Welcome to the national registration page for the WSA Sri Lanka 2023!



Sorry, the registration for this award has been closed. If you have already registered, you can still complete your data by logging in.

WSA is a nomination based award system.

 

 

To apply you need to be nominated by either a WSA National Expert as best national digital solution for the UN SDGs in one of the 8 categories.

 

 

Each country can only nominate one project/solution per category. Nominations to the international WSA are possible through national contests and national expert panel selection.

 

 

Through this high level selectory system, please be aware that every country has their own deadlines for the call. The generally communicated WSA deadline is the timeframe of the global call, and communicates the last possible date of a nomination by the national expert panel.

 

 

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Be it a wearable to help the blind using smartphones, or a VR reanimating history-   WSA offers a platform for those, who think beyond the box.

Since 2003, over 600 Winners have been selected from over 82000 nominations, presenting a diameter of innovation from Indonesia to Argentina, from Iceland to New Zealand. Be it a tool for accurate diagnostics of wounds, a webpage to organize international meetings for you or a political think tank, the WSA Winners offer a vast spectre of digital innovation.

The WSA is the global follow-up initiative of the United Nations World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).

  • Global competition for digital solutions contributing to the UN SDGs

  • Focus on Digital Innovation and Creativity and Social Entrepreneurship

  • Active in over 184 UN member states

  • National pre-selection by global experts network: local winners = nominees for global WSA

  • 8 Categories

  • WSA Global Congress and Winners Award Ceremony

  • Conducted since 2003

The World Summit Award (WSA) was founded in 2003 by Austria as part of the UN World Summit on Information Society as a global initiative to award local digital content with high social value and presents it worldwide. Through close cooperation with the United Nations agencies and strategic alignment with the UN SDGs, the WSA is a globally recognized quality seal for digital innovation.

Visit for more information: www.wsa-global.org, facebook.com/WorldSummitAwards and twitter.com/WSAoffice

To apply for WSA you have to provide detailed information on your product in the WSA Database.

Please find here some guidelines on how you should provide this information in order to make the application easier to evaluate and process and hence promote your project the best.

Once you have read the guidelines to make the application, you can find here a manual to use the database.

CONTACT US FOR QUESTIONS!

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Chitranganie Mubarak

chitranganie@gmail.com

My key interest and focus has been on socio economic development with greater focus on socio economic development through digitization since 2015. under my stewardship as Chairperson, the ICTA Agency of Sri Lanka introduced several far reaching initiatives for digitizing Government processes, making Government more efficient and accessible to ordinary people. In 2014, I architected an award winning proposal to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Access to Learning Award (ATLA) and in 2019 conceptualized e-Swabhimani, the National Best e-Content Award to recognize digital innovation for social good.

I am passionate about work that can bring benefits to society at large and have conceptualized, planned and managed implementation of over 250 projects with diverse economic and social outcomes across the Country. I continue to work in this domain in close association with the UN led global initiative, World Summit Award, University of Colombo School of Computing, Centre for Womens Research ( CENWOR), grassroots projects and start ups. As an CIArb ( Chartered Institue of Arbitrators, UK ( CIArb) accredited mediator offer services to the CCC-ICLP International ADR Centre


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Please fill in your personal information in order to create a user account. Afterwards you will be able to sign in and register projects to submit to the contest.

To ensure my participation at one of the ICNM contests (World Summit Award, WSA Young Innovators) I am aware that the use of my submitted personal data is necessary.
The data will be submitted via ICNM (International Center for New Media, a registered society in Leopoldskronstrasse 30, 5020 Salzburg, Austria, organizing the WSA and WSA Young Innovators ) and will be kept minimum for the duration of the contest.
What is more, with my participation I give my consent to be included in future mailings about events and contests by ICNM, WSA and WSA Young Innovators. I can withdraw my consent any time (contact details below). The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
I have rights pursuant to GDPR in relation to the processing of your personal data, for example a right to information, data porting, to object and to erasure. In order to assert these rights and address other issues relating to the processing of personal data with ICNM, WSA and WSA Young Innovators , please contact them at: ICNM (International Center for New Media, Subject matter: Data protection query, Leopoldskronstrasse 30, 5020 Salzburg, Austria. Please alternatively forward your queries on the subject of data protection to: office@icnm.net.

I also have a right of appeal to the data protection authority of Austria on matters relating to data protection: www.dsb.gv.at.



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