Reading platform for primary and secondary education

Based on scientific evidence that weighs early reading skills as one of the keys to better intellectual development in the future, the San Luis Province Government has developed and implemented various e-learning platforms with the aim of improving reading skills and encouraging children's curiosity. Those children who manage to achieve early the level of reading fluency will be able to pass school without difficulty. From the University of La Punta, we carry out a mega reading plan aimed at all children and young people of school age in the Province of San Luis. In order to ensure an optimal level of understanding, according to global standards that have been analyzed and certified. Only the students and teachers of the educational system can access the reading platform, www.lectura.sanluis.edu.ar, using their institutional email with domain @sanluis.edu.ar. This platform presents different texts, each one specific for different educational levels, and after reading, there is a trivia that has to be answered. This is every day of the year. Through a contest called "Sumá Leyendo" (Add up by reading) we were able to test that, in a month, more than 11,000 enrolled students who used the tool doing a daily reading and answering the corresponding trivia Improved 10% their reading comprehension, and many of them generated the habit of daily reading.

Open Government: Portal Puntano and digital identity

Portal Puntano 3.0 is intended for all San Luis citizens and it aims to enhance the use of new technologies to facilitate compliance with government procedures for all the inhabitants of the province and at the same time to serve as a guide for proceedings that a citizen must carry out at the Provincial Government and the Municipal authorities of adhering cities. Another of the functionalities that it offers us is the interaction with several systems of the province, for example with the one of the Judicial Power, the Provincial Direction of Public Revenues, Medical Records (digital clinical History). The citizen Portal Puntano 3.0 can offer all these services because the Government of the Province of San Luis for more than 20 years has been carrying out a Digital Agenda in which the necessary investments are made to guarantee the infrastructure and the inclusion policies in pursuit of the welfare of all citizens. This enabled the massive implementation of an electronic records management system in the three provincial powers: the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches. In addition to the turn away of paper in the provincial public sector, the private sector has also joined this initiative. Thus, licensed professionals from several fields are provided with a digital signature service. The Electronic Provincial Identity Card (CIPE) aims to merge in a single card all the necessary data for the identification of a person, both physically and digitally. The release of the CIPE begun in 2010 and enabled online identification and digital signature by means of the cryptographic chip. In March 2017, the CIPE was updated to the new CIPE 3.0. With NFC technology (Near Field Communication), which allows San Luis residents to digitally sign from mobile devices that have the same technology, thus enabling interaction between people, businesses and government. Currently, 171,950 CIPE 3.0 cards have been issued.

System of observation and weather forecast

The government of the province of San Luis implemented a Weather Station Network (Red de Estaciones Meteorológicas - REM) about 10 years ago with the aim of improving the adaptation of San Luis to the current climate and the expected changes in the coming decades and to have public information on weather updates, in real time, throughout the province. Other goals include the following: Improve the weather forecast in the provincial area. Develop information for agricultural and hydrological use. Estimate the solar and wind energy resource at the provincial level. To create reliable weather statistics to be used in various fields of production and knowledge. To monitor possible variations in the provincial weather. To facilitate the development of climate change scenarios for the coming decades. To facilitate the development of studies on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. REM consists of automatic stations that make real time broadcasting. Its information passes directly without human intervention to the databases in order for it to be published, along with the weather forecast, on the website and in applications for mobile devices, from where it is freely accessed by any user on the planet. In a world where information is a vital element for development, availability of this public information has brought numerous benefits to the province.

Programming for children and teenagers

The MINI Y MEGA Programmers 3.0 plan aims to provide our children and young people with the necessary skills to be "technology makers". The fourth industrial revolution is advancing exponentially and will increasingly need more experts in programming, communications, robotics, artificial intelligence... Learning to program has innumerable advantages, because it develops skills to solve logical problems, thus increasing creativity and critical thinking. Those who learn how to program have greater employment opportunities, and a greater ability to adapt to the current lifestyle. Large companies emerged thanks to the knowledge of programming languages, such as Google, Microsoft, and we want to sow the seeds so that this also happens in San Luis. More than 2900 participants from 72 locations completed this section, with free connectivity from anywhere in the province, we will prepare the experts that the world needs now and will need in the future. We will continue investing in the training of children and teenagers in programming with the conviction that this is an important strategy for the development of San Luis. San Luis is also a pioneer in this field.

Digital inclusion in San Luis

Digital Inclusion lies on three pillars: connectivity devices training In each of these pillars, the Government of San Luis has public policies to achieve the digital inclusion of the whole society. Free connectivity throughout the province. Until November of 2018, 122,500 devices were delivered to the following recipients: Retirees, pensioners, beneficiaries of social plans, and people with disabilities. Teachers Police officers Health workers Students of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade of primary school. Each of these groups receives a specific training that is constantly updated. All actions are then focused on improving the quality of life of senior citizens using the technological tools made available to them by the provincial government with its inclusive policies. To improve the efficiency of health workers, police, and teachers in their specific tasks, and for children to be included digitally, thus allowing them to develop the skills needed for today's world. An amount of 122,500 tablets has been delivered and beneficiaries are receiving training, and the impact can already be seen on Internet bandwidth consumption that went from 14 Gbps to 21 Gbps, a 50% increase. One of the indicators of the digital inclusion of San Luis society is the number of people, 28,541, who are studying online university careers. These students are comprised by 68% are women, 90% of which will be the first generation of university students in their families, and 34% are from the interior of the province.

Smart Pakistan m-Lab

PTA has set up a ‘Smart Pakistan m-Lab’, initially at its headquarters to provide business, mentoring and coaching services for female mobile application developers and women entrepreneurs. It will also provide start up, acceleration and launch services to the female developers. More than 100 female master trainers have been trained from distant areas like KPK and Northern areas. These trainers are tasked to replicate the training in their respective regions. Top 3 female participants with the innovative ideas were placed in PTA’s Smart Pakistan m-lab for mentoring and free of charge mentoring services are provided to all other existing and potential female women entrepreneurs remotely through online mechanism A specific platform for female local developers is now dedicated at Smart Pakistan platform. The basic purpose is to provide them a ‘one stop window’ to promote their useful self created android applications and to contribute into transformation of Pakistan into a digital society A one stop repository of all mobile applications available for women to caters their needs is functional. The applications are listed by categories such as health, education etc. Women composition of 33 million 3G/4G subscribers can now go to only window platform to get benefits of all local and internationally developed apps In collaboration with the World Bank and KPK government, a mobile app competition was conducted in April 2016. The female winner of the competition is placed at PTA's Smart Pakistan m-lab for free of cost mentoring and scale up services. PTA's Smart Pakistan team in Phase II starting from Sept/Oct will travelling to far-flung areas of Pakistan to encourage women to contribute their role in the technological innovation by transforming their ideas into the said applications. Partnership is developed with renowned universities and technical institutes in those areas in this regard.

APEC Digital Opportunity Center

The APEC Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC) Project is a self-funded multi-year Economic and Technical Cooperation (ECOTECH) initiative that Chinese Taipei first raised in the 2003 APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting. It aims to assist in transforming digital divides into digital opportunities throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The first phase of the ADOC project was launched in August 2004 and was concluded at the end of 2008. The second phase ADOC project, ADOC 2.0 project, was proposed during the 2007 APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting and launched in 2009 by Chinese Taipei. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Economic Affairs, Chinese Taipei support the ADOC Project since 2004. Since the initiation of the ADOC project, Institute for Information Industry has been investing resources into its operations and assumed the responsibility of a secretariat.

EXCITE: Enabling Social Interaction through Embodiment

The EXCITE project has developed mobile robot telepresence (MRP) devices for use in the homes of elderly users to enable social interaction. A key novelty in the project is that user feedback has been gathered using longitudinal trials where users have the robot at home for several months. EXCITE has used the Giraff telepresence unit developed by Giraff Technologies AB. At the beginning of the project, the unit was in an initial prototype stage with limited functionalities. After three years, user feedback from EXCITE has led to the development, change of the unit, and synthesis of various releases in a manner which is coherent with user´s requests. The project has won the AAL JP Most Promising Project Award in 2011 and has been in focus of a plethora of venues as a technology advocate for independent assisted living. Regarding social and economic impact, care organizations in Sweden have validated the cost savings of the Giraff solution in the appropriate care scenarios, and the increased “peace of mind” experienced by elderly residents and family members.

San Luis, a government with a strong commitment to public ICT policies

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%.

SMART Sistas

The SMART Sistas ICT Camp for Girls strives to empower girls aged 9-14 to pursue educational opportunities in information communication technology areas to help Vanuatu reach gender equality in the ICT field through a intensive ICT camp. The end five day camp provided each girl and their parent/guardian with: 24 hours of ICT technical training through the TechRocket.com curriculum. 12 hours of leadership and gender empowerment training through GLOW activities. 4 hours of career exploration in telecommunications, television, radio broadcasting, computer hardware, software and services and electronic media. By the end of the camp, the participants had learned new ICT skills in various fields in ICT as well as gain confidence in both themselves and their ability in the ICT field.

Making Women's Voices and Votes Count

IT for Change is an NGO seeking to promote innovative and effective use of information and communication technologies in order to promote socio-economic change in the global south. In collaboration with Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan and with the support of UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, the project 'Making Women's Voices and Votes Count' (MWVVC) has helped rural and socially excluded women participate effectively in political processes through the use of techno-social innovations. The main objectives of this initiative were to: 1. Increase networking among elected women representatives and their active participation along with women's groups in gender-responsive governance. 2. Increase realization of claims and entitlements by women in Gujarat and Karnataka. 3. Enable advocacy and campaigns at local and institutional levels to shift local public discourse towards gender equality. To achieve this, the project has relied on technological solutions such as: Interactive Voice Response (IVR) platform for telephone information exchange among elected women and women’s collectives; media- based learning for elected women; a Geographic Information System (GIS) to map issues of community concern; and a network of women-owned digitally enabled centers where marginalized women can access information and claim entitlements."

WorldWideScience Alliance

WorldWideScience.org provide a simultaneous search of over 100 national and international scientific databases containing more than 500 million pages of information. WorldWideScience.org allows users to find the precise information they need, via a single search, without having to know the scope of any particular national database. Offering multilingual translations of both queries and search results in 10 different languages, WorldWideScience.org's coverage includes multimedia materials and scientific and research data and software. The WorldWideScience Alliance provides the multilateral governance structure, and the Alliance membership consists of WorldWideScience.org source owners and sponsors.

TIC-as

With the support of UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, Sulá Batsú Cooperative is generating opportunities in the ICT sector for young women from impoverished rural areas in Costa Rica. The main objective of Sulá Batsú is to create equal conditions for women to access technological careers, by turning young women and girls into savvy and well-rounded technological workers, through various mentorships, trainings, and events. The programme “TIC-as: Creating work and employment opportunities for women in the ICT sector” uses a four-fold strategy: conducting technology-based school projects to reduce gender stereotypes about science and technology; working with education professionals to promote information and communications technology (ICT) careers for women; encouraging ICT companies to create equal job opportunities; and supporting girl students and graduates in technology to become ICT entrepreneurs.

Fair destribution (FairDist)

Every year billions and billions of Humanitarian aid is dispatched towards different sectors in different countries under development. But most of the time corrupted distribution channels makes it had for right beneficiaries to actually benefits from it. This project will subjectively focus on the management, monitoring and controlling services and products, beneficiaries, enabling humanitarian organizations to register, search for right beneficiaries in any country, assign their aid, follow-up and track the progress of selected beneficiaries and delivered services or products. By bringing together information about people around the world that needs help, under one rough (from different known and authentic databases), this software will offers easy and fast access to all sorts of information by a click of a button.

Code4CT

We want to see young women empowered to leverage technology for social innovation, so that there is greater diversity in the African tech industry. We want high school girls to have an enabling environment to imagine and create new technology that is relevant to a South African context. Code for Cape Town (Code4CT) is a programme that introduces young girls to basic web building skills and exposes them to opportunities in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector. Participants are trained in web development, design principles, as well as courses in professional development. Code4CT aims to inspire a generation of young girls who are well-prepared with a toolkit of technical and soft skills in order to achieve high impact in the workplace. These are skills that everyone should have. Even if you have no intention of becoming a professional coder, you will benefit from knowing how to think in this way in this increasingly computerized economy. A growing number of permanent job positions that use information technology to deliver a product or a service are becoming available in the local economy. It is estimated that nearly 75000 such jobs will come online in South Africa within the next five years. These digital jobs will mostly be driven by the ICT, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), and the financial services industries. These are the fastest growing sectors in our economy. They are also the sectors that have the highest demand for entry-level digital skills.

ELDER-SPACES: Managing Older People Social Relationships for Better Communication, Activation and Interaction

The main goal of the ELDER-SPACES project was to introduce a radical shift on the way social networking is delivered to and used by older adults (typically healthy individuals aged 55+), with a view to stimulate seniors to join social networks and accordingly benefit in terms of their social activation, active living and overall quality of life. To this end, Elder Spaces designed a novel ICT based social networking platform (beyond existing networks for seniors) along with a range of applications that will be delivered over this platform. ELDER-SPACES provide a range of applications (over the project’s social networking platform) tailored to the needs of older user groups based on: s Appropriate data sets, semantics and information ; s Customized social networking functionalities ; s Appropriate older people friendly user interfaces;

Dataforest

Dataforest is a web and mobile data marketplace for people who are looking for data. It provides a unique platform which bridges researchers and corporates with people who want to earn money in their leisure time by uploading and sharing their data from all around the globe. Dataforest is the fast, convenient and diverse source of data, the quality of which is being filtered. People will help to create the new forest by uploading real-word data. As an example, you are building a speech recognizing platform. There is a whole abyss of accents, dialects, tones that should be handled. You will need huge amounts of data to build the algorithm. You can post a task on our website and we will be responsible for gathering and delivering the data to you.

CVN: Connected Vitality Network

Nothing exceeds meeting people eyeto-eye but new telepresence technology provides, however the second best. The project developed the ‘second best’ connection, after meeting face to face, especially tuned for older adult’s users. It is YoooM, with YoooM the users engage in contact with family, friends and care professionals over distance. It enables seniors to communicate and interact according to their individual needs, abilities, and chosen lifestyle. The technological novelties developed in the process are the three communication formats developed: Meet, Club and Classroom. These formats allow one-to-one communication, to engage in group activities, and the Classroom format enables to engage in learning processes. Another novelty is the addition of body language and the capacity to conduct activities over distance. Furthermore, for extra economic impact a low cost version of the interface is also developed. To support family connections the YooM tablet is in the market in a low cost version for 40 Euros. The bigger YoooM MAX version is scheduled to hit the market for the 2014 Christmas season with a price below 750 euro.

WomenDigital Community Learning and Empowerment Platform

Womenpowered Digital is an online and offline community of women who want to thrive in the digital economy. We are passionate about digital literacy and we believe that we can unleash everyone’s potential with technology and innovation. We curate and organize events, training and workshops that are far from the conventional topics. We believe that women nowadays have more sophisticated needs to thrive in the digital world that is far beyond digital skills and literacy. Thus, Womenpowered Digital is not just an online community, but a real community with a shared journey towards life's purpose, despite the challenges in the digital space. Through our community events, training and workshops, women become part of a positive peer group, with access to women mentors and learning opportunities. In nine months, we were able to organize 20 community events and workshop on technology, digital literacy and entrepreneurship, empowered 30 women-in-tech and women entrepreneurs as speakers, and reached around 1,500 both men and women who joined our activities and became members of our Facebook group. Currently, we are developing our online e-Learning platform to connect women with other inspiring women across the globe as mentors and trainers.

iQrex

Intellectual control system for the original product protection and marketing iQRex – is a Client-Server software using unique generated identification code printed on unique design stickers covered with scratch protection from unsanctioned scanning. In parallel with the protection of original products the system also provides manufacturers with database collection and analysis for marketing purposes as well as gives an option for product promotional campaigns and best consumer award or other advertisements purposes.

Volkeno

Volkeno is a digital company based in Dakar, Senegal. We train students and professionals in 4 areas: Web Development, Mobile Development, Digital Marketing, Graphic Design, and Business. We have two technology training models led by experienced coaches. 1. Bakeli - Short training : it concerns professionals and young graduates. The training lasts 3 months and at the end you have a certificate. 2. Bakeli - Diploma course : it lasts 2 years and delivers three types of diplomas: CAP, BEP and BTS. Volkeno is working to address two needs at once: young people’s need for training and digital start-ups’ need for skilled workers.

Co-Living: Virtual Collaborative Social Living Community for Elderly

The main goal of the proposed project was the development of an ICT-based Virtual Collaborative Social Living Community for Elderly (CO-LIVING) people. CO-LIVING was based on an innovative Social Community network (SoCo-net), integrating different mobile wireless ICT based services addressing the elderly social interaction context categories of Care & Wellness, Guidance and Mobility monitoring. The solution used and scaled up the successfully developed IST FP6 mPower open source middleware platform to be applicable to the older adults social community interaction field achieving thus the expected CO-LIVING time-to-market perspective of 2 to 3 years after the project end. CO-LIVING target group was the big group of healthy elderly or with light physical or psychological health problems who are self-supporting, able to move around, and can still contribute actively. They find pleasure in getting help or stimulation to be active in an outward environment. The aim of choosing the specific target group was to prevent, or reduce the risk, that these people are spending most of their time at home as they get older for a variety of accumulated (physical, psychological, psycho-social and cultural) reasons.

SANCHAR KRANTI YOJANA

Chhattisgarh was ranked the lowest in India in mobile ownership among rural households (29% against national average of 68%), largely attributed to geographical and demographic constraints leaving large swathes of people out of the economic mainstream. SKY is an innovative strategy for digital, financial, and social inclusion. It ensured private investment by telcos while distributing 5m smartphones to women in rural households at a cost of ~$200m. Results Achieved: • 90% Households will have access to network and smartphones • 2100 network Dark Villages will be lit up, 875 villages have been covered with overall 15200 villages with 4G Connectivity • 2.5 m beneficiaries have received smartphones in 2018 against 4.5 m Women beneficiaries planned, propagating gender equality • 500K student beneficiaries will have access to e-learning and quality education • Dedicated call centers were set up before, during and post roll out of Project Impact generated: a. Growth from current GSDP of $40b by 3%, translating to $1.2b. b. Economic: Access to financial services even in remote areas (financial inclusion) c. Social: improvements in health and education indicators d. Digital: Access to government services, other internet based services (126 citizen services have already become operational) e. Quality of Life: Access to information, news, entertainment

AWARE: Ageing Workforce towards an Active Retirement

The platform developed in the AWARE was based on: s Environment adaptation module s Sharing knowledge module: This module will enable workers to maintain an active role after retirement s ICT approach module: This module will be a trainer tool for the platform and the provided services. The platform developed using opensource software and the system will be modular in design to maximize flexibility and extensibility. Techniques of visual exploration and emotional analysis were used to identify the preferences of ICT for the elderly people that they will use. A special attention was focused in the pedagogical methodologies implemented in the platform (the educational models that will be considered will be: recreational, sociocultural, interactive, etc.). The project aimed at developing a Social Network totally designed basing on the requirements and the needs of the final users, and that will be integrated in the final platform with all the other modules.

“Electronic participation in Uzbekistan”

The project is aimed to involve large number of population from all the social levels and reach geographically each point in the country to form people friendly legislation, to hear voices of individuals and small and medium businesses along with the voice of big corporations. Popularization of the Single Portal, will enable each citizen to get needed public service at any time of the day from any point of the country. The Reception of the President will ensure that every voice is heard and counted upon making the decisions of national value. The Digital divide in the country will be crossed by the using ICT and proper strategy.

AMCOSOP: Ambient Communication for Sense of Presence

The objective of the project was to create a system, which provides its users sense of presence of their family, friends, and health care personnel, i.e. so called safety net, and assures that the elderly people are never left alone. The system encourages people to stay in contact with other people by providing, as the simplest form, availability information of possible and known communication partners and in this way the system promotes to maintain its users’ social connections with their safety net people. Through the AMCOSOP system, elderly (primary users) can sense from a distance the availability of their relatives and friends (secondary users), express their communication willingness to them and exchange contextual and status information with them. On top of that, secondary users can communicate short messages to their primary users. Moreover, tertiary users can provide messaging and information type services to the primary users, such as consultancy and care services.

YUSUDI

Y stands for Youth, and "Kusudi" stands for Purpose (from Swahili). We believe that finding a personal purpose is what moves today's youth for self-motivation, learning and development. Through a 6 months program, Yusudi ensures that you grow into an attractive professional. We train you in critical skills such as negotiation and emotional intelligence together with business skills such as digital marketing and business development. It's intensive and challenging, in a good way and we promise that you'll come out transformed. It's not for nothing that we have an 87% post-internship hiring rate with an average 100% income increase.

ALICE: Advanced Lifestyle Improvement System & New Communication Experience

The central part of ALICE is a Set-Top Box (STB) connected to a TV set. This STB integrates a video camera and microphone for communication, which is updated with computing resources for applications that facilitate social interaction. It is equipped with a simple remote control and has a broadband connection to a service provider, both for video communications and Web access. This main product of ALICE, offering video conferencing and social interaction, operates in a niche of the market where there are no competitors offering the same products. The niche is that of a STB connected to an existing TV set which facilitates social interaction services in combination with the operator software. This combination is not offered by any competitors. The pilot resulted in a detailed business case for ALICE services in Europe. This business case has a planned rollout of the ALICE product in 3 different European countries currently ongoing, starting in the Netherlands.

ICT Volunteerism : Empowering Youth towards Digital Inclusion

Malaysia ICT Volunteer (MIV) is an initiative by Malaysian Communications & Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to empower Malaysians to be technologically prepared for the digital era. There are four focus groups under the MIV programme namely; MIV with Community, MIV with School, MIV with Institute of Higher Education (IHE), and MIV with International ICT Volunteers (IIV). In 2018, MIV carried out a collaborative programme with Multimedia University (MMU) and branded it as MIV with IHE @ MMU. MIV with IHE @ MMU 2018 reached 2, 175 audiences through the advocacy activities and ICT projects carried out by the 50 selected MIV student volunteers. The project was held mainly at 10 selected internet centres across three states in Malaysia. The project was a success as more than half of the audiences agreed that they have improved their ICT skills and knowledge. Social Return on Investment (SROI) is used to measure the contribution made by the MIV student volunteers which is based on the number of volunteering hours contributed by them against the number of hours taken to train them. The SROI for the said project is 44.4 which is the highest in comparison to other previous MIV programmes.

Qabol

Qabol Platform is an online platform offering services to students willing to study abroad, international educational institutions, government and private sectors scholarship providers, recruiting and training entities, admissions agencies, educational consultancies and the deputy of scholarship in the ministry of education. The platform will provides information and services for first step in the abroad educational and Intellectual journey. Qabol contributes in employment growth, reduction of the unemployment ratio, and guarantees equal opportunities to all individuals of the Society (Male-Female-Disabled) in getting information of suitable opportunities for overseas education and training through this platform. It also provides data by co-operating with international educational Institutions and local educational organizations, to offer opportunities of getting admissions from participating educational institutions, and enables e-Communication between admission seekers and admission providers. Participation of international educational institutions of various Countries will contribute to present continuous and new opportunities in education and training, Furthermore Institutions will be able to receive students and scholarship sponsors applications through the Platform. This platform contributes in providing reports and statistics for education improvement, evaluate education process performance and provides indications of goal achieving status. Qabol also supports raising education levels, quality, equality, and human resources development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

ALIAS: The Adaptable Ambient Living Assistant

The project work resulted in two possible products, depending on the configuration of the robotic system. First, an assistive robot for home environments, that provides support in emergency situations and for staying in contact with relatives and friends. Second, an autonomous guiding assistive robot for nursing homes, providing medication reminders, entertainment, cognitive training, and telepresence applications. The ALIAS project has included all three main categories of end-users during the development process of the robot platform in order to get input about the needs and wishes of the focused target groups and receiving feedback on the progress of the robot platform. In total, 160 end-users have taken part in the project. The project has strongly taken into account the heterogeneity and diversity of the end-users and potential future customers of ALIAS

Healthy Living Support Platform

We have two solutions: one for a mass measurement for business, the second one for personal use. Both allowing users to optimally manage their daily life, which covers approximately 75% of overall health. The system is based on the Mobile Health Station and online Internet Portal. On the Mobile Health Station user can measure up to 44 different health parameters in only 7 minutes and get the results immediately via SMS and E-mail. By accessing to personal account on the Portal, user may graphically observe the data trends, get recommendations on health parameters to be considered, and get notification to visit a doctor for in critical situations. User who gets a treatment within the framework of the system parameters, can perform regular measurements and graphically monitor the impact of the treatment. By obtaining detailed information about healthy lifestyle from the portal and taking early action against any warnings, user may extend their life expectancy. By using business model it is possible to bring service closer to users. The solution can be applied to any shopping centers, high residential buildings, schools, rural residential areas, which do not have any laboratory, big companies and country wise. The capability of solution is too high, because one station may serve one person in 7 minutes, 2040 per month, 24480 per year and N-number of station may work parallel. Also system can provide geographic health map as statistics, where authorities may use these statics for a better management of society health. Personal model allows up to 4 accounts considered for families. Measurements can be started manually or automatically depending of configuration. Triggering levels for warning can be defined per user, the result can be send to N number of destinations as SMS or e-mail as a warning. By help of this solutions, doctors may provide better and cheaper remote health service. We are helping doctors to treat their patients anywhere, anytime, no boarders, no limitations.

Women and IT Entrepreneurship

Bangladesh Women in Technology (BWIT) is dedicated to mobilizing women involved in all levels of the technology industry and to create a wide range of professional development and networking opportunities for growth of its constituents and to make meaningful contribution in the growth of Bangladesh. Luna Shamsuddoha empowered women by packaging public resources for support to SME’s and leveraging government policy of Digital Bangladesh. As founder President of Bangladesh Women in Technology (BWIT) and Director of SME Foundation, I created a Project harnessing resources and talent to enhance the capacities of women who were initially accessed by the A2I Project of the Prime Minister’s Office. I will be empowering 3000 IT based women-owned businesses and freelancers in every Union in rural Bangladesh by bringing together resource of the government; know-how of the SME organization and project of the PMO. The focus is on women and IT entrepreneurship only. Scope of their activities will increase. They will provide services to government and companies. Through use of my networks it received attention of my peers globally. They will help integrate with the supply chain.

