The strategic vision regarding the scientific and technological revolution that has changed the lives of everyone around the world has been strongly expressed in San Luis, where, since 2010, the Government has provided free connectivity in all cities and towns of its territory (76,748 km²), and from 2011 onwards, the right to Digital Inclusion was included in its Constitution. During the last two decades, the government of San Luis generated and improved its technological infrastructure and established regulations to improve free access to broadband communication services for all its inhabitants. The provincial administration (the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches) was digitized, helping municipal administrations to achieve the same objective. By means of different plans, it reached every household with -at least- one device. During 2008 the purchase value of computers or network devices was taken as a tax credit to pay taxes. Since 2009, the "All Kids on the Net" plan provides public and private elementary school students and their teachers with devices, computers and now tablets. During this year they also delivered 122,500 tablets to retirees and pensioners, children in the 1st and 2nd grade, beneficiaries of various social plans, teachers and administrators, health workers and police officers. San Luis has a population of 450,000. The free distribution of a smart card with NFC technology that allows San Luis residents to digitally sign with PKI from mobile devices enables interaction between people, businesses and government. Children, young people, adults and senior citizens were trained in the use of different applications, which has ensured that Internet penetration is increasing and now exceeds 95%.

CWIT is transforming Charlottesville into the destination for women in technology to live, work, and build a career. We develop programs that encourage more women and girls to pursue a technology career, actively working to remedy the deficit of women in technology careers and help them succeed. Charlottesville Women in Tech is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization for emerging and established professionals that provides human connections and resources for women and girls interested in or associated with technology. Our vision is to bridge the gender gap in tech by providing a safe and welcoming environment for women and girls to connect, learn and collaborate in Charlottesville. We host monthly meetings that include speakers on tech topics and allow for networking with other local women. Events are free and open to all women in our community. Through our Tech-Girls program, we collaborate with volunteers and organizations to run programs focused on fostering girls interest and confidence in STEM education.

Dubai Land Department (DLD) was founded in May 1960 to establish real estate sector in the Middle East and for international real estate investors. Dubai REST (Dubai Real Estate Self Transaction) is a complete digital platform available on both Android and IOS to manage end to end real estate activities by all stakeholders. Dubai REST is a key project from Dubai Land Department in Dubai 10X project initiated by Dubai Future Foundation under the guidance of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai. Dubai REST targeted to completely go paperless, fulfil real estate transactions completely online without any visit to any government offices. Dubai REST will be one-stop-mobile app for more than 300,000 owners, 700,000 tenants and potential investors across the globe: 1. Real Estate information: Using Dubai REST mobile app, users can access information about service providers. 2. Real Estate Transactions: Using Dubai REST users can conduct buy, multi-list, sell, and rent activities completely online anytime anywhere. 3. Real Estate Services: Using Dubai REST tenants and owners can access DLD services like property valuations, contract creation, site plan, payment and many more. Dubai REST platform ecosystem comprised of various technologies/tools: 1. Cross platform mobile technologies stack to create mobile App. 2. AI technologies for predictive analysis, pattern matching and security. 3. Micro services for managing various functions cut across departments, partners, other government entities. 4. Blockchain for Distributed ledger to share data and execute smart contract across entities who will participate in customer journey.

Sand movement in Saudi Arabia is a phenomena that affects most industries such as petroleum, transportation, agriculture and others. Saudi Aramco is a leader when it comes to safety and safe operations. The company spends millions on protecting its assets against sand encroachment. A better understanding of this phenomena would results in better decisions on how to deal with it, and minimize its effects on Saudi Aramco’s operations. Therefore, the company is utilizing remote sensing technology and geographical information science, to detect and monitor sand dunes encroachments, as well as, estimate their movement’s rate, direction and volume. The objective of this analysis is to assist operating facilities in achieving proactive protection of the company’s assets, and reduce costs by improving sand encroachment mitigation activities.

