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AFROCOMIX RANKS BETWEEN 40 BEST DIGITAL SOLUTIONS FOR SOCIAL IMPACT IN THE WORLD 2018

AFROCOMIX RANKS BETWEEN 40 BEST DIGITAL SOLUTIONS FOR SOCIAL IMPACT IN THE WORLD 2018

WORLD SUMMIT AWARDS (WSA) PRESENTS ITS MASTER LIST ON DIGITAL INNOVATION WITH SOCIAL IMPACT FROM 26 COUNTRIES

 

ACCRA/27.11.18

World Summit Award Winners 2018

World Summit Award Winners 2018

World Summit Awards present a global spectrum of change making projects ranging from big data for tourism to organ 3D printing, from a job-platform focusing on female tech talent to empowering smallholder farms – no matter what the technology, it’s the unique content that makes this top 40 exceptional.

Afrocomix is a content hub for all Afrocentric creative work made by African creatives on the continent to provide a one stop shop for people all over the world who love African content.

It focuses on monetization, social integration and fixing the issue of fragmentation among the African creative industry who live and work in Africa

 

40 Winners from 26 countries, selected from over 400 nominations from 104 UN members states.

WSA 2018 once more presents a diameter of digital innovation from Chile to Bangladesh, from Rwanda to Lithuania. Ranging from Girlythings, a Pakistani Woman’s Empowerment App to Grasshoppers, a Sri Lankan e-commerce fulfillment service; from the Slovenian Feelif, using IoT to support the blind, to M-Shule a Kenyian AI based mobile learning platform to connect primary school students –

The 40 winners from 26 countries, offer a perfect diameter of how of digital innovation solves challenges in the 21st century.

The WSA Winner’s 2018 list is manifold, offers many more jewels of innovation, and above is just a small selection.


Focusing foremost on the content and the impact in their local communities, not only the technical finesse and design, WSA assembled international experts from all regions and fields to select the 40 winners. The final jury phase concluded in an on-site three days meeting in Accra, Ghana of 16 international high level experts, deciding in a democratic and transparent process on the most powerful and content rich solutions 2018.

 

Leti Arts’ Afrocomix will be honoured with the World Summit Award in front of UN representatives, ICT ministries and the private sector. Leti  will receive their Award in the Culture and Tourism Category at the World Summit Awards Global Congress in Cascais.

“Today we are living in a completely different environment – through the mobile revolution, through the emergence of the algorithmic age – data has become a capital as much as labour, land money and machinery. Hunting for the next unicorn and better, faster, bigger technology foster the digital divide, instead of mending it. Hence, it is more important than ever to evaluate what is excellent content that really offers solutions and impact. Qualitative, local content has become the key and permanent issue. WSA presents innovation that uses ICT for social connectivity. To connect for impact.“ WSA Chairman Peter A. Bruck states.

The WSA winners 2018 will present their innovations and receive their awards at the WSA Global Congress in Cascais, Portugal (March 11-13, 2019). The agenda of the WSA Congress will be a compilation of interaction and inspiration, assembling workshops, business blind-dates and inspiring keynotes, bringing together the global and multi-stakeholder network of WSA.

 

About the WSA

The World Summit Award is a global initiative within the framework of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). WSA is the only ICT event worldwide, that reaches the mobile community in over 180 countries.

Visit us on www.worldsummitawards.org, facebook.com/worldsummitawards, instagram.com/worldsummitawards and twitter.com/WSAoffice, #WSA

 

 

 

WORLD SUMMIT AWARD WINNERS 2018
Category ProductTitle Product URL Country
Government & Citizen Engagement CHAOS AI https://www.chaosarchitects.com/dashboard Finland
Government & Citizen Engagement Land Conflict Watch https://www.landconflictwatch.org/ India
Government & Citizen Engagement Supercivics https://www.supercivicos.com Mexico
Government & Citizen Engagement IremboGov http://IREMBO Rwanda
Government & Citizen Engagement Citibeats https://citibeats.net/ Spain
Health & Well-Being MedHealth TV http://www.medhealthtv.com India
Health & Well-Being Complete Anatomy 2019 https://3d4medical.com/apps/complete-anatomy Ireland
Health & Well-Being Proximie http://www.proximie.com Lebanon
Health & Well-Being Girlythings http://girlythings.pk/ Pakistan
Health & Well-Being Clickmedix https://clickmedix.com/solutions/ United States
Learning & Education GameLab Education http://www.gamelabeducation.com/en/games/ Chile
Learning & Education M-Shule http://www.m-shule.com Kenya
Learning & Education Microcomputers for Kids http://www.kompiuteriukai.lt/ Lithuania
Learning & Education RAAJI https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.auratraaj.raaji Pakistan
Learning & Education Body Interact www.bodyinteract.com Portugal
Environment & Green Energy Geopotato https://g4aw.spaceoffice.nl/en/projects/g4aw-projects/73/geodata-to-control-potato-late-blight-in-bangladesh-geopotato-.html Bangladesh
Environment & Green Energy World Cleanup https://www.worldcleanupday.org/map-it/ Brazil
Environment & Green Energy CAALA Energetic Pre-Dimensioning Tool https://caala.de/ Germany
Environment & Green Energy Kuza One http://www.kuza.one/ Kenya
Environment & Green Energy yonodesperdicio.org https://yonodesperdicio.org Spain
Culture & Tourism Afrocomix http://afrocomix.letiarts.com/ Ghana
Culture & Tourism The Great War told through VR (Virtual Reality): the innovative immersive experience of the Museum of Monte San Michele http://www.museodelmontesanmichele.it Italy
Culture & Tourism Baahdy & Birdy https://www.baahdybirdy.com Norway
Culture & Tourism Wikiloc https://www.wikiloc.com/ Spain
Culture & Tourism Smartify CIC http://smartify.org.uk United Kingdom
Smart Settlements & Urbanization S!E: emergency information system http://www.sieapp.cl/en/ Chile
Smart Settlements & Urbanization WheeLog! https://www.wheelog.com/ Japan
Smart Settlements & Urbanization Jetty https://www.jetty.mx/ Mexico
Smart Settlements & Urbanization Universal Structural Health Evaluation and Recording (USHER) System http://upark.com.ph/usher/#/ Philippines
Smart Settlements & Urbanization Via Verde mobility digital ecosystem https://www.viaverde.pt/ Portugal
Business & Commerce Sokowatch http://www.sokowatch.com/ Kenya
Business & Commerce Scriptr https://scriptr.io   Lebanon
Business & Commerce Pulsetip https://www.pulsetip.com Lithuania
Business & Commerce Carrot Estate Planning Simplified https://www.carrot.ng Nigeria
Business & Commerce Grasshoppers Technology Stack for E-Commerce Fulfillment http://www.grasshoppers.lk Sri Lanka
Inclusion & Empowerment Virtual Assistant for Social Inclusion and Autonomy https://www.cpqd.com.br/cpqd-alcance/ Brazil
Inclusion & Empowerment waytoB https://www.waytob.com Ireland
Inclusion & Empowerment R2T – Reach to Teach – Tabshoura http://lal.ngo/index.php/r2t/ Lebanon
Inclusion & Empowerment Deaf Pedia http://www.DeafPedia.net Qatar
Inclusion & Empowerment Multimedia device for blind people -Feelif https://www.feelif.com/ Slovenia