Safeer Students App for Smart Phones

The SAFEER platform released the SAFEER mobile application for smart devices, to achieve further support and a smoother facilitation. SAFEER platform is currently available in the students hands through their smartphones. The application is designed and developed in accordance with the highest international standards in the field of smartphones within the Service Sector. By taking advantage of smartphones features such as user interaction, GPS and phones attachments, the SAFEER app offers all SAFEER services with the highest quality and ease of use for students abroad. Students can submit requests, upload attachments, and follow up with their requests instantaneously through different access points on the SAFEER mobile application. This application provides completely automated services to students studying abroad and saves them both effort and time by not having to visit their nearest attaché to get the services they need, either related to their study or payment and personal services. These are some services the application provides for the student: • Comment Request • Reopen Payment • Ticket Request • Edit Personal Information request • Add Educational Report • Pay Differences Request • Financial Warranty Request • Definition Request Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.mohe.slidingmenu Apple https://itunes.apple.com/sa/app/sfyr-altlbt/id880089101?mt=8

Arab Women in Computing Lebanon Chapter

The Arab Women In Computing Association (ArabWIC) mission is to support, inspire, retain, encourage collaboration among, increase visibility of and help elevate the status of Arab women in computing from the various computing/technology sectors(academia, industry and entrepreneurship), and allow them to achieve their career goals. Also, to create linkage with international women-in-CS organizations. Arab women in computing (ArabWIC) aims to bridge the gender divide in technology-related domains by raising awareness of the problem, highlighting success stories and role models, providing scholarship and mentoring opportunities for Arab females in technology on all levels, creating networking opportunities, and offering hands-on workshops and competitions for Arab women in technology.

Arab Women in Computing Lebanon Chapter

The Arab Women In Computing Association (ArabWIC) mission is to support, inspire, retain, encourage collaboration among, increase visibility of and help elevate the status of Arab women in computing from the various computing/technology sectors(academia, industry and entrepreneurship), and allow them to achieve their career goals. Also, to create linkage with international women-in-CS organizations. Arab women in computing (ArabWIC) aims to bridge the gender divide in technology-related domains by raising awareness of the problem, highlighting success stories and role models, providing scholarship and mentoring opportunities for Arab females in technology on all levels, creating networking opportunities, and offering hands-on workshops and competitions for Arab women in technology.

Working to Advance STEM Education for African Women

WAAW (Working to Advance Science and Technology Education for African Women) Foundation is an international non-profit organization founded in 2007. Headquartered in Lagos Nigeria with an operational office in Wylie, Texas. OUR MISSION To increase the pipeline of African women entering into Science and Technology fields and ensure they are engaged in Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship to benefit Africa. OUR VISION To empower African women to become impactful leaders, change agents and technology innovators through STEM engagement. OUR CORE VALUES The Power of Women Education and Leadership Impact and Giving Back Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Localization and Cultural Sensitivity CORE FOCUS Empowering African Women to become impactful leaders to benefit Africa through experiential STEM Education, Leadership and Entrepreneurship Training.

MOE – Enterprise Performance Management (Hyperion) Project

The Ministry of Education (MOE) is intending to implement an enterprise wide planning and budgeting solution for the body of the ministry and at a high level for each of the Education Directorates spread across the kingdom. The system should adopt the new financial system adopted by Ministry of Finance (GFS). The system will allow each division (7-10 divisions in each educational department) within the educational departments (48 Educational Departments (Ed's) across the Kingdom) to submit their own budget requirements to the budget division, which will consolidate all the requirements from the divisions and submit them to MOE headquarters. The system will then allow the budget division within each educational department to verify and submit the consolidated budget requirement for the whole educational department. The system should provide extensive workflow functionalities to allow all users of MOE (across all ED’s, Agencies and MOE HQ) to collect, review, approve, revise, consolidate and submit multiple versions of budgets on multiple levels (division, ED, Agency and whole MOE).

3rD-LIFE: 3D Virtual Environment for Social Interaction of Elderly People

As a result of this project, a fully functional 3D virtual environment has been created. The purpose of this virtual island is to find a way that enables older people to find new friends and be in touch with friends and relatives. As a result, virtual places like the Café with announcement panels, the video streaming, the private houses, the learning area, the gaming area, the beaches, the bus stops and the exhibition area have been created on the 3RD-LIFE island. The final evaluation showed that the final version of the island meets End-users’ needs especially concerning social interaction. Based in these findings, the positioning of the island in the market segment is very promising; in fact, there are some companies that have shown their interest in this island.

WHY DO I EXIST ?

Kuki Ndiho Rwanda Orphans Support Project , an organization that she established in 2005 to raise awareness on the genocide in Rwanda, help survivors, and aid orphans of HIV. In her personal capacity, she also serves as a mentor to many of the children, helping to build their confidence and give them inspiration.

School Transportation System (STS)

Around (6,000,000) students are enrolled in around (33,000) schools located in (45) regions, MoE is committed to providing them with many services that facilitate their learning. These services are offered to them for free regardless their region, gender, and social status. One of the main services is school transportation in which students in a school are transported from their house to their school and vice versa. Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 pays more attention to the education and learning issues to prepare students to confront the challenges of real life. MoE is committed to facilitating their learning, especially the way that use to commute from their house and school and vice versa and harnessing technologies in this regard to produce solutions that contribute to increase productivity. For this purpose, MoE launched Noor- STS which was designed to facilitate student transportation. It aims to ensure that the transportation service is available for each student across the regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Smart Mobile Apps Platform

The mobile revolution is one of the most disruptive forces in the technological world. Thus, the Government of Mauritius has adopted a strategic direction that involves the adoption and promotion of innovative and modern technologies. The Smart Mobile Apps Platform has been formulated and implemented to release new mobile applications for innovative services to citizens. The platform comprises of three main components, namely:  A Service Oriented Architecture system that will allow the quick and consistent deployment of mobile app servers  A government “app store” website to reference and promote the mobile apps as well as any future apps  11 mobile applications, available on major platforms (iOS and Android) for pilot launch. The mobile apps are listed below: 1. Search Gov 2. Smart Traffic 3. Smart Police 4. Emergency Alert App 5. Energy Efficiency (EEMO) 6. Family Welfare 7. Consumer Rights 8. School Companion 9. SME Net 10. Green Living Index 11. Agriculture app

Children's Coding Club

As part of its mission, mHub runs a programme to introduce computer skills to children between ages of 6 to 17. The course is carried out at mHub premises in Lilongwe every Tuesday and Thursday. The children are taught coding skills using programming tools that were specially designed for the purpose teaching children and also to make the development of basic application easy for them. Currently the training uses MIT Scratch and Snapp. Scratch is a visual programming language. The language is used by students, scholars, teachers, and parents to easily create games and provide a stepping stone to the more advanced world of computer programming. It can also be used for a range of educational and entertainment purposes from math and science projects, including simulations and visualizations of experiments, recording lectures with animated presentations, to social sciences animated stories, and interactive art and music. Interacting with Scratch will help children to develop skills that can be applied in different areas of their study.

SOFTCARE

The system developed during the SOFTCARE project is a fall detection solution for elderly people living independently with some degree of home care. The main devices are: s The bracelet: light and comfortable accelerometry-based device incorporating a panic button; s The static nodes: small devices plugged at the user’s home (one per room) acting as signal repeater and allowing the user location when indoors; s The gateway: device acting as network sink, being the ‘decision maker’ that establishes the voice communication channel towards carers if a hazardous situation is detected. A notebook is used for this purpose in the current prototype. The project is currently negotiating with potential commercial partners form the UK. In the current stage they plan to arrange a bigger pilot (around 100 users) in which SOFTCARE will be integrated with an existing commercial system (they will use their gateway and, probably, web interface).

Digital accessibility for all

Digital accessibility for all Using Internet may facilitate the access to labour market and improve the comfort of life, still the providers of telecommunication services do not adjust their websites to the needs of the disabled and the existing legal frames do not impose such obligations. Therefore NRAs need to create effective policies, which motivate the providers to introduce solutions granted to the people with disabilities both on Internet sites/mobile applications (digital accessibility) and in points of sales and customer service (architectural accessibility). A project implemented by the Polish Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) assumes a recurrent monitoring of websites, mobile applications and points of service but also promotion of best practices and educational activities directed not only at the operators themselves but also the end users. The second, equally important aspect are digital competences, safe and creative use of emerging technologies, ICT, knowledge of programming principles in order to increase the opportunities for active participation in both social and professional life. UKE runs educational campaigns people with disabilities - our offer (classes in Polish Sign Language) is mainly addressed to deaf people, but children with physical and intellectual disabilities also participate.

COMBATTING FOOD INSECURITY THROUGH REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY

This project is aimed at combating food security by smart farming through the implementation of remote sensing technology by observing and analyzing the factors that affect plant growth. OBJECTIVES: 1.Promoting environmentally sustainable agricultural practices. 2.Reduce the socioeconomic dependence of farmers on the government. 3.Encourage the consideration of the influence of climate change in farm management. 4. Crop growth monitoring 5. Crop yield prediction 6.Highlight the importance of remote sensing technology in agriculture PROCESS: 1. Soil parameters are assessed by ground mounted instruments such as probes and samples are collected for lab analysis. 2. Collate satellite imagery (time series dekad data) that observes vegetation and climatic conditions. 3. Use this data to formulate crop inputs, monitor crop growth and predict crop yields for improved business management. This data can also be used to prepare for future growing seasons. Botswana is a medium, semi-arid country with 76% of its population dependent on agriculture. The instability of Botswana’s food security as a sub-Saharan country has led to the necessity to utilize technology and develop policies for sustainable solutions to support a constantly growing population.Agriculture is the basis of food security, however due to various factors that range from climate change to socioeconomic constraints, fluctuations in crop production have led to deficits and thus lowered the standard of living in Botswana.Monitoring will increase agricultural efficiency to achieve food security and reduces risks through accurate forecasting. This research falls under technological applications for sustainable agriculture in line with the Vision 2036 to make Botswana food sufficient.

Comrades

Comrades is a smart application that provides support for PLWH and provides information that is really educated for society. By using Comrades, PLWH or society is not only can do the consultation about HIV/AIDS but also they can read some educating information such as some support tweets from twitter that has been classified by using Machine Learning Technology and they also can read some news, articles, and events about HIV/AIDS that has been validated by the communities. In addition, PLWH can set the reminder to remind them consuming the medicine with the schedule based on the doctor recommendation.

Jjiguene Tech Hub

JJiguene Tech Senegal, the first women network in technology in Senegal, aims first to encourage, inspire and initiate more senegalese women to integrate the IT ecosystem through networking, training, mentoring and knowledge sharing. We are promoting STEM for girls at school , for professional women at work and for female entrepreneur. We train them on how to use technology to improve their business. The core team consists of four passionate women about technology, recognizing its impact on the current and future generations, especially measuring the importance of women in the development in Senegal even in Africa . This team has always been there and willing to support the IT communities in their volunteering role of organizing, sharing and popularization of IT knowledge."

ROSETTA: Guidance and Awareness Services for Independent Living

The ROSETTA project has developed an innovative, integrated system aiming at prevention and management of the problems that can occur to elderly persons as a result of chronic progressive diseases. The system monitors the activities of the resident by means of multiple and different sensors, it generates an alarm in case of unexpected/deviant (in)activity, which is forwarded to the caregiver. Thereupon, the system generates a warning in case of long-term variations in the patterns of daily living, which is forwarded to the caregiver. It supports the resident directly in carrying out his or her daily activities. The major unique selling point of the Rosetta system is that it is a very elaborate and flexible system combining all functionalities that are needed during the whole process of dementia, while the existing products on the market focus on the needs of distinct stages of the disease. At the end of the project, a surveillance product was almost market ready and therefore it was selected to be launch as first to the market in The Netherlands in 2013. More information about this can be found at: www.dutchdomotics.com

MENA Programme

Internet Governance MENA region pogramme is pioneer in : building the capacity of civil society from MENA in Internet Policy through various activities. The programme empowers both women and men to take the lead in pushing Internet policy agenda in their countries and be engaged in the regional policy dialogue at the Arab Internet Governance Forum, and the global discussion. The programme works with the Alumni to develop tools to influence the decision-making process and play an active role in promoting and safeguarding public Interest.

Zain Innovation Campus

The establishment of Zain Innovation Campus (ZINC) in Jordan . Zain Innovation Campus was created to enable women youth to convert their innovative ideas into productive start-up projects, to be marketed locally, regionally and globally. In Q4 2013, Zain launched a program, Zain AlMubadara, aimed at supporting entrepreneurial projects for women aged 18 to 28 years. Zain AlMubadara was the first initiative to be introduced by Zain Jordan, and it attracted 150 projects across the Kingdom and in various fields and domains. Following the above, in January 2014, Zain established a dedicated Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility (CER) division, within the company’s corporate structure, where Zain became the first company in the region where its organizational structure includes an assigned section to support and develop start-up projects submitted by young entrepreneurs.

Zain Innovation Campus

The establishment of Zain Innovation Campus (ZINC) in Jordan . Zain Innovation Campus was created to enable women youth to convert their innovative ideas into productive start-up projects, to be marketed locally, regionally and globally. In Q4 2013, Zain launched a program, Zain AlMubadara, aimed at supporting entrepreneurial projects for women aged 18 to 28 years. Zain AlMubadara was the first initiative to be introduced by Zain Jordan, and it attracted 150 projects across the Kingdom and in various fields and domains. Following the above, in January 2014, Zain established a dedicated Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility (CER) division, within the company’s corporate structure, where Zain became the first company in the region where its organizational structure includes an assigned section to support and develop start-up projects submitted by young entrepreneurs.

The Meninas Digitais – UFSC (Digital Girls)

The rates of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematic), including IT (Information Technology) and Engineering courses are very low in Brazil. The Meninas Digitais – UFSC (Digital Girls) project proposes to minimize the gender gap in the technology and computing workforce. It try to demystify these areas. The Meninas Digitais project encourages women students to pursue technology classes, degrees, and careers. The project recruits undergraduate students, from STEM courses, (most of them girls) to work with high school girls and K-12 girls. These girls are motivated to participate in activities, events and workshops related to STEM in Araranguá and nearby cities. The activities include: (i) workshops on robotics, electronics, software development, games development, 3D printer, etc., to increase female involvement in the development of ICT solutions; (ii) keynote tech talks with women engineers from local enterprises, to give girls a sense of what engineers do, to encourage then to purse STEM careers; (iii) discuss myths and effective practices related to girls in IT, to create a community of girls who can change their lives and their communities. The workshops provided a valuable environment to begin collaborative efforts to improve girls’ participation in information technology. Meninas Digitais – UFSC provides girls with more opportunities to understand the work of engineers therefore helping them when they are making decisions about their future in engineering/technology areas. The project provides a positive reinforcement tool for retention undergraduate girls at University and stimulates a culture change.

RGS: Rehabilitation Gaming System

The RGS developed and tested a novel virtual reality based system for the rehabilitation at home of motor disabilities of the upper extremities of elderly people after stroke. The system deployed an individualized and specific deficit oriented game training that combines movement execution with the observation of a correlated action by virtual limbs that are displayed in a first-person perspective. The specific project objectives were as follows: s Development and integration of the hardware and software for the RGS including the rehabilitation scenarios; s Development of user centered and neuroscientifically grounded diagnostic and training scenarios; s Evaluation of the clinical impact of the RGS at the functional and neuronal ; s Gathering of user requirements involving all the stakeholders; s Establishing the theoretical and empirical foundation of the rehabilitation and diagnostics methods implemented in the system.

Vida Mujer / "Don't die for me"

http://vidamujer.org

FemMap

FemMap is a collaborative database that aims to gather information about feminist projects around the world. It aims to create a historical, trustworthy source about feminism, as well as create links between similar projects form different parts of the world, so they can help each other and avoid redundancy in their work. FemMap aims to bring feminists together to achieve gender equality. Launched in January 2016, to website has over 150 projects inserted so far. With articles written in Brazil, Germany, United States, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, Egypt, India, Chile and South Africa, FemMap has reached women in four continents so far. It continues to work on reaching women from all over the world.

Multi-network Cooperative Energy-saving System

Nowadays, with the new mobile communication technologies, the overlay network coexists with the capacity network of the GSM/TDS/LTE networks. In additional, there is a tidal effect on traffic volume, thus resulting in a waste of power energy. For this, the present project has developed a multi-network cooperative energy-saving system (MCES) to implement the execution of multi-network standard cooperative assessment and energy-saving scheme. Today, more than 20,000 cells in Shanghai have deployed such a system, which has achieved an annual power saving of 570,000 kWh. This system innovatively establishes an elastic energy consumption application mechanism based on the original mobile base station infrastructure, greatly reducing the power consumption of the base station during the idle time and ensuring a sustainable production mode. At the same time, the deployment of this system is relatively simple; it can be deployed in cities with both GSM network and LTE network. A set of two servers is able to implement the execution of energy-saving schemes on 20,000 cells. In such a system, the output-to-input ratio is over 500%, the subsequent maintenance is simple, and the economic benefits and effects are significant.

The National Education Portal “iEN”

The National Education Portal (IEN) is a strategic project that contributes toward the transformation into e-learning as part of the National Transition Program (2020) of the Ministry of Education (MOE), which promotes the transformation of e-learning curricula to improve the student performance , and includes the development of the electronic infrastructure to be compatible with the technology of the twenty-first century, ensuring that the student, teacher, and parent are having quick and safe access to the educational resources, these resources are consistent and compatible with the culture of Saudi Arabia and meets the individual differences among learners via variety strategies. "IEN" achieves that by having a good index and strong technical structure linked with textbooks by QR code to provide quick access to each and every lesson and e-resource. The number of lessons available at the portal is more than 13,000, in all courses, and the number of views & download of the educational sources in those lessons are more than 10 million views. Also "IEN" aims to develop more interactive learning content and share it with all learners, develop teachers' ability to use technology in their teaching and learning process, help the integration of technology into the curriculum, and facilitate student learning of basic scientific concepts.

Tech-Girls

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.

REMOTE: Remote Health and Social Care for Independent Living of Isolated Elderly with Chronic Conditions

REMOTE aimed at defining and establishing a multidisciplinary and integrated approach to R&D of ICT for addressing, in real life contexts, identified needs of frail older adults, especially of citizens at risk due to geographic and social isolation in combination with chronic conditions, such as hypertension, arthritis, asthma, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease, and the coexistence of lifestyle risk factors, such as obesity, blood pressure, smoking, alcohol abuse, poor eating / drinking habits, stress, and low levels of physical activity. REMOTE enhanced the older adult’s personal environment with audio-visual, sensor / motoric monitoring, and automation abilities for tracing vital signs, activity, behaviour and health condition, and detecting risks and critical situations as well as providing, proactively and reactively, effective and efficient support at home. Finally, in order to focus on the specific risks and problems experienced by older individuals and due to the growing gap between urban and rural areas, the project was aimed to enable professional carers to access remotely past activity and medical data of their patients. REMOTE was validated with all types of target users

Smart Mobile Apps Project - Energy Efficiency Mobile App

The Energy Efficiency app is a helper app that focuses specifically on energy efficiency and how to improve (or more accurately, decrease) energy consumption. Based on the user’s selection (e.g. air conditioning issues), appropriate recommendations are displayed in the app. The app provides a number of recommendations over a range of household appliances and their everyday use. Additionally, news and events regarding energy efficiency initiatives can also be posted regularly in the app. In the long run, this application will help in sensitising the public on energy wastage and improving energy efficiency. By achieving public awareness on energy wastage, policies and regulations can be more efficiently implemented. Start & end date: January -march 2018

Better Connections

The Better Connections Program is a ground breaking digital and social inclusion program that provides free training and access to ICT facilities for some 1.5 million low-skilled migrant workers at their places of accommodation in the State of Qatar. The project is based on a network of public and private partners and collaborators that include government ministries, large corporations, charitable organisations, employers, schools and universities. Using donated computers that are refurbished by school students in green computer clubs, the program enables low-skilled workers to gain an understanding of the benefits of online technology and teaches them basic IT skills, while also introducing them to social media platforms to keep in touch with family and friends in their home countries. Participants are given access in their own languages to training in how to access the internet and online services, communication tools, social media etc. Full training materials are provided in multiple languages by Microsoft and Intel, as well as bespoke ICT training materials (10 modules). The project has designed bespoke information and training for migrant workers that includes, health and safety learning modules, labor law videos, financial literacy including an ATM simulator and e-learning on how to do online money transfers. The project has also created access to Hokoumi migrant workers portal, through Hukoomi, the main Government e-services portal, to information suitable for migrant workers in five different languages, supported by a hotline where the operator speaks some of the migrant workers languages. From a broader perspective, Better Connections supports migrant workers to be part of an integrated digital society in which everyone has equal access to technology and are part of the information society regardless of economic or social background.

Teachers Affairs Management System (TAMS)

Around 600,000 teachers are distributed in around 33,000 schools which are located in (48) regions. MoE is committed to providing them with many services regardless of their region, gender, and social status. These services include data update, the need for calculation, the internal and external transfer (transformation) process, new recruitment process, and the temporary transfer (transformation) process. Based on the general trend in the country to harness technologies to produce solutions that contribute to increase productivity, the MoE launched Noor- TAMS which was designed to facilitate teachers' services. It aims to centralize the database of all teachers in schools, directorates and the Ministry throughout regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The implemented solutions are based on the latest technologies and solutions that provides a multitude of features and e-employment services, which encompasses 4 key modules as the following: - Teachers Main Information & Need of Teachers. - Teachers Transportation between regions. - Teachers Transportation between schools within region. - Hiring New Teachers and distributing them to districts and schools. These modules are designed to be employed by teachers, school principals, directorates' administration, high-level administrations in the MoE and decision makers. The solution aggregates all data from the various sources in order to provide real time, accurate and comprehensive data and reports that serve the whole education community as well as facilitating planning, analyzing and supporting decision across the country.

Digital Jobs Africa

The aim of this initiative is to Connect Africa's rapidly growing youth population with sustainable employment opportunities.The Digital Jobs Africa initiative launched in 2013, and has successfully led to the establishment of an inclusive hiring practice known as impact sourcing, and helped scale demand-driven skills training approaches for youth. These will be advanced through the two legacy pieces—namely the Global Impact Sourcing Coalition and the Demand Driven Training Toolkit, which showcases best practices in approaches in youth skills development.

HearColors

At HearColors we are convinced that information and communication technologies empower persons with disabilities and are a necessary tool to improve their quality of life. Digital inclusion is directly related to accessible digital content. Nevertheless developers, designers and digital content creators have never heard of web content accessibility standards and hence do not develop or create accessible content and websites for persons with disabilities. There are more than 1 billion persons with disability in the world that can navigate on internet thanks to the existence of free assistive technologies. These persons can boost their social and economical development by been included in the digital economy. Today 9 out of 10 websites in the world are not accessible. We have created 2 digital accessibility seminars where developers, designers and content creators will learn about accessibility standards and will have the necessary tools to develop content accessible websites. Many government, as the Mexican government, have regulations obliging government websites to be accesible. These laws are impossible to implement if there are no capabilities and that is why we are training government officials and government vendors in web content accessibility. But ""nothing about us without us"" persons with disabilities need also to learn how to use the internet and use assistive technologies and that is why 40% of the funds raised by these seminars are reinvested in a program that we and our partners have developed that teaches persons with different disabilities to use internet. There will always be new government officials and new developers and vendors that will need the skill of web accessibility therefore our program of enhancing capabilities among persons with disabilities will always have funds and as a result more and more websites will be accesible.

Elderly Indoor Monitoring Assistant

As the population aging is accelerating, the issues of safety and healthy living for the elderly living alone, especially those with financial and physical disadvantages, are causing increasing attention. “Elderly Indoor Monitoring Assistant” piloted in Liangxi District, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, helps community provide elderly care to those disadvantaged groups. The project is based on one door magnetic and three PIR sensors. Through machine learning algorithms (the project uses AI technology, including Naïve Bayes classifier and K-Means Clustering), indoor behaviors (outing, eating, resting, sleeping, etc.) are analyzed at residential gateway, and anomalies can be remotely alarmed. It prevents small accident from developing to a death, as well as provides health management, and as such enables a healthier life. It is well received by both the community and elders, thanks to customized services for each household with dignity and low cost. It is orchestrated by three factors: (1) perception-free and camera-free sensors, (2) behavior recognition and anomaly detection algorithms, (3) edge computing framework. Media highlights the sensor selection, because users appreciate that the sensors don’t intrude their life or privacy, and from which derived the privacy issue in elderly care. With the confidence in IoT and machine learning technologies, we believe the Liangxi project is reproducible and sustainable.

PAMAP: Physical Activity Monitoring for Aging People

PAMAP developed an ICT-based system for accurately monitoring and promoting the physical activity of older adults in both specific structures and in daily life at home for both private (primary prevention) and professional use (secondary prevention and rehabilitation). The purpose of this system is to enable better supervision of therapies and success measures, and encourage elderly to improve their level of physical activity. The PAMAP system consists of four major self-contained components: Bodyworn sensory equipment (miniature inertial sensors, heart rate monitor) and a mobile processing unit are used to acquire information. Two key innovations of PAMAP are (1) providing a holistic way of physical activity monitoring by supporting monitoring, guidance and follow-up of typical aerobic activities (2) supporting personalized monitoring adapted to the elderly population. Hence, fit and healthy older adults can profit from the PAMAP technology, as well as, i.e. cardiac or functional patients, who represent a high percentage of cases in the elderly population.

GGateway for Outsourcing Information Technology

GGateway is the first Information and Communications Technology (ICT) social enterprise in Palestine and started as an initiative in 2012 inside the United Nations for Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). GGateway became an independent non-profit entity in 2016 with a hybrid model between business and social. ICT graduates’ unemployment rate reached around 70% where around 1,000 ICT recent graduates per year in Gaza, Palestine. Furthermore, ICT employers face challenges in recruiting successfully ICT qualified graduates. The situation for women is more complicated: female participation in Gaza job market doesn’t exceed 11%. GGateway is an IT Social Enterprise, conceived in 2013, which works as a bridge between IT recent graduates and private sector employability offering the first commercially sustainable end-to-end solution to the ICT local business growth challenges. GGateway major objective is to create new job opportunities through hiring recent graduates, especially women, to outsource IT services or freelancing opportunities in Gaza ICT areas yet uncovered by the local market, while integrating skills and competency by capacity building during their daily work.

Tawasul

The Ministry of Education is keen to open communication with citizens in all matters related to education. This includes any suggestions, complaints, advice, incidents, appointment with the Ministry, and the resolving of any issues and follow up with the concerned departments. To enable these respective lines of communication to operate efficiently and effectively, the MOE has developed a specific fit-for-purpose technology application called "Tawasul". This application facilitates the communication process between the service applicants and the employees of the Ministry. Through the automation of the end-to-end service process, ‘Tawasul’ allows for the monitoring of all these communication lines and presents appropriate statistics for decision-making to assist in the speedy resolution of issues. Moreover, the Tawasul Electronic Service project at the Ministry of Education underpins the Saudi Vision 2030, with its objectives of promoting transparency in all sectors of government and supporting communication channels with citizen and the business community. This ensures efficient and timely government response to customers feedback, thereby improving the performance of government agencies. This enables a key objective of the third axis of vision “Ambitious Nation” within the program of national transformation 2020 and the program of financial balance which has the goal of improving the outputs of basic education and improving the order of educational institutions. This also has the benefit of underscoring the second axis of vision "Prosperous Economy”, as a part of Saudi identity enhancement program.

Afroes

Afroes began as a small start-up in South Africa with a mission to “gamify” Africa’s 21st-century learning needs. The digital enterprise has developed several mobile app games to raise awareness about social issues, including gender-based violence, child security, and environmental protection. By 2014, Afroes had expanded its operations from South Africa to Kenya. o date, the company has launched five games and reached over 850,000 users. Along the way, they’ve won 13 awards and prizes and secured at least 16 business contracts.