The principle objective of MVL Online System is not only to provide a secured and scalable platform offering key E-services by the National Transport Authority (NTA) of Mauritius for the general public to avail from but also a robust service platform to facilitate the online payment of Motor Vehicle License to improve operation efficiency in operations, service delivery and business operations. The MVL Online System therefore aims to fulfil the following main objectives:  Improve the work processes and business operations of the NTA  Improve productivity, quality and service delivery  Provide timely management information for decision making  Enhance the level of service being delivered to stakeholders  Address the multi-dimensional problems encountered by stakeholders  Better control on revenue collection and significant minimisation of risks of fraudulent/fake documents  Bring about further decentralisation and introduction of e-Services and online payment  New user-friendly Portal for dissemination of information and service delivery The impact generated is of National scale as payment of MVL is done by all vehicle owners. Earlier, payment of MVL was permissible at Post Offices, District Courts, sub-offices of the NTA located at vehicle examination stations and at the head-office of the NTA at Cassis. On aggregate, daily, more than 1000 individuals proceed to all the above-mentioned locations for renewal of MVLs. This compounded daily movement of the public created much inconvenience in terms of long waiting time in queues, parking problems, obligations to take work leaves for the day, the heavily induced workloads to the counter officers who might have, otherwise, been posted other more productive tasks, etc. Additionally, a person who is overseas might have his/her MVL expired at any given time and had to pay retroactive fines to renew the MVL. The Project was launched by the Prime Minister of Mauritius in November 2018.

This project, “Campus Tecnológico UGR para Chicas” (“UGR Tech Camp for Girls”) aims to show computer sciences and telecommunications as free areas of social stereotypes, working directly with a group of pre-university girls (High School). UGR Tech Camp is an opportunity for girls who are studying in pre - university levels to approach the world of technology, know and value the role of women in the world of ICT and encourage vocation on technology. This project is structured as a two-week activity where participants study at the University of Granada, executing a technology-based project with open tools (open software and hardware). However, around this core event a semester-long campaign on the role of women in science in technology is also performed via hackathons, blog posts and talks, so that the impact of the camp goes beyond the two weeks and the limited amount of girls that take place in it.

The Online Administrative Execution Service is an online service that allows beneficiaries to fill in a request for a court order to be executed by filling in the details of the plaintiff, and the defendant, along with registering specific details of the court order like its number, its date, its origin, and its type, with a consultation from the selected courthouse to complete the course of the application process. It has accelerated the overall process of administrative execution of court orders in the kingdom, which has allowed the society to attain justice easily and swiftly.

Ran the Technovation Challenge in Cape Town where more than 100 girls from previously disadvantaged areas took part. The beneficiaries were not only the high school girls, but also the parents of the girls, who were exposed to the impact of technology. The goal of the program is to inspire girls to see themselves as not just users of technology, but as inventors, designers, builders and entrepreneurs. This is a global competition that was started by Iridescent, an organisation based in San Francisco. Some of the teachers were mentors and other women from the industry. Two teams from Cape Town made it to the semi-finals. The two coaches who were selected to represent South Africa at the Technovation World Summit Master Educators training in San Francisco were from this programme. The World Pitch Summit Event was held from 10-14July 2016.

Si lo venís a buscar, es tuyo! (If you come to look for it, it’s yours), It is a community of collaborative economy, a space where we can give away what we no longer use in a simple and safe way. The project was inaugurated in January 2016 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Since then, 57 thousand people joined the community and more than 72 thousand articles found a new owner. Currently, around 2,500 free objects and services are offered each month. By giving away what we no longer use, we begin a cycle of positive events: we release space at home, we extend the useful life of the objects, we reduce waste and we connect with other people to form a chain of circulation of goods. This project has the support of the Municipality of Montevideo, the National Research and Innovation Agency (ANII) and the Sinergia Incubator.

Information Technology Authority (ITA) is set up by the Royal Decree 52/2006 promulgated on the 31st May 2006. ITA is responsible for implementing national IT infrastructure projects and supervising all projects related to implementation of the Digital Oman Strategy while providing professional leadership to various other e-Governance initiatives of the Sultanate. ITA serves as a competency center on best practices in e-Governance and in harnessing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), thereby offering efficient and timely services, integrating processes and improving efficiency in service delivery. ITA undertakes several projects to increase technology penetration and empower its people with required digital literacy and higher levels of competence through training and innovation centers.

