Welcome to the national registration page for the WSA Malaysia 2024!



"Promoting Outstanding Digital Innovations

with Positive Impact on Society"

World Summit Awards (WSA) Malaysia is the Malaysian Local Chapter of WSA Global

WSA (World Summit Awards) is a unique awards system, with 20 years of international experience and 182 participating countries. WSA selects and promotes local digital innovation to improve society. Combining an ongoing  series of international events and activities with a global network of start-ups, social entrepreneurs, mentors, jurors, speakers, experts, government leaders, academia and civil society, WSA is an international platform for cutting edge examples of how ICTs can impact society in a positive way.

 

WSA Malaysia National Competition

WSA is a nomination based competition. The appointed WSA National Expert by WSA Global is Renuka Sena, Founder and CEO of PROFICEO. Proficeo is the official organiser of WSA Malaysia National Competition.  

Awards Category

The WSA aims to uncover and celebrate digital solutions that demonstrate how the  UN Sustainable Development Goals are put into action in National Ecosystems via use of ICT and/or Digital Solutions. The World Summit Awards has 8 categories and also the WSA Young Innovators Award.

These are the 8 main categories for the World Summit Awards.

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The WSA Young Innovators is a special call within the framework of WSA, that promotes and awards young social entrepreneurs.

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For more information, please contact programs@proficeo.com
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National Expert of WSA Malaysia

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Renuka Sena

CEO Proficeo|Senior Partner Scaleup Malaysia|National Expert, Malaysia, World Summit Awards

Renuka began her career as a lawyer. With a Masters in IP and IT Commercialisation from Kings College, London, she worked with companies like IBM, Microsoft and SAP whilst at the law firm, Skrine.  

She joined a Startup in 2000, supporting their launch, Business Development and Fundraising journey and also their eventual closure. Learning ground up was humbling and taught her invaluable lessons which led to co-founding Proficeo - a Startup Ecosystem Builder - in 2008. At Proficeo, she has had the privilege of working with more than 1000 startups via coaching programs Proficeo designed for the Malaysian Government. 

One program that changed the course of her life was a program Proficeo designed for micro-entrepreneurs - where she witnessed how digital transformation can lift individuals out of poverty whilst catalysing a multiplier effect in their communities. This was a pivotal moment in her career which led her to focus on Impact Entrepreneurs since 2020 and where today, she is the Malaysian National Expert for the World Summit Awards, the largest Digital Global Impact Competition for the United Nations SDGs.

Renuka is also an Angel Investor. She has invested in over 40 startups via direct investments and also via Scaleup Malaysia, an accelerator she co-founded and where she is the Senior Partner.

Fun Fact : She loves travelling off the beaten path and makes it a point to seek out and support Social Enterprises in every destination she visits.

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Congratulations to the Malaysian winners for 2023!

 

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Nomination Based Competition
 

The only way to qualify for the WSA Global Contest is via nominations from the Malaysian National Expert. The winners from each of the 8 WSA categories from the Malaysian National Competition will then be nominated to the Global Contest.
Thus, the first step is to register for the WSA Malaysia National Competition
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Register & Apply here Application form template for WSA database

 

Eligibility

  • Any company/ business registered on SSM is welcome to apply. 
  • For the Young Innovators Award, all Malaysian youth under the age of 26 are eligible to apply
  • Digital applications with a strong impact on society and aligned to any of the 17 UN SDGs are eligible to apply within any of the 8 WSA categories and the WSA Young Innovators Award.

Applications

  • Any Digital Application including Mobile Applications, SMS based products, Web-Apps, databases, kiosk installations, wearables, IoT, Blockchain applications and Digital Solutions incorporating AI or Data Analytics
  • There is no limitation regarding the platforms the digital solution uses. 
  • The digital solution should already be launched, with traction of revenue and/or users i.e. market ready or already in the market. No ideas, drafts, demonstrations or concepts are accepted. 
  • Only applications that are fully completed and submitted will be considered. 
  • Products older than three years at the time of nomination must include updates or new features to qualify.
  • Participation is free

Technical Criteria

  • CONTENT | Quality and comprehensiveness
  • FUNCTIONALITY | Ease of use, user experience, appropriate interactivity
  • DESIGN | Navigation/orientation and visual appeal
  • TECHNOLOGY | State of the art in technology and quality of technical realisation
  • INNOVATION | Originality and newness to targeted users, Business model, society and market

Strategic Criteria

  • IMPACT | Local Impact / Impact on society 
  • GLOBAL / UN VALUE

Category switch

  • The National Expert, Local and International Jury reserves the right to switch a submission to a different category if they find it better fitting for the particular solution and this decision is final.

Winners selection process

  • Winners in each category will be selected at the WSA Malaysia National Finals. Only the Top 3 shortlisted candidates in each category will be chosen to pitch at the National Finals. Decision of the Malaysian winners by the Malaysia Jury is final and cannot be legally challenged.
  • Only one winner per category will be selected at the WSA Malaysia National Finals. The winning solution per WSA award category will then be nominated by the Malaysian National Expert to the WSA Global competition.

Jury Process

The WSA Jury Process is a strictly democratic and transparent system to guarantee a fair and diverse selection of digital innovation. Once a digital solution is nominated by each National Expert from around the world for the WSA Global Competition, it has to pass several stages of evaluation and assessment before it can become a WSA Winner and maybe even a Global Champion.

Round 1 - WSA National Nomination - 1 nomination per Category
Round 2 - WSA Global Competition - up to 5 winners for each Category.
Round 3 - WSA Global Congress - 1 Global Champion per Category

Register now!

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.

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