Dubai REST - Dubai Land Department Real Estate Self Transaction Platform

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.

The Future Gate: Digital Transformation of K-12 Education in Saudi Arabia

In the context of the Saudi Arabia Vision 2030, aiming to bootstrap the digital transformation for K-12 education, the Saudi Ministry of Education launched the Future Gate in 2017. Future Gate is a country-wide, large-scale initiative to implement a set of EdTech infrastructure and services for more than 25 thousand schools, 6 million students and 500 thousand teachers in Saudi Arabia. The initiative, planned to be completed in 2021, is implemented by the Tatweer Educational Technologies Company (TETCO - www.tetco.sa), the leading EdTech . Signs of the ongoing digital transformation in the Saudi school community are already visible and promising, while at the same time a number of challenges already surface, posing threats, but also opportunities for learning and deeper understanding of how EdTech can empower all stakeholders towards the goal of Quality Education for All. Being part of the Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 development oriented strategies that leverage the power of ICTs as an enabler of the digital transformation to enable new types of innovation and creativity in all domains critical for the Kingdom’s economy and society overall, the Future Gate’s insights and outcomes can also serve as a case study for countries that are planning to develop similar initiatives, as well as an evidence of the anticipated value that can be achieved and sustained for K-12 education by a carefully planned and executed use of EdTech, with a focus on the identified demand for digital literacy and the 21st century skills.

The Intelligent Cattle-breeding (Yak) Project of Aba Prefecture

By installing the Cattle-networking collars and ear tags (terminals of Internet of Things) on yaks, we can provide the multi-functional yak management services for the Bureau of Animal Husbandry, nomads, insurance companies, etc through the platforms such as integrated livestock management system, yak insurance management system, and nomad APPs. Besides, by opening the API to connect to the local animal husbandry and food safety supervision departments, we can provide the information traceability services for multiple stages of the yak’s lifetime, including "birth, growth, slaughter, and sales", in order to enhance the product value and form the unique brand "Hemutong". This project has been successfully piloted and is currently carrying out a large-scale promotion in the yak distribution areas of Sichuan province, with the goal to provide information services for tens of thousands of domestic (or even overseas) yaks. This project is of great significance to the promotion of poverty alleviation in Tibetan areas, the prevention of overgrazing in grasslands, and the improvement of food safety, which also has the good prospects of sustainable development.

IS-ACTIVE: Inertial Sensing Systems for Advanced Chronic Condition Monitoring and Risk Prevention

The general objective of IS-ACTIVE is to devise a person-centric healthcare solution for patients with chronic conditions - especially elderly people - based on miniaturized wireless inertial sensors, which provide distributed motion capture and intelligent recognition of activities and situations. The IS-ACTIVE sensor-based system is meant to provide the patients: s An effective sensing system for daily use, which analyzes in real-time their physical activity and condition; s An easy-to-use interface and a natural feedback, so that they become easily aware about the importance of self-management. IS-ACTIVE aims at producing tangible results in the form of fully-functional prototypes with a relatively short estimated time to market (1-2 years). IS-ACTIVE made an effort to shift medical device technology into the mainstream consumer electronics market. This implied that there is a strong focus towards ease of use, integration and pricing.

Le Jambar Tech Lab

The Jambar Tech Lab is a program launched by CTIC Dakar with the support of Infodev. Its main goal is to support and help West and Central African tech start-ups commercialize and scale innovative digital products. First of its kind in the region, the program will connect 40 local high-growth startups with the knowledge, capital, and access to markets they need to grow. The main purpose of this business acceleration program is to support Senegalese companies in the development of an innovative digital product that can be replicated in other regions or countries of the sub-region.

National OER Program, Saudi Arabia

The OER program is a Saudi National program led by the National Center for e-Learning (NCeL) that aims in enriching the educational content to support education and provide open access to information and knowledge to the knowledge society in partnership with Saudi educational institutions, universities, public and private sectors, and international organizations. This program seeks to find a sustainable path to partnership in design, improvement, maintenance and enhancing the quality of the digital educational content and it will contribute in providing more educational opportunities for those who speak the Arabic language. This is achieved through partnerships with leading international and Arabic institutions in building a digital repository, and localizations of the OER and building high-quality Arabic educational content. Also, it will be opening the way for academics and students in the Middle East to enrich the content through a well-defined process to ensure quality. The SHMS platform which offers users to search, create and share OER, won the award for Open Education Awards for Excellence 2018 for OER Repository. It hosts about 350,000 OER among which about 200,000 OER are published, and 150,000 OER are in the review cycle. About 175,000 Arabic OER are published on SHMS, 95% of resources are from Saudi Arabia. About 2000 plus OER Ambassadors were trained in 2017-18. NCeL announced 9 OER Excellence Award categories and 27 award winners declared for both individuals and organizations. As a result, about 30,000 plus OER are authored on SHMS, since its beta launch in 2017.

HOPE: Smart Home for the Elderly People

HOPE was a budgeted solution that is installed at the older adults people’ homes, providing services for (a) life-long, self-organized, appropriate educational environment and access to information, (b) care management and health support, (c) self-monitoring and decision making. The HOPE solution consisted of an integrated, smart platform that manages a smart home with different functionalities for security, fall detection and communication. The system can be split up into two main blocks: the Server Block and the Home Block, which represent the main agent and every subsystem at each elderly user’s home respectively. The main innovation is primarily on user interface and service concepts. The service and the user interface have been tailored for users who have challenges with mainstream digital applications and devices. Estimated time to market: 2 years

Data Encryption Leak-proof and Tamper-resistant Network System Based on Quantum Communication Trunk Line

With the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), more people have access to the Internet and massive information, however, in the process, the security problem becomes increasingly urgent to be coping with. To protect the information security of citizens and to facilitate the realization of WSIS Action Lines in order to facilitate sustainable economic development and information security, China United Telecommunications Co.,Ltd.and Hengtong Optic-Electric Co., Ltd. actively assume corporate social responsibility and have developed an information encryption anti-leakage anti-eavesdropping system based on the Beijing-Xiong'an&Nanjing-Shanghai Quantum Secure Communication Trunk.This project adopts the self-developed F-M phase coding system and won the pilot project of network security for the telecommunications and Internet industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.In the future, the construction results based on this project can serve Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Quantum Communication Ring Network; Yangtze River Delta Quantum Communication Ring Network can be constructed to provide secure quantum communication services for the urban agglomerations. The most important result of this project is to provide a paradigm for protecting the information security of global citizens, which makes the project replicable and extensible.

Smartphone Based Soil Testing Kit and Input Demand Aggregation

Our solution creates a digital intervention model in the Pre-Sowing Phase of the agricultural value chain through Input Demand Aggregation, Soil Monitoring, Information Dissemination, Timely and personalized forecasts and Crop Promotion. The waiting timeline, costs, and efforts are better managed, resulting in effective time management, reduced costs and better quality of produce. Input Demand Aggregation through FPOs - Bringing together small and marginal farmers through FPOs and aggregating their input demand using a tech oriented aggregation. This reduces the input costs by at least 12-16%.This model is enabled through our EasyKrishi Application which is brought to every rural doorstep in our focus areas through our trained ground agents. A Smartphone-based soil testing kit (developed by ffem)which is affordable, portable, easy to use covering tests for available Nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, pH and micro nutrients like Boron and Iron.

ek Shop: Expanding eCommerce in rural areas

With around 80 million internet users and an increasing GDP, Bangladesh is holding a big possibility for the expansion of e-commerce industry. Though the current e-commerce industry is serving only 30% of total population because the majority of rest population (about 70%) are still out of internet coverage. This percentage mainly accounts the rural population. Problems like lack of Product Quality Control, Delivery Coverage, Payment Assurance, Trust Partnership with Stakeholders, Dedicated Support Center, Internet Connectivity (Speed & Availability) are acting as barriers for spreading the habit of online shopping among rural people. Moreover, the marginal producers are not receiving good profit because of not getting access to national markets and channeling products through intermediaries. Added to that, customers are also forced to buy those goods at a high price because of unavailability of all products in rural areas. Ek Shop is a integrated (popular eCommerce, manufacturing or service based companies) and assisted (through 10,000 digital center entrepreneurs) eCommerce platform connected with logistics and payment companies. It focused to expand eCommerce in rural areas and ensuring delivery of products to every door steps. It is an national supply chain to empower rural producers selling products all over the country and start exporting from July, 2019. This platform is already connected with more than 2000 entrepreneurs who made necessary products circulating all over the country. The economy of this country can be enriched by fostering digital commerce and nationwide supply chain which will increase local production and empower rural producers going for cross border trade.

BastarNet

BastarNet is a project initiated by Govt. of Chhattisgarh for laying optical fibre backbone network to boost internet and telecom connectivity in the Bastar division, where there is very little penetration of any of telecom provider of India. It will serve as the information highway to bridge the digital divide in the region. Bastar is a division in southern Chhattisgarh of India, which falls under weakest network connectivity districts in the country for variety of reasons. BastarNet project is an ambitious vision of Chhattisgarh Govt. for creating a digital highway for strengthening mobile and internet connectivity across the Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected Bastar division of Chhattisgarh to connect the seven districts i.e. Kanker, Kondagaon, Bijapur, Narayanpur, Bastar, Sukma and Dantewada. Under ‘BastarNet’, an underground Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) backbone of around 836 km in ring topology has been laid in order to boost the communication system in the seven districts of the Bastar division. An IP-MPLS based network has also been deployed for catering to end-to-end service delivery.

Stages of Building Digital Virtual Prints for Local Community, Regional and Internationally

King Abdulaziz University-Clinical Skills & Simulation Center (KAU-CSSC) established in 2007, we seek to find a conceptual framework for building digital virtual prints by recognizing the needs to developing a progressive plan for delivery CSSC information. CSSC established the official account of the website and social media since October 2011 that used as a reference for specialized training of medical and other healthcare professional disciplines wishing to peruse simulation-based training through promoting the CSSC activities and resources. A Virtual CSSC Learning Resources Guide plays an important role by its illustrations and learning features of each manikin to facilitate the learning objectives of clinical teaching aspects of medical, healthcare students & high-fidelity simulation applications in various disciplines. CSSC used frameworks and models to elaborate steps used to create and develop simulation center-virtual/web-contents. The model chosen used after retreated independent iterative review of the selected shortlist models, this model we showed steps of website development by integrating various web tools, social media and requirements to convey CSSC activity in Simulation, KAU-CSSC is keen to build real and effective partnerships with the media sector in order to send its message to all the beneficiaries of the services provided by the Center or through its working staffs and to deliver its community activities to the recipient through these partnerships. The Center also published in local official newspapers, websites, magazines, and newspapers external. In order to communicate the information directly to the interested people from all the categories benefiting from the services of the center this project as part of ongoing progressive planning to develop and increase the efficiency of the website as well as development Stages of the media plan, in order to deliver a culture of learning by simulation-based education to serve the community and to promote patient safety awareness.

WTTx to Connect the Unconnected and Bridge the Digital Divide

A harsh digital divide between households still exists, as 1.3 billion households out of 2.1 billion in the world still don’t have any broadband connection. WTTx - “wireless-to-the-x” solutions, supplies fixed wireless access for broadband with lower cost and wider coverage, enabling unconnected households to access and use public and private services, such as utilities, education, health and transportation, which definitely brings great benefits to society. As the innovator and main contributor of WTTx, Huawei brings the new concept of WTTx and generates the first batch of WTTx networks and households and makes the industry chains become mature. Huawei contributes more than 60% of new broadband connections of WTTx for households and engages as major vendor in 78% of WTTx networks construction around the world. By 2018, WTTx provides fixed wireless broadband access service to 75 million households (40 million under Huawei network) under 230 operators (Huawei engages in 180 of them as major vendor), around half of these households coming from low-income countries. Beyond wireless advantages, WTTx solution delivers broadband connectivity in remote areas and rural area of countries with very low population density. Through this solution， household of rural and remote areas become more educated, healthier and economically prosperous.

SmartFit

SmartFit is a Tanzanian technology company that specializes in innovating, improving and customizing world-class technologies and services to fit in the African Environment. The company is currently developing and deploying self-operated water purification and vending machines to enable communities in sub-Saharan Africa to have easy access to clean and safe drinking water at an affordable cost and in a way which does not endanger our environment with plastic waste. The company provides a cheap and easy alternative to bottled water, providing unlimited access to cold, filtered and purified drinking water on the go. Their purification process allows them to offer water that is more purified than any other water refill station.

Digital Assistant takes your work to new heights (myhome 3.0)

Saudi Aramco digital assistant will work as virtual companion with bot integration hub allows SA employees to have a deeper insights about their organizations and accomplish business tasks quickly. SA Employees can place purchase orders, check vacation balance, and rationalize consumed resources. Digital Assistant will introduce a new bundle of productivity solutions enabling users to digitally manage and sign business letters, track progress of critical activities and initiatives, and have 360 view of SA organizations. Being aware of business context, collected historical transactions, and the position of the user, SA Digital Assistant will utilize Artificial Intelligence capabilities to predict end-user needs. Phase-I of this project will go-live on Jan 2019 which covers availing a central hub for interactive services collected from various business applications through myhome 3.0 corporate portal.

Sand Movement Analysis

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.

Electronic Correspondence Solution (myLetters)

Tens of thousands of correspondences are being issued and exchanged between Saudi Aramco organizations every year ranging from policy statements, security warnings to request for information or services. With the increase number of those correspondences, Saudi Aramco organizations face challenges related to efficiency, consistency, and quality in managing their daily business correspondences. Saudi Aramco organizations manually process incoming and outgoing correspondence through physical business mail which results in increased costs related to materials, higher processing time and inefficient usage of man-hours. In addition, there is no standard processes for creating, signing, tracking and managing internal business letters. The letters are being created, reviewed and signed manually and then sent using post services. myLetter solution addresses the ever-increasing demand for sending letters between organization in an efficient and environmental friendly manner. myLetters enables Saudi Aramco organizations to digitally create, approve and track internal business letters. The solution comes in with a mobile version allowing organizations to review, approve, read, and process letters on-the-go. The solution optimizes the correspondence process by eliminating paper and reducing the costs associated with handling correspondence within the company. Total cost saving is estimated to be $20,000,000 for 5 years.

Online Renewal of Motor Vehicle License

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.

Ajman Digital champions

Ajman Digital Champions is a joint venture with Ajman Academy and Ajyal Talent Management in running the program that will benefit Ajman Academy students for grades 6 – 12 which focuses on deploying Artificial intelligence, robotics, electronics and renewable energy in the educational curriculum. This is a major educational program and the first in UAE to be fully funded and supported by the three parties. The main objectives of the program are: • Build a forward thinking school that will integrate STEM solutions into their labs that will propel the students into the 21st century. • A physical space and virtual portal where students can realize their own potential through self-directed learning, group instruction, individual mentorship, competitions, projects, experts and more The students had shown a great interest in the program. We already have many success stories. The students had been very committed and excited to learn more about the program. The parents are also had been engaged with the instructors to know more about their kids’ learning journey.

Open Data Library

Based on the Ministry of Educations concern with monitoring developments in different educational fields and following an analysis of the educational indicators in line with the sustainable development plans, the Ministry designed Open Data Library at the Oman Educational Portal to provide an enabling provision for proactive and open access to the Ministry data. It offers data of public and private schools, students and classes, teachers and administrators, special education, literacy and adults' education. The data can be freely accessed, reused, modified and shared. It can be also utilized by any organization, such as corporations, universities, NGOs, startups, charities, community groups and individuals. The value of MOE Open Data is to increase collaboration. When MOE provides the Open Data to the public via free electronic download, researchers and developers are quick to develop value-added researches and studies, which in turn fueled education growth in Oman. The MOE Open Data aims to increase transparency. It gives users an informative view of education status, through an analysis of its inputs and outcomes. Also, it contributes in increasing community e-participation for it enables users to follow up as well as to give their feedback about the educational indicators and its development in Oman.

Identity Digital Watermarking

Information and data is a critical and crucial asset to organizations, hence protecting such assets is essential to sustain reliable operations. Nowadays, a large amount of information and data leakage has been attributed to computer screenshots and mobile devices’ cameras due to the simplicity and capability of these devices to share and transmit digital information quickly and easily. Therefore, a solution to protect organizations from data leakage and infringements deemed necessary. Saudi Aramco has taken many steps toward the resolution of such issues and information leakage threats where the development of the Identity Digital Watermarking Tool was one step on the way. The Tool was developed a supporting solution to solve this problem by displaying digital watermark on computers screens covering the whole content of the screen. The tool was developed by Saudi Aramco to be compatible with Microsoft Windows Operating Systems to display users’ identity on all windows that are visible on the screen. The objective of the tool is to discourage users from capturing sensitive data using screen shots or cameras and remind them to think before sharing information. Furthermore, it helps the organization in tracking the source of the information leakage and take actions accordingly. This innovative software has helped Saudi Aramco in saving around $9M and is currently with the US patenting office for review.

Consumer Rights - Mobile Application

This APP has been designed specifically for the Ministry of Industry and Commerce - Consumer Affairs Unit and provides an Innovative citizen-centric approach to allow G2C interactions. The Mobile app allows Consumers to create complaints for poor service/defective products/High Price Practice directly to the consumer protection unit via the mobile app. Consumers may even send photos/files along with the complaint made via the mobile app. Its been a long awaited mobile app, as the citizens of Mauritius (or users) required an easy way to report and follow up cases pertaining to a number of issues for consumer protection. Additionally, in Mauritius, the Tourism Industry is the second most important economic pillar. Protection of Tourism rights is a must for the Government. A number of cases were experieced whereby Tourists were paying for a very high price for commodities (Textile Products, Artisanal Products, etc). Now with this App, Tourists can easily report High-Price practice. The Consumer Affairs Unit (CAU), also known as the Consumer Protection Unit, using a Back-End, will reception cases and initiate the required action. The Inbuilt work-flows allow both the Complainant and the CAU to follow up, set status, and allow live interaction between both parties. Most importantly, even if the Tourist has left the country, he/she can continue to follow up and have the satisfaction that the Trader has been fined for the trade malpractice. The CAU can even lodge cases to Court against the Trader and the Tourist will have the Updates. The Citizens can also benefit from the services of the App and make submissions for various issues experience as a consumer. The app also provides users with prompt notifications about decisions/news/events made by CAU to boost confidence between the two parties. With the IT System in place, the CAU now uses less paper and all entries/follow ups remains in the Digital Format. The App is available on Google Play Store and App Store.

Prepaid Mobile Devices Comparator (Comparador de Equipos Terminales Móviles Prepago).

The Prepaid Mobile Devices Comparator is an online tool that aims to provide the user with current, accurate, timely and comparable information on the devices offered by the different concessionaires in the prepaid mode, allowing the user to compare devices by: price, operating system, internal memory, screen size and camera. It also alows to identify the specifications of each device, linking the device of the user's choice with the prepaid plans offer. The tool is constantly updated and is the only one of its kind created by a government institution in Mexico.

ecolones The New Sustainable Currency

ecolones® is the first incentive program in Costa Rica to reward the correct separation of recoverable waste; it incorporates the concepts of a circular economy, the Objectives of Sustainable Development (impacts directly 10 of 17), Law 8839 of Comprehensiave Solid Waste Management and the National Strategy of Separation and appraisal of waste, electronic commerce and universal accessibility of technology. The premise of the program is based on convincing the population that recycling is not an environmental issue but an economic one. ecolones® was born as a public-private alliance between Próxima Comunicación and the Ministry of Health, and quickly incorporated a network of private companies, collection centers, local governments, NGOs, and civil society. ecolones® uses a technological platform to provide recycling alternatives throughout the country, while at the same time it has a collective education and training model for waste management. After seventh months, ecolones® has registered more than 40,000 people, 23 municipalities, 101 collection centers (composed mainly of small entrepreneurs). It has delivered more than 26 million ecolones® ($43,500) that are able to activate a sustainable economy where the user pays 80% of the value and the brands the other 20% with discounts. It has collected a total of 6,710,285 units (approximately 300 tons) of valuable materials that are reincorporated into the economy as raw material for various enterprises, to thus support the strengthening of a circular and sustainable economy.

HearMeFeelMe

The HEARMEFEELME project aimed at developing ICT-based systems that provide elderly people with visual impairments an easy, simple and intuitive way to access information and digital services in their home environment. The medication management service concept covered the service chain from the Pharmacy to the home of the vision impaired older user. The results of the project tackles the problem of identifying objects when the user has problems with their eyesight, and the user interfaces of traditional computing devices are challenging because of decreased vision and hand-eye coordination. The project originally concentrated only on medication management, but one of the results was expanded to cover audio tagging of any objects. Estimated time to market: 2 years.

Probabilities Calculator for ICT adoption and Internet Uses in Mexico

The Probability Calculator is a project of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT, as per its Spanish acronym) that, based on the sociodemographic characteristics of a person, allows its users to estimate the probability of use of an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) or to carry out certain activities on the Internet. Specifically, the tool estimates the probability to use computer, Internet, mobile phone, Internet through a Smartphone, as well as online activities such as e-commerce, e-payments, e-banking transactions or interaction with the government. Also, the Probability Calculator allows to choose the age, gender, education level, occupation, income level, and place of residence, in order to define the socio-demographic profile. The tool was developed using data from the National Survey on Availability and Use of Information Technologies in Households (ENDUTIH, as per its Spanish acronym), published in 2017. The Calculator was designed as an instrument to develop public policies aimed to reduce the digital divide in Mexico, at national, state and for the 49 cities included, since it provides essential information about the population groups with lower access to ICT. Moreover, the project contributes with goals 5, 9, and 10 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The Probabilities Calculator is an intuitive and friendly tool accessible for anyone using a device with Internet access, so the tool is available for the public in general, government entities, the academic community, media, and the private sector.

I’CITYFORALL

The I’CITYFORALL project aims at enhancing the sense of security and self-confidence of presbycusic people whose hearing degradation increases with age. Two mobility environments are considered: public confined spaces and urban space. The ICT solutions consist of intelligent loudspeakers for better intelligibility of vocal messages in public confined spaces and systems embedded in vehicles for better localization of urban sound alarms like ambulances, police cars, fire trucks, etc., as the presbycusis alters the perception of distance and the direction of sound source. The targeted population corresponds to people older than 50 years in mobility situations and affected by presbycusis that induces a loss of sense of safety and self-confidence. The I’CITYFORALL innovations will be tested by using the analysis software developed by the CENTICH and involving 90 users of the targeted population which will be compared to a normal group of population. The results of this assessment will form the basis of a labelling procedure that can be extended to other technological solutions. Three demonstrators will be presented at the end of the I’CITYFORALL project: s Assessing Intelligibility product based on the I’CITYFORALL s Loudspeakers dedicated to large spaces s Vehicles equipped with automatic real-time presbycusis equalization and alarm localization systems

System for the management of energy carriers

EnerguX, developed by the Desoft, Computer Applications Company, is a software for the strict control of energy carriers and is designed to obtain a series of useful statistical data for the monitoring and control of these resources. EnerguX has a user-friendly interface, customizable and allows controlling fundamentally the main objectives of allocation and consumption of fuel by Magnetic Card, the consumption of electricity, water, gas and consumption rates of the equipment of an entity. This software has as main objectives: • Provide real-time information on the use of energy carriers in an easier, faster and more reliable way. • Constitute a way to improve efficiency in fuel management by allowing monthly control of the corresponding consumption and mileage chart of the different vehicles. • Integrate with the economic management system that the client uses through the accounting vouchers that allows to export. The EnerguX is a tool for the self-control of the entity that uses it, for what it contributes to increase the savings for the development of the national economy. It offers the possibility of knowing the fuel consumption and analysis of the energy performance indicators by team; the planning and energy efficiency models implemented by the Ministry of Economy and Planning; the statistical model for the consumption balance of energy carriers; calculations of losses by transformation, all these functionalities that distinguish it from the other applications of this type in the country. This application currently has 800 clients around the national territory between state and private companies with a high level of reliability and customer satisfaction, which is why it is considered the product of this type in the country with the greatest impact and usability. Its ability to combine information and communication technologies and the control of natural resources associated with the environment, make it robust and powerful.

Telecommunications Information Bank (Banco de Información de Telecomunicaciones)

The BIT is a website launched by the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT, as per its Spanish acronym) in May 2017. The platform was developed to disseminate the statistical information that the IFT uses to monitor and regulate the Broadcasting and Telecommunication (B&T) sectors in Mexico. In addition, the platform is an interactive web tool that follows international best practices in terms of open data and transparency. Through the BIT, the IFT is aiming the following goals: • Creating knowledge about the Mexican B&T sectors. • Strengthening the decision making process for the industry stakeholders. • Enhancing the creation of public policies aimed to improve Mexican society welfare, through B&T services that are affordable and are provided with quality. The BIT contains indicators of the telecommunications services in Mexico at a national, state, and municipal level. Additionally, it includes key economic indicators for the B&T sectors, telephone number portability, and international comparisons. This tool contributes with goals 9 and 10 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

iHub Kids Hacker Camp (KHC)

iHub Kids Hacker Camp (KHC) offers kids an opportunity to learn the STEAM skills needed to become techies and leaders; who can identify problems in their community and challenge themselves to solve it. During the week of 12th -16th November 2018, iHub ran the camp at Kiota primary school. The team loved the kids’ enthusiasm, creativity and resourcefulness. A project-based learning approach was used to teach the kids electronics concepts. It challenges the kids to think about how electronics operate and to build problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. The projects are composed of three parts: electronic assembly, artwork and testing of the prototype.

Together

Community project seeks to rehabilitate 100 young men and women Objectives : - The composition of 100 young men and women . - Spreading the culture of human rights among young people - Spreading the culture of equality . Results : - Enabling young people from the mechanisms of advocacy . - Empower more than 10,000 young people from rehabilitation approaches Making Links is for anyone in Morocco who is running a minority ethnic youth group already or who has advanced plans to run a minority ethnic youth group. It is open to faith based, community based and issue based youth groups.

CARBON OFFSETTING PARTNERSHIP

Slush is a dynamic event that brings together 17,500 attendees, including over 2,000 start-ups from 124 countries. Slush Global Impact Accelerator (GIA) is a program created in collaboration with Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other multiple global partners. It supports impact start-ups and showcases exciting business opportunities in emerging markets which are vital for implementing the Agenda 2030 and solving complex challenges. At Slush the teams will be seeking partnerships, funding, and perhaps even buyers for their enterprises. They will also pitch to a panel of judges and an audience of regional and global leaders in tech and business. This year, Slush is partnering with Fortum and CHOOOSE to offset the equivalent of not only our organization’s carbon footprint, but also that of our 20,000 attendees’ flights, food, and hotel stays for the time of the event. The equivalent of 10,000 tonnes of carbon offsets will be made possible by Fortum, and powered by CHOOOSE, by investing in a thin film solar power project in Gujarat, India. This Golden Standard carbon offset project services the grid in an area mostly covered by a coal power plant, meaning the solar power provided can partially replace coal power in the area. The Slush-Fortum contribution is directly financing the operations of the power plant for half a year.