The Mascom Kitsong Centers programme's objectives are :  - To contribute to the ICT sector and respond to the global need of transforming small villages into knowledge based economies.  - To empower unemployed youth by giving them a business to operate. Village Selection The program has created employment for the Kitsong Centre operators and some of them have even hired assistants. Most of the communities like the local Police officers, tribal administration offices and Village Development Committees have been exposed and trained on ICT . Some operators have also offered free ICT training to Primary School students at their villages.

The Mascom Kitsong Centers programme's objectives are :  - To contribute to the ICT sector and respond to the global need of transforming small villages into knowledge based economies.  - To empower unemployed youth by giving them a business to operate. Village Selection The program has created employment for the Kitsong Centre operators and some of them have even hired assistants. Most of the communities like the local Police officers, tribal administration offices and Village Development Committees have been exposed and trained on ICT . Some operators have also offered free ICT training to Primary School students at their villages.

The ASI project is being implemented by the Mazowieckie Voivodeship in a broad partnership with other local governments from the region. The strategic goal of ASI is to support smart, sustainable development that increases social and territorial cohesion. The implementation of this goal will take place through the development of e-services provided by local governments for residents, entrepreneurs and institutions via the internet platform called Gate of Mazovia. The project provides the implementation of new 50 e-services, as well as applications to carry on services such as systems for social consultations, communication with inhabitants, non-governmental organizations, management of the education system and promotion of local government units. The implementation of the project will also create the conditions for effective collection and use of spatial information in the region through the digitization of spatial data and supply to the database in the Mazovian Spatial Information System. In addition, ASI will contribute to capacity-building and knowledge exchange through the creation of a regional competence centre. The project is of key importance for the development of a coherent model of electronic administration at the regional and local level and the development of the information society in the Mazowieckie Voivodeship.

Ma3Route is a mobile/web/SMS platform that crowd-sources for transport data and provides users with information on traffic, matatu directions and driving reports. Ma3Route aims to make traveling easier in developing countries by democratizing timely transport information. We hope to bring greater sanity to the roads and inform city planning and transport regulation in emerging economies through the provision of transport data and trend analysis. The startup was founded out of a need to identify which roads are jammed so as to avoid those as well as keep commuters in the know in case of traffic accidents or otherwise. The App is meant to provide users with traffic updates, give directions to places and enable users to report rogue drivers. By crowd-sourcing data from locals, the service is able to inform other users which areas to avoid and is crucial in mapping your route for efficiency. This saves both time and money for the commuter. This business model and innovative idea saw Ma3route win the mobile utility category in the Pivot East 2013 competition.

Our mission is to bring together stakeholders from the business sector, the government, the academia and from non-governmental organizations, giving the opportunity to support and to work for increasing the women’s professional participation in the sphere of ICT, as well as to take part in the development of technological and engineering products. WIC „FEMMES DIGITALES” designed to be an advocate for women who are currently working for technology companies, and for those that may work for business in other market sectors working with technology in their roles.Azerbaijan Women in ICT Club — „FEMMES DIGITALES” is a non-profit organization with a goal to get more women excited about technology and IT.

CELSE; in order to increase the variety of services that offered to lawyers and to enable the lawyers to follow up the proceedings more easily, in accordance with the requirements of the era, developed by the technical team of the Ministry of Justice of IT Department. The application is suitable on the Android and IOS versions are free of charge to all lawyers. Lawyers; after installing the application on their mobile phones, tablets, etc. the application can be used with the password required which has been created by the use UYAP Lawyer Portal Information System. The number of lawyers who are using the application has reached 32213 and this number is increasing rapidly.

