Applications are now open for the 2018 WSA Global Awards (World Summit Award), the largest in digital content in the world. The initiative has the participation of thousands of applicants from 180 countries who, in local competitions, select the best projects with positive impacts on society in eight categories.
In Brazil, there is also the special Accessibility category, which will choose the product/content that stands out the most for its digital accessibility features, based on the W3C criteria.
It is a true technological festival of diversity, innovation, accessibility and inclusion. Much more than rewarding avant-garde work, the WSA was created with the aim of reinforcing the message that information and communication technologies represent, nowadays, increasingly, an indispensable tool for development, whether on a personal or personal level. national or global. Therefore, it has the support of the UN and large international organizations and companies.
National competitions are being launched. In Brazil, registrations can be made until August 19 on the website https://premiowsa.com.br/inscreva-se/ where interested parties also find the regulation and other information about the awards in the following categories:
1 – Government and citizen participation: Providing content solutions for public administrations, including individuals, companies and organizations, to significantly improve service depth and quality;
2 – Health and well-being: Care with well-being, management tools for professionals, information for the patient/client and democratization of access to health;
3 – Learning and education: Meet the needs of students in acquiring knowledge and skills for a complex and globalized world; transforming schools, universities and other educational institutions and creating e-learning communities and corporate training solutions;
4 – Environment and green energy: Digital entertainment services, resources for cinema, theater and online television, digital games, virtual communities and interactive applications;
5 – Culture and tourism: Preservation and presentation of cultural heritage in line with the challenges of the future, demonstrating cultural assets of clear and informative value using state-of-the-art technology, development of the diversity of cultures, sub-cultures and the multilingual nature of societies;
6 – Smart settlements and urbanization: Using ICT to report the news and present stories in an interactive way, with new data and information sharing, presenting journalism works that use the web for text, image and video;
7 – Business and Commerce: Support and optimization of business processes, new electronic models for face-to-face and online commerce, security in Internet transactions, incentive to digitization of small and medium-sized companies, improvement of customer service;
8 – Inclusion and training: Measures to support the integration of the world information society, involving the least developed countries in the knowledge society, reducing the digital gap between the trained and the technology of excluded communities or groups, such as rural areas, women , the elderly, people with disabilities and children; strengthening the social and political participation of individuals and groups through ICT; holding citizens and stakeholders in public services accountable;
9 – Special Accessibility Category: In Brazil, the product/content that stands out the most for its digital accessibility resources will be chosen and awarded among those registered, using the W3C's international criteria as a reference.
Entries can be made from May 17 to August 19 on the website: https://premiowsa.com.br/inscreva-se/. On the page, those interested will also find the regulation and other information about the award.
Winners are chosen after a careful process. After the national phases, in which eight projects from each participating country are selected, the global dispute takes place in three stages. In the first, 15 works from each category are nominated. In the second stage, five projects from each area will be awarded. The awardees go through a third phase, when they present their work at a technology fair and only from each category is decorated.
Winning projects do not receive a cash award, only diplomas and trophies, in addition to international recognition. Increasingly, the WSA has been attracting the interest of investors around the world and several deals have already been closed from the exposure that some awardees received.
The representatives of Brazil will be announced at an award ceremony on September 4, in São Paulo, during Digitalks, the main digital marketing event in the country.
In Brazil, there is also the special Accessibility category, which will choose the product/content that stands out the most for its digital accessibility features, based on the W3C criteria.
It is a true technological festival of diversity, innovation, accessibility and inclusion. Much more than rewarding avant-garde work, the WSA was created with the aim of reinforcing the message that information and communication technologies represent, nowadays, increasingly, an indispensable tool for development, whether on a personal or personal level. national or global. Therefore, it has the support of the UN and large international organizations and companies.
National competitions are being launched. In Brazil, registrations can be made until August 19 on the website https://premiowsa.com.br/inscreva-se/ where interested parties also find the regulation and other information about the awards in the following categories:
1 – Government and citizen participation: Providing content solutions for public administrations, including individuals, companies and organizations, to significantly improve service depth and quality;
2 – Health and well-being: Care with well-being, management tools for professionals, information for the patient/client and democratization of access to health;
3 – Learning and education: Meet the needs of students in acquiring knowledge and skills for a complex and globalized world; transforming schools, universities and other educational institutions and creating e-learning communities and corporate training solutions;
4 – Environment and green energy: Digital entertainment services, resources for cinema, theater and online television, digital games, virtual communities and interactive applications;
5 – Culture and tourism: Preservation and presentation of cultural heritage in line with the challenges of the future, demonstrating cultural assets of clear and informative value using state-of-the-art technology, development of the diversity of cultures, sub-cultures and the multilingual nature of societies;
6 – Smart settlements and urbanization: Using ICT to report the news and present stories in an interactive way, with new data and information sharing, presenting journalism works that use the web for text, image and video;
7 – Business and Commerce: Support and optimization of business processes, new electronic models for face-to-face and online commerce, security in Internet transactions, incentive to digitization of small and medium-sized companies, improvement of customer service;
8 – Inclusion and training: Measures to support the integration of the world information society, involving the least developed countries in the knowledge society, reducing the digital gap between the trained and the technology of excluded communities or groups, such as rural areas, women , the elderly, people with disabilities and children; strengthening the social and political participation of individuals and groups through ICT; holding citizens and stakeholders in public services accountable;
9 – Special Accessibility Category: In Brazil, the product/content that stands out the most for its digital accessibility resources will be chosen and awarded among those registered, using the W3C's international criteria as a reference.
Entries can be made from May 17 to August 19 on the website: https://premiowsa.com.br/inscreva-se/. On the page, those interested will also find the regulation and other information about the award.
Winners are chosen after a careful process. After the national phases, in which eight projects from each participating country are selected, the global dispute takes place in three stages. In the first, 15 works from each category are nominated. In the second stage, five projects from each area will be awarded. The awardees go through a third phase, when they present their work at a technology fair and only from each category is decorated.
Winning projects do not receive a cash award, only diplomas and trophies, in addition to international recognition. Increasingly, the WSA has been attracting the interest of investors around the world and several deals have already been closed from the exposure that some awardees received.
The representatives of Brazil will be announced at an award ceremony on September 4, in São Paulo, during Digitalks, the main digital marketing event in the country.
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