Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20

Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 Forum High-Level Event 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland. Overall, projects from 18 countries were presented with WSIS Prizes top honours, showcasing leading efforts to bridge the digital divide, foster digital inclusion, and drive socio-economic progress on a global scale. “This year's WSIS Prizes demonstrate the innovation and energy that exist to find technological solutions to some of the globe's biggest challenges," said ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin. “These are the creative contributions that the world needs in our effort to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals." JaWAra Internet Sehat is a project to encourage young digital activists in the region to become community leaders (local champions) who will initiate and drive digital literacy education programs with a local and bottom-up approach, creating changes from the grassroots. This project was undertaken by ICT Watch and WhatsApp, with the support of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) of the Republic of Indonesia, Relawan TIK Indonesia (Indonesia ICT Volunteers) and Digital Literacy National Movement "SIBERKREASI". In their activities, the local champions provide digital literacy education to many elements of society, especially to people in villages/rural areas, children, people with disabilities, youth, and women (mothers), through local approaches that are easily accepted, such as wayang (traditional puppets) show, local cultural content, movies, games (cards/snakes and ladders), etc. This project also develops the distance learning system through https://akademi.internetsehat.id and Digital Literacy WhatsApp ChatBot at https://s.id/kakinat, so the communities can carry out self-learning for some topics, such as combating hoaxes, digital security, personal data protection, etc. The chatbot has already followed by 21,345 participants. In 2021, this program recruited 60 local youth champions (JaWAra) who successfully ran 108 digital literacy education programs in their respective areas. This program reached 29,731 people in 73 regencies/cities from 26 provinces. In 2022, we recruited another 100 local youth champions who ran 186 digital literacy programs, reaching 237,784 people. In 2023, we focused on tackling hoaxes toward the General Election of 2024. The JaWAra were involved in the education in 8 cities that covered 3,681 participants. We documented some inspirational stories of this program (2021-2022) in the book "Bunga Rampai (Multiauthor) Jawara Internet Sehat" which can be downloaded at https://jawara.internetsehat.id/buku-bunga-rampai/ Project website https://jawara.internetsehat.id/

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Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20

Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 Forum High-Level Event 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland. Overall, projects from 18 countries were presented with WSIS Prizes top honours, showcasing leading efforts to bridge the digital divide, foster digital inclusion, and drive socio-economic progress on a global scale. “This year's WSIS Prizes demonstrate the innovation and energy that exist to find technological solutions to some of the globe's biggest challenges," said ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin. “These are the creative contributions that the world needs in our effort to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals." Smartpur, Nokia’s flagship CSR initiative, is a digital village ecosystem project aimed at integrating technology into the daily lives of communities living in remote villages across India. Smartpur is executed in partnership with Save the Children India and Digital Empowerment Foundation. The project intends to empower and support local entrepreneurs through digital technology. Entrepreneurs are provided with facilities to make services across the pillars of Livelihood, Health, Education, Financial Inclusion, and Governance accessible at the village level through Smartpur centers. Beneficiaries of the project leverage digital tools to access livelihood opportunities and skill-based training programs, telemedicine services, education in technology and computer literacy, financial services such as banking, and government schemes and services. The project was first implemented in 2017 with 10 Smartpur centers established in the state of Haryana. The number of centers has since grown to 350 in 2023, established in 10 states across India. Between 2017 and 2022, 40 centers have been exited sustainably. These centers continue to provide the intended services to rural communities and generate a livelihood for the entrepreneurs. The project has created large-scale social impact – it reached over million beneficiaries. Between April 2022 and March 2023 alone, the project reached over 835,100 beneficiaries. Approximately 480,000 people were supported with access and awareness on social protection schemes and services; over 26,900 people sought digital literacy training, career counselling camps and academic support; more than 297,500 people accessed financial literacy services such as conducting digital financial transactions, opening and operating banks accounts, and financial literacy; over 17,500 received telemedicine services and attended health awareness camps, and over 9,600 people were linked with livelihood opportunities, received vocational training, and trained on life skills. Project website https://smartpur.in/the-project/

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Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20

Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 Forum High-Level Event 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland. Overall, projects from 18 countries were presented with WSIS Prizes top honours, showcasing leading efforts to bridge the digital divide, foster digital inclusion, and drive socio-economic progress on a global scale. “This year's WSIS Prizes demonstrate the innovation and energy that exist to find technological solutions to some of the globe's biggest challenges," said ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin. “These are the creative contributions that the world needs in our effort to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals." The cultural heritage sector is at a crossroads. The boost of digitalisation and technology are the ultimate solutions for new approaches to engage citizens with cultural heritage. Digital storytelling enables unprecedented forms of engagement and opens up new spaces for educational contexts to explore collaborative forms to understand, preserve and engage with cultural heritage. E-learning tools promote access to cultural content in homes, schools and universities, and allow people to generate, reuse and add value to content, enhancing the value of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Still, education in cultural heritage is commonly perceived as discipline-bound, unidirectional and academic, not consistent with the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines (CAST 2018), which favors a learner-centric approach catering the needs of all learners. Accessibility and inclusion are crucial concepts in cultural heritage for achieving the CRPD (2006), and the UN Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “Young ArcHers” is an Erasmus+ project that tackles climate change, it helps to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and boosts research and innovation in educational environments at a local, regional and international level. The project proposes a mindset shift in education advocating the use of cultural heritage, as a valuable tool for educators to create inclusive and accessible digital storytelling content for promoting intercultural dialog and social inclusion. “Young ArcHers” intends to offer efficient and accessible interdisciplinary tools to support teachers in incentivizing students, including children with disabilities, and those originating from socio-culturally diverse backgrounds, to discover the value of their local built heritage, use digital technology to consolidate new knowledge, and engage in the promotion and protection of heritage buildings through local and international awareness campaigns. Project website https://youngarchers.eu/

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Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20

Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 Forum High-Level Event 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland. Overall, projects from 18 countries were presented with WSIS Prizes top honours, showcasing leading efforts to bridge the digital divide, foster digital inclusion, and drive socio-economic progress on a global scale. “This year's WSIS Prizes demonstrate the innovation and energy that exist to find technological solutions to some of the globe's biggest challenges," said ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin. “These are the creative contributions that the world needs in our effort to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals." "Our solution stems the challenge of lack of affordable and meaningful Tanzania as recommended by the UN Secretary General’s report on Digital Cooperation. Although there are 6 telecom companies in Tanzania the competition among them has never been pure. There is what is suspected as collusion in pricing fixing of data bundle. This causes Internet poverty and the victims are the ordinary citizens and more so the marginalized rural and underserved urban populations. The problem of Internet affordability took us to the path that we began to think about digital divide as whole set of divides in Internet access, digital skills, and digital gender gap. The end result of the thinking resulted in the so called “strength in numbers”. That is that is it possible to bring people together to share the cost of a broadband infrastructure and monthly data bundle package to bring the cost of Internet down? Is this possible to use numbers in cooperative arrangement to do this? We tested this hypothesis between 2021 and 2023 by establishing a community driven project called Tanzania Digital Inclusion Project. The project aimed higher- connecting citizens to meaningful Internet, creating community network innovation hubs, providing digital skills, digital adult education, e-learning skills for teachers and STEM trainings for girls to reduce digital gender gap. Ten year(10) Objectives of our solution(TADIP). 1. To provide Meaningful and Affordable broaband Internet to 4 million citizens. 2. To provide digital skills to 1.5 million youth and women 3. To engage 100,000 girls in STEM trainings program 4. To establish 200 Community Network Innovation Hubs Approach Our approach is use of cooperative arrangement, where all community stakeholders share the cost of establishing the Internet infrastructure and monthly cost of data bundle. The aim is not profit but cost-sharing to bring down the cost of making affordable and meaningful Internet available for every subscriber in the community where can have the Internet." Project website https://www.linkedin.com/in/nazar-nicholas-69656ab7/

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Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20

Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 Forum High-Level Event 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland. Overall, projects from 18 countries were presented with WSIS Prizes top honours, showcasing leading efforts to bridge the digital divide, foster digital inclusion, and drive socio-economic progress on a global scale. “This year's WSIS Prizes demonstrate the innovation and energy that exist to find technological solutions to some of the globe's biggest challenges," said ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin. “These are the creative contributions that the world needs in our effort to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals." The "University Diploma on Internet Governance and Regulations" is a project created by the South School on Internet Governance (SSIG) in partnership with the University of Mendoza (from Argentina) and the State University of Paraíba (Brazil). This University diploma focused on Internet Governance and its relgulations is granted at no cost to SSIG fellows. SSIG has established three different academic stages that students must approve: 1- A pre-training course, available online in three languages (english, spanish, portuguese) of eight weeks. 2- An intensive hybrid format training of 40 hs (five complete days) organized in different countries of the Americas. 2023 edition was organized in the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba State, Brazil. 3- A research phase with tutors and guidance from the University of Mendoza (Argentina) and the Universidad State University of Paraíba (Brazil). This stage is done virtually. The whole program is completed in six month, successful students recieve the University Diploma granted by these universities, as part of the SSIG academic project. There are remarkable feautures of this University Diploma: - All activities can be done virtually - All activities and materials are available in : english, spanish and portuguese. - The second hybrid phase of one full week of 40 hs of training allows the face to face interation of fellows that participate in the selected venue. - All activities have NO cost for fellows who attend all classes, complete sucessfully the evaluations and do the final research. This Diploma has been offered since 2022, since then two cohorts have finished the research and recieved the diploma. So far 70 fellows have completed the research and recieved the diploma from: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, México, Kenya., Italy, Panamá, Colombia, Uruguay, Perú, Paraguay and Venezuela. All stages of the capacity building including the research phase to obtain the "University Diploma on Internet Governance and Regulations" can be done virtually. Project website https://gobernanzainternet.org/

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Martin Johnson embarks on his most challenging run, as he explores the connection between Black British history and the River Thames. Martin attempts to set a new fastest known time on the 184-mile

Martin Johnson embarks on his most challenging run, as he explores the connection between Black British history and the River Thames. Martin attempts to set a new fastest known time on the 184-mile Thames Path—running from the Thames Barrier in London to the source of the river in the Cotswolds. What starts as a grueling and ambitious record-breaking attempt turns into a journey of discovery. He learns both about himself and the entangled history between Black people and the river. Martin hopes his run will encourage more diversity in the sport of trail running and inspire others to get out beyond the city and run. Tune in on February 23rd at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm GMT / 7pm CET to watch the online premiere. Martin will be joined by the cast and crew to answer your questions.

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Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20

Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 Forum High-Level Event 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland. Overall, projects from 18 countries were presented with WSIS Prizes top honours, showcasing leading efforts to bridge the digital divide, foster digital inclusion, and drive socio-economic progress on a global scale. “This year's WSIS Prizes demonstrate the innovation and energy that exist to find technological solutions to some of the globe's biggest challenges," said ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin. “These are the creative contributions that the world needs in our effort to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals." When disaster strikes, clear communication becomes a lifeline. Recognizing this critical need, Northern Mindanao's Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) established the Regional Disaster Network (RDN) in 2022. RDN leverages an unexpected hero: VHF/HF radio technology. While modern communication tools are valuable, they crumble under disaster's pressure. RDN bypasses this vulnerability with VHF/HF radios, independent of fragile infrastructure like the internet. These robust systems remain operational even when traditional networks fail, ensuring vital communication channels for DICT offices, relay stations, and disaster management units. VHF/HF radios boast another advantage: unparalleled reach. Their waves travel far, bridging communication gaps in remote areas often inaccessible to conventional technologies. This ensures information flows uninterrupted even in the furthest corners of the region. During the Malitbog landslide and Misamis Occidental shearline incidents, the network facilitated rapid information exchange, leading to swift and coordinated rescue efforts. Lives were saved, property protected, and communities empowered to navigate the crisis with improved information and coordination. RDN's influence extends beyond immediate response. Its proactive approach of utilizing VHF/HF technology and redundancy in communication infrastructure, equips communities with the tools and knowledge needed to become active participants in their own safety and preparedness.