In Senegal, the government has set up two economic and social development programs in the peripheral and suburban areas and linked to the Emerging Senegal Plan (PSE). These are the Emergency Program for Community Development (PUDC), and the Emergency Program for the Modernization of Frontier Axes and Territories (PUMA). This means that development in rural areas and isolated areas remains a concern of the Senegalese government. One of the tools for integrating populations and supporting socio-economic development is digital. With this tool, we see that trade, money transfer, transportation, agriculture, have evolved, thus helping to promote the well-being of populations in cities. However, rural and remote areas are lagging behind in digital development and are not covered by national digital services and systems in a quantitative and qualitative way. This is why the project of digital box or digital field, to designate a kind of digital space, the size of a box or a field in a village or a rural area, in order to put provision of the population a framework for exchange and development of socioeconomic activities based on digital finds all its relevance.

With the help of this application you will able to know the exact location of a person who come to receive you, also this application will be able to connect with tracker chips which you can fit in any object like lugguage, bags, so that application will record the data of locations, in this way you will figure out the location of your lugguage on case if it is steal, and also know from which point it is taken, the superb advantage of this application is that you can set the maximum distance tracker and your mobile will have if is go beyond the cuatomize limit it will give you alarm so that you can caught the burglar on time

The digital platform “Bayanati” (The Employee Data Platform) enables clients of the Ministry of Civil Service (MCS) -internally as MCS employees and externally as human resources’ specialists in specific and all public sector employees in general- to utilize the modern technologies developed by the ministry. The platform provides civil government employees with digital services that enables them to review and correct their data. In addition, it offers medical reports service in association with the Ministry of Health to civil employees. The system allows civil employees to access their historical job records and print their service statement. Besides, it delivers the possibility of following on their training approvals, scholarship, administrative transactions, as well as viewing and updating their service period. The platform enables employees to follow all applications from any place and at any time. Additionally, they will have access to further digital services that reduces employee time and effort without reporting or referring to the ministry.

To satisfy the modern demands of the smart cities notion, the concept of a portal that acts as a hub was adopted to extend and complement the existing AD-SDI framework. Under the name “Rawy Abu Dhabi”, the new hub will be used as an innovation and collaboration platform powered by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) that will provide a wide range of capabilities which will help the Emirate become a GeoSmart government driven by innovative thinking and services that will help achieving the Goals and Programs of the Abu Dhabi Plan.

Through this program the capacity of the master trainers has been built in using technologies in education and teaching methodologies. This program has provided employment to over 200 women and has transformed them into ICT ambassadors in their area. They have also motivated other girls to acquire ICT education. This project will enhance learning capabilities of the students and other stakeholders like school staff. ICT for Girls program has initiated a ripple effect with far reaching positive impact. The impact of the project led to expansion of the project to the rest of the country and was transformed to a regular program “ICT for Girls”. All the key stakeholders then committed to substantially enhance the scope of the project and make it a success. So far, USF has established 370 state of the art ICT facilities with 6,372 computer terminals, high speed broadband internet and other necessary ICT equipment. USF plans to create 500 ICT facilities across the country with high speed internet and necessary ICT equipment.

United for Hope and Shakti Empowerment Solutions’ Smart Village strategy combines education and entrepreneurial business opportunities to transform the lives of India’s rural poor. We work with and for underserved villagers to address community issues and build new attitudes and structures. We have successfully implemented wide-ranging social development programs in our pilot SV of Tirmasahun in Uttar Pradesh, Northern India. Our approach is both for-profit and non-profit, and requires investment and commitment from those being served. We organize projects with a holistic approach through three overarching pillars: social enterprise education community support. In our area, millions lose their rights, assets and education because of the lack of access to information.

LonePearl Group (LPG) is a digital content development and aggregation company that provides holistic solutions for the education sector in Botswana. The company’s approach is to combine technology, content/curriculum, training, and key strategic partnerships to provide a one-stop education hub. Its objective is to provide equitable education and resources to all regardless of race, tribe, gender, economic status or geographical location. LPG provides cost effective high impact localised content educational solutions relevant at a global context allowing students to not only learn about ICT but with ICT and through ICT. LPG is developing an e-Store Cloud (named "ThutoMate") that collects and distributes educational softwares, apps, e-Books, games, videos as well as provides a platform for continous teacher-training to achieve ICT integration into Education.

