Welcome to the national registration page for the WSA Cambodia 2025!



Apply with your purpose-driven digital solution by June 30th for a chance to be one of the 40 World Summit Awards Winners of 2025! After submission, your National Expert will review applications from your country and nominate the eight most impactful solutions for the global round.

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

To apply, you need to register on this website and fill out the application for the National Round until June 30th, 2025.

The application consists of 17 mandatory questions, but don’t worry:

  • 2 are simple yes/no questions,
  • 1 is a multiple-choice selection,
  • 3 require answers under 200 characters.

That means you’re really answering just 11 full questions, and completing the form should take between 30 to 90 minutes.

Your responses will help WSA National Experts assess your solution's relevance and impact. Based on this information, they will decide whether to nominate you for the WSA Global Contest.

WSA welcomes digitial solutions that

1) Create positive impact (and can provide measurable impact numbers),

2) Are fully launched and operational,

3) Were launched in 2022 or later.

When applying, you’ll select one of eight award categories. You can find detailed explanations of each category on website. 

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From advanced innovative solutions to simple, yet highly impactful digital tools for marginalized communities, WSA searches for and awards those that change their communities for the better.

Since 2003, over 600 Winners have been awarded from over 82000 nominations. WSA winners use digital technology in creative and innovative ways to tackle local and global challenges. If you would like to browse through our past winners to get a sense of what our Jury members are looking for, head to the complete database of the WSA winners.

If you would like to become one of our next winners, apply for the national pre-selections by June 30th, 2025! We're really excited to hear about your digital impact-driven solution. 


World Summit Awards is a global multi-stakeholder community, connecting and supporting digital impact innovators who tackle global challenges. Since 2003, WSA uses the mechanism of a unique award system to find and recognize digital solutions for the UN SDGs and bridging digital divides.

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

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David Shelters

dmshelters@yahoo.com

David possesses 30 years of entrepreneurial experience as a founder, CFO and board advisor to numerous tech start-ups in both America and Asia. David is currently Adjunct Professor lecturing on Entrepreneurship at American University of Phnom Penh and National University of Management. Recently served as Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Mekong Strategic Partners advising the portfolio companies of the SADIF Fund, the most active VC in Cambodia. He is an active startup community builder, serving as keynote speaker, mentor and pitch judge for numerous local incubator programs, startup events and competitions.
In 2013 David joined the WSA family when he was invited to speak and serve as a Finalist Judge at the World Summit Awards held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Following this event he successfully petitioned for the establishment of a National WSA Nomination Committee in Thailand. Since 2013 David has performed as both a WSA National Expert and Global Jurist. In 2020 David re-located to Cambodia and resumed his community-building activities, including becoming a WSA National Expert for Cambodia and helping assemble the country’s first WSA national nomination committee.
In addition to the World Summit Awards David is also an Innovation & Regional Expert for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) composing a report titled, APAC Regional Good Practices for Accelerating Digital Transformation and a toolkit titled, Accelerating Digital Innovation & Entrepreneurship. He has also conducted stakeholder collaboration workshops for the ITU in Norway and South Korea. Other international organizations David has worked with include the World Bank, Seedstars World, SwissContact, Asia Foundation, Three-Day Startup, Startup Grind, the Global Startup Genome Project and Global Entrepreneurship Network.
David is a John Wiley published author who has written extensively on start-ups and startup ecosystems. David has three full-length books to his credit including his latest book, Building Startup Ecosystems. Recently David was a contributing writer to Ecosystem Arabia by best-selling author Amir Hegazi. In the book David is frequently cited and featured as a global thought leader in the startup ecosystem development space.

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David Shelters

dmshelters@yahoo.com

David is currently Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) for Mekong Strategic Advisors, an investment and corporate advisory firm that covers the Greater Mekong Delta Region. MSP is also General Partner of the Smart Axiata Digital Innovation Fund (SADIF) and David is responsible for advising the portfolio ventures of the fund.
David possesses over 25 five years of entrepreneurial experience as a co-founder, CFO and board advisor to numerous tech start-ups in both America and Asia. For twelve years David was an active community-builder and advocate in the Thai startup scene frequently participating as a keynote speaker, moderator, panelist and pitch judge at local start-up events and serving as a mentor to numerous startups. Additionally, he has lectured on entrepreneurship at several of the leading university programs in Thailand. Recently David re-located to Cambodia where he continues his community-building and university lecturing activities.
In 2013 David joined the WSA family when he was invited to speak and serve as a Finalist Judge at the World Summit Awards held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Following the event he successfully petitioned for the establishment of a National WSA Nomination Committee in Thailand. Since 2013 David has performed as both a WSA National Expert and Global Jurist. In 2021 David commenced serving as a WSA National Expert for Cambodia, helping assemble the first WSA national nomination committee in Cambodia.
In addition to the World Summit Awards David has served several other international organizations in the capacity of local representative, research contributor, speaker and advisor. Currently David is a Regional & Innovation Expert for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) specializing in entrepreneurship and stakeholder collaboration. In this capacity Dave conducts workshops at various ITU member countries and has completed two major ITU publications- A toolkit on Accelerating Digital Innovation & Entrepreneurship and an Asia Pacific Regional Report on Good Practices. Other international organizations David has worked with include the World Bank, Seedstars World, Asia Foundation, Three-Day Startup, Startup Grind, the Global Startup Genome Project and Global Entrepreneurship Network.
David is a John Wiley published author who has written extensively on start-ups and startup ecosystems. David has three full-length books to his credit including his latest book, Building Startup Ecosystems. Recently David was a contributing writer to Ecosystem Arabia by best-selling author Amir Hegazi. In the book David is frequently cited and featured as a global thought leader in Startup Ecosystem Building.


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