtner

Boxwise

Abdul Rahman AlAshraf

FreeCom

China

CEO and Co-Founder

Colombia, Serbia

Social Policy Manager

Germany

Project Lead

Germany

Founder

Sebastian Bustamente

Impact Hub Medellin

Bacar Azhar

CBon Business

Matteo Consonni

EIT Health Germany

Ivy Barley

Developers in Vogue

Colombia, USA

Co-founder & Director

Comoros

CEO

Germany, Italy

Business Creation Manager

Ghana

Co-Founder

Drača Ljubica

Private language tutor

Lucie Schubert

inovátoři.cz

Solomon Appier-Sign

NextNerds

Alex Ojo

The Royal Senchi Resort & Hotel

Croatia

Court interpreter and translator & private language tutor

Czech Republic

Freelance Trainer and Facilitator, Team Member

Ghana

Founder

Ghana

Head of IT

Anne Sofie Hoffmann-Schröder

Independent

Alexander Hauerslev Jensen

Be My Eyes

Sakhile Xulu

Qisimah (Audio Insights)

Avgi-Maria Atmatzidoy

Mykonos Multimedia Festival

Denmark

Independent Journalist

Denmark

Product, Partnerships and Business Developement

Ghana

Co-Founder and CEO

Greece

Founder & President

Paul Bonea

Bonea Creative Studio

Abdullah Mosaad

What's up Youth "WupY"

Siddharth Kumar Sah

BioP India

Maninder Bajwa

Espranza

Denmark

CEO

Egypt

Founder & CEO

India

Founder

India

CEO & Founder

Amr Sobhy

PushBots, Inc.

Noran Adly

Active Artist Egypt

Shaik Khasim Shareef

friends2support.org

Japleen Pasricha

Feminism in India

Egypt

CEO

Egypt

Founder

India

Founder Member

India

Founder & Editor-in-chief

Shady Hatem

Advicenode

Abbas Adel Ibrahim

Linus Finance

Jithin Krishnan

Social Alpha

Anshul Tewari

Youth Ki Awaaz

Egypt

Founder and CEO

Egypt

Principal Software Engineer

India

Chief of Staff

India

Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Alia ElKattan

NYU

Taghrid Elashkr

SimCorp

Sanny Gaddafi

8villages

Aviram Berg

Eyelight

Egypt

PhD Student

Egypt, Austria

Scrum Master

Indonesia

CEO

Israel

Co-founder

Joosep Viik

Sirkel & Mall OÜ

Arto Puikkonen

Gofore Ltd.

Luca Carrai

Ethicjobs

Guilia Battaglia

Learning Solutions

Estonia

3D Modeler

Finland

Business Manager

Italy

CEO and Founder

Italy

e-learning specialist

Pihla Rostedt

Rostedt & Co

Timo Rostedt

GOFORE

Saleem Najjar

Sharqi Shop

Gakuu Derrick

Ifarm360

Finland

First Lady

Finland

Lead Designer

Jordan

Co-founder

Kenya

Co-Founder

Sébastien Bourdu

sebastienbourdu.com

Ana Mazmishvili

State Audit Office of Georgia (SAOG)

Ahrum Choi

Dot Inc.

Arbnore Cakaj

DotsStudio

France

Web developer and UX designer

Georgia

Senior Budget Analyst

Korea, Republic Of

Director

Kosovo

Architect and Co-Founder

Giorgi Bestavashvili

Sign&Sound

Giorgi Chakvetadze

State Audit office of Georgia

Valon Nushi

UNICEF Sierra Leone Country Office

Fidan Uka

Blood Donor

Georgia

Co-Founder

Georgia

Head of State Budget Analysis unit

Kosovo

Youth Innovation Specialist

Kosovo

CEO

Mariam Kakhidze

State Audit Office of Georgia (SAOG)

Carina Schmid

The Global Experience / Easy Languages

Zejd Xhafce

Turkish Embassy

Hussein Ayoub

EDT&Partners

Georgia

Senior Analyst of State Budget and Strategic Analysis Department

Germany

CEO / Co-Founder

Kosovo

Advisor

Lebanon

Senior Consultant

Charlotte Dreyer

Hasso Plattner Institute

Alexander Haufschild

socialbnb

Yorgui Beylouni

Drosbox

Patrick Habib

Lebanese Alternative Learning

Germany

Project Development, HPI School of Design Thinking

Germany

Co Founder

Lebanon

Co-Founder

Lebanon

Head of Products and Services

Adrian Wegener

Eye Build It GmbH + gamesAHEAD e.V.