The Youth Empowerment Scheme in Information & Communications Technologies (YES-ICT) is a youth-owned network of business that provides ICT services across Botswana. The Franchise eco-system comprises of 23 regional centres at full roll-out with each cetre owned and operated by citizen youth ICT graduates. The companies offer aggregated ICT services including computer maintenance and repairs, systems support, sale of ICT consumables, internet access and computer literacy training to communities. On full roll out, YES-ICT franchise business seeks to create 514 sustainable jobs for graduate youth by placing at least one Affiliate Technician (AT) in every village in the country. The initiative seeks to reduce the high number of unemployed ICT gradutes (4,000 unemployed ICT graduates as of 2015), provide universal access to ICT and services, cultivate the spirit of entrepreneurship in youth people as well as close the digital divide. The Founder and Champion of the initiative, Ms Rona Tshiamo is working with the Association of Citizen-owned Companies in Information Technology (CoBIT) for its experienced member companies to subcontract YES-ICT companies for nationwide project. Currently, some YES-ICT companies are successfully subcontracted for the nationwide Cisco Network Standardisation Project. YES-ICT companies target customers such as communities, government departments and ministries, schools, parastatals and private companies in need to ICT services or access to them.

The Youth Empowerment Scheme in Information & Communications Technologies (YES-ICT) is a youth-owned network of business that provides ICT services across Botswana. The Franchise eco-system comprises of 23 regional centres at full roll-out with each cetre owned and operated by citizen youth ICT graduates. The companies offer aggregated ICT services including computer maintenance and repairs, systems support, sale of ICT consumables, internet access and computer literacy training to communities. On full roll out, YES-ICT franchise business seeks to create 514 sustainable jobs for graduate youth by placing at least one Affiliate Technician (AT) in every village in the country. The initiative seeks to reduce the high number of unemployed ICT gradutes (4,000 unemployed ICT graduates as of 2015), provide universal access to ICT and services, cultivate the spirit of entrepreneurship in youth people as well as close the digital divide. The Founder and Champion of the initiative, Ms Rona Tshiamo is working with the Association of Citizen-owned Companies in Information Technology (CoBIT) for its experienced member companies to subcontract YES-ICT companies for nationwide project. Currently, some YES-ICT companies are successfully subcontracted for the nationwide Cisco Network Standardisation Project. YES-ICT companies target customers such as communities, government departments and ministries, schools, parastatals and private companies in need to ICT services or access to them.

OMobileFunding: Web and Mobile crowdfunding platform. Technology is used to provide financial solutions and products for social inclusion and social entrepreneurship OMobileFunding was being implemented in Togo and Cote d'Ivoire. Jobs are created for these countries youth in ITC and entrepreneurship domains. Clients are using this tech and financial solution to find funding for their projects, also to save and manage money (self-funding) for a sustainable development. Users will defend their projects online and find investments. And investors have the opportunity to discover local projects and fund them. Online Microfinance is another opportunity of OMobileFunding for users. The innovation is that this social product is based on web and mobile technologies: SMS/MMS and mobile payment against the issues of non-permanent use of the Internet and secure online payments in Africa. African countries have many needs and solving these problems via OMobileFunding is our day by day challenge and also to show a positive face of Africa by a sustainable developpement. Impacts: social, technological and economic. -OMobileFunding is a deck between technology and entrepreneurship -OMobileFunding creates employment opportunities especially for youth and women -We develop Social Entrepreneurship skills, project management and fund opportunities

