Doha: The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MCIT) has called on the citizens, residents and stakeholders in the State of Qatar to vote for the Qatari projects nominated for the awards of the World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS) 2023 via the voting link of the competition.
The deadline for voting is January 25.
Organised by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the competition is a global platform to identify and unveil the success stories in implementing the 18th action lines endorsed by WSIS Forum in Geneva action plan to establish an effective mechanism to evaluate the projects that harness the capabilities of information and communications technology in giving impetus to the sustainable development, MCIT stated.
It noted that the list of the nominated projects included 10 projects represented by Tasmu Digital Valley-MCIT- for the first category, ‘Role of governments and stakeholders in mobilising ICTs for sustainable development’, Government Data Center-MCIT- for the second category, ‘Information and Communication Infrastructure’, Government Network-MCIT- for the second category, ‘Information and Communication Infrastructure’, and Qatar Open Data Portal- MCIT- for the third category, 'Information and knowledge accessibility'.
E-learning programme to train the elderly — The Elderly Empowerment and Care Center ‘Ehsan’ — for the fourth category ‘Capacity building’, National Information Security Compliance Framework (NISCF)-National Cyber Security Agency - for the fifth category, ‘Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs’.
In addition, MCIT added that among the Qatari projects nominated for the forum were Qatar e-Government Portal (Hukoomi)-MCIT- for the seventh category, ‘Electronic government’, and Industrial Services Platform-Ministry of Commerce and Industry- for the seventh category, ‘Electronic works’, Digital Farmer Community-MCIT- for the seventh category, 'e-agriculture', and Media Analytics Service-MCIT- for the ninth category, 'Media'.
The ministry pointed out that after the expiry of the voting deadline for all projects nominated from various countries around the world, five projects which have received the largest number of votes will be identified for each of the 18 categories.
It added that in the fourth stage of the competition, a team of experts from ITU will conduct in-depth analysis for the five most voted projects for each category, and select one winner project for each category, while winners and champions will be announced accordingly.
During the fifth and final stage for the competition, the 18 winners will be officially announced, MCIT said, in addition to honouring them with the 17 champions who will receive excellence certificates on the sidelines of the WSIS Forum 2023.
The details of the winning projects will be illustrated within the WSIS Stocktaking: Success Stories 2023 book, and all descriptions of the projects, along with the activities presented to the competition will be incorporated into the report of implementing the outcomes of (WSIS) Forum 2023.
The summit’s awards ceremony represents a tribute for the qualified and winning projects and programmes which have been distinct during the competition stages and qualified for the final stages.
During the period from September 7 to December 14, 2022, all WSIS stakeholders were invited to submit WSIS related projects to the WSIS Prize 2023 contest.
The 18 winning projects will be announced and, together with the 72 champion projects, recognised at the WSIS Prize 2023 Ceremony at WSIS Forum 2023 to be held on March 14.