Nicholas 'Nico' Ulmke

Fit Für Immer

Darius Kniūkšta

Edukraftas

Odeta Iseviciute

Adcanon

Germany

Founder/CEO + Chairman

Germany

Technology Lead

Lithuania

Founder

Lithuania

Owner 67

WSA YOUTH AMBASSADORS Tahereh Pazouki

MaGrid

Andrea Cuéllar Medina

EDT Partners

Nađa Petrović

MEF Faculty

Sharmishta Sivaramakrishnan

Young Global Leaders Asia

Luxembourg

Lead Manager

Mexico

Project Manager & Operations AMERICAS

Serbia

President of Student Parliament and member of Career Guidance

Singapore

Community Manager

Elma Hot Dervic

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Yassine Bentlab

CitizenUp

Josie Stoker

Capture - The Fitbit For Your Carbon Footprint

Nadav Ossendryver

Latest Sightings Pty Ltd

Montenegro

Resident scientist

Morocco

Entrepreneur and Consultant

Singapore

CEO and Co-Founder

South Africa

CEO

Darko Bozhinoski

Cognitive Robotics, 3mE | Delft University Of Technology

Kingsley Iweka

Africa-OnTheRise.com

Jason Muloongo

LittPro

Peumi Rodrigo

CodeGen

Netherlands

Postdoctoral researcher

Nigeria

Founder

South Africa

Co-Founder

Sri Lanka

Manager Marketing and Communications

Elizabeta Cebova

Verisure

Bistra Kumbaroska

Social Impact Award gGmbH

Mahmoud Elbadwi

OPercetion

Allen Mohammadi

PlasticFri

North Macedonia

Group business operating associate

North Macedonia

Scaling and Partnership Manager

Sudan

Founder

Sweden

Co-Founder & CEO

Jovana Zdravkovikj

University of Ljubljana

Eda Mushe

Makedonski Telekom AD

Rebecca Atoline

Zürich Council

Deyaa AbuTaleb

Sales Training Project Management

North Macedonia

Student

North Macedonia

Senior Associate For Digital Experience and Innovation

Switzerland

Immigrants Representative

Switzerland, Jordan

Sales Training Project Management

Viktorija Ilieva

University Of SS. Cyril And Methodius

Simona Dimitrievska

Wüstenrot Gruppe

AlHasan Muhammad Ali

Daraty

Sana Hawasly

Daraty

North Macedonia

Assistant Professor

North Macedonia

Process manager

Syrian Arab Republic

Co-Founder

Syrian Arab Republic

Co-Founder

Gorjan Jovanovski

AirCare

Joud Khattab

Yarmouk Private University

Gloria Silas Mangi

African Queens Project

Teo Zdravkovski North Macedonia

Student

North Macedonia

Founder

Syrian Arab Republic

Business and Data Analyst | I nstructor

Tanzania

Founder and President

Taylor Sawyer

EIT Urban Mobility

Momal Mushtaq

SAP

Aukrit Unahalekhaka

Ricult Agriculture Tech

Khaled Jemni

Microsoft Ireland

Norway

Entrepreneurial Innovation Officer

Pakistan

Syndication Manager (C-user)

Thailand

Co-Founder and CEO

Tunisia

Cloud Specialist

Rohayl Varind

Times Of Youth & Share To Aware

Gersava Ryan

Virtualahan

Yahya Marzouk

MAD Path

Mohamed Taghouti

Smart Logger

Pakistan

CEO

Philippines

Founder

Tunisia

Co-founder

Tunisia

Founder

Ricardo Andre Costa

Septima

Diogo Paciência

European Travel Commission

Anton Holovachenko

UniExo

Luna Carmona

Achieve More! Scotland

Portugal

Founder and Editorial Director

Portugal

Digital Marketing

Ukraine

Founder/CEO

United Kingdom

Marketing Officer

Tomas Pessoae E Costa

Dioscope

Ramy Soliman

Bonocle Inc.