OMobileFunding: Web and Mobile crowdfunding platform. Technology is used to provide financial solutions and products for social inclusion and social entrepreneurship OMobileFunding was being implemented in Togo and Cote d'Ivoire. Jobs are created for these countries youth in ITC and entrepreneurship domains. Clients are using this tech and financial solution to find funding for their projects, also to save and manage money (self-funding) for a sustainable development. Users will defend their projects online and find investments. And investors have the opportunity to discover local projects and fund them. Online Microfinance is another opportunity of OMobileFunding for users. The innovation is that this social product is based on web and mobile technologies: SMS/MMS and mobile payment against the issues of non-permanent use of the Internet and secure online payments in Africa. African countries have many needs and solving these problems via OMobileFunding is our day by day challenge and also to show a positive face of Africa by a sustainable developpement. Impacts: social, technological and economic. -OMobileFunding is a deck between technology and entrepreneurship -OMobileFunding creates employment opportunities especially for youth and women -We develop Social Entrepreneurship skills, project management and fund opportunities

STEMintheCity is a great initiative being promoted by the City of Milan in order to develop a “STEM-oriented” culture free from gender barriers and stereotypes to help guide young women to studies in fields of science and technology, to promote careers for women in these fields, and to further digital education at all levels. The project started in 2017 and the second edition was organized in 2018. On 2018 STEMintheCity further extended its reach with the creation of STEM+A. The letter “A” here stands for “art” and has been added to the STEM acronym to indicate both how digital is an enabling factor in all education and career development and how the creative, humanistic component is essential in generating new ideas and innovative content. Target. STEMintheCity offered activities for all ages—from elementary school to on through middle school, high school, university and beyond. Creating an alliance with the adults responsible for the growth and education of our youth is important, so STEMintheCity promoted a range of initiatives intended for parents and teachers. Main activities: training days about coding and digital skills for 50 primary and secondary schools; hackathon for young girls and university students; job speed date, session of role modeling; digital empowerment; conference about gender stereotypes for teachers, parents and companies; events about the value of women in STEM careers and female leadership; the presence of women in politics; International opening event with prestigious female role model from science, military defense, institutions, leading companies in digital transformation.

In Italy, the participation of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) educational and working paths is rather scarce. Many episodes of exclusion and discrimination affecting women in the scientific and technological sector can be ascribed to gender biases, according to which women would be less prone to studying STEM subjects and less competitive in IT and technological skills compared to men. Such stereotypes very often negatively influence girls’ school career choices from their first years in primary and secondary school. This project aims to bring girl students of primary and lower secondary schools closer to the scientific and technological culture through an innovative approach envisaging courses, lab activities, and experiments in the STEM subjects carried out within the schools in collaboration with qualified partner bodies.

Powered by United Nations, UNDP, Microsoft & TAMKEEN Bahrain (Labour Fund), FORSATI FOR HER promises to empower Bahraini Women by giving them a boost in technology! Backed by the latest Microsoft Programs and aligned with the industry requirements, this special program will enable Bahraini Women to learn and apply new skills to compete in the global economy and will also provide a boost to lead the Future of the ICT Industry. FORSATI FOR HER AIMS TO: Provide Qualified & Trained Bahraini Professionals Encourage Career Advancement for Bahraini Women Develop Bahraini Women Coders Develop Skills to Meet the Job Market Demand Build Digital Literacy Among The Bahraini Women Workforce

The Zimbabwean chapter of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWEZI) is beginning to set up a weather station network by donating and helping schools install ATMOS 41 weather stations and putting girl students front and center in their installations. This network will provide educational opportunities for students (in engineering, meteorology, statistics, etc) and will eventually be used to help track climate and predict weather. Our aims are threefold: 1. Create the foundation for a weather station network, which will provide rural farming communities with invaluable information, thereby improving the daily life of local agriculturalists and setting the stage for more women farmers to gain the time and resources to enroll in school. 2. Put young Zimbabwean women front and center in the weather station network’s development. As the network grows, young women’s role will gain strength: those involved with implementing and maintaining the weather stations will lead their communities in owning the technological solution to a key problem. 3. Set the weather stations up in schools so not only will female students be at the reins of the growing network but the stations will simultaneously be providing educational opportunities for the young women (and men) who will be implementing and maintaining them.