Slush

Slush is a dynamic event that brings together 17,500 attendees, including over 2,000 start-ups from 124 countries. Slush Global Impact Accelerator (GIA) is a program created in collaboration with Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other multiple global partners. It supports impact start-ups and showcases exciting business opportunities in emerging markets which are vital for implementing the Agenda 2030 and solving complex challenges. At Slush the teams will be seeking partnerships, funding, and perhaps even buyers for their enterprises. They will also pitch to a panel of judges and an audience of regional and global leaders in tech and business.

The Chasing Grace Project

The Chasing Grace Project is a docuseries about women in tech. It aims to recruit and retain female talent for the tech industry and give women who are more empowered than ever to share their stories a platform to be seen, heard and acknowledged for their experiences. Fewer young women are choosing to pursue careers in tech than ever before, and women leave tech at double the rate as men. We hope that by staring adversities in the face and showing how women are rising above them to chart successful careers in tech that others will be inspired to do the same. You can't be what you don't see. The Project was built with the belief that the future is being built today with artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain and more. Without a diverse workforce informing that work, we risk a future that is more exclusive than today. Activities include the production of six episodes, the first of which has been completed and screened in multiple locations. Screenings continue while the filmmakers negotiate with distributors. In production now on episode #2, which will be screened and released in August 2018.

EmptyTrips

EmptyTrips Enables Smart Transport, Reducing Waste, Emissions, and Costs. It aims to improve the transport industry by reducing carbon emissions and shipping costs for local SMEs. EmptyTrips’ business model is similar to Airbnb, eBay, and other platforms that remain asset-less, lean, and scalable, while also offering add-on services to ensure viable revenue streams (e.g. cargo insurance). EmptyTrips is Africa’s first smart transport marketplace to offer access to vetted transporters and carriers by road and rail.

Mogul

Mogul is a social enterprise that enables women worldwide through information access, economic opportunity, and education. Mogul (onmogul.com) is an award-winning technology platform connecting women to trending content, including stories, products, and jobs that are personalized to their interests. Mogul is ultimately democratizing information for women worldwide by enabling users to connect, share information, and access knowledge from each other. Mogul is a social enterprise reaching women across 196 countries and 34,470 cities, enabling women through information access, economic opportunity, and education. Mogul provides free educational resources to women in need through international partners such as the United Nations. Our business model is driven by two divisions: Mogul At Work and Mogul Redefined.

UGR Tech Camp for Girls

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.

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Startups Without Borders

Startups Without Borders sets off to create the entrepreneurial ecosystem for migrant and refugee entrepreneurs through 3 main tracks: Connecting them to resources such as incubators, accelerators and startup competitions through a personalised Facebook chatbot. Creating networking events such as ‘Mentor Mingle,’ bootcamps, and the SWB annual summit, giving them an opportunity to network, access training and mentorship. Storytelling, inspiring younger generations to build their business initiatives and raising the profile of refugee and migrant entrepreneurs.

XL Africa

XL Africa aims to put a spotlight on the continent’s growing digital economy by scouting for and supporting the most innovative tech startups. The programme is mostly delivered digitally, through a number of video modules available on demand, and also includes a two-week residency in Cape Town, South Africa, where the ventures will interact with and learn from mentors, peers, and local partners. The Cape Town residency will conclude with a Venture Showcase in November, with entrepreneurs presenting their business models to an audience of corporates and investors.

Inspiring Fifty

Project Prep is fictional novel aimed at 9-15 year old girls created to show girls how cool and rewarding a career in technology can be. With all companies set to be technology companies, it is vital that young girls learn tech skills in order to benefit fully from opportunities in their future careers and help improve gender diversity in the sector. Project Prep follows the life of Isabel - a 13 year old girl and role model for the readers who shows how fun it can be to learn to code, launch an app and set up a business. The book was launched in the Netherlands in June 2015 - it's introduction is written by Neelie Kroes and the first copy was given to Queen Maxima of the Netherlands. However, Project Prep is way more than a novel - it is an entire concept.

Innovation fund for mobile money

Integrated development programme (IDP) is providing support to the most ultra-poor, poor and marginalized households to improve their socioeconomic condition and ensure sustainable livelihoods in the hard to reach area of Char, Haor and Indigenous people of plain land through an integrated development approach. IDP intervention areas (Char and Haor) are too remote, isolated and hard to reach. As well as community access to government, non-government and other services are very limited. Women financial empowerment, inclusion, literacy and access to financial services are very limited in the intervention area. It’s being observed that there is hardly any formal financial institution over there to transact official and clients level operational and personal level transaction accordingly. In line with its strategic priorities and plan to ensure women empowerment and access to financial facility, BRAC initiated ‘innovation fund for mobile money’ and developed 'nearly Cashless Branch' project to ensure women access to mobile money and digital financial transaction facility for its microfinance (MF) clients and volunteers. All the participant of the project is women. Our observation from cashless branch shows that poor people, especially women need it most. Due to the patriarchal dependency and control, women are prohibited to have access to money, technology and technical device such as cell phone/mobile money. But project proved that with little numeracy and technical knowledge support to handle a mobile money wallet, women able to receive remittances from distant family members and able to use mobile money to repay loans and deposit savings. The ultimate result we are achieving is empowerment of women who is availing and using mobile money effectively in their daily lives. This project ultimately ensuring women empowerment through digital financial inclusion .

Sirius App

Sirius App is a mobile-first communication chat app exclusive for business (B2B), focused on productivity, platform integration and data security. Cloud Service based on Permanent Data Storage, Data Protection and Data Backup & Recovery. Developed for Mid-Large Enterprises, providing Data Management and Data Analytics for BI & Business Continuity Sirius app has its infrastructure developed with a focus on Information Security, Transparency, Corporate Responsibility, and our main goal is fight Corruption and Inequalities in the work environment.

BASIS Women's Forum

BASIS Women's Forum (BWF) is a membership and networking platform for women in the ICT sector, regardless of their educational background, enthusiastic to be a part the ICT industry of Bangladesh. This is an initiative of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) to empower women's role and activities in the ICT sector. Over the years, the ICT industry in Bangladesh has entered the digital domain and in it has seen a great shift towards the better future. However, it seems the key roles in this vast industry is being mostly occupied by men. Approximate statistics of the 700+ companies in the BASIS database show that of all the companies listed only 13% women work as professionals compared to men and amidst them only 3% women hold an entrepreneurship and leadership position. This shows that no matter how much we have progressed, women are still underrepresented in the ICT industry, meaning the "gender divide" is still the biggest barrier for ICT industry to boom. If BWF is asked about the very basic reason of its existence, the answer would be: 1. To increase awareness in our society of the importance of female empowerment through ICT. 2. To improve and increase women's involvement Bangladesh IT ecosystem.

AFCHIX

AfChix is a network of women in Technology who consider gender diversity in the Computer Science & ICT industry very critical for increased creativity and innovative performance of the industry. We have had activities impacting over 25 African countries. AfChix is involved in mentoring girls to consider careers in Computer Science and IT. We achieve this through visits to schools, celebrating annual Girls in ICT Days, running technical workshops such as the AFNOGChix Linux Administration Series and sponsoring our members’ participation in tech conferences such as the Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Computing (GHC) and Africa Internet Summit (AIS). We believe that by exposing young girls and women to possible career opportunities in Computer Science & ICT, we empower them to join technical fields confidently. We target the upper primary and high school girls between the age of 9 to 18, the young women who have freshly joined careers in ICT/Computer Science at Universities and workplaces and those established and looking to grow into technical leadership positions. AfChix encourages idea and knowledge sharing amongst promising young and women entrepreneurs, inspiring a collaborative approach to growth. Through this dynamic platform, we hope to encourage, support, guide and share amongst each other for the progress of our career paths.

SheWorks!

SheWorks! is a social impact enterprise empowering the millions of women that leave their jobs every year, due to lack of flexibility, to manage their career on their own terms. We are also providing access to professional development opportunities to make them more competitive.     We help companies drive diversity by connecting them with an international pool of certified professional women, while providing tools to hire, monitor and manage distributed teams. Most importantly, we connect qualified women with job opportunities with top brands. For example, it is estimated that approximately 50% of American women with children leave their jobs due to lack of options to maintain a satisfactory work/life balance. We also know that closing the employment gap has the potential to create a $4 trillion impact on the U.S. economy.     In addition, via SheWorks! Academy, we are providing women access to training and certification that will allow them to continue to develop professionally and compete in this new job market - with the ultimate goal of closing the gender tech gap.  

Skills Ontario

Over the past 30 years, Skills Ontario has grown into the most impactful organization encouraging youth to explore career options in the skilled trades and technologies. We are committed to preparing Ontario’s youth for the highly-skilled economy of tomorrow. We partner with school boards, colleges, small business, large companies, labour groups, and governments to provide opportunities for youth to explore and develop skills for successful careers in the skilled trades and technologies. With 30 years of experience, Skills Ontario is a province-wide organization with a grassroots connection into the many communities we serve. Our programs represent a long-term investment in the lives of all Ontarians.

Algerian Muslim Scouts / Tehadi

One of the main Algerian Scout activities is to provide arabic lessons, as a lot of young people in Algeria are weak in this language. Another target audience are women who have been unable to complete their studies at high school or university because of lack of money or other problems, unemployed women, widows, divorced women, women deprived of social relief, these categories are estimated to be around 30 percent of the community, a large number especially as it raises the proportion of digital illiteracy, poverty and deprivation in the community. The project aims to give disadvantaged women an opportunity to learn and get qualified in computer & communications and to get the basics of the Internet world, in order to get a job or to be able to work from home. Below are examples of main advantages of the program : - Engaging in a team of women to perform computer programs and the Internet , such as editing and printing, copying ,installation of the computer , maintenance, installation of networks, the design of the web, creating the blog’s ….ext - To give a greater opportunities to enter the world of work - Improve the standard of living of the women - Form a Task Team be able to work and make the change in her community - Empowerment of women to participate in daily life as normal and without any shortage. - Development of the Intellectual and social skills for them

OUTREACH SOCIAL CARE PROJECT

This Project has produced changes in attitudes and increased knowledge and skills which equipped and motivated the community and individuals to continue providing services to girls and young women after the project has end. To scale up and strengthen the activities, more involvement of the beneficiaries and their communities from planning to completion ensuring that they take active role and ownership in the project so that sustainability can be ensured. The Project has used ICT literacy to bring about meaningful changes in girls and young women’s daily life. We desired to see the girls and young women at the centre of the project for sustainability and accountability. The Project has involved all the stakeholders including the communities and the beneficiaries which are keys to project success and project sustainability to take the ownership of the project. To be empowered to take control of their lives, and the successful project being replicate elsewhere. The monitoring tools has been put in place such as reporting, monthly meetings, project visits and advisory meetings has been held regularly and information has been channelized to the review the progress of the project with all stakeholders including the primary beneficiaries. Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and facilitators compiled weekly reports including a detailed description of training attendance, full participation in the project, home visits, family situations; challenges faced and required follow-up steps. The project has directly interacted with 1000 girls and women monthly with the support of 10 facilitators, monitoring and evaluation officer and intents to interact with the larger community through mass social media, in future upon acquiring funds to sustain the activity. We value the power of communities. We know that by working together and building capacity, we can achieve the greatest goals and ultimately make contributions that benefit people at the very bottom of the economic pyramid.

Paymo

We’re delighted to serve over 100,000 small businesses & freelancers with their project management needs. Paymo helps your team work better by getting everyone on the same page. Planning, scheduling, task management & time tracking seamlessly integrated Paymo is an online project management application dedicated to freelancers and small & medium businesses (SMBs) from industries like Web Design & Development, Creative Agencies, Software & IT Services, Architecture & Construction, Legal Services, Marketing & Social Media and Business Consultants.

SAP Next-Gen for enterprises

SAP University Alliances is a global program enabling more than 3,500 educational institutions in over 113 countries to integrate the latest SAP technologies into teaching. Learning resources on SAP Leonardo and other SAP solutions enhance how faculty prepare the next generation with knowledge and skills for the digital future. SAP Next-Gen for enterprises enables companies around the world to connect with academic thought leaders and researchers, students, startups, accelerators, tech community partners, purpose driven partners, venture firms, futurists, and SAP experts to reimagine the future of industries and the intelligent enterprise, seed in disruptive innovation with startups, and build skills for digital futures. Enterprises can benefit from SAP Next-Gen services as well as events where digital innovators come together in an open “innovation with purpose” community to foster the future of industries with SAP’s latest technologies and in support of SAP’s commitment to the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development.SAP Next-Gen services include innovation tours, boot camps, startup matchmaker, advisors, purpose driven innovation, #sheinnovates, and projects with academia. SAP Next-Gen events include Innovation with Purpose Week, industry summits, meetups, festivals, and salons.

Spatial Data Services Project

The project aims to build a Geodatabase of Fodder farms at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to have a live statistics and analysis of the activities. The project consists of two phases as following: - Phase1, targeted to build a map for Fodder farms. It started by using Satellite Images to create a geodatabase of existing fodder farms among several seasons. The system uses more than 2750 images. After processing the images, several algorithms used to analyze and distinguish Fodders from other crops; then the obtained model applied on all other images. The final step was to use a Geographical Information System tools to establish geodatabase from the available information. Hence, in this phase a custom map of Saudi Arabia was built to visualize Fodders farms to be used by the government agency. - Phase 2, aimed to collect information from Fodder farms’ owners. Where the system used to register all farmers information including the owner information, the farm legal reports and farm’s geo-location. Then the farm gets visualized directly on the map to be validated by the farm’s owner. Therefore, the project now is capable of: - Analyze data and provide statistical information about changes of fodder farms over five years since 2015 - Provide detailed information about each fodder farm in Saudi Arabia: farmer information, farm area, crops..etc - Control Fodder agriculture and provide Fodder license - Enable an e-gateway for other logistic sectors to provide their services according the size and the type of the farm.

Licenses Portal

This project is coming under the digital transformation initiative that focusing on providing electronic services to help the beneficiaries to get their services in less time and good quality. In addition to, enable the ministry to track, manage and improve the beneficiaries experience and enhance the social life for the communities. The project scope is developing electronic portal that will contains 80 types of agriculture licenses that can any investor apply for them to get the license electrically without visiting the ministry or any of its branches

Protect My Environment

This project is coming under the digital transformation initiative that focusing on providing electronic services and mobile applications to help the beneficiaries to get their services in less time and good quality. In addition to, enable the ministry to track, manage and improve the beneficiaries experience and enhance the social life for the communities. This project aims to enrich the role of community control and responsibility for the citizens and residents. The project scope is developing mobile application to able the individuals for sending any environment abuses occurred around them or in the regions they are living in to let the ministry handling and taking the needed action after verifying the complaints. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mewa https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A6%D8%AA%D9%8A/id1239111677?ls=1&mt=8

Leverages Automation deliver IT-as-a-Service to Realize Saudi Vision 2030

Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA), has successfully deployed Converged Infrastructure solutions to deliver IT-as-a-Service and realize their ambitious goals for Saudi Vision 2030. According to the National Transformation Program 2020, set to develop the capabilities needed to achieve the goals of Vision 2030, MEWA’s core strategic objectives are centered on improving financial efficiency, enhancing service quality, supporting national companies and contributing to diversification. With such a critical role to play in the nation’s innovation agenda, MEWA aimed to automate its data center and create a centralized platform to host and deliver agile digital services, enabling all three ministries (Agriculture, Water & Environment) to unlock new efficiencies to meet the demands of the national vision.

Escola de Você

Alliance among women so that all of us can reach our goals faster. This is the spirit of the Escola de voce, a platform for empowering women through knowledge. Direct and stuffed videos of practical tips for you to reach your best version. Welcome. We have free courses for all your needs. We offer fast and fun courses. Our videos bring us day-to-day situations, the dilemmas we face, the reasons behind the behaviors that hinder our lives and a positive resolution to the conflict. Every episode also has tips from an expert on the subject. We have devoted many years to the study of female behavior and to the testing of different pedagogical methodologies to arrive at the model of the School of You. Here, in addition to specific technical skills, you will find a network of women who are also willing to collaborate and grow together.

Muwathiq Service

• The ‘Muwathiq’ service for establishment of an agency or company contract documentation is a very important service for all. It is a service that enables beneficiaries (individuals and companies) to establish their agencies, or enables documentation of company contracts at times that they were previously unable to do so at the notaries. This service helps individuals who are unable to attend the notaries due to their work schedule, or physical disability, to benefit from the notaries available services. An individual’s attendance of the transaction is confirmed by recording his or her fingerprint through a link with the “Absher” service (National Data Center).

Justice Indicators Service

The Justice Indicators Service is an online interactive service that provides inquirers daily updated reports and statistics in the form of tables and graphs. It consists of 4 categories: • Real Estate Indicators provide inquirers information about current transactions in regions, cities, and neighborhoods during a designated period. • Judicial Indicators inform users about the volume of work contained in general, criminal, and family courts in all regions of the Kingdom. • Administrative Execution Indicators allow users to know the number of incoming administrative execution applications in the courts and departments of administrative execution in all regions of the Kingdom. • Documentation Indicators allow users to know the statistics of documentation work in the judicial and civil notaries in all regions of the Kingdom.

Online Administrative Execution Service

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.

Gender Mobile Initiative

The Gender Mobile (GM) initiative is an accessible to all intervention platform designed to provide specialized support services for girls and women who are survivors of social injustice. Gender Mobile is leveraging technology in the form of a 24/7 dedicated mobile telephone helpline and a web platform where potential victims and survivors can reach our specialised agents, ready and competent enough to provide the required help for variety of victims' and survivors' cases. This combines a phone based helpline with a web and online chat interface that provides survivors with comprehensive information, assistance and long-term help. Another component of our work includes connecting victims and survivors to livelihood support opportunities for them to be self-reliant. One of our long-term projects is the the Adolescent Hub Project designed to sensitize adolescents in secondary schools and Universities on matters relating to several patterns of violence; how they can avoid being victimized, provide needed help to potential victims and survivors. The goal of the Adolescent Hub project is to nip GBV in the bud by carrying out in-school sensitization program which is research-based. This will also help create safe platforms for adolescents who have experienced such to share their experience(s) or experiences they have witnessed.

Network and Security Infrastructure for Jouf University

Since Jouf University covers an estimated area of 100,212 km², it is a major challenge to provide and maintain IT services with high availability in a cost effective manner. The main objective of this programme is to implement a new robust network and security infrastructure with high performance and availability in order to provide e-Services for the university staff and students. It consists of several sub-projects. - Core Network which aggregates all university building network and connects all servers. - Local new buildings network. - Local fiber connections between the main DC (Data Center) and the university campus buildings. - Fiber connection between the Main DC and the secondary DC (40 Km). - Wimax connection between the Main DC and the secondary DC (40 Km). - IPVN connections between the Main DC and the university branches in Sakaka (40Km), Tabarjal (250 Km) and Gurayat (400 Km). - Security Infrastructure for securing access to the university e-Services. - Internet connection with redundancy and high availability. Using this infrastructure, the university staff and students can access any services (VDI, Portal, IP telephony, Video Conferencing, eLearning Platform, ERP, …) that enhance the educational environment.

Jouf University Website

Knowing that the University website –as for all organizations- is an ongoing and continuous programme, Jouf University insist in a cost effective website development for this programme with a very high development standards. The JU website to introduce the academic and social aspects of the university with ease of use to help internal and external users. The new website is based on the utilization of an open source framework to save licenses cost and was developed in-house and evolves in accordance with the business needs. Typo3 was used as content management system for the University website. Even though that the new website costs only $40,000 compared to $800,000 for the old website, it fits exactly with the University strategic goals more than the former one with less cost and can be easily customized by University own highly skilled staff. The staff got their skills in Typo3 by improving their knowledge without any training cost. The University strongly believes that this programme features introduce contributions towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Smart Mobile Apps Project - Green Living App

The Green Living mobile application is an innovative project where Air Quality Monitoring IoT sensors will give the Air Quality Index across the island. By providing public information regarding the air quality, education on pollution and climate change will be easier and hopefully, policies and projects for sustainable development will be easier to implement The app introduces a number of innovations, including the use of IoT devices to collect air quality data and transmit it back to the servers. The IoT Sensors will measure 5 different parameters (E.g. Carbon Monoxide, Sulphur Dioxide, Nitrogen Monoxide, Particulate Matter 10, Ozone), and transmit these to the application server. The app can then retrieve this data to calculate and provide the AQI The Air QualityIndex (AQI) is derived using a model and this AQI allows a user to appreciate the quality of air he/she is breathing.

Epic Queen

Our programs create clear path always for Epic Queen alumni from middle to high school to develop careers in STEM. Our main objective is close the gender gap in STEM through activities like robotics, science and coding for girls from 6 to 12 and teens from 13 to 16. Our main programs: CODE SCHOOL. Program of workshops in which the girls learn various topics related to web development, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, among others, weekly. EPIC QUEEN CAMP. Summer camp of science, technology and robotics developed in important headquarters of the technology industry. STEMFAIR. In alliance with companies where girls develop a science project, be in a contest and inside the fair participate in STEM activities to get inspired in these areas. TECH PARTY. TECH PARTY. Technological party of 3 hours where the girls become creators instead of consumers of technology with different activities. Women's development program consisting of workshops, talks and courses that deal with issues of gender equality and empowerment.

TechHer

TechHer is a community of learning, support and collaboration for women working with technology. It also a platform for encouraging entrepreneurship and providing basic support for women going into business. It provides a platform for information sharing amongst women on basic day to day challenges with the aim of aiding empowerment and independence. TechHer believes that if women are exposed to the ways technology enables their daily activities, they will be more productive and empowered to have a voice in their community.

National Security Enhancement through the Post - Foreigners Presence & Services Application

Lebanon counts 4 Million Lebanese and over 2 Million foreigners and refugees. The General Directorate of General Security (GDGS) that is in charge of foreign presence census in the country, which is particularly important given the regional turmoil, partnered with LibanPost to better serve foreigners through its national network of postal offices with extended opening hours, and through its variety of other touch points, as well as its large distribution force. The “Foreigners’ Presence & Services Application”, that was developed in-house for the GDGS, allows for the renewal of the foreigners’ residency permits, other formalities’ completion, and for the establishment of an accurate database. This computer-guided retail application was complemented with a state of the art distribution module encompassing GPS coordinates on handhelds. A completely linked monitoring system was put in place for tracking undesirable events. Quality assurance reports were generated with push notifications to highlight any deviation from agreed upon SLAs. In 2018, handhelds were further updated to capture fingerprints using the latest bio-metrics technology, a reliable and accurate identity verification method. LibanPost positioned itself as the intermediary counter between citizens and public entities, hence contributing to better serve citizens, contain corruption and reform administration through business process re-engineering.

National Security Enhancement through the Post - Foreigners Presence & Services Application

Lebanon counts 4 Million Lebanese and over 2 Million foreigners and refugees. The General Directorate of General Security (GDGS) that is in charge of foreign presence census in the country, which is particularly important given the regional turmoil, partnered with LibanPost to better serve foreigners through its national network of postal offices with extended opening hours, and through its variety of other touch points, as well as its large distribution force. The “Foreigners’ Presence & Services Application”, that was developed in-house for the GDGS, allows for the renewal of the foreigners’ residency permits, other formalities’ completion, and for the establishment of an accurate database. This computer-guided retail application was complemented with a state of the art distribution module encompassing GPS coordinates on handhelds. A completely linked monitoring system was put in place for tracking undesirable events. Quality assurance reports were generated with push notifications to highlight any deviation from agreed upon SLAs. In 2018, handhelds were further updated to capture fingerprints using the latest bio-metrics technology, a reliable and accurate identity verification method. LibanPost positioned itself as the intermediary counter between citizens and public entities, hence contributing to better serve citizens, contain corruption and reform administration through business process re-engineering.

Bridging the gender digital divide

A project that sought to empower female students at the University of Zimbabwe by bridging the gender digital divide. The target audience was 2 916 female students resident in three University female hostels. The objectives were to a) to create an enabling ICT environment b) to train the basic computing skills (International Computer Driving Licence), c) to enhance ICT literacy skills. Activities involved setting up of computer labs in three female hostels.Engaged Computer Society to train in ICDL, selected (100)less privileged female students.

Bridging the gender digital divide

A project that sought to empower female students at the University of Zimbabwe by bridging the gender digital divide. The target audience was 2 916 female students resident in three University female hostels. The objectives were to a) to create an enabling ICT environment b) to train the basic computing skills (International Computer Driving Licence), c) to enhance ICT literacy skills. Activities involved setting up of computer labs in three female hostels.Engaged Computer Society to train in ICDL, selected (100)less privileged female students.

Technovation Challenge

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!

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.

Knowledge management center

As we are on the new future vision of technology and information and as MOFA following that goal in achieving an environment informative, easy and time saving comes the knowledge management The knowledge management center goals are to create a n informative and rich content platform accessible for all Ministry of foreign affairs employees. The platform goal is to provide the employee with up to date information, news, political and economic reports, online courses, studies and researches, internal announcements and many other type of content that support sharing knowledge, increase employee productivity and make the right information available at the right employee, The ultimate goal of the knowledge center platform is to utilize business intelligence solutions to analyze, calculate and predict the future for more effective decisions. The portal available to serve all Saudi missions and consulates around the world. In a timely, user friendly, cost effective and easy to reach centralized knowledge platform.

Digital Letracy Project

The aim of the Digital Literacy Project is to train all categories of the listener, focusing on women to gain knowledge of technology, digital literacy and safe use of the Internet. One of the activities of the project is training in the safe entry and use of the Internet to maintain privacy and protect against cybercrime, especially for women Where training was done to identify viral messages and dangerous content and how to maintain personal images and user information and promise to display data on the user's device to steal or hackers . The aim of this project was to improve the performance of employees in the governmental sector as well as to protect citizens from cybercrime by learning the technology and using it in a safe and safe manner and employing it in development, work and performance. During the implementation of the project, follow-up and evaluation processes were carried out throughout the project's work periods, in order to ensure that the information was properly and easily accessible, as well as to ensure that the trainees were able to use information in public and personal life. The follow-up and evaluation is carried out by the two entities responsible for the project, namely, Microsoft and the Egypt's Society for culture and development (formerly integrated care), and to send these reports to the project-based entity in financial terms.

Diplomatic VAT refund

As part of Vision 2030 aimed at achieving budgetary balance, KSA launched VAT on 1st January 2018. The VAT program is a fundamental pillar for the economic sustainability of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The objectives of the project align closely with the aspirations stated in the National Transformation Program including “Achieving budgetary balance”, “strengthening financial governance”, “increasing non-oil revenues” and “improving spending on programs and projects.” The program of work is complex and ambitious, requiring multiple topics to be covered in parallel (law and regulation, processes and systems, communications, and training, etc.) and delivery of a significant amount of work beyond MOFA direct control. Diplomatic, Consular Missions, Organizations, International Regional Organizations, and offices accredited to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are entitled to benefit from tax concessions in certain cases under the Value Added Tax Law (through VAT refund). The request of refund of tax shall be consistent with the provisions of any international treaty or convention of a different kind related to tax obligations to missions, diplomatic bodies, and international organizations accredited to KSA and exercising its activities in accordance with the provisions of relevant international convention. Applications for tax refund may be made in respect of the activities of the diplomatic missions, consular offices, international and regional organizations and their offices, as well as for the costs incurred by the diplomatic agents of that mission who are directly appointed to them and carrying the diplomatic card issued by Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA).

