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



Submit your digital innovation contributing to the achievement of one of the UN SDGs. Your application will be reviewed by your national expert. One local solution per WSA award category can be nominated by your national expert to the WSA Global competition.

Please register to get your login data for the WSA Contest Database! We wish you best of luck! Questions? Contact us!

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For more information please visit www.wsa-global.org/.

 

Welcome to the national registration page for the WSA Nigeria!


Welcome to Nigeria's global innovation showcase platform: (Innovationbed Ecosystem)

Since 2009, I was nominated as the World Summit Awards National Expert for Nigeria on a voluntary basis.

The journey has been inspiring and records set by Nigeria's Innovationbed ecosystem powered by my little foundation (Programos), highly rewarding, as we currently undergo scaling into a major AI career and productivity incubations for younger ones in our society!


You and your team developed a digital solution with a positive impact on your local users?
You want to receive global recognition and be nominated for the WSA 2024?
 

WSA selects and promotes local digital innovation improving society.
It is a non-monetary award system with a focus on sustainable knowledge transfer through a worldwide network.
Winners benefit not from a one-time financial reward, but a lifelong partnership and integration.

WSA invites all UN member states to nominate their best local digital solutions for the global award.

In order to get nominated, your National Expert, needs to recognize and select your solution as best digital impact solution in one of the 8 WSA categories from your country.
Each country can only nominate one project/solution per category per year.  

Here, WSA team collected comprehensive information for your use.

 

 



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.

Check out the WSA Winning Projects.


WSA seeks and recognizes Global Best Practices in digital Solutions achieving the UN SDGs
Become a Member of this Global Community, Turning Network Capital Into Professional Friendships
Global. Digital. Purpose Driven


WSA (World Summit Awards) is a unique awards system, selecting and promoting local digital innovation to improve society.

  • Global competition for digital solutions contributing to the UN SDGs
  • Focus on Digital Innovation and Creativity and Social Entrepreneurship

  • Active in over 182 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.

Check out our webpage, for more information: www.wsa-global.org

And follow us on:
facebook.com/WorldSummitAwards

https://www.instagram.com/worldsummitawards/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-summit-awards

twitter.com/WSAoffice

World Summit Awards is a nomination based system. To be considered for the Global Contest, you need to be nominated by a local National Expert. To apply for WSA local pre-selection round, you have to provide detailed information on your solution in this WSA Nomination Database.

Here you can find guidelines on how to fill out the application, rules of the contest, eligibility, tips and guiding questions for the Application. Please make sure to go through the materials, so that your submission has the highest chance of being nominated!

To make your user experience as flawless as possible, please refer to the Database user Manual.

If you run into any difficulties, don't hesitate to contact the WSA Office!

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Emmanuel Amos

programos.amos@gmail.com

Chief Software Architect and CEO of Programos Software Group, Mr. Amos Emmanuel is a prolific IT entrepreneur, social innovation developer, software developer, and machine learning engineer. He has served as the ICT backbone for numerous financial and investment research institutions, including Rims Securities Limited, Gloria Unit Trusts, and Rims Merchant Bank Group in Nigeria during the early ‘90s. Amos Emmanuel invented Nigerias pioneering, award-winning capital market software, #CloudIntegra, and #CloudIntegra #Mobile #App, for licensed stock market dealers and Investors of the African Stock Exchanges. His indigenous and Multi-Award winning software has served Nigeria and Ghana regions for over two decades.

Mr Amos Emmanuel who hails from Ekpenyong-Atai, Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom state, is the Founder of Programos Foundation, a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization that fosters a national innovation ecosystem for multi-disciplinary career transformations in computing, Artificial Intelligence and machine Learning. The foundation incubates world-class innovators through the Career Transformation (Innovationbed (Africa) Academy4AI Mentorship Platform: AI-ML Mentorship Platform for all Professionals) - a platform that enables undergraduate students from all fields of study to cultivate skills in developing digital services and products from their domain career contents. This initiative that has collaborations across different countries aims to enhance the academic journey of participants so as to contribute positively to national development by leveraging global advancements in Open Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

He is the United Nations World Summit Awards Eminent National Expert for Nigeria and a Grand Jury member volunteering to tech-scout, mentor, and showcase globally homegrown, purpose-driven, digital innovation with a highly positive impact on improving the Nigerian society to the world stage.

Mr Amos Emmanuel who is a Mentor on the MasterCard Foundation Associate Mentorship Program, is a life member of the Nigeria Computer Society, NCS, member of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, member and former Vice President, Information Technology Association of Nigeria, ITAN, Fellow of the Institute of Information Management, IIM, and Chief Data Officer Ambassador, CDOA. He is an Alumni of the PG Program in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Business Applications by the University of Texas, Austin, US. Contact: Programos.amos@gmail.com
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Summary:
Emmanuel Amos mNCS, FIIM, CDOA
- Chief Software Architect/CEO, Programos Software Limited
- President, Programos Foundation, Nigeria
- Founder, Innovationbed (Africa) Academy4AI Mentorship Platform: AI-ML Mentorship Platform for all Professionals
- United Nations World Summit Awards Eminent National Expert for Nigeria
- Author & Designer: CloudIntegra and CiMobile App for Equity/Bond StockTrading
- Fmr VP, Information Technology Association of Nigeria
- Fmr Director of Policy (Africa), Global Digital Foundation based in Brussels. The polyglot programmer and innovator per excellence is the Policy Director Africa on the Global Digital Foundation based in Europe with presence in Canberra, the Americas and Asia Pacific. https://www.globaldigitalfoundation.org/prospectus-1
Contact: Programos.amos@gmail.com, programos2000@hotmail.com
www.innovationbed.com


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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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