Lauren is a tech woman who is leading the way for other tech women to earn what they deserve. After learning that a male colleague was hired at 50% more than her, she learned to negotiate and tripled her salary. But, she didn't stop there. She started a movement to bridge the gender income gap one woman, one negotiation at a time. She travels the country teaching women how to negotiate for the salary they deserve and also delivers her program online for free believing the these foundational skills should be accessible to all women. And she's getting real results - women are earning $80K, $65K, 36%, ... more! Lauren couldn't sit back and continue to say "someone should do something about the gender pay gap." She realized that while she may only be one woman, she is someone and she can start something that truly empowers other women and that's exactly what she's doing!

Argentina´s Women Programmers is a range of programs to bridge the digital gender gap by fostering knowledge and enthusiasm of young women in STEM since 2015. As part of this effort, we are creating a database aimed at gathering information on the professional profile of the population to inform public policymaking. Building such a resource requires collaboration with a range of stakeholders who either have relevant data or can facilitate access to it. Over a 4-month period we collected information on new enrollments, re-enrollments and graduations in 73 programming courses of studies between 2010 and 2015 at 84 public and private universities and university institutes. We developed the first data research of women programmers in Argentina, covering a national scope. We built an unprecedented database which we opened after presenting it on an exclusive event on April 11th in Centro Cultural de la Ciencia, Buenos Aires having a lot of impact on media, public and private sector. We have been working to close the gender gap mainly through our programs and initiatives aimed at adolescent women, but we can not know the impact without data. In Argentina, up to now there is no public and open database of career students related to programming throughout the country, and this information is necessary to set aside the perceptions and work on numbers, precise data to know where and how to improve.

This is an initiative from the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications with wide-open multistakeholder, for the consultation process to establish The Brazilian Digital Strategy published on 2018. The Brazilian Digital Transformation Strategy (E-Digital) is an initiative by the federal government, coordinated by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC). An Inter-Ministerial Working Group composed by nine government bodies developed this public policy after seven months of meetings, evaluations and experts and public consultations. Additionally, representatives of over thirty entities of the federal government interacted with that core group throughout the process. The resulting document also reflects the broad engagement of the private sector, the scientific and academic community and civil society through many stages of the elaboration process

In 2017, In accordance with its mission to promote the sustainable and competitive development of the Brazilian economy, BNDES, in partnership with the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC), supported the execution of a study for the diagnosis and proposal of the plan of strategic action for the country in Internet of Things (IoT). As result from this study, there was a call for e-health, e-agriculture, and smart cities pilot projects, supported by the Ministry and by the Brazilian Development Bank. The study "Internet Things: An action plan for Brazil "allows the country to identify clearly the main bottlenecks for that is a protagonist in the development of IoT proposes how to solve them. The study's initiatives will be implemented over the next 5 years, however, some of them, like this initiative of a call for e-health, e-agriculture, and smart cities pilot projects, already begin to be implemented in 2018.

In accordance with its mission to promote the sustainable and competitive development of the Brazilian economy, BNDES, in partnership with the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC), supported the execution of a study for the diagnosis and proposal of the plan of strategic action for the country in Internet of Things (IoT). The study was conducted by McKinsey Consortium / Foundation CPqD / Pereira Neto Macedo, with the objective of conducting a diagnosis and proposing public policies in the theme Internet of Things for Brazil. One of the main goals of this study was to get an overview of the impact of IoT in Brazil and understand the ICT skills in the Country.

This is an initiative of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Communications (MCTIC), with management of Softex and in association with accelerators. The goal of the Start-Up Brazil program is the Brazilian Startups Acceleration Program. It aims to select and support the best technology-based companies that just started growing or have just started their work. The startups fulfill the function of continuously revitalizing the market, but they need an environment conducive to their development and success. The figure of the accelerator arises in this context as a strongly market-oriented agent, generally of private origin and with financial investment capacity, which has the function of directing and promoting the development of startups.

SpeakLiz is an Artificial Intelligence app that helps the world’s 470 million deaf people communicate by interpreting sign language for those that cannot speak it. SpeakLiz is a powerful Artificial Intelligence communication tool, it has been designed as a complete solution for the worldwide deaf community. Think of it as the next step in the evolution of Sign Language. While the sign language allows the deaf to communicate with only those who understand it, SpeakLiz allows them to communicate more efficiently and fluidly with just about everyone. SpeakLiz transforms the voices of people into texts and converts texts, including emoticons, into words. It also analyzes the environment to warn the user and helps to understand sign language. This initiative was created by the Ecuadorian entrepreneurship team called Talov as a solution and alternative for people with hearing disabilities.