TrollBusters

TrollBusters: Offering Pest Control for Journalists We are Team TrollBusters. When you spot online violence, online abuse or other troll behavior, send an S.O.S. and we will be your first responders online, supporting you with: personal endorsements just-in-time coaching and reputation repair services THE TROLLS DON’T HAVE TO WIN. WE HAVE YOUR BACK. TrollBusters will: Help you figure out what you should do next. Monitor the tainted stream. Help report trolls to the appropriate platforms and authorities. Provide free lessons on digital hygiene to help you protect yourself. Conduct training on digital security and response. We support you, your website, your business, your reputation — your voice online.

SiME OEE

The SiMEP OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) platform captures information in real time of the machines in production plants , provides reliable, timely, structured and statistical information of the losses of time due to stops, downtime, loss of speed and losses due to non-conforming product quality, as well as causes that provoke them and how to relate them to production losses. All automatically and by means of sensors; using the OEE measurement system. SiMEP OEE is a device that does not depend on the control architecture used in your company such as PLC, DCS and Scadas. It does not require the intervention of the equipment in the factory, so you will not have warranty problems and cost overruns in your current equipment. SiMEP OEE has architecture based on Ethernet networks, highly available in factories today. It is an innovative product because it has the ability to publish information in the cloud , so the management systems of your company can cross the information without programming or acquiring extra licenses. SiMEP OEE is installed and configured very easily.

Midterm and Final e-Exam Booking System

The Midterm and Final e-Exam Booking System provides all kinds of support to the university students with regard to booking their e-exam. Through the system, students can book the time and date of their midterm and finale- exams. After all dates and time of e-exams are listed by the college, students can chose the most suitable ones for them. The system has resolved the issue of timetable clash that many students face by allowing them to select the suitable date and time of exams based on their timetable of classes. Students are also able to change the time or date of the exam via the system. The system also facilitates the task of setting the exam time and date usually carried out by exam unit coordinators at colleges. This will save the coordinators’ time and efforts in preparing lists for exam.

Implementing national IT infrastructure

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.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and Ethics Initiatives in Singapore

The objectives of the AI Governance and Ethics Initiatives are to (i) setup AI governance structures and frameworks that balance the need for business and technology innovation and consumer trust and confidence in adopting AI; and (ii) develop international thought leadership in AI governance and ethics. To date, Singapore has (i) published a draft AI governance framework that is non sector-specific, (ii) formed an Advisory Council on the Ethical Use of AI and Data to provide guidance to industry on responsible development and deployment of AI, and (iii) set up a Research Programme on Governance of AI and Data Use to develop a body of knowledge in AI ethics and governance and a pool of experts in these areas.

Monique Lanne-Petit and Telecoms Sans Frontieres

I am writing to nominate Monique Lanne-Petit and Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) on the NGO’s 20th anniversary. The ITU, the private sector, and NGOs are pushing hard to advance women leaders, but ICT and emergency-response organizations are still overwhelmingly run by men. Ms. Lanne-Petit stands out as the Co-Founder and Director of the world’s leading emergency-response ICT NGO. She is a model for Equality in Tech to recognize, especially on TSF’s 20th anniversary. Ms. Lanne-Petit’s contributions, in close partnership with TSF’s co-founder Jean-Francois Cazenave, over a career dedicated to humanitarian action, demonstrate the unique value she had produced as the most important, at in earlier years only, senior woman in the emergency ICT field. She has also succeeded in making TSF a central actor in emergency ICT over the past 20 years, and using her unique position to apply the power of ICT tools to advance humanitarian goals in general, and women in specific. TSF’s core actions are: (1) deploying emergency ICT teams anywhere in the world with 48 hours of a disaster to reestablish ICT services; (2) building capacity in underserved countries and among responders to optimize the use of ICT in emergencies; (3) promoting the continuity of children’s learning in humanitarian emergencies using digital tools; (4) empowering protection and assistance efforts for women using ICT tools; and (5) bridging the digital divide in the most remote communities on the planet. In emergencies, education, and digital-divide actions women are often TSF’s prime beneficiaries.

Sinergia

Sinergia is An incubation program for Latin American companies, with its headquarters in Montevideo, Uruguay. Our mission: • Help accelerate the next generation of Uruguayan companies in their initial stages. • Offer access to mentors, new methodologies, seed capital and members of the community. • Promote the generation of an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Uruguay and the region. • Accelerating the next generation of FinTech companies in Uruguay. We execute two programs (batches) per year: - One with focus on Fintech projects - One with a focus on multi-purpose projects

Simplifying the Process of Information Accessibility.

Tathaqaf is a program used to access information from reliable sources, the program aims at simplifying the research process for simple words, subjects, events and news. By eliminating the hassle of searching through the commonly used search engines where the user can stumble across false or non-credible information. The program achieves this by gathering information directly from trusted and credible sources. The project’s goal is to make the process of gathering information simple and reliable. The project aims to do that by eliminating the steps that require parsing or finding information from search engine results, the program does that by directly contacting the main reliable source of information rather than going through a middleman such as Google or Bing where you can certainly find the information you are looking for but you may also stumble across non-reliable sources, fake sources or fake information that can misguide or misinform people.

MamaMoni

Mamamoni is a social enterprise which empowers rural/ poor women with different vocational skills, and provides finance for them. Mamamoni is a Fintech Social Enterprise that is closing the credit gap for low-income female entrepreneurs in rural and urban slum communities in Nigeria through instant Mobile Loans. Mamamoni was founded to address the challenges of business funding/capital for female small business owners. We seek to empower women to start and sustain their small business, through our innovative loaning scheme, vocational skill training's, financial literacy training's, computer and internet training's.

she codes;

she codes; is a community of women in technology, created to reach 50% of software developers woman within a decade in Israel. Founded in 2013 by Ruth Polachek, today she codes; includes approximately 20,000 members. Our members include women who want to learn software development or make a career shift into high-tech, developers who want to advance their skills and network with other women in high-tech and high school students who are learning to program. Our core values are Believe in Yourself, Perseverance, and Community. We operate over 30 branches all over Israel. Branches include programming learning tracks, project co-working with support from community volunteers, tech lectures, events with Inspirational Women, career advising and more. Volunteer opportunities at she codes; contribute to the personal and professional development of members. Branches, learning track planning, events, and more are all volunteer-run.

High Speed Connectivity for Primary Schools

As per the Government Programme 2015-2019, ‘Government’s objective is to transform Mauritius into a truly forward looking, environmentally sustainable, economically vibrant and innovative country with modern infrastructure, global connectivity, high skills and technology.’ The objectives of the project is to implement wireless local area network at each primary school providing fast and reliable Wi-Fi, connected to a state-of-art high-speed wide area network interconnecting primary schools to the Government Online Centre (GOC) for seamlessly accessing online educational content. The infrastructure is fully manageable at the GOC, Central Information Systems Division (CISD) and the Ministry of Education and Human Resources, Tertiary Education and Scientific Research (MOEHR) locations. The project consists of the deployment of: (i) Wireless connectivity (Wi-Fi Hotspots) in primary schools for grades 1 up to 6 including computer labs and head master office; (ii) High-speed connectivity using wide area network optimisation technologies in Mauritius and Rodrigues comprising of primary schools and the Government Online Centre (GOC); (iii) High performance infrastructure at the GOC for hosting and accessing educational online content; and (iv) High speed International Internet Connectivity through the GOC. The rollout of Phase I of the project was carried out in 2018 and has impacted positively on the primary education sector and has provided the following benefits, amongst others: • Leverage on the connectivity infrastructure at primary schools to access digital pedagogical contents, developed by the Mauritius Institute of Education; • Provision of wireless connectivity in Primary Schools for use by the Tablets; • Robust, Secure and Scalable infrastructure at the Government Online Centre to support the increased in demand in bandwidth for Primary schools; and • Provision of server resources to host the applications and contents for the e-learning platforms at the Government Online Centre.

Aliadas en Cadena

“Aliadas en Cadena” is a non-profit NGO that advances women's human rights in Venezuela to support low-income women through training programs in technology (ICT). In Venezuela, the underprivileged women are the highest impact population for a social program. They are the breadwinners and leaders of family structures that typically lack fathers or stable male partners. Venezuela is the first country in South America with the highest teen pregnancy rate, and young women high school dropout rates. “Aliadas en Cadena” seeks to provide these women the space, the tools and the support to allow their growth, empowerment and betterment of their lives and their families. We help unemployed women take control of their economic lives through ICT, computer training courses, employment skills, office skills, personal development, money management skills and support for business startups. To improve women employment prospective and build confidence based on knowledge of women´s human rights, health, safety, education and leadership of women and young women.

The System of Road Traffic Safety Awareness “Salik”

The system, which is a mobile application, provides all kinds of support to the university staff and community members. Through the application, the users can learn about the road signs and the best driving practices. The application also contains films that display safe driving practices and the means of contacts in cases of emergency. Moreover, the application allows users to register for the courses offered by the Road Traffic Safety Awareness Club ‘Salik’ or even apply for a visit to the Interactive Driving Simulator Center. One of the excellent services that the application includes is the test of road signs, which in the case of passing it successfully, the applicant is issued a certificate that can be presented to the traffic department in the event of applying for a driving license. The system contributes to empower women to entertain their deprived rights by allowing them to receive proper training and knowledge related to driving and safety practices.

DigiVita

VHTO, the Dutch national expert organization on girls/women and science/technology, aims to increase the participation of women and girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Since the early 1980s, VHTO has been building up knowledge about the participation of girls and women in the world of STEM, and experience in deploying this knowledge in areas such as education. With our projects and methodology, we aim to break (implicit) stereotypes concerning gender & STEM, increase the growth mindset and self-confidence of girls and young women regarding STEM subjects. VHTO has developed several successful programmes to bring together female students/recent graduates and female professionals (role models) in STEM across the whole education spectrum, from primary to higher education, and from the vocational to the university level.

eTendering

The eTendering initiative is based on Oman government’s national plan of eTransformation. It is a centralized tender management system & processes, helping in achieving higher efficiency and enhance elements of transparency and accuracy in government tendering processes with considerable cost-savings. eTendering makes it possible for government entities to prepare, float, evaluate and award tenders online, allows companies to register/renew registration with Tender Board online including printing registration certificates. The system facilitates online payment for tender purchase and submit technical and price envelopes digitally. A web-based solution built on JAVA technologies, it supports data integration, transparency and availability. The current phase of the project is to rollout to 55 government entities, with 50 already implemented. All the 5 key pillars of the National eTransformation vision such as ICT Governance, Service Delivery, Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness, ICT Compliance and Organization improvement has been effectively addressed. The eTendering system is integrated with other government applications like Ministry of Commerce Industry & Ministry of Manpower. The eTendering system operates on the GCloud environment and is PKI enabled as part of eTransformation initiative.

MenTe en Accion

Ideas en Acción is an NGO that identifies develops and promotes collaborative innovation programs with high impact potential that are replicable, scalable and globally relevant. It’s objective is to contribute to the national and regional sustainable development acting as a platform to implement innovation and social entrepreneurship ideas. To achieve this, it works alongside the community through collaborative innovation on three main pillars: 1. Organizing high impact events (TEDx PuraVidaJoven; Hackathons, etc.) 2. Implementing high social impact programs that are replicable and scalable 3. Arranging experiences and youth encounters to inspire young people to collaborate, propose and implement high impact ideas. One of its main initiatives is MenTe en Acción, a 12-session program for young women aged 15-20 that promotes the inclusion and participation of more women in STEAM. The program stems from the Red MenTe, a network that aims to inspire more young women to be creators and makers in science and technology, promoting the professional development of women in technology, connecting groups of women in the field to promote networking in the industry and job creation, and raising awareness and the visibility of women and their achievements.

Smart Police Mobile Application

The Smart Police mobile app will provide citizens with a quick access to valuable information such as Police directory, latest news and important communiqués from the Police Force and will also allow emergency calls to be made. It provides a communication channel between the Police Force and the public. On installing the Mobile App on their Smart phones, Citizens will be able to access useful and important information regarding news and contacting the Police Force. Further functionalities may be added in the future for later versions of the MPF Mobile App.

Stemettes

Stemettes is an award-winning social enterprise working across the UK & Ireland and beyond to inspire and support young women into Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths careers (known collectively as STEM). Our Mission To inspire the next generation of females into Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) fields by showing them the amazing women already in STEM via a series of panel events, hackathons, exhibitions, and mentoring schemes. Our Vision All girls will be able to make informed decisions about careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM), so that eventually women can be proportionally represented in the field. So that we can have 30%+ of the UK's STEM workforce being female, as opposed to just 21%.

ITQAN 2020: Integrated Electronic Quality, Information and Planning System for HEI Performance Excellence Management

Quality, accreditation, information and planning management in a HEI (Higher Education Institution) has been chaotic silo-centered disparaging and disconnected entities that separated critical quality, accreditation and planning practices and processes. KSA 2030 Vision of increased productivity through digital transformation and KSU 2030 Vision “Towards Excellence” underscores KSU journey of integrating quality, information and planning as an electronic platform. The resulting 12 modular components of ITQAN 2020 System is developed based on KSU’s QIP (Quality, Information and Planning) troika framework. The philosophy underlies quality, information and planning management as interdependent entities. Quality measurement/management accomplishment/achievements based on the institutional/collegial/programmatic strategic and developmental planning are displayed as performance metrics/dashboards for semester/annual institutional/collegial/programmatic performance management. The mundane tedious quality management meeting the national accreditation requirements of: (1) course management (semester course specifications/reports by course/section by each faculty); (2) program management (program specifications/report); (3) self-study reports needed for the bi-annual internal audit and assessment and 5-years accreditation are herculean efforts for KSU’s 21 Colleges and 200 programs. With the ITQAN System, all the manual documents heavy quality, accreditation and planning practices are accomplished through electronic templates integrated across the 12 modules sharing a common Database Management System. The integrative electronic quality/planning processes are produced/processed/stored/retrieved with the planning data/information and performance metrics for reporting and informed decision making for academic and student performance efficiencies and effectiveness measurement and management.

Dharavi Diary

Our mission is to empower the youth, especially girls and women living on the fringes of urban & rural lower income communities through STEAM learning, storytelling and skill building to become problem solvers, innovators and leaders. Slum & Rural Innovation Project, is a Storytelling and Technology Education platform in India, dedicated to ignite the curiosity, problem solving capabilities and innovative spirit of kids, youth and women in lower income groups of urban slums and rural communities. Our programs help the participants to envision their potential and learn skills using our hands on STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts Mathematics) methodology. This empowers them to be a better version of themselves by being life long learners who can not only change their own narrative but also impact the community.

Arab Women in Computing

The Arab Women In Computing Association mission is to support, inspire, retain, encourage collaboration among, increase visibility of and help elevate the status of Arab women in computing from the various computing/technology sectors (academia, industry and entrepreneurship) and allow them to achieve their goals. Also, to create linkage with international women -in-CS organizations. Arab Women in Computing - Lebanon Chapter is launched on July 2015 in Lebanon and it is one of the tenth of chapters in Middle East belonging to Arab Women in Computing organization. Our target is to inspire and encourage women to go into the STEAM fields. Since launching the chapter in Lebanon we have done many events to encourage girls in Lebanon to pursue their education and their career in the STEAM fields.

Arab Women in Computing

The Arab Women In Computing Association mission is to support, inspire, retain, encourage collaboration among, increase visibility of and help elevate the status of Arab women in computing from the various computing/technology sectors (academia, industry and entrepreneurship) and allow them to achieve their goals. Also, to create linkage with international women -in-CS organizations. Arab Women in Computing - Lebanon Chapter is launched on July 2015 in Lebanon and it is one of the tenth of chapters in Middle East belonging to Arab Women in Computing organization. Our target is to inspire and encourage women to go into the STEAM fields. Since launching the chapter in Lebanon we have done many events to encourage girls in Lebanon to pursue their education and their career in the STEAM fields.

program ((Tool-kit)

This program enables the teacher to create and display educational content in an easy and flexible way for delivering daily lessons. The tool not only identifies the goals of the lessons, but also includes an end of lesson form, to be filled-out by each student, indicating their extent of understanding of the given lesson. The tool includes all aspects of educational work (preparation of the lesson, elements of preparation, distribution of curriculum, educational strategies. Each element of educational support process can be accessed by clicking on pre-set screens displaying icons for the entire appropriate topic (listed above). There is also a separate screen marked 'Electronic Services' with links to: School's Website; On-line Homework for students; Course Books & Curricula; Learning Quran; Students' Grades; video recording; Video Broadcasting Etc. To ensure involvement of all the stake-holders, the info from the tool can be upload onto 'Cloud' platform to enable easy access for parents, students, teachers and others.

Virtual Transformation Initiative

To complement the success of Virtual Transformation Project, which was adopted by the University's Agency for Academic Affairs and Development In employing the potential of Blackboard Learn and Virtual Classroom Systems to teach some general courses, and based on the circular issued to the university faculties regarding transfer the requirements from theory courses of the university and college to virtual courses, The aim of this project is to enable stakeholders to implement the virtual transformation in teaching these courses, and to provide technical aspects and technical support for the success of the initiative.

Boosting the pipeline of Women in Technology through role modelling and information dissemination

AFCHIX is a network of women in IT who work on a volunteer basis. One of our main programs provides mentorship to girls and encourages them to consider careers in Computer Science and IT. We achieve this through visits to schools, celebrating annual Girls in ICT Days, running technical workshops for the young women already in the industry and Role Modeling –which is one of our very recent programs and our nominated innovation. Research shows that role modelling is a proven and powerful method for mentorship, teaching and passing on knowledge, skills, and values. Research also shows that role models have noteworthy effects on female students' self-confidence in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Our innovation: “Boosting the pipeline of Women in Technology through role modelling and information dissemination” is aimed at inspiring young girls to consider Information Technology (IT). We are using documented high quality stories and videos featuring successful African women in Information Technology (IT) to inspire young girls. Africa has several women that have succeeded in the Information Technology Industry, but their success stories have not been documented for role modelling to benefit young girls in rural and urban schools.

MECA eServices System

Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs (MECA) formulate plans and programs for protection of the environment and conservation of natural resources, ensure safety of environment, combat pollution and maintain various ecosystems for sustainable development. MECA e-Services serve the public, private and government sectors, plus target investors and NGOs, where 50% of e-services offered to business range from Environment Permit-EP considered the key revenue generating service, followed by import and export service, tourism permits and waste management, then almost equally list of services available on: https://bit.ly/2KBDXet MECA Business services were manually processed for users and investors, this required physical visits and presence at MECA, requesting copies of supporting documents and approvals from MOCI, ROP, Environment Impact Assessment reports, and manual verifications were conducted with a risk of misplacing and loosing documents and incomplete request. Online Business Services had resolved challenges, reduced physical visits required to MECA, offering integration and sharing of support documents and reducing loss of document. This has improved performance, maintained customers satisfaction and paved the way towards attracting investments. Business Services main features are summed with high availability rate on MECA portal, integrated to national programs and initiatives empowered with performance dashboard, analysis and reporting

Oak: AR Educational Mobile Apps for Elementary School Students

The project is to provide Augmented Reality (AR)-based mobile applications to improve the quality of learning in K-6 schools by bridging AR technology and education for more than 8,000,000 elementary students all over the country. It aims to speed up the learning process and make it exciting for elementary students so they would understand objectives more effective and become interested in studying. Main advantages of implementing this project are making the low cost ICT-based educational tool which costs only 1 dollar for each textbook, making educational assistance tools available for all segments of society, with a particular focus on the most vulnerable, and synchronizing the education system o the country with the latest ICT technologies. By using these mobile apps, the students can easily watch and experience the theoretical and experimental subjects which might be hard to see in daily life or it costs a lot to explore them. By this, not only the educational system of the country takes advantage of the capacity of ICTs in the best way, but also the growing educational divide within the country will be bridged. This latter achievement also satisfies the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially the G4, G9 and G10. It should be noted that the Oak project model can be replicated for the educational system of any other countries.

Saudi Digital Library

The largest academic digital source of information resources in the Middle East, including more than (200 million)scientific materials covering all academic disciplines and more than 174 Arab and foreign databases. SDL vision: lead in acquisition and availability of services and sources of digital information at national, Arab, and global levels. SDL mission: provide and organize local and international digital information sources for the institutions of higher education, scientific research, and both governmental and private entities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. SDL Objectives: 1. Acquisition and management of Arab and foreign sources of digital information. 2. Developing digital information sources to support Arab scientific content. 3. Establishing strong and close cooperation links with Arab and international publishers who provide sources of digital information. 4. Providing advanced information services in the digital environment. 5. Supporting communication among researchers in the field of scientific production and publishing. 6. Application of quality standards in the digital environment. 7. Developing training mechanisms and information awareness. 8. Developing software and information systems to serve digital information sources. 9. Raising the awareness of digital information for library users. 10. Marketing and investing the sources of digital information for all institutions of education, scientific research, and both governmental and private entities. 11. Providing reports and indicators for Saudi scientific production, and periodic statistics of the use of digital information sources. 12. Unifying the management negotiation and purchase of digital educational and research content of all institutions of the country to rationalize governmental expenditure, and improve financial efficiency.

IT Ladies

The Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications is implementing programs aimed at educating and raising awareness about the necessity of fast, regular and targeted integration of citizens, educational system and economy into contemporary digital currents. In the framework of the Ministry, educational and promotional projects are implemented which should contribute to the development of digital literacy, digital competences and digital security culture among all citizens of the Republic of Serbia. Special attention is paid to projects aimed at younger populations and women, but also support programs for support of IT communities, IT industry, ICT application in the economy, development of IT personnel and employment in this sector. In order to overcome the gender gap in the ICT sector, the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications is implementing a series of programs to encourage and empower women to engage in this sector through retraining programs. The Ministry, in cooperation with NGOs, organizes trainings for the re-qualification of women in the field of ICT. Through the last training cycle, realized in 2017/2018, over 250 women passed through, which they gained basic knowledge from JavaScript, HTML, Phyton, C ++ programming languages.

Business Employers eServices

Business Employers eServices (BES) provides suite of employer eServices to investors, private sector and SMEs to efficiently manage their businesses, providing self-services for private sector employees and jobseekers, and ultimately enhance performance. Employer Services are accessible 24/7 through 5 channels: MoMP Portal, Namal mobile application, labour offices, Call center and Sanad centers. Services are designed as per employee life cycle listed under services for Omani and non-Omani employees. BES support and cater for 199811 users from investors, private sector employers and SMEs, offering 19 online services to manage data of 240102 Omani employees and 1689562 non-Omani employees till July 2018 . BES benefits and impact are translated through real-time integration with 27 government entities, and radical reduction in 90% of physical visit to MOMP and in average request processing time from 60 days to 1 day, and generation of 52% self-services and various reports. BES highlighted features include notification Center, Analytics and KPI monitoring and reporting, Integration Middleware offering runtime services between Web services and database systems, Immediate receipt of registration fee payments across secure ePayment. BES support national programs offering BES services via 707 SANAD Centers. Saving administration burden on the government and improve efficiency, tracking and reporting.

Mascom Kitsong Centre (Telecentres)

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.

Mascom Kitsong Centre (Telecentres)

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.

Government eMarket Place

GeM is an initiative launched by the Government of India to bring in transparency in the public procurement space. India's public procurement spend stand at aprox. $ 400 Billion and faces several inefficiencies owing to a complex policy landscape, manual inconsistent processes across public organisations and long lead times. GeM is an online, paperless and contactless end-to-end marketplace reform that provides an open, efficient, inclusive, standardized, reliable & transparent solution for all public procurement needs across the country. The platform was launched on 9 Aug 2016 and since its inception, it has been able to achieve significant scale in operations and has taken strides towards optimizing the public procurement on the platform. It has achieved a cumulative Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) of close to $ 1.91 Billion in approximately 2 years of its operations, being offered by 161,597 plus sellers through a kitty of 627,760 plus products and services to the 30,350 plus public procurement officials; while delivering an average saving of 25% on the procurement. Out of the $ 1.91 Billion GMV, 46% of the order value have been fulfilled by micro, small and medium enterprises and enterprises led by women self help groups. Over the next 5-7 years GeM is expected to achieve a GMV of approximate $ 75 Billion; which is equivalent to 4-5% of India’s GDP. The objectives of GeM are to: a. Streamline, reengineer, continuously innovate and implement a unified procurement policy to encourage behavioural change and drive reform. b. Institutionalize an open, inclusive,efficient, effective, accountable and trust based system thereby augmenting the entire value chain. c. Create a sustainable ecosystem that empowers all stakeholders especially the micro and small enterprises, women lead self help groups etc, thus facilitating inclusive development, goal of SDGs and creating an information society. d. Ensure “value for money” in the public procurement .

Intelligent Multimedia Information Transmission and Processing Technologies in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Currently, information society has entered the era of multimedia big data. However, the properties of non-structural, massive, multi-model and complex distribution cause several challenges in the aspects of multimedia information transmission and processing. To handle these issues, in this project, we firstly proposed a complex heterogeneous wireless network framework integrating environment perception, cooperative communication and network convergence, which breaks through the bottleneck of the service capability of ubiquitous complex networks. When exploring the representation of environmental information, we designed a novel environment information integrated reasoning algorithm and environmental information integration and reasoning decision-making model, which enhances multimedia information transmission capability in complex environment. Finally, we established a ubiquitous mobile multimedia service platform based on user behavior analysis technology. The research goal of this project has fairly good portability and solves the common problems existing in the field of telecommunications. Moreover, the results of this project can effectively promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth in the future smart cities and Internet of everything era, enhancing the international influence and value of WSIS in the social level.

The Village Broadband Internet Project

The main objective of the Net Pracharat project is to strengthen National Broadband Network by expanding high-speed Internet network to reach every village in the country, so that local Thai people who live in the remote areas will be able to access broadband or high-speed Internet as those who live in the cities. In December 2017, MDES and Telephone of Thailand Public Company Limited (TOT) completed the installation of fiber cable network to 24,700 target rural villages throughout the country. In addition to provide network, the government equipped Thai people with Wi-Fi for community to provide free public Wi-Fi hotspots at the speed of 30/10 Mbps (Download/Upload). As of November 2018, there are about 4.5 million users registered to access Wi-Fi Net Pracharat. Newly registered increase around 200,000-300,000 users in every month. To increase awareness and promote the use of the Net Pracharat, MDES has developed curricula on Internet fundamentals (Basic Use of Internet), and Internet applications for career building and income supplement. As of now, MDES has provided trainings to 1,033 officers from the Office of the Non-Formal and Informal Education (NFE). This was to create a leading group of Net Pracharat trainers. Then, these leading trainers went back to their communities to provide trainings to around 100,000 local people in Net Pracharat village areas. In addition, in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior (MOI), the trainings already reached 1,000,000 local people in September 2018. With Net Pracharat, local people can access useful information and services on many areas, such as education, public health, and government services – leading to improvement in quality of life. It will also offer local people opportunities to e-commerce, the use of online shops, in order to generate employment and income in local communities. With these results achieved, Net Pracharat is a driving force that propel country toward a path of long-term stability, prosperity, and sustainability.

