World Summit Award
The World Summit Awards ( WSA for short ) are an initiative for the worldwide improvement and dissemination of digital offers and content. One of the overarching goals of the WSA is, for example, overcoming the digital divide . The initiative is supported by states and organizations worldwide, for example UNIDO and UNESCO support the World Summit Awards.
founding
The World Summit Award was initiated by the Austrian government within the framework of the world summit on the information society held in 2003 .
Today more than 180 states of the United Nations , private organizations and social and political figures support the World Summit Awards.
The WSA are committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The International Center for New Media, based in Salzburg and Vienna, is the sponsor of the World Summit Awards .
activities
Every two years, the World Summit Award honors particularly innovative and outstanding internet-based content, concepts and applications as part of a competition. The last award ceremony took place in 2009. The prizes are awarded in eight categories:
- Government & Civic Engagement
- Health & Wellbeing
- Learning & Education
- Environment & Renewable Energy
- Culture & Tourism
- Smart Settlements & Urbanization
- Business & Commerce
- Inclusion & empowerment
In order to be able to win the World Summit Awards, national WSA competitions must be won beforehand.
The World Summit Award also organizes conferences , events, exhibitions and galas where the goals of the initiative can be advertised and experts can exchange ideas.
From 20. – 22. March 2018, the 45 international WSA winners 2017 will be invited to the WSA Global Congress in Vienna to present their solutions and projects.
Web links
- The official website of the World Summit Awards
- List of previous winners of the World Summit Awards
- UN context ESC
Individual evidence
- ↑ UNESCO: UNESCO Grants Patronage for World Summit Award 2005. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 3, 2018 ; accessed on February 2, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ All about the WSA . World Summit Awards website. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
- ^ Aliye P. Celik: Foundations of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Categories and rules of the WSA ( Memento of February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). World Summit Awards website. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