Timothy Williams

Bundeswehr University Munich

Ayesha Carmouche

The Care Quality Commission

Portugal

Founder

Qatar

Co-founder and COO

United Kingdom

Junior professor of insecurity and social order

United Kingdom

Senior Parliamentary Adviser

Tudor Mihailescu

SpeechifAI Inc

Cristina Pop-Tiron

Babes Bolyai Univeristy

Shwetal Shah

MediaCom

Geena Whiteman

Cardiff University

Romania

Co-founder and COO

Romania

Lector

United Kingdom

Technology Partnership Manager

United Kingdom

PhD Student

Sandra Zivkovic

Faculty Of Law, University Of Belgrade

Marko Janković

MEF Faculty

Adam Itzkowitz

Better World Club

Tori Samples

Leaf Global Fintech

Serbia

Marketing assistant

USA

Vice President of Marketing and Communications

USA

Co-Founder/CTO

Serbia

Dušica Birovljević

Nomcentar NGO

Tijana Jakovljević

Forest and Climate

Fungai Machirori

Her Zimbabwe

Serbia

Founder

Serbia

Project Coordinator

Zimbabwe

Researcher and Media Consultant / Founder & Director

JOSEF UMDASCH RESEARCH PRIZE 2022! #throwback: Last year’s happy winners SecurifAI from Romania. OUTCOME 117 registrations from 48 different countries ... 12 shortlisted ideas ... and 6 finalists

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

Digitalization in shell construction Digital technologies and solutions play a significant role in making construction sites more efficient and more productive. Digitalization is undisputedly one of the drivers when it comes to progress and innovation onsite. We at Doka are constantly on the lookout for new initiatives and creative approaches, which we use to advance construction and support our clients in their work. Our clients are mainly construction companies responsible for the largest and most complex construction sites in the world. Thousands of players who need to work together precisely to perfection.

In September 2021 we launched our call for ideas within the framework of the Josef Umdasch Research Prize. We called for ideas for digitalization in shell construction focusing on the fields of efficiency, safety and handling of material.

Doka is a world leader in developing, manufacturing and distributing formwork technology for use in all fields of the construction sector. It has more than 160 sales and logistics facilities in over 60 countries. As a part of the family owned Umdasch Group with a history of more than 150 years, Doka employs more than 7,300 people worldwide. About the Josef Umdasch Research Prize: The award has existed since 1990, and was relaunched in 2017. Since then, the Umdasch Group, together with the WSA, has been looking for technological innovations in the fields of construction and trade & commerce.

THE PRIZE The winner gets the opportunity to realise the idea with Doka

MORE INFORMATION ONLINE www.umdaschgroup.com/ researchprize

The Josef Umdasch Research Prize is aimed at start-ups, entrepreneurs and future-oriented thinkers around the globe who can inspire enthusiasm with an innovative and unique idea.

A jury decided upon a shortlist in December 2021. Those nominees are now further developing their ideas with supporting mentors from Doka and the WSA. The final pitch presentations will take place during the WSA Global Congress 2022. We are very excited and looking forward to creating a new fruitful partnership with the winner.

JOIN OUR NOMINEES WHEN THEY PITCH THEIR IDEAS TO OUR JURY! THURSDAY, MARCH 24TH @13:00!

WSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2021 Prof.Dr. Peter Bruck Prof. Dr. Peter A. Bruck, Chairman of the WSA Board of Directors

WSA GLOBAL COUNCIL

Christian Rupp CIO European Joint Innovation Lab eGovernment | Austria Thomas Stelzer Former UN Assistant Secretary General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs | Austria Ubaydli Ubaydli Chairman Arab ICT Union | Bahrain Rodrigo Assumpcao Social Protection Management Information Systems Expert, International Labour Organization | Brazil George Sharkov Director ESI Center Eastern Europe | Bulgaria Witman Hung Principal Liaison Officer for Hong Kong, Shenzhen Qianhai Authority | China Adam Montandon Product Design and Innovation at the University of Southern Denmark | Denmark Maria Flachsbarth Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation& Development | Germany Paul Hughes Director, Paul Hughes Live | Ireland Matteo Landi Co-Founder ,MyChef.at | Italy Anne Githuku-Shongwe, Representative, UN Women South Africa Multi-Country Office | Kenya/South Afria Manar Alhashash CEO, Dot Design | Kuwait Adama Samassekou President, African Academy of Languages / President, WSIS Preparatory Committee for Geneva Phase | Mali

Tomi Davies President, The African Business Angel Network (ABAN) | Nigeria Mario Franco Founder Millennium@EDU | Portugal Miguel Pinto Luz Deputy Mayor of Cascais | Portugal Paula Ingabire Minister of ICT and Innovation | Rwanda Chitranganie Mubarak ICT4D Consultant | Sri Lanka Ralph Simon CEO & Founder, Mobilium International, Chairman Emeritus & Founder, Mobile Entertainment Forum-Americas |

WSA MANAGEMENT BOARD

Tanja Wehsely CEO Volkshilfe | Austria Tore Haugland CEO Ouvi | Brazil Catherine Warren CEO Innovate Edmontoni | Canada Carolina Rossi Senior Partner Moon Advisors | Chile Jakob Detering Chairman of the Board Social Impact Award | Germany Jan Schwaab Head of Digital Transformation Africa, GIZ | Germany Dorothy K. Gordon Technology for Development, Consultant | Ghana Moses Acquah Founder ,Afrolynk | Ghana Osama Manzar Founder & Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation | India Shinta Dhanuwardoyo Founder and CEO, bubu.com | Indonesia Omri Boral Co-Founder and former CEO, Tech for Good | Israel Gabriel Deek † Ex-President, Professoinal Computer Association | Lebanon Rudy Laddaga Lopez Founder and CEO Gnius Club | Mexico Zouheir Lakhdissi CEO and Co-Founder, Dial Technologies | Morocco Marta Tomovska Advisor to the Prime Minister of Serbia | North Macedonia Agha Hamza Country Head and Ambassador Hello Tomorrow Pakistan Hub | Pakistan Sandra Almeida Fazenda Executive Director APDC | Portugal Jon Mark Walls Consultant | USA Carlos Abler Consultant | USA

United Kingdom

Marcus East Technical Director, Office of the CTO Google | USA Janine Warner Co-Founder and Executive Director, SembraMedia | USA

WSA SPONSORS & PARTNERS

MEET THE WSA TEAM

Sponsoring partners

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

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

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

Peter A. Bruck WSA Chairman and ICNM president Strategic partners Barbara Hinterleitner Storytelling barbara@wsa-global.org

Katharina Weber Event Management katharina@wsa-global.org

Network Austria

Media partners

Blanca Vidal i Jiménez Project Assistant and European Volunteer blanca@wsa-global.org

Miriam Rodríguez Gómez Project Assistant and European Volunteer Miriam@wsa-global.org

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

Facebook: WSA Twitter: WSAoffice Linkedin: WSA Matthias Kandler WSA Partnerships, Events matthias@wsa-global.org

Instagram: worldsummitawards YouTube: World Summit Awards TV Luka Kalas ICNM Accounting, HR kalas@icnm.net

Flickr: World Summit Award

2021

DIGITAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE UN SDGS

WSA IMPLEMENTING WSIS ACTION LINE C7 - eAPPLICATIONS -