HandEyes is an Ecuadorian project that is in charge of developing products and technological tools that improve the quality of life of people with visual disabilities. The goal of HandEyes is to achieve a more inclusive society by developing electronic devices that can change and impact the lives of blind people. Thus, they developed "EyeBorg", a superficial implant that through an actuator allows people to have an increased perception of the environment. EyeBorg allows the user to feel how far the obstacle is from and also allows him to verify the dimensions of the obstacle with a slight movement of the head, thus improving the ability to orient himself and his mobility. The idea is to generate a new sense for the blind people with our technology.

HandEyes is a project that is responsible for developing products that improve the quality of life of people with visual disabilities. The goal of HandEyes is to achieve a more inclusive society by developing tools that can change and impact the lives of blind people. Thus they developed Eye Clip, an electronic device that was the gandor of the contest An Idea to change History, organized by The History Channel. Hand Eyes is a small gadget that can be attached to the cane of a blind person. This device uses an echolocation system, based on the emission of ultrasonic waves, which are captured by the same device when bouncing against existing objects in the environment. Upon receiving these signals, the device vibrates and emits sounds, which helps the user create a mental map of their environment. This is essential so that a blind person can find a better position in any environment.

Ojo Vial is a Mobile Application that allows citizens to report infractions of badly parked vehicles (rigid zones, security zones, pedestrian cruises, reserved area for disabled people, ramps, etc.) which are recorded in a photograph or video, being sent to a server in the same moment without being able to alter the evidence. The municipalities validate the complaints in real time from the web and we articulate with the offer of cranes available to proceed with the internment of the vehicle and the issuance of a municipal fine. Thus, the municipalities do not see the need to increase their resources considerably. Ojo vial contributes to the education and control of traffic regulations, ensures that society self-regulates and municipalities do not see the need to increase resources to achieve good control.

The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) is set-up by law under the Ministry of Communications to facilitate access and use of ICTs in unserved and underserved communities. As part of efforts to expand access and use of ICTs in rural communities in Ghana, GIFEC commissioned the “Fiber to the Community” programme as a potential to use aerial fiber technology, as smarter, quicker and cheaper way of deploying last mile solution to neglected rural communities in Ghana. The objective of this initiative seeks to leverage on the use of the existing electricity power poles and aerial fiber of the power distribution companies in its deployment of last mile solutions to provide secure and robust broadband connectivity for a digital and smart Ghana. The impact of this project has been enormous. First, through the Digital for Inclusion project is access to improved digital financial services in the unserved and underserved communities. Again, it has also enhanced access to the internet in areas, which hitherto had no form of connectivity. As part of Government ongoing digitization agenda, the roll-out of this intervention has also facilitated key government initiatives such as National Digital and Property Addressing System and the National Identification Card.

The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) is set-up by law under the Ministry of Communications to facilitate access and use of ICTs in unserved and underserved communities. As part of efforts to expand access and use of ICTs in rural communities in Ghana, GIFEC commissioned the “Fiber to the Community” programme as a potential to use aerial fiber technology, as smarter, quicker and cheaper way of deploying last mile solution to neglected rural communities in Ghana. The objective of this initiative seeks to leverage on the use of the existing electricity power poles and aerial fiber of the power distribution companies in its deployment of last mile solutions to provide secure and robust broadband connectivity for a digital and smart Ghana. The impact of this project has been enormous. First, through the Digital for Inclusion project is access to improved digital financial services in the unserved and underserved communities. Again, it has also enhanced access to the internet in areas, which hitherto had no form of connectivity. As part of Government ongoing digitization agenda, the roll-out of this intervention has also facilitated key government initiatives such as National Digital and Property Addressing System and the National Identification Card.