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Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20

Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 Forum High-Level Event 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland. Overall, projects from 18 countries were presented with WSIS Prizes top honours, showcasing leading efforts to bridge the digital divide, foster digital inclusion, and drive socio-economic progress on a global scale. “This year's WSIS Prizes demonstrate the innovation and energy that exist to find technological solutions to some of the globe's biggest challenges," said ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin. “These are the creative contributions that the world needs in our effort to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals." Documenting and Digitizing Setif’s Tangible and intangible cultural heritage and Arts in the Digital Age The Center for Digitization and Documentation of Heritage and Arts in Setif (CDDHA) is a project that aims to create a digital platform and a smartphone app that can preserve and promote the cultural heritage and arts of Setif in the metaverse. The project’s objectives are to document the heritage and arts of Setif digitally in the virtual world, to digitize them in two- and three-dimensional formats, and to obtain certificates of ownership in the virtual world with tradable crypto assets (NFT's). The project’s results include a digital platform with a specialized search engine and a digital section to display the documented heritage and arts, a smartphone app with a similar functionality, and a web browser plugin (ai search assistant) that can access the platform and app. The project’s impact is to enhance the protection and conservation of the cultural heritage and arts of Setif, to increase the awareness and education of the users, and to foster the participation and empowerment of the local people and communities. Project website https://dats.dz/CDDHAS

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Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20

Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 Forum High-Level Event 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland. Overall, projects from 18 countries were presented with WSIS Prizes top honours, showcasing leading efforts to bridge the digital divide, foster digital inclusion, and drive socio-economic progress on a global scale. “This year's WSIS Prizes demonstrate the innovation and energy that exist to find technological solutions to some of the globe's biggest challenges," said ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin. “These are the creative contributions that the world needs in our effort to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals." The Interactive Tool of Policies, Terms and Conditions Applicable in the Use of Digital Platforms allows users to know and compare the information that main digital platforms collect from users, as well as the treatment given to their personal data and the options, they have within the platforms to delete or manage it. The main objective of this Tool is to provide users with transparent and accessible information on the treatment given to their information and the permissions or licenses granted on the management of it to the various digital platforms when they use the services provided. With the Interactive Tool of Policies, Terms and Conditions Applicable in the Use of Digital Platforms, users have the possibility of consulting information from at least 45 digital platforms, and the information is classified for better understanding into ten categories, which are: 1. Dating Apps, 2. Telecommuting applications, 3. Terminal equipment, 4. E-commerce platforms, 5. Entertainment platforms, 6. Transport platforms, 7. Social media, 8. Food transportation services, 9. Operating Systems 10. Mobile video games. Project website https://plataformasdigitales.ift.org.mx/public/categoria/14/aplicaciones-de-citas

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B-Roll from the ITU AI for Good Global Summit, Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 July 2023. Duration: 11 minutes 31 seconds 00:00:00 – 00:05:22 – Slate 00:05:22– 00:52:02 – Werner Vogels, Chief

B-Roll from the ITU AI for Good Global Summit, Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 July 2023. Duration: 11 minutes 31 seconds 00:00:00 – 00:05:22 – Slate 00:05:22– 00:52:02 – Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Amazon. Keynote speech. 00:52:02 – 01:37:12 – Robotics demonstrations at ITU AI for Good Global Summit 01:37:12– 02:09:00 – Talks and discussions at ITU AI for Good Global Summit 02:09:00 – 03:03:05 – Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General, ITU and Lili Ibrahim, Chief Operating Officer, Google DeepMind. Panel discussion. 03:03:05 – 05:16:10 – Frederic Werner, Head, Strategic Engagement, TSB, ITU and Reinhard Scholl, Deputy Director, TSB, ITU “AI for Good in Action” (extract) 05:16:10 – 05:43:20 –Serge Conesa , Founder, Chairman & CEO, Immersion4 “Emergency efficiency for AI” (extract) 05:44:15 – 06:18:09– Panel discussion. “Crowdsourcing AI solutions for climate change.” 06:18:09 – 06:53:07 – Mauel Marina Breysse, Cardiologist, CEO & Co-Founder IDOVEN 06:53:07 – 07:25:19 – Global Initiative on AI for Health ribbon cutting 07:25:19 – 08:06:18 – Babak Hodjat, CTO AI, Cognizant, “Project Resilience – facilitating collaborative AI solutions to global problems” 08:06:18 – 09:22:10 – Anne Neuberger, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Security Advisor, White House and Roberto Viola, Deputy General of DGCONNECT European Commission “Fostering Cross Regional Collaboration on AI” 09:22:10 – 10:34:22 – Amandeep Singh Gill, UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Technology, United Nations 10:34:22 – 11:27:16 – Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General, ITU and Lori Rodney, Global Communications Leader, Shutterstock. 11:27:16 – 11:31:07 – Logo #aiforgood

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