InfoHighway

Goals and Objectives -------------------------- The objectives of the project is to implement a data sharing platform with data sharing framework to provide for sharing of data via E-Services between agencies. Results and Impact ------------------ Some fifty (50) organisations are already connected to the InfoHighway as Publishers or Subscribers of the InfoHighway with over 330 connections. It is estimated that users have gained a minimum of 1.12 years of time saving based on 1 minute saving per data sharing requests. Realistically, this figure would most probably amount to several years of savings with a huge productivity gain to the country. Citizen’s life is made easier by reducing the number of times they need to move to office. In certain cases, Tourism Authority or Local Authorities everything is done online with the help of InfoHighway with data retrieved directly from the issuing authority in the sharing process. Data accuracy is 100%. According to World Bank Doing Business report 2019 "Mauritius made starting a business easier by linking the database of the business registry with the database of the social security office". InfoHighway is thus contributing substantially to improve Business facilitation in Mauritius.

XAUCE ATcnea

Classroom management XAUCE ATcnea adapts teaching to management and uses technological resources so that the students' learning is carried out more effectively and much more quickly and has been designed to provide the best study environment. It is an optimal educational solution, easy to operate and collaborative for the teaching-learning process. It provides a unique experience in the classroom using TIC, and a new way of teaching and learning. It makes the experience of learning as a fascinating opportunity to acquire skills, improve the processes of learning, to transmit knowledge and provide a better teaching-learning environment. It also provides effective tools to control the classroom and manage students' work, allow teachers to see the screens of student devices, and control them. The product is comprised of two applications. One will be installed on the teacher laptop – or in the moderator of the class and the other will be hosted on the devices of the students or receivers (tablet).

December Labs

At December Labs, we are Mission-Driven, People-Focused. We apply startup-style customer development and agile engineering for new products and areas of business from concept to launch. At December Labs, we identify, design and develop innovative software solutions, applications, services, and platforms. December Labs has partnered with large Enterprise companies, such as Google, Accenture, Zurich, Santander, and Nest as well as Silicon Valley’s top funded startups and growth-stage companies. With offices in San Francisco, Houston and Montevideo, our team of 40+ top-notch PHD's, Architects, Researchers, PM’s, Strategists, Developers, and Designers specialize in creating vibrant, game-changing products through Mobile and Web Design & Development and harnessing the best emerging technologies.

Visit Hebron - Palestin

Visit Hebron – Palestine is a Palestinian youth initiative dedicated to promoting the city of Hebron in Palestine through unique online and printed resources, mainly a website www.visithebron.ps and a social media account www. facebook.com/visithebron, although we also offer postcards, a city map, posters and other souvenirs. Hebron boasts a number of landmarks, including its old city, holy sites, markets, the Russian Church, Abraham’s Oak and other sights. One of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities with a history spanning over more than six millennia, Hebron has seen its share of great events and civilzations that have left it with a tremendous cultural and human heritage. The project also act as the largest Archive of photos and information of the city of Hebron in Palestine. Visit Hebron Won the prize of WSIS as a Champion in 2017 and is competing for being on the top projects in the world. The project is in line with SDGs 10, 11, 16 and 17.

#movethedial Stories

#movethedial Stories is a project dedicated to highlighting and celebrating all women in tech. We believe that we can't hire, promote, or be what we can't see. #movethedial Stories is about sharing the authentic experiences, challenges and triumphs of women in all levels of the tech and innovation ecosystem. We do this in two ways: promote regular online content to highlight these inspiring individuals and their stories, and host community events in different cities where prominent women in tech are invited to speak and share their authentic stories. Through this project, we aim to inspire women of all ages and backgrounds across the world to participate and/or take a leadership role within the world of technology!

Rural Communities into Gigabit Society

We are applying in AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure category. However the form is refusing to save that information and automatically changes it to AL C11. International and regional cooperation. As an attachment please find a print screen of our form. Project is a part of Operational Program Digital Poland (OPDP), financed from European Regional Development Fund and Polish state budget. The goal of the project is to eliminate territorial gaps in access to high-speed NGA networks. Our initial aim was to provide access to NGA services of at least 30 Mbps to over 700 000 households located in rural and remote areas and access to services of at least 100 Mbps to schools throughout Poland. Digital Poland Project Center invested public funds into 160 projects that are currently deploying over 105 000 km of broadband infrastructure in excluded areas. This investment surpassed our initial expectations because these projects will provide broadband access to 1,9 mln households (70 % of all households in project are located in places where less than 5 000 inhabitants live). Furthermore telecom operators will connect 11 612 schools (which is almost 50% of all schools in Poland). The broadband network to schools is a first step to implement a National Education Network- the winning project of Action Line C1 WSIS Prizes 2018 (referred as: OSE – Fast Internet for all schools). Implementation of the project in remote areas has a significant impact on socio-economic development of those areas and on the life of inhabitants of small towns and villages, providing high quality telecommunication service and boosting new opportunities for business, education and culture. We have to underline that our project is not only in the phase of planning. First milestone was already achieved and more than 6 000 schools already received access to FTTH broadband network and remaining schools are supposed to be connected in 2019 and 2020.

Value-added services for mobile telephony

entuMovil is aimed at satisfying the information and communication needs of the population and businesses, through text messaging services or other IT solutions such as the development of websites and applications for mobile devices. The services for the business based in Cuba, are highly personalized, propitiating: • Improvement of its productive processes. • Enrichment of its digital infrastructure and forms of communication • Creation of new and more efficient mechanisms for promotion and interaction with customers. • Notification services, alarms and reports as support for decision making. For the population it offers considerable advantages: • Access to cultural billboards. • News of national and international events. • Weather status. • Exchange rate. • Result of a football or baseball game. • Compiles the location, schedules, telephone numbers and access forms to entities located in the country, such as embassies, hotels, restaurants and nightclubs. • Follow up on meteorological events, thinking that SMS messaging remains active even when other communication channels are interrupted. All this is more important in Cuba where there are more than five million mobile phone users, with an exponential growth, while only 28% of the population has full access to the Internet.

Life is Simple with Internet

Addressing people unfamiliar with, and thus unable to utilize the potential of internet, “Life is Simple with Internet” project acquaint them with the online world via internet literacy training programs. The Project is carried out with the cooperation of Türk Telekom, Habitat Association, and the UNDP (United Nations Development Program). The main purpose of the Project is to provide everyone an equal opportunity to access information by eliminating regional and economic inequalities. Therefore, the primary target group consists of adults, and especially women, aged over 25, who live in priority cities for development - 54 cities in total, and who either lack, or have limited internet skills. To date, 30 thousand people have become internet literate. In 2017, a mobile app was developed for the project so that everyone can access its educational content anywhere. The mobile app also has an Arabic version so as to offer practical solutions to refugees in their daily lives via internet.

Crecer con Salud

It has been shown that proper prenatal controls (5 or more during pregnancy) and timely (first control within the first 13 weeks of gestation) reduce maternal and infant mortality. In Argentina more than 30% of women do not comply with prenatal check-ups and almost 1 in 10 have their first contact with the health system at the time of birth. Crecer con Salud is a virtual assistant (bot) based on Facebook Messenger that works outside the health system, identifying and recruiting pregnant women where they are. The bot is designed to chat and accompany women during their pregnancy and the baby's first year with personalized information and reminders of attendance to pre and post natal check-ups. Simple access and easily scalable (does not require geographic adaptation or additional cost) bridge's accessibility to health services for a population that is away from it.

Telephone Library

Following the principle of providing equal access to information, Türk Telekom launched Turkey’s first Telephone Library project - Books on the Phone - in collaboration with Boğaziçi University’s Technology and Education Laboratory for the Visually Impaired (GETEM). Thanks to the Telephone Library Project, visually impaired Türk Telekom customers can access hundreds of audio books for free by dialing 0 800 219 91 91 from their home phones. Visually impaired Türk Telekom customers first subscribe to GETEM and then receive a password to access audio books free of charge.

Concert Hall without Borders

Concert Hall without Borders is a digital concert space covering Sverdlovsk region of Russia with a land area of 194,300 sq. km and a population of 4.3 mln people. It provides free educational and cultural programs for residents of rural settlements within the distance of 500 km away from the region's capital Yekaterinburg. It is both a constantly growing network of philharmonic communities and a technology providing regular web-broadcasting of live and recorded concerts and original educational video programs from Sverdlovsk Philharmonic in Yekaterinburg to a network of venues. This common digital concert space includes two major types of venues. They are Philharmonic Assemblies, located in rural community centers or public libraries, and Mini Halls, based at educational and social welfare institutions. Unlike traditional digital concerts which suggest individual viewing from personal gadgets, the CHwB fosters collective concert viewing from a large screen in public venues, followed by discussions, tea-parties or other supporting activities, which helps community building and promotion of universal educational and cultural values. It also strengthens the ties between citizens of different settlements through networking and collaboration. The screenings are organized by local volunteers - public coordinators, who build the Philharmonic Assembly communities in their locations. These citizens plan concert seasons, distribute information, organize the broadcasts and attract the audiences. The Mini Halls, on the other hand, serve the cultural needs of patients in social welfare institutions and provide educational opportunities to local school children. Started with 5 digital venues in 2009, currently, the CHwB encounters 43 Philharmonic Assemblies and 38 Mini Halls in over 50 towns and villages of the region. In 2017 the CHwB provided for 2,906 screenings, of which 1,902 in small towns and villages (with the population less than 50,000). 76,753 people attended the CHwB's digital concerts in the rated period.

Girls in Tech

Girls in Tech (GIT) is a global non-profit that works to put an end to gender inequality in high-tech industries and startups. We do that by educating and empowering women who are passionate about technology. As a result, we offer everything from coding courses to bootcamps to hackathons and startup competitions no matter age or profession. It is Girls in Tech’s mission to support women with the access and community they need to succeed in tech. GIT was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco. The Girls in Tech global community is 60 chapters strong with an impact of more than 100,000 members in 36 countries. As a result, events and programming in each chapter vary to fit the unique needs of each community.

Search Gov App

A citizen centric Mobile application that presents the user with a unified search function that gives results from different sources, including news, events, cabinet decisions, Government Directories, E-services and mobile apps. The Ministry of Technology, Communication and Innovation has collaborated with the Government Information System (GIS) for this project. The Government Information System (GIS), under the aegis of the Prime Minister’s Office is mainly responsible for covering all activities of Ministries and Departments and dissemination of related information.

Activation of the Information Society

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.

GEEK GIRLS LATAM

Geek Girls is a community of women and men seeking to promote inspiration and empowerment to women of all ages as change actors in the use, appropiation and creation of technology. With 5 strategic units of action; 1. Inspiring through powerful conversations - #GGtalks, 2. Empowering women, teenagers and girls with soft and hard skills in stem, 3. connecting wills and oppportunities through social and working networks, 4. Leading opinion by monitoring media and actively participating in women events and talks and 5. by promoting tech creation of products and events (hackatons, startups days, tech kits, etc)

GIRLS CODE

#GirlsCode is a group of women dedicated to science and technology, convinced that children and adolescents deserve the opportunity to enter to the world of computing, The existence of stereotypes usually limited to women to develop scientific skills but, with Girls Code we do activities to help girls to demonstrate their full potential, Thats why we share our knowledge through workshops and robotics programming aimed at girls between 6 and 13 years so, they can learn to use technology in different areas, regardless of the profession who want to follow in the future.

Ma3Route

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.

Super-Ada 2018 Forum

What is it like to work in the technology industry and where can you study IT? Super-Ada 2018 event on February 10th 2018 at Haaga-Helia Pasila Campus in Helsinki, Finland aims at encouraging girls and young women to study technology by representing the IT industry now and in the future. The event is organized for the fifth time by Nice Tuesday – an independent network of women in IT. The main goal is to attract especially girls and young women between 16 and 22 years to the IT industry. In addition to that, the event brings together female influencers, learning institutions and corporations within the industry.

AMBA - Training & Business Hub

AMBA is a Training & Business Hub for adults with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities using Information Technology, Peer Training & Peer Supervision. Intellectual Disability is a disability of the mind, with delayed developments that are diverse and hinder their capacity to go through formal education at any level. Brain injury in many cases causes associated physical disabilities, fits and seizures. An Ashoka Fellow driven Social Enterprise, our ecosystem of learning and earning is adaptive, visual and functional, appropriate to their acumen, making them contributors to family & Society. Their lack of social skills limits them from working in mainstream companies, so AMBA collaborates with Special Institutions pan India & helps them evolve into hubs for learning & earning, using their infrastructure, administration & trainers, keeping overheads to a minimum. We call them AMBA Certified Partner Centers (ACPCs).

Mamalette

Nigeria is one of the most dangerous places in the world to give birth and to be born. According to UNICEF, a woman’s chance of dying from pregnancy and childbirth in Nigeria is 1 in 13. One of the underlying causes of the high maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria includes limited availability of timely and reliable health information for decision-making and poor access to and use of health facilities. In addition, there remains a lack of collective community knowledge on safe and healthy pregnancy and infant care. Mamalette is a platform that focuses on improving health outcomes for pregnant women and new mothers who are vulnerable or socially marginalised while simultaneously providing employment opportunities for women. Mamalette trains experienced mothers who work as health champions in various neighbourhoods sharing important live saving, maternal and infant health information peer support, group meetings and awareness campaigns.

AFRICA DIGITAL WOMEN FORUM

In the missions of CEFEPROD, it helps to reduce the gender digital divide, by promoting, popularizing and developing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as tool of women empowerment. It also works to promote women Leadership and women digital Entrepreneurship. It is in this case that CEFEPROD organizes training courses in ICT, GENDER in ICT AWARD, celebrates GIRLS IN ICT DAY and has created GENDER TV, especially the platform "" AFRICA DIGITAL WOMEN"" to serve as framework for the organization in July 2016 of the forum "" AFRICA DIGITAL WOMEN"" "" on the theme: Empowering women through the development of the digital economy ""AFRICA WOMEN DIGITAL"" is an innovative platform, virtual and physical, which aims at promoting women digital Entrepreneurship to allow women and girls entrepreneurs to participate in the development of the digital economy and have it as career. The CEFEPROD was finalist in 2014, at GEM TECH Awards, Category 4 The sector of digital technology is very important in the development of nations and women are under-represented within this sector which represents the world of future, the economy of tomorrow .This is to say that digital technology is an opportunity for everyone, but particularly for women. This is a key for equality and for education. Women must also try their luck to become entrepreneurs , creating start-ups in the digital universe and bringing projects within large companies around digital transformations. It is for this reason that CEFEPROD organizes in July 2016 the AFRICA DIGITAL WOMEN FORUM . MAIN GOALS The goal of the AFRICA DIGITAL WOMEN forum is to bring together women and girls entrepreneurs, those of small and medium enterprises, associations Leaders, Women Leaders, Artists, Artisans, Unemployed Graduates, startuppers, Rural women, Students and people passionately fond of ICTs, all having the entrepreneurial passion to develop their potential through ICTs.

SMART Sistas Girls ICT Camp, Girls Mobile App Training Program & Girls Robotic Team

The Situation for ICT in Vanuatu is there is a lack of information communication technology training to empower girls ages 11-15 to become leaders in the ICT field. The SMART Sistas (Sisters Mastering Advanced Real Technology) ICT Camp for girls strives to empower girls ages 11-15 to pursue educational opportunities in information communication technology areas to help Vanuatu reach gender equality in the ICT field. The selection criteria of 10 Girls are based on; - --- familiarity with the English language - ability to follow instructions - very knowledgeable with windows keyboard, mouse and familiarity with a laptop - experience using the internet browser - familiarity with windows graphical user interface. By the end of the five day camp, each girl and their parent/guardian completes; - 24 hours of ICT technical training - 12 hours of leadership and gender empowerment training - 4 hours of career exploration in telecommunications, television, radio broadcasting, computer hardware, software and services and electronic media.

SMART Sistas Girls ICT Camp, Girls Mobile App Training Program & Girls Robotic Team

The Situation for ICT in Vanuatu is there is a lack of information communication technology training to empower girls ages 11-15 to become leaders in the ICT field. The SMART Sistas (Sisters Mastering Advanced Real Technology) ICT Camp for girls strives to empower girls ages 11-15 to pursue educational opportunities in information communication technology areas to help Vanuatu reach gender equality in the ICT field. The selection criteria of 10 Girls are based on; - --- familiarity with the English language - ability to follow instructions - very knowledgeable with windows keyboard, mouse and familiarity with a laptop - experience using the internet browser - familiarity with windows graphical user interface. By the end of the five day camp, each girl and their parent/guardian completes; - 24 hours of ICT technical training - 12 hours of leadership and gender empowerment training - 4 hours of career exploration in telecommunications, television, radio broadcasting, computer hardware, software and services and electronic media.

Tanzania Girls in ICT

Tanzania Girls in ICT program is an initiative looking to nurture young girls to develop interest in Information and communication Technology (ICT) at early stage of their careers through teaching them basic ICT skills. The initiative is structured in such a way that young girls can build foundation in basic ICT skills by learning early stage programming skills and work in teams in small projects. For a long period technology in Tanzania has been considered as a male-dominated industry, this starts in schools. In the past, there was a huge push for men to get into technology than women, there are also not a lot of role models in the industry for women to look up to, and so females are not as encouraged to get into the industry. This initiative seeks to provide relevant information and exposure to the industry to female Secondary schools students and inspire them to pursue the industry. Since having a technical skill-set is in high demand and considered as an added advantage regardless of whatever field one might end engaging in, this program aim to begin as early as secondary schools when girls begin to define their career journey to spark their interest in tech industry so as to contribute to the vibrating growth of economy through technology innovations. The initiative targeted girls in Secondary schools specifically Form 3 aged between 14-17 years as we believe that in this stage girls are required to choose their career tracks, it is the right time to influence their decisions and encourage them to choose science subjects which will in turn give them opportunities to pursue ICT studies on their tertiary education.

Society for Microsoft Practitioners

ICT for Community Development aimed at Educating and Developing the mental capacities of Public Primary School pupils in six different Local Government in Oyo State. The State government of Oyo State under the leadership of Governor Alao Akala in conjunction with the State Unviversal Basic Education of Oyo State replicated the project in other 27 local government. Before the inception of this project, public primary schools in Oyo States were not taught computer science. We started the project with thirty different primary schools in Oyo State before the State Government took the project from us and replicated it in all the local government in Oyo State

#Hackeuses

Simplon.co is a network of training centers in France and abroad which trains without fees people coming from underprivileged areas in digital technological jobs. Simplon.co makes a commitment in favour of parity in the digital technology sector ,which is marked by a strong under-representation of women: indeed, women represent only 33 % of the salaried staff in the digital technology sector, and less than 20 % in technical jobs, against 53 % in all sectors (source: Syntec Numérique, 2016). From this perspective, we built a program call #Hackeuses in order to raise awareness and guide more women towards the digital technology sector. Our program has three main axes: communication and advocacy, company awareness, training and pre-qualification. Communication and Pitch We lead diverse actions to mobilize our network around the subject of gender equality in tech. Targeted audience : Simplon.co’s network of partners The general public.

AgroCentral

AgroCentral is an online platform which allows agri-businesses to the use the vast amount of data involved in their day-to-day operations. Powered by Web-to-SMS and SMS-to-Web technology, AgroCentral works to link motivated buyer businesses, such as hotels and restaurants, directly with small farmers who previously relied on middlemen to sell their products. AgroCentral’s clients will be able to identify and purchase large quantities of produce straight from the farm, allowing farmers to trade directly with the end of the market chain. Middlemen, who currently maintain delays and high markups as they buy, will be significantly weakened, allowing for more competitive pricing and higher revenues for the producers. AgroCentral is a cloud based SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) platform which allows agri-businesses to effectively communicate with their suppliers.

Empowering unemployed women to become strong technology creators

Reprograma is a social impact startup focused on teaching programming to cisgender and transgender women who are unemployed and haven’t had the resources, opportunities or support to learn how to code. We offer an 18-week bootcamp course that teaches our students how to program. Female role models from top tech companies (IBM, Google Campus, ThoughtWorks, etc.) offer them mentorship throughout the program, and we also organize visits to startups and tech companies (Nubank, Microsoft, LinkedIn, etc.) to help our students understand first-hand what it means to work in this sector. Throughout the course we also teach them methodologies such as UX Design, Agile Thinking and Design Sprint helping them develop a different way of problem solving and solution thinking. We want to make sure that our students have the necessary skills and tools to put their own ideas into paper, and then use technology to develop them. The program also prepares them for the market by helping them create a work portfolio and LinkedIn profile, draft their CVs, train on interviews and, more importantly, believe in their capacity to become powerful creators of technology. We reprogram the way in which they see themselves as strong contributors of the tech sector.

Empowering unemployed women to become strong technology creators

Reprograma is a social impact startup focused on teaching programming to cisgender and transgender women who are unemployed and haven’t had the resources, opportunities or support to learn how to code. We offer an 18-week bootcamp course that teaches our students how to program. Female role models from top tech companies (IBM, Google Campus, ThoughtWorks, etc.) offer them mentorship throughout the program, and we also organize visits to startups and tech companies (Nubank, Microsoft, LinkedIn, etc.) to help our students understand first-hand what it means to work in this sector. Throughout the course we also teach them methodologies such as UX Design, Agile Thinking and Design Sprint helping them develop a different way of problem solving and solution thinking. We want to make sure that our students have the necessary skills and tools to put their own ideas into paper, and then use technology to develop them. The program also prepares them for the market by helping them create a work portfolio and LinkedIn profile, draft their CVs, train on interviews and, more importantly, believe in their capacity to become powerful creators of technology. We reprogram the way in which they see themselves as strong contributors of the tech sector.

Bilingual Education course: Brazilian Sign Language/ Portuguese

In order to change the reality of deaf exclusion at schools and universities, we have created the first online Bilingual Education course, Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) and Portuguese. Our aim is to train teachers to work with deaf students all over Brazil. Since universities don’t promote access to deaf students, we have made a partnership with 12 renowned public institutions of higher education distributed around the country’s five macroregions. In this course, everything is developed for the deaf student: the virtual learning environment, the physical structure of presential classrooms, and the bilingual teaching materials. Due to being a hybrid course (that combines online - offline lessons), presential meetings are boosted by our own technology of room setting, where students work collaboratively sharing the same computers’ screens. All course teaching materials are produced in Sign Language – not adapted from Portuguese or produced with Brazilian Sign Language translation window. Therefore, we have taken Brazilian Sign Language to the next level. The process of developing bilingual teaching materials focuses on creating learning digital objects, which are prepared by a multidisciplinary team of university teachers, educational designers, translator-interpreters, graphic designers, and studio staff. Our hybrid educational proposal is based on a collective building of the knowledge and a constant interaction among students, mediator-teachers, and the virtual environment – always oriented by the subject-hypermedia-subject relationship. The Virtual Learning Environment is completely bilingual and navigable through sign language. It has been designed focusing on deaf student learning and it's based on graphic representations that are self-contained, and on the Sign Language itself. In order to place deaf students in the vanguard of educational methods, we have produced an innovative methodological approach. Institutional Project Video: https://youtu.be/aPrjihr9YdM

Geekulcha

Geekulcha creates and enables platforms for Innovation and Creativity while exposing young talent and skills to the corporate world. Born out of a Facebook Group (INNOvatorz.IT), Geekulcha seeks to build a strong Geek Culture in South Africa to realize a state of more Producers than Consumers. Geekulcha is where the young, skilled, creative and ambitious tech minds meet to connect with each other, share knowledge, collaborate on projects, network with industry leaders, obtain training to further improve and enhance their skills and to put that newly acquired skill to work. The platform has over 9 400 students across Africa.

Farmerline

Farmerline has made interacting with rural farmers a lot easier. It has developed a platform that communicates with a network of 200,000 farmers in their native languages while collecting data. The platform provides farmers with valuable market data, while also enabling companies to gather farm-level information. This information is very relevant to farmers, including management practices tailored to particular locations and the crops grown. Farmerline.org can also get the food prices for nearby markets, thus reducing farmers' travelling.It provides farmers with services that helps them sell more food, anything from weather forecasts to market prices, in a way they understand and can use. Farmerline’s system generates automated phone calls, and the “content and language is different depending on the country the farmer is in.” The farmers simply pick up a call and listen to a message. It’s a powerful way to communicate timely and valuable information.

Digital Learning Campuses

Good Work Foundation (GWF) – a South African not-for-profit - is addressing a need to improve access to education, personal development and the global stage in rural Africa, with a view to maximize reach from independently managed hubs of digital education. The organization has been developing a model of locally managed Digital Learning Campuses (or “hubs”) that improve an individual’s ability to operate the 21st Century “languages of access” – digital, English and self-creativity. The aim of each Digital Learning Campus is to: (1) Create an access “bridge” between school and work, preparing rural adults for life in a global, connected world; (2) Become a hub of digital learning for public-sector elementary schools that can outsource their digital learning to the center (The Open Learning Academy); and (3) Reduce the “digital divide”, providing rural people with the opportunity to actively participate in today’s online economy.

Digital Learning Campuses

Good Work Foundation (GWF) – a South African not-for-profit - is addressing a need to improve access to education, personal development and the global stage in rural Africa, with a view to maximize reach from independently managed hubs of digital education. The organization has been developing a model of locally managed Digital Learning Campuses (or “hubs”) that improve an individual’s ability to operate the 21st Century “languages of access” – digital, English and self-creativity. The aim of each Digital Learning Campus is to: (1) Create an access “bridge” between school and work, preparing rural adults for life in a global, connected world; (2) Become a hub of digital learning for public-sector elementary schools that can outsource their digital learning to the center (The Open Learning Academy); and (3) Reduce the “digital divide”, providing rural people with the opportunity to actively participate in today’s online economy.

Apps and Girls

Apps & Girls seeks to bridge the tech gender gap by providing quality coding training (web programming, mobile app development game development and robotics) and entrepreneurship skills to girls in secondary schools via coding clubs, and to university level students at academic institutions. Apps and Girls also organizes holiday events such as hackathons, bootcamps, and competitions and provides internships opportunities. Apps & Girls also provides high class mentorship (from local and international mentors) to girls to create tech startups, connect them with jobs and internships and a 3 year incubation to emerging young female TECH entrepreneurs and use our network to promote their work to customers, partners and potential funding opportunities.

Sendy

Sendy is a platform for all delivery needs.Sendy’s platform works similarly to a taxi dispatch app, but focuses on moving packages instead of people. Move anything from point A to B at the touch of a button. Simply. Transparently. Since its launch in 2015, Sendy has quickly grown into one of Africa’s top start-ups to watch and garnered attention from several investors. To date, the company has raised over $3 million in equity funding and has begun planning its expansion. It is a delivery platform whose mission is to connect businesses with local drivers. The company links customers with drivers to help deliver goods simply and transparently using a technology platform. Over the years, Sendy has managed to work with over 5,000 businesses and 50,000 individual customers because it is cost effective and efficient.

Electronic Municipality

The National Portal of the Municipal Community, a unified official gateway for the provision of municipal electronic services to the entire municipal sector in all regions of the Kingdom (17 Amana and 286 Municipalities) • Consolidation and automation of procedures for obtaining municipal licenses, with flexibility for administrative structure and responsibilities in the Amanat and municipalities. • Providing a full centralized electronic service within the departments of the Amanat and Municipality to cover all steps of the license procedures from submission to the issuance of the license • Standardization of activities and requirements for licenses • A central database for all construction and professional licenses data and all transaction from citizen request until the license is issued • Launch and operate more than 55 electronic services provided centrally through Balady managed by departments of Amanat and municipalities • Provide top management with accurate performance indicators on level of Amanat, municipals and even staff levels • Electronic connectivity with all relevant authorities to facilitate licenses procedures and requirements needed from other external entities. "Balady" portal includes standard operating procedures for all municipal services and unified criteria to measure performance, alongside with modern maps for all cities in the Kingdom in support of plans and programs of national development, business sector and all partners and beneficiaries of services and activities of the ministry. In addition It is interactive platform of brainstorming and discussing all proposals related to municipal sector, as well as, facilitating the completion of transactions relating to professional and construction licenses, and plans approval, besides publishing all requirements needed to get all services automatically, so, as to contribute in reducing pressure resulting from reviewing the ministry, municipalities, and sub-municipalities and shorten the time of information completion.

MyCareersFuture.sg

MyCareersFuture (MCF) is a skill-based job matching platform that empowers citizens with a smarter way to search for jobs. It aims to reduce the missed matches and mismatches among jobseekers and employers in Singapore. By working with private players such as JobKred and WCC that use artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyse global data, job-match scores are provided for jobseekers to identify suitable jobs. Adjacent jobs are also recommended to nudge jobseekers to consider other suitable jobs that they may not have considered. For jobseekers in need of extra help, MCF works in a seamless scheme discovery process. With a click of a button, jobseekers can find jobs with government schemes that aim to improve employability of various groups - such as those who are mature, long term unemployed or looking to move into a new role. MCF complements the physical career services offered by WSG Careers Connect Centres. WSG expects the productivity of WSG Career Coaches to increase by up to 25% as MCF obviates the need for coaches to manually explain labour market information and search through the JobsBank database to identify suitable job referrals. This saves about two hours per client per day for each career coach.

Smart Mobile Apps Project - Emergency Alert App

The Emergency Alert app allows users to receive timely information and updates generated by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Centre NDRRMC, that will enable the issue of timely, coordinated and efficient distribution of alerts, warnings and advisories to the general public and key stakeholders in times of emergencies/disaster. The messages sent through the system are CAP compliant (Common Alert Protocol), which means that most major disaster alert systems in the world are compatible with the system. Thus, alerts may also be sourced from international agencies as well as the NDRRMC in the future. The key benefits of the app are: - Improved disaster management and risk reduction - Improved awareness both on local and national levels - Sensitisation on climate change

DigiPippi

DigiPippi is a non-profit organization working to promote girls' interest in technology and IT on their own terms. The vision is that girls and women have equal opportunities of participating and co-create the technological society. DigiPippi makes use of both role-models, women who have careers within a wide variety of STEM-based jobs, an online and offline community for girls in the ages 9-13 years to learn more about tech and to break down the gender-barrier, workshops for girls within relevant topics and advocacy at national and international conferences and multinational organizations (latest at the conference held by the European Union called #DigitalSkills4Her).

Azerbaijan Women in ICT Club FEMMES DIGITALES

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.

King Faisal University Data Center Accreditation

Aligning with KFU strategic objective “Providing a stimulating academic environment in keeping with technology”, the Deanship of Information Technology in king Faisal University has implemented the project “Setting up, Accreditation, migration, and launching KFU Data Center”. The Deanship of IT designed the new Data Center, by using the best practices and standards in this field of IT Project Management and Governance. The Data Center Achieved the Accreditation from Uptime Institute and it got “Tier-3 Certification of Design Documents” and "Tier-3 Certification of Constructed Facility". A modern robust Network design has been implemented, including IP-Telephony, Fiber and Wireless connectivity, and fast WAN techniques has been used for connecting the remote sites related to KFU. With the contemporary network security, Infrastructure and monitoring tool, and M8 Oracle database storage Super cluster as the first university using it in Saudi Arabia, the Data Center is hosting our key academic and administrative applications and store and manipulate with huge databases of students and faculty members information, it also hosts the web portal, e-mail, workflow engine, ERP, EPM, e-learning and distance education services, and many other applications and services that serve the public community, and citizens. Consequently, sustainable development in Al-Ahsaa achieved because of this project which participate in investment in IT Infrastructure in King Faisal University, as it accepted more students in admission phases, hire more staff and faculty members, and the number of qualified alumni increased as per the labor market needs.

Creating Awareness in Research and Education

'Creating Awareness in Research and Education' (CARE) is a non-profit aiming to spread awareness of the importance of STEM and education, and seeking to distribute appropriate educational and STEM resources in both the local and international communities, especially in areas where such opportunities are not readily available. CARE seeks to invest in youth leadership and youth entrepreneurship, building towards a sustainable and resilient future in the community. Through incredible support and partnerships, CARE has been able to positively impact over 6000 individuals.

CyberSensibility

Fifty-two percent of students in the US have reported being cyberbullied. Ninety-six percent of children use social media and ninety-five percent of teenagers who witnessed cyberbullying ignored the behavior. CyberSensibility is a free internet safety program that provides modules, videos, and worksheets to combat cyberbullying. CyberSensibility is a free, online internet safety program that provides modules, videos, and worksheets to teach cybersecurity and combat cyberbullying. Each lesson contains worksheets that teachers can easily and inexpensively reproduce to reach more students, making the project sustainable. We are working with corporate sponsors using the Clinton Global Initiative to disseminate the curriculum to schools nationwide. We plan to specifically target underrepresented minorities in STEM and children from underfunded schools in order to bridge the gender gap and increase visibility in the computer science industry.

Girls & Technology

Plan International China is an NGO working for children’s rights and girls’ equality. It is a member of the global Plan International family. In China, Plan’s work focuses on health, child protection, DRM, and youth economic empowerment (YEE). As part of its work on YEE, Plan works to bridge the digital gender divide by empowering girls in rural areas with digital skills. The Chinese government is aware of the importance of teaching children and youth digital skills. A baseline survey conducted by Plan China in six rural schools in Chunhua County, Shaanxi province found that while IT education is featured on the formal curriculum, it is rarely taught, due to a combination of lack of qualified instructors, outdated learning materials, and other subjects taking precedence. Children in rural areas are thus at a disadvantage compared to their urban peers: they have less opportunities to acquire key digital skills needed in the labour market of the future. Rural girls a doubly disadvantaged. While the survey found that rural girls are keen to learn digital skills, they are less confident in their existing skills, less knowledgeable about the digital environment, and face greater challenges in acquiring digital knowledge and skills than their male peers. The survey also found that teachers were unaware of how prevailing gender inequality is reflected in the digital context, although some indicated they thought boys/men have more aptitude for technology than girls/women. There is marked digital gender divide in China. The registered number of male programmers was nearly four times that of female programmers in 2016, while salaries of male programmers are generally higher than female programmers in the same position. Rural girls in China thus face a double hurdle to benefiting from the digital economy, one based on their location and the other based on their gender.

Females Excelling More in Math, Engineering, and Science

Females Excelling More in Math, Engineering, and Science -- FEMMES -- is a student run organization at the University of Chicago. Our mission is to help close the gender gap in Tech by presenting CS and Tech to middle school girls in our local neighbourhood. We hope to expand our CS and Tech focus to encompass larger categories of STEM by making CS and Tech the lens to see other traditional sciences through. We cater to the female middle school population on the South Side of Chicago, one of the least funded neighbourhoods in Chicago.

mLab Southern Africa

Building Africa’s most vibrant tech innovation ecosystem through communities, code, lean innovation and start-up Labs. mLab SA was launched in 2011 as a mobile technology laboratory and incubator. Since then, it has grown to provide tech skills development training, and has broadened its mandate by adopting a hybrid model – skills for incubation and acceleration. From its base in Tshwane near Pretoria, mLab has launched programs in three townships throughout the Gauteng province (which includes Pretoria and Johannesburg) as well as other cities like Cape Town in the Western Cape province. This year, the organization will continue its expansion into three other more rural provinces, primed for building new digitally focused ecosystems. Along the way, the mLab’s leadership team has taken an iterative and agile approach to provide tailored support to different stakeholder groups and remain demand-focused in each new location.

Learning Initiative for Entrepreneurs

The objective of this project was to expose women on the basics of computer literacy, like how to operate a computer, basic components of computers, the use of Microsoft Words for interactions, designing of business fliers documenting and filling of documents both online and offline. The use of Excel sheets for financials and Customer Relationship Managements. Finally, how to use Multimedia for quality presentations. We also participated in Women and Web Alliance Project by World Purlse, where we empowered women on the use of internet and mobile phones in 2017. The objective was to expose women and girls on Free Basics. This is a situation where women can access internet without Data, they can also use their mobile phones as a learning tool by studding various courses on free basics.

CELSE

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.

MOBILE COMPUTER LAB

Mobile Computer Lab is a program under PEN Tanzania, established in the year 2016 with its main focus on teaching girls in public primary school on basic practical computer knowledge (ICT), computer coding and introduction to robotics. We teach girls from class five to seven who belong in the age group of 11-15. Mission Prepare a generation of girls through ICT training with the purpose of creating equal opportunity and bridging the existing gap.

Mobile Money Platform

Two billion people remain unbanked, without access to safe, secure and affordable financial services, Huawei Mobile Money Platform focuses on transforming the financial lives of unbanked people by providing financial services based on mobile communications. It provides mobile wallet services (such as cash-in, cash-out and P2P transfer) and bill payment transacted seamlessly through feature or smart phones using communications network capabilities. Also it adds sophisticated payment gateway functionality to enable merchant payment through NFC, QR code and linked bank accounts. Mobile money provides a real-time, safe and reliable mobile financial platform for telcos and banks to provide efficient and low-cost financial services for users. Huawei’s Mobile Money Platform serves over 152 million users globally, accounting for 27% of total registered mobile money accounts. As Mobile Money becomes more established, Huawei’s platform enables operators to develop more sophisticated services, and fulfill the incredible growth potential that Mobile Money offers. That’s why operators in Asia, Africa and the Middle East region have chosen Huawei’s Mobile Money platform. In partnership with Huawei, they are all taking their established Mobile Money service to the next level, and creating new and highly sought-after services for their customers. Huawei’s innovative and future-orientated Mobile Money Platform promises operators both the capabilities to offer a differentiated mobile financial experience (for consumers, agents and partners), as well as exceptional performance levels. With this platform, end-users can have complete confidence and trust in their operators’ Mobile Money services provision.

Huawei 5G End-to-End Commercial Products and Solutions

Huawei has already provided 5G end-to-end (E2E) commercial products and solutions, covering the core network, the bearer network, base station and terminals. These commercial products and solutions are entirely based on 3GPP standards, with full range, full scenario and all-cloud being the defining characteristics. Through the utilization of a full range of leading and mature 5G E2E full-scenario productsand solutions, Huawei has realized the continuous deployment of 5G sites in more than 10 countries, such as China, Korea, Canada, Germany, UK and Italy. These products and solutions provide people in typical densely populated urban areas with ubiquitous Gbps-level access rate, hundreds of Mbps of indoor access experience and over 20 Gbps cell capacity. These products and solutions will allow consumers with the requirement of higher speeds enjoy an incredible 5G experience as soon as possible. These products and solutions provide basic framework so they can be deployed in different situations.

GUIDING LIGHT: Ambient Light Guiding System for the Mobility Support of Elderly People

Within this project we will develop and implement an intelligent light wayguidance system, which should attenuate age-related mobility impairments caused by reduced spatio-temporal orientation, worry about getting lost, and fear of falling. This GUIDING LIGHT will consist of up to date lighting technologies, innovative intelligent control algorithms, smart mobility monitoring systems, and a distributed information system for mobility parameters. Together with end-users and all stakeholders we will examine how these components can be combined with inter-personal care services. We will use existing lightings in these rooms and supplement them with additional lighting equipment and electrical installation technologies. After modification light characteristics of lamps will change automatically according to the personal daily routine of residents. Outcome of the project is an intelligent light wayguidance system consisting in a variable set of flexible modules that work together with other heterogeneous home automation systems, information and communication systems as seamlessly as possible. The application of this GUIDING LIGHT system will support the spatial-temporal orientation of older people and thus sustain their mobility as long as possible.

MUVA

MUVA Tech was designed to empower women and girls, especially the more vulnerable, through ICTs, both by improving their skills in this field and by increasing their employability thanks to those. In order to increase the number of female consumers and producers of ICT in Mozambique MUVA Tech has developed a bespoke approach, including broad awareness raising activities and tailored training delivered in slum areas. We have developed a bespoke training for vulnerable women and girls, age 18 till 24, with an innovative approach that uses technology as a tool for human empowerment, so that technology is not only an end in itself but also a mean to achieve new economic opportunities. The objective of MUVA Tech is that technologies are an essential part of modern daily life, which is increasingly modeled on digital and its interactions and, therefore, must be transverse to learning. We have learning through a market survey that the ICT labour market in Mozambique expects from its employees strong soft skills and employability skills rather than only ICT knowledge. MUVA Tech uses a participatory methodology that has proven very efficient. The project includes four modules at this moment for different and levels of ICT competency.

eCAALYX: Enhanced Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment

The exploitable results of the eCAALYX project come in two forms, 1) the eCAALYX system itself and 2) the components of the system that have been developed by each partner. The outcome of eCAALYX Home System is a robust, auto configurable and expandable home healthcare solution which at this moment is a prototype. eCAALYX system offers to the clinical professionals (i.e. carers, doctors, nurses) a tool to provide medical services to enlarge the independent living of elderly at their homes. The eCAALYX system architecture is, by itself, an innovative approach to user monitoring, providing a reliable and scalable solution, as it was verified during the trials. New and off the shelf components can seamlessly be added, requiring only the development of device drivers, ensuring the system can evolve to meet ever changing user requirements. Several components include innovative features, such as the garment/Wearable Body Sensor (WBS), the home gateway, the mobile gateway and the data mining system.

Domestic Robot for Elderly Assistance for (DOMEO)

The robot Kompaï helps older, dependent or disabled people to live independently at home for as long as possible. Kompaï was designed to accommodate in particular people suffering from cognitive decline. People can be safe at home and stay in permanent connection to the outside world due to internet access and dedicated applications in Kompaï. Kompaï has been developed by the French company Robosoft. EU's AAL Joint Programme funded the DOMEO project to design the first generation of Kompaï and have it tested by potential users. The robot recently received the Worldwide Innovation Challenge award launched by the French Government. After extensive trials, Robosoft will be taking the prototype into production in 2017. The goal for 2020 is to produce 10.000 units a year at the selling price of €5.000. The company is also planning to enter the Far East market soon, as the demand is particularly strong there. Robosoft estimates the total market for the first generation of cognitive assistive robotics at 2,8 million units for Europe, 1,7 million for the USA and 1 million for Japan.

Virtual Lab - Learn to Do

In Senegal, the ICT / telecom, arouse enthusiasm, at the level of populations and young people. Most of the supervisory and teaching structures of pupils and students devote an ICT / Telecom component to their interventions and teaching. However, a lack of know-how resulting from a lack of interaction with heavy ICT / telecom equipment, practically nonexistent in our training schools, is a hindrance for the profile-post adequacy in the specialized structures as well. for the self-employment of young graduates and professionals. In addition, a good number of self-taught young people in ICT / Telecom know how to tinker, manipulate ICT / telecom equipment and ensure their maintenance. This segment of the population also requires guidance and support to make their practices more professional and better organized. Objectives: - Set up digital infrastructures in order to reinforce the know-how of professionals and young graduates in the digital professions and specifically: - Video and images on removable media or via the internet, on the assembly and maintenance of IT or telecom equipment such as computers, printers, switches, routers and other ICT / Telecom devices of great capacity. - Video and images on the assembly and maintenance of IT or telecom equipment - Have ICT / telecom tools recycled from partners for demonstrations. - Have standard kits for experimentation and maintenance in ICT / Telecom and related accessories (Photocopiers, Televisions). Results: - A framework for exchange, strengthening operational skills in ICT / Telecom and digital services is created. More specificly : -maintenance and repair of digital equipment; -familiarization of young graduates and professionals in digital devices and tools for better know-how; -an impetus for innovation and job creation; -be able to use digital tools to meet the needs of the people

Technological Park of Campinas

The Techno Park Business Park , accredited by the Paulista System of Technology Parks, is located in Campinas / SP, in an area of 524,000 m2, which stands out for its strategic location, with direct access to three of the most important state highways, and for its existence , in its bosom, of beautiful natural park remnants of the Atlantic Forest. With an urban design defined by wide thickly forested avenues and the continuity of open spaces, forming extensive lawns, the resultant landscape and architectural ensemble the creation of a stimulating working environment for technological innovation and development. Today, more than 60 companies installed in Techno Park have a complete urban infrastructure and shared security, telecommunications, optical fiber, and public area maintenance services.

SisTech

ICT is taking a central role in all aspects but there are still fewer girls enrolling for ICT related technical skills and jobs, hence the digital and technical divide. Girls from disadvantaged backgrounds and underserved communities are especially marginalized. Working in the informal settlements has exposed us to issues affecting young women such as increased rate of school dropout, early pregnancies leading to early marriages, higher risks of contracting sexually transmitted diseases and gender based violence. All these issues and more negatively affect the girls interfering with their education and hence they miss out on opportunities due to lack of adequate skills needed. In 2015, NairoBits opened 3 Girl centers targeting marginalized girls aged 17 to 19 from Mathare, Kibera, Korogocho, Huruma, Kawangware, Dandora and Kariobangi settlements. The goal of this program is to enroll vulnerable girls from the informal settlements in Nairobi, have sustainable income through Information Communication Technology (ICT) skills. We do this by advocating for equal education skills and access to opportunities for girls from Nairobi’s informal settlements and to lobby at the employment level for equal job opportunities with those from other learning institutions. Through the SisTech project, we have been able to reach more than 300 girls, 60% of these girls are employed ans supporting their families.

Uganda Computer Aid

Uganda Computer Aid is an amazing initiative implemented by Musabe Foundation. Uganda Computer Aid is active in the field of Information & Communication Technology in the remote, disadvantageous region of the Rwenzori Mountaions bordering the Rain forests of Democratic Republic of Congo. Uganda being one of the world's developing countries, it has limited technology , a high rate of digital illiteracy , Gender Technology Inequality, Technology discrimination of disabled children(Blind and Deaf). Uganda Computer Aid saw the need to impart ( I.C.T ) modern technology skills into all the Ugandans, the major target groups of this project were girls, women , disabled people and children with disabilities(the blind and the deaf) in the remote, disadvantageous region of the Rwenzori Mountaions bordering the Rain forests of Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ignitech Women

Ignite Technology in Women (Ignitech Women) is a Modcom Institute Initiative whose main mission is to mentor girls and women to become the future technology leaders and innovators of our world. Ignitech Women address the skills gap and gender gap that exists in our country for women by providing Technology skills required in the 21st Century economy. It is providing free digital literacy training to the women in marginalised communities through mentorship, events and short trainings.

Empowering girls in Sri Lanka through Connect to Learn

Connected to learn computer literacy certification program for teenage girls & young adult females. The Connect to Learn initiative is a testament to our contribution towards enriching the livelihood of the farming communities through power of ICT. We have always maintained a vision to uplift the living standards of rural communities and to enrich their livelihoods, and this initiative gives us the opportunity to do just that. Bringing technology to the service of education is a common goal to Ericsson and the Connect to Learn Sri Lanka partners – Mobitel and Open University of Sri Lanka, and the role each one plays in the project is important to its success. Ericsson is set to provide the ICT equipment required to implement the project, in addition to project management, systems integration and remote support capabilities. Mobitel, in its endeavor to develop the Knowledge Society in Sri Lanka, is providing the mobile connectivity required to facilitate the ‘Connect To Learn’ initiative keeping in line with the GSMA Connected Women program.

Empowering girls in Sri Lanka through Connect to Learn

Connected to learn computer literacy certification program for teenage girls & young adult females. The Connect to Learn initiative is a testament to our contribution towards enriching the livelihood of the farming communities through power of ICT. We have always maintained a vision to uplift the living standards of rural communities and to enrich their livelihoods, and this initiative gives us the opportunity to do just that. Bringing technology to the service of education is a common goal to Ericsson and the Connect to Learn Sri Lanka partners – Mobitel and Open University of Sri Lanka, and the role each one plays in the project is important to its success. Ericsson is set to provide the ICT equipment required to implement the project, in addition to project management, systems integration and remote support capabilities. Mobitel, in its endeavor to develop the Knowledge Society in Sri Lanka, is providing the mobile connectivity required to facilitate the ‘Connect To Learn’ initiative keeping in line with the GSMA Connected Women program.

Digital Case - Digital Field- Digital OASIS in remote and rural areos of Senegal

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.

Save your bag

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

Training program for women

Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications of the Republic of Serbia has set out the promotion of gender equality in the field of ICT as one of its goals, since not only there is a huge potential for employment in the field of information technology, but also the possession of ICT skills has become a requirement for many different professions. In accordance with that, the Ministry has initiated a training program for women with the aim of acquiring and developing digital skills and fostering digital literacy, as well as learning programming. The training program was designed to last up to 9 months and provide basic knowledge of programming languages such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Non-governmental associations chosen at a public tender announced by the Ministry operatively carried out the programs.

Resilience of Long Range FSO Link under Tropical Weather Effects

Free-Space Optics (FSO) can transmit high data rate, up to 10 Gbps from several meters to kilometers, depending on meteorological conditions. They are potential candidates in overcoming high data rate and longer last miles connexion needs in the context of development of mobile broadband networks in many countries. The performances and availability of FSO systems are generally affected by weather conditions. In that paper we investigate on the reliability and resilience of a 5 km FSO link simulated by using visibilities data recorded from Dakar city. The Percentages of availabilities, the power margins, optimal relays placement, and architecture are proposed when operating conditions vary from clear atmosphere to heavy rain or in presence of heavy dust. During these bad weather conditions, often occurred in tropical climate, the effect of turbulence induced irradiance fluctuation, varying beam divergence angle and misalignment issues were analyzed and estimated. In addition lognormal distributions are established to make easy use of channel modeling and survey of FSO systems in similar physical environments.

Resilience of Long Range FSO Link under Tropical Weather Effects

Free-Space Optics (FSO) can transmit high data rate, up to 10 Gbps from several meters to kilometers, depending on meteorological conditions. They are potential candidates in overcoming high data rate and longer last miles connexion needs in the context of development of mobile broadband networks in many countries. The performances and availability of FSO systems are generally affected by weather conditions. In that paper we investigate on the reliability and resilience of a 5 km FSO link simulated by using visibilities data recorded from Dakar city. The Percentages of availabilities, the power margins, optimal relays placement, and architecture are proposed when operating conditions vary from clear atmosphere to heavy rain or in presence of heavy dust. During these bad weather conditions, often occurred in tropical climate, the effect of turbulence induced irradiance fluctuation, varying beam divergence angle and misalignment issues were analyzed and estimated. In addition lognormal distributions are established to make easy use of channel modeling and survey of FSO systems in similar physical environments.

URIDU

URIDU is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that empowers rural women in developing and emerging countries. More than 200 million people were affected by natural disasters or displaced by conflict and violence in 2014. 50 per cent of refugees are women and girls. When crises strike, gender inequalities worsen. Gender-based violence increases, women are excluded from life-saving services and their limited mobility leads to physical insecurity. Access to healthcare is also limited, increasing mortality and malnutrition rates, particularly for mothers and infants. As a result, 60 per cent of preventable maternal deaths take place in settings of conflict, displacement and natural disasters. Mobile technology is revolutionizing the world by providing access to critical health knowledge and education. Yet marginalized populations often cannot use technology to its full potential, due to a lack of ownership, access and ability. Women are facing particular challenges to benefit from information technologies. There is a strong case for a simple, accessible and cheap technology that can provide free audiovisual content to marginalized populations. We combined the best of both worlds: the ease of use of radio with the versatility of smartphones. Our approach is based on 3 key elements: structured and localized audiovisual content a mobile web application acting as an intuitive user interface a dedicated Wi-Fi hotspot which serves the web app.

Virtual learning, Three dimensional (3D) , Multilingual and Multi-platform for Hajj and Umrah

This project aims at providing training for people to understand and perform the rituals of Hajj and Umrah properly, and reduce the common mistakes made by people and pilgrims as far as possible, learning step by step using 3D virtual reality technique, sound and text, and also seeks to show the non-Muslims who cannot visit the holy places, the sense of pilgrimage. The project will use three-dimensional model Pilgrimage to Al-Haram in Mecca after the expansion recently, using images of realistic high-quality, and the corridor between Safa and Marwa and areas of stoning, which allows users to learn to perform the rituals properly before traveling to his journey, through the understanding of the full rites, and throughout the locations inside the holy places of Mecca and in other Hajj areas.

Etimad Financial Portal

Etimad financial portal is an electronic portal addressed to government bodies to provide electronic services: Government sectors can use Etimad to manage their budgets and contracts, manage payments and manage government tenders. Private sectors can use Etimad to apply for financial claims, purchase tenders document and send their proposals. Etimad will provide the following electronic services: 1. Contract Approval: Which has government projects, can send its project contracts for approval to the Contracts Follow-up Department at the Ministry of Finance 2. Budget Display, Booking and Transfer Enable government bodies to display the assigned budget for its projects, book the required budgets for running project and perform budget transfer one item of the budget from one project to another 3. Payment Claims, Request and Order The service of financial claims of suppliers and contractors, which aims to collect all financial claims, and review them with government agencies to facilitate the exchange process, where it requires ensuring that all financial claims are registered to the government from all suppliers and contractors 4. Government tenders A unified platform that is used by all government agencies for their procurement activities. Contractors can search for government tenders and send their proposal. 5. Employee’s financial rights Government sectors can provide their payroll information to pay their workers electronically. Etimad e-portal was made for the many reasons, such as: Achieve Saudi Arabia’s 2030 Vision goals, such as: Raising the efficiency of spending. Increase transparency. Speeding up MOF services processes. One source for all government tenders. Increase the private sector's involvement in government projects. A database for government purchases prices.

Government Recruitment System

Jadara Project is an electronic portal for government sector employment which aims to providing job opportunities in all government entities to Saudi job seekers through a unified portal. The aim of this project is to decrease unemployment rate to improve living standards for citizens. This system enables government entities in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia to register the available job opportunities electronically to be displayed to all applicants as part of the jobs announcements’ plan. This system enables job seekers to register their personal information and academic qualifications, and apply to the job opportunities’ offers in a way that suits their qualification on basis of an approved guide of qualifications and positions equally for all applicants. Efforts have been made to develop this system in a way that job opportunities are availed in a fair way. It ensures high level of transparency by enabling applicants to view all details of appointment on the job which they applied for. Moreover, the system uses a predetermined mechanism for calculating points to compete with all electronically applied job seekers. Employment process is done electronically starting from determining the job opportunity and ending with appointing the candidate after passing the required tests for the job, including medical examinations.

Business Intelligence

One of the most important digital transformation projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the investment in data. The Ministry of Civil Service intends to invest in this field by providing tools for business intelligence systems and building data warehouses that achieve the objectives of sustainable development through participation in raising economic efficiency and achieving social inclusion, Moreover, the employment of women in leadership positions , the planning and study of the workforce in the Kingdom through the development of Key Performance indicators and rates of change and ratios in those factors. In addition, it will improve performance and contribute to advancing development and promoting participation and dissemination of the gender equality culture. Dashboards draw a roadmap that show the decision-maker in the country the faults and gaps in the path to the necessary change plan and decisions that must be taken as quickly as possible to correct the track to the desired level of achieving the goals.

Bayanati (My Employment Data)

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.

Catalysts for Change

The project intends to empower 2000 vulnerable young boys and girls from 10 urban slums in Islamabad/Rawalpindi through imparting life-skills training and building their capacity to sensitize wider communities through interactive theaters. The project is designed to work with 15 young persons referred to as “Core Team” from each of the 10 communities. In each of the 10 core teams the project would induct 10 male youth members and 5 female members would be mobilized to join to encourage participation in gender participation, however, the cultural barriers may be a hindrance. The project team is well aware of such risks and is prepared to deal with such scenarios with cultural sensitivity. The core team would be given life skills sessions and skills to address these issues with the wider community through interactive theaters. The project will culminate with core teams independently managing a small project to sensitize the local communities on life-skills through theater performance from a small grant awarded to them. The purpose of awarding a small grant to core teams is to shift the power to young people and to enable them to practically plan, implement, coordinate and manage small initiatives independently. This will not only enhance practical skills but will also give them self-confidence and will boost their self-esteem. It is a key factor that will ensure the sustainability of the project.

Rawy Abu Dhabi

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.

Techio Comunitario: training program for promoters in telecommunications and broadcasting

Techio Comunitario is a training program that emerges from a participatory research project on training needs for community and indigenous communicators in Mexico. Based on this, a collaborative model of education was created that allows participants to obtain the necessary knowledge for the creation, use and maintenance of technological equipment in their community and indigenous media, as well as the consolidation of a network of community technicians that are provided mutual help to solve their problems related to technology. Two editions of Techio Comunitario have been held, training a total of 49 community and indigenous media technicians from eight Mexican states. The diploma includes topics on: community communication and technologies, electricity, electronics, free software, radio broadcasting, community Internet and cellular networks, legal framework and sustainability. Each of the modules is carried out in different spaces, which include indigenous communities and training centers. In addition to the community diploma for promoters in telecommunications and broadcasting, it also relies on four technological laboratories and an online platform developed for the project. This educational program takes pedagogical and methodological references as educational practices that are part of the indigenous vision on teaching, construction and socialization of knowledge. It also draws on elements of popular education and takes up approaches of free knowledge societies. The base that allows this methodology to take place is the figure of the so-called Advisory Committee, formed by people and organizations that have collaborated with each other for several years as part of the processes of articulation and creation of networks of community and indigenous communication processes at the local, national and continental levels.

First North American School Competition Les OLympes de la Parole

The University Women’s Club of Montreal has spearheaded the first North American edition of Les Olympes de la Parole school competition. This initiative integrates simultaneously several structural and functional needs in terms of: sustainability, education, club promotion, community outreach and advocacy. It remains compatible with the Club mission of promoting education for girls and women, and its objective of advocating for women empowerment while striving for a more gender equal society. The competition is named after Olympe de Gouge, a feminist, playwright, and activist who challenged conventional views and advocated on issues such as: social justice, empowerment, unconditional equality between sexes, divorce, slavery etc.

Technological Park of Ribeirão Preto – São Paulo

Supera Park is an environment of innovation and entrepreneurship. We Integrate universities, research institutes, startups and technology companies through the exchange of knowledge and technologies. We benefit the economy of the region of Ribeirão Preto and of Brazil as a whole, generating new business opportunities within and outside the country. SUPERA Park is one of the best and most important innovation hub in Brazil, helping startups to grow their businesses. Besides the labs, we also have the Business Center that focus on scale companies that are more solid than early stage startups.

Technological Park of Sorocaba

The Sorocaba Technology Park aims to spread the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship for sustainable development in the city of Sorocaba and region through the joint between the government, universities, and industries, to transform knowledge into wealth. The Park is a space for companies, universities to install their research laboratories to develop new products or services, generating improvements in quality of life. The facilities are in an area of 1.8 million m² to create innovative businesses (incubator), development activities of R, D & I (Research, Development & Innovation) projects with institutions of higher education and strategic area for future projects.

Technological Park of São José dos Campos (PqTec)

Our mission is to promote science, technology, innovation (C, T & I) and entrepreneurship, aiming at competitive and sustainable development. To do so, we are a synergistic environment that stimulates cooperation between company and company and company-research institution to carry out research, development and innovation (P, D & I) projects. The São José dos Campos Technological Park (PqTec) is aligned with the already proven vocation of the municipality in being an advanced pole of technological development and innovation. The deepest roots of PqTec are in the Aeronautical Technical Center, created in 1946. From the CTA came the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA) in 1950; the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DCTA) in 1967; and Embraer in 1969.

Technological Park of São José dos Campos (PqTec)

Our mission is to promote science, technology, innovation (C, T & I) and entrepreneurship, aiming at competitive and sustainable development. To do so, we are a synergistic environment that stimulates cooperation between company and company and company-research institution to carry out research, development and innovation (P, D & I) projects. The São José dos Campos Technological Park (PqTec) is aligned with the already proven vocation of the municipality in being an advanced pole of technological development and innovation. The deepest roots of PqTec are in the Aeronautical Technical Center, created in 1946. From the CTA came the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA) in 1950; the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DCTA) in 1967; and Embraer in 1969.

Center for Innovation and Technology SENAI FIEMG

The SENAI FIEMG Innovation and Technology Center is composed of a set of Innovation Institutes and Technology Institutes focused on industrial competitiveness. In practice, it is a world-class scientific engine. Created in 2011 from the Technological Center of Minas Gerais, CETEC, a state public foundation, CIT SENAI FIEMG inherits the history of research development focused on the industry. The Center is also born with the challenge of expanding industrial service both in Minas Gerais and Brazil and is committed to developing innovation and cutting-edge technology in partnership with universities and other national and international research centers.

SENAI Open Laboratory

The Open Lab is a learning environment created to welcome people with different profiles and skills. Offering free access to equipment, it encourages collaborative work for product, process and business development. Located in the Center for Innovation and Technology SENAI FIEMG CIT , the Laboratory is located in a region known as the "City of Knowledge", because it houses several institutes, universities, incubators and research promotion entities. By adopting the "do it yourself" concept, the Open Lab promotes the connection between entrepreneurs to solve technological challenges. it encourages interaction among users so that they can work on joint solutions, strengthening the technological bases and aiming to foster entrepreneurship based on innovation from the creation of new companies and also from the support to companies in the growth phase. It is an environment for entrepreneurs, small businesses, inventors, students and all those who have an idea and want to execute it to start the process of transforming into a business, testing and validating their products.It is a space that stimulates people through the creative economy, innovation and knowledge.

ICT for Girls Program

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.

UGR Tech Camp for Girls

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.

Mind Wide Open

UniteS Academy was established to promote educational development through the use of Information & Communication Technology. The focus is to make globally recognized ICT certification accessible and available to all Nigerian educational institutions. The Mind Wide Open Project creates an opportunity for young women all over the world and inspires them to pursue careers in ICT through hands-on exposure to the latest technology and engagement with industry professionals. The initiative is designed to make ICT education accessible and affordable to girls and women across the educational sector secondary school students in Nigeria, especially to the girl-child. We also seek to a new generation of computer engineers & scientists thereby turning Nigeria into an ICT hub. The initiative targets young people, especially Girls between the ages of 10-19 years. They are encouraged to develop IT skills and earn industry-standard certifications to help narrow the gender gap and encourage greater female participation in the global workforce. The curriculum also includes a training module on gender equality, and the women also receive training in management, entrepreneurship, and gender issues The delivery model allows girls to overcome the barriers of time and distance that are often associated with continuing education. This enables the girl child and women in remote areas to contribute to the development of the IT sector in their regions while raising their standard of living.

Women In Tech Africa

Women In Tech Africa aims at Supporting Women in Tech Across Africa to Positively to Support their Communities Positively Women in Tech Africa mission is 3 fold • Creating today’s female leaders and role Models for tomorrow’s Women • Showing the world what a strong African woman in capable of achieving • Support African growth through technology Women in Tech Africa has membership of women in over 30 countries in Africa and has physical Chapters in Ghana, Kenya and London with launches in South Africa and Nigeria planned before the end of the year. the organisation: 1. Organises Quarterly events across Africa for their members 2. provides Career leadership and empowerment 3. Inspires young boys and girls into STEM careers Their target audience are women in STEM as well as Young ladies studying tech related courses in tertiary institutions. Their major objectives is to Create today’s female leaders and role Models for tomorrow’s Women Showing the world what a strong African woman in capable of achieving Support African growth through technology One major activity is their flagship event dubbed (Women In Tech Week from 26th - 30th September). This event will take place in 40 countries across the globe with 400 individual curated events.

CCE: Connected Care for Elderly Persons Suffering from Dementia

The CCE project has developed the Memo-Net solution for the elderly with early stages of dementia, which will enable them to live a more prolonged life independently. The Memo-Net system consists of the following hardware and software components: s TP Vision formally Philips Net TV that provides a user interface for a digital corkboard s A digital corkboard application s A set of sensors that monitor the behaviour and the activities of the assisted person s A medication dispenser s A dementia diary that documents daily activities for the assisted person s A middleware platform that integrates all of the data From a technological point of view, the memo net system potentially meets requirements of elderly with early stage dementia. It helps create flexible, service-oriented dementia applications that can be taken apart and recombined to meet changing needs more efficiently and effectively. Memo net holds large potential market and there is a proven interest from resellers.

JaagoTeens

JaagoTeens, a Society registered in April 2010 under Societies Registration Act of 1860, is committed to promoting a responsible and safer internet ecosystem. With the recent massive thrust in Digital Literacy being witnessed in our country, we sincerely believe it is imperative that Digital Safety goes hand in hand with Digital Literacy. To achieve this mission we constantly work to expand and evolve our content, encouraging and educating, especially our student communities, to promote a safe and responsible internet, enabling youth to benefit from the massive potential the internet holds.

GBVHelpMap

The Red Elephant Foundation has built and curated a Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Help Map, which maps resources across the world that a survivor / victim of GBV can access. The resources are categorised into Legal Aid, Medical Aid, Resources (Food, Shelter and Clothing) and Education and Employment. The map is accessible on: gbvhelpmap.crowdmap.com. The target audience is women worldwide. The major objectives of this initiative are to provide detailed listings of organizations that offer assistance for women, while also offering an insight for providers into areas that are not yet covered as they should be.

Lightning Lab XX

Lightning Lab XX is a 3-month mentorship-driven business acceleration programme focused on fast-tracking up to 10 women-led companies. Lightning Lab makes entrepreneurship accessible by opening doors to capital, mentorship, business development, customer acquisition and leadership skills so founders can successfully prove, build and launch their ideas into market. Our XX programme in Wellington focuses on women-led companies (meaning, at least one co-founder is female). The purpose of the programme is to discover, accelerate and invest in exceptional women and the companies they run. The accelerator will provide the right environment for female founders to thrive through the challenge of starting a company while being supported by a diverse lineup of world-class role models, coaches and mentors. Lightning Lab XX makes a seed investment of $20,000NZ into each company that is accepted into the programme, in return for a small equity stake.

Girls Go IT

Our mission: is to prepare girls for STEM studies and while they are at studies, prepare them for ICT labour market through internship with ICT companies. The girls go IT program created single-handedly a new generation of girls active in IT. One of the few donor-funded programs in Moldova to be present in virtually all districts, include many minorities and marginalised groups, and be already self-sustainable after just one year. A new mentality has emerged where girls have as much as boys an option to choose profitable IT careers (one of the few viable, economically attractive career paths for young Moldovans today). Attitude of parents, teachers and employers has changed thanks to this program and its demonstrated success.

GirlsCoding

GirlsCoding - an initiative to train young girls in underserved communities (Slums and the Orphanages) in Nigeria, in computer programming skills, place them on internship and give them mentorship opportunities with female technology and engineering mentors, for the purpose of gender equality and economic independence. Target audience are young girls within the age range of 10-17years, living in underserved communities such as slums, orphanages and public schools in Nigeria. For the year 2016, we are training girls from the slums and orphanages in Lagos Nigeria; girls have been taken through classes on digital literacy (Microsoft excel, powerpoint, word and how computer works) after which they were taught hypertext markup language (html) and Cascading style sheet (css) who will go back to their communities to train other girls, under strict supervision. We know that through the exposure in trainings, internship and mentoring that our girls are currently receiving, they can have a voice and be economically empowered. GirlsCoding is our way of promoting gender equality through ICT/STEM by making vulnerable young girls be developers and decision makers of their life and career inclusive.

Empowering Women through Technology - Digital Hubs in Smart Villages

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.

IT For The Differently Able

The year 2013 was the time when I initiated ‘Project IT for Differently Able’ with a grant from the US Department of State and turned my dream into reality. The project aims to pass on technological education and skills to people with disabilities. I believe technology will give them a voice, help them connect with the world and become independent. These people are the source of my strength and inspiration now. I strongly believe – ‘If you have the idea and vision to change the world, yes! You can.’ Our team was particularly concerned about that if we want to engage female in IT sector where they can work very easily being at home that can be one of the factors to motivate the parents as it will take time to engage them outwards and risk would be there not only being a woman but also as disable and we targeted at that point even though IT sector and ratio of Female engagement do have a vast and major gender gap in Bangladesh where female are not encouraged to be in technical sector in terms of study and employment whereas teaching and doctor is a common phenomenon.

Tutored

Tutored is a social platform dedicated to college topics and talent acquisition where over 300k students and recent graduates have signed up to meet two main needs: • prepare university exams in the best possible way, for free. Access to free educational tools is key to tackle youth unemployment. On Tutored in fact students can share information, notes, textbooks, private lessons with a community of students belonging to the same academic path. • create a professional profile and apply to the job listings posted by companies which best fit their own ambitions. Tutored is also used by enterprises that through Tutored can reduce the gap with skilled millennials. They can enhance their reality and carry out engagement activities thanks to the direct connection with an active community of college students/grads. Each company has a control panel at their disposal to: • publish and promote news to create/strengthen their own employment branding strategy (awards, testimonials, team culture, benefits, new internal technologies, etc.) • promote and outline job announcements to identify and hire the best talents (internship, entry level, graduate program etc). • track and measure every single performance in order to understand in which university, department, city the brand is most successful and optimize results, assumptions and strategies. Generally speaking, as highlighted by Deloitte in its Human Capital Trends 2017, online recruitment has become an essential selection tool for the management areas of human resources.

E-MOSION: Elderly Friendly Mobility Services for Indoor and Outdoor Scenarios

The proposal aims at enabling integral outdoor and indoor localization and mobility services for elderly people with age-related sensory (visual, auditory) and cognitive (memory) impairments that help them in their daily routine activities far from home. The solution will be based on a combination of existing and future open mobile platforms, an IP connected server platform and a home security sensor network. Applications for these will be developed and customized. Furthermore, an accessory portable easy-wearable device will allow easy control the main functionalities of the service to interface with the mobile phone. The development and analysis of applications consists of two parts: the identification of services and features to be exploited and / or offer and the development of a user friendly graphic interface. The aim is to create an open platform in E-MOSION highlights the need and wish of the consortium to be compatible to or even better reuse other open AAL platforms, such as universAAL.

The NatiV Project

The NatiV Project is aimed at boosting literacy in Africa (currently in Zimbabwe with plans to scale out) through the use of mobile technology. We create language learning apps and e-books for children. We target especially marginalized communities and groups - rural areas such as Karoi and Zwimba, and especially encourage the participation of women and girls in our programmes.

BEDMOND: Behaviour Pattern Based Assistant for the Early Detection and Management of Neurodegenerative Diseases

BEDMOND project result includes an ICT-based system for an early detection of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, focused in elderly people while living at home. The complete platform provides professional tools for health care professionals, caregivers and elder at home. With such an early detection health professionals can soon apply an also early treatment which helps the elder to live longer in an independent way at home (by delaying as long as possible Alzheimer’s disease appearance and progress) whilst decreasing expenses to the Health System (by moving forward in time the institutionalization stage). Technological innovation comes from the benefit of making use of the whole set of sensor and detection devices installed (and installable) at home, normally for comfort and safety. Social innovation comes firstly from the benefit of early detecting neurodegenerative diseases and improving and adding extra value to the tele-care services provided by public and private health care services providers.

Tech Girls

The Tech Girls project is dedicated to empowering marginalized girls living in urban slums who are attending low-income schools with ICT and digital skills in order to bridge the gender skills gap in Nigeria. Through the use of after-school programs and girls clubs formed in the schools, Marvella has reached more than 250 girls. Even girls who have never had the opportunity of using a computer can now boast of having computer skills. The most exceptional girls are given free Raspberry Pis after the program. This has greatly encouraged girls to enroll in STEM classes and even do well in the classes. Most of the girls go on to study Computer studies and other related technology subjects in the university.

AMICA: Autonomy Motivation & Individual Self-Management for COPD Patients

AMICA is aimed at the disease management and medical care of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. The vision of AMICA was to develop a reliable system that supports COPD patients in disease management from home, increases patients’ quality of life and levels of therapy compliance, and reduces public and private health care costs, hence, creating interesting business opportunities. The Platform, developed under the AMICA’s vision, is a software and hardware product that provides patients, caregivers and clinicians with a range of interaction modes and tools, providing a novel methodology for care delivery at home and taking all relevant actors in the loop. A physician/patient - centered design was performed to guarantee functionality. Given the resulting ergonomic design, the elderly patient can easily operate the sensor by themselves, without any external help.

CARE: Safe Private Homes for Elderly Persons

CARE developed a non-wearable and stationary mounted bio-inspired stereo vision sensor, which does not record images but only detect motion at a high temporal resolution. The sensor can detect activities without seeing the person, such that privacy is ensured. The CARE project result is a stationary (non-wearable) smart sensor (like a fire detector), that can be mounted in every home to automatically detect falls and wirelessly sends alarms. Such a system does not exist so far in the market. Two large elderly homes were involved in Germany and in Finland for the CARE pilot testing. The time to market of the system is ~5 years as some steps are needed: (1) wide evaluation with more test persons, (2) redesign of the sensor as a finalized prototype to be smaller (like a fire detector) and cheaper, (3) and find sensor investors for manufacturing of large quantity and wide deployment.

ALADDIN: A Technology Platform for the Assisted Living of Dementia Elderly Individuals and Their Carers

The vision of ALADDIN was to develop a trustworthy and reliable system supporting patients with dementia and their informal carers in the management of the disease from home. The system aims to early detect symptoms that predict decline, avoid consequent emergencies and secondary effects and, ultimately, prolong the period that patients can remain safely cared at home. The platform supports carers, patients, clinicians and other service providers in efficiently planning, managing and monitoring the patients’ and carers’ health status, primarily to avoid emergencies. The system features described above have a direct impact on the quality of life of dementia patients and their carers, but they might also have a significant impact on the national healthcare systems, allowing for the reduction of costs resulting from the delayed institutionalisation of the patients. The balance between tools and patient tools would require further investigation. In parallel, technical innovation towards integrated platforms is required to allow a more diverse set of conditions to be managed.

Presidential Communication Center

The main aim of CIMER, strengthening the communication between the state and the citizen in the context of "participatory democracy ” and contribute to the formation of a public management style that provides transparent, accountable and citizen satisfaction. In addition, it provides citizens to inform the judicial and legislative authorities that they can apply in matters that are not related to public administration. CIMER is an easy system where children and elderly people can apply by also calling the ALO 150 telephone line. In 2018, the electronic information retrieval application systems in the internet address of 2.546 public institutions were integrated into CIMER. In this way, it was aimed to provide a simple public service instead of different application methods of the institutions and saving software and staff cost. With CIMER, along with administrative and legal control of public personnel, as well as public oversight have been formed. In addition, as a result of the performance monitoring of 83.000 users defined in the system, the negative perception of the citizen towards the bureaucracy began to change.

She codes for change

In Tanzania the gender gap in STEM subjects is still very wide with females lagging far behind males." SHE Codes for Change, a Tanzanian tech mentorship project aims to close the gender gap in the technology sector by educating, inspiring and equipping high school girls with the skills and tools for innovation and social change.She Codes for Change (SC4C) works with partners to inspire, educate and equip girls with computing skills.Our mission is To expose more girls in Africa to technology at a young age, to amplify impact in the continent and world at large. She codes for change works with girls aged 13-19 years of age, the objectives are to inspire them to choose STEM as field of study and later venture into STEM careers. We take completely beginners and run them in a four weeks program where they choose to either of three programs namely web development, game development and makertronics. In the third week they work on projects in teams of five students and they make prototypes of their development and present at the final day of the graduation. We also teach them in public speaking skills in terms of pitching projects and provide industrial visits that act as inspiration of what their future could look like. We also call in role models who give speeches that inspires the girls."

Revenge Porn Helpline

The Revenge Porn Helpline was established by the South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL) Trust in 2015 and has already managed over 12,000 calls from victims. SWGfL was instrumental in supporting the introduction of new laws in 2015 to make it an offence to post personal intimate images of another person without consent. To support victims, she established the hugely successful helpline supporting victims, primarily women, of revenge porn. It is clear from victims who have contacted the helpline, that the sense of helplessness is totally overwhelming. The online helpline provides this practical help in identifying and removal of images from internet that is so valuable and needed.

InfoPreta

InfoPreta is the pioneer of diversity in the digital world, the first company to work with black collaborators and minority participants. InfoPreta provides technological services made by women, maintenance such as: restoration, backup, formatting of computers, repair and assembly of computers, internal and external hygiene, software and hardware upgrades; installation of software and programs; production of web and graphic material, website and application development; project consulting, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, multimedia , digital marketing and e-commerce. It carries out recycling of notebooks, desktops and electronic devices in general.

AGNES: User-sensitive Home-based Systems for Successful Ageing in a Networked Society

A home-based system has been developed that allows the connecting of elderly persons with their families, friends and other significant people over the Internet. The resulting system uses ambient displays, tangible interfaces and wearable devices providing ubiquitous options for interaction, and secondary sensors for additionally generating carefully chosen information about the person’s wellbeing and activity that can be selectively relayed to significant other persons. AGNES helps to enrich social networking of elderly people who may be in danger of becoming isolated and enhances feelings of security and social connectedness, without technical intrusion. The technology innovation is an ambient interaction with the social network, without the need of using a computer and an ambient and wearable display of relevant information to the elderly. The social network platform (Modern Families) is already active on the market. Ambient sensing is in product development status (Modern Families).

Cafe Entrepreneurship

Cafe Entrepreneurship is committed to promote social entrepreneurship in Pakistan. It's main objective is to recruit fresh IT and social sciences graduates specially girls and engage them in a three month incubation program during which they'll get trainings and workshop on different IT and social skills. After these trainings they brainstorm and develop technology based solutions that serve a specific purpose for social impact. Women got empowered to start their own social ventures specially social sciences students were very motivated to find technological solutions for social issues because the countless of possibilities we can achieve with it. Many of them got jobs as after graduation the got the required experience to get them a job easily. As world is focused on Entrepreneurship and not on social entrepreneurship because of less profit ratio so with this program we are promoting social entrepreneurship so some of our incubatees were motivated to promote this message to their peers and start chapters in universitites in order to promote social entrepreneurship.

Gender MIS

Punjab Commission on the Status of Women is a statutory institution established to promote womens empowerment and remove discrimitation against women. PCSW serves as an overight body meant to ensure laws, policies and programmes of the government of the province of Punjab are equitable. The commission has created the first ofnits kind management information system in Asia with around 300 indicators to map the status of women. Data has been collected from surveys, census and administrative sources. It establishes unequal status of women through reliable public data. Gender MIS is meant to catalyse actions in the various public sector organisations for women's empowerment. Based on information from the GMIS, a first of its Punjab Gender Parity report has been published with rich analysis of disparity based on gender in Punjab.

LonePearl Group

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.

Red Dot Foundation (Safecity)

Safecity is a platform that crowd sources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public spaces. This data which maybe anonymous, gets aggregated as hot spots on a map indicating trends at a local level. The idea is to make this data useful for individuals, local communities and local administration to identify factors that causes behavior that leads to violence and work on strategies for solutions. Since our launch on 26 Dec 2012 we have collected over 11,000 stories from India, Kenya, Cameroon, Nepal, Nigeria and Trinidad & Tobago and directly reached over 400,000 people.

The Youth Empowerment Scheme in Information & Communications Technologies

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

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.

PretaLab

Olabi, a social organization that works to democratize the production of technology by contributing to the construction of a socially more just world, presents Pretalab, a survey that shows that it is urgent to debate representation in the world of innovation. PretaLab is an initiative of Olabi launched in March of 2017 with the focus of stimulating the inclusion of black girls and women and indigenous women in the field of new technology. Made feasible from the support of the Ford Foundation, the initiative emerged as a campaign in search of mapping and understanding who are the black girls and women and indigenous women that work in this area. The objective of the project is, on one hand, to show how the lack of representation is one problem not only for the fields of technology and innovation but for human rights and freedom of expression. And, on the other hand, to discuss the need and pertinence to include more black women in innovation and technology.

Community Development and Relief Trust

Our organization has an experience of empowering girls and women through micro finance using e-kit and e-recording application as a new and advanced SMART phone technology of running village saving and loans associations (VSLAs) mobilized groups which off course helps much to empower women economically. Therefore, the target is to reach 5,000 women and girls who have low income and mobilize them to form VSLA group using advanced SMART phone technology of saving and the major objectives is to empower women through micro finance in VSLAs using modern technology of saving and activities related will be making publicity meeting with beneficiaries, educating them on the VSLA methodology using e-recording and e-kit, mobilizing them to form savings and loans associations groups, training the team of trainers on different entrepreneurship and business skills, making monitoring and supervision of formed groups as well as collecting data for evaluating the well performed VSLA group using management information system (MIS) or Cpro software.

A2E2: Adaptive Ambient Empowerment for the Elderly

The main goal of the A2E2 project was to develop an adaptive and easily expandable ICT solution that addresses physical activity. A2E2 consists of a home-based and a mobile component, integrating off-the-shelf technology (e.g., bio-signal sensors, ambient sensors) and builds on existing structures (e.g., digital television sets, Internet access), thus permitting an individually tailored approach. The A2E2 system is the end product of this AAL JP project work. End users can have the system installed in their houses and receive personalized virtual coaching and psycho-education for healthy daily activities schedules through connecting to the A2E2platform. The system addresses the need for physical well-being, autonomy, connection, play and learning. The technological innovations are virtual coaching as well as implicit support and feedback based on sensor information. The social innovation is a significant reduction in health disease due to unhealthy lifestyle patterns, providing more autonomy and connectedness. The expected time to market is 2-3 years

Comunidades Inteligentes

The Smart Communities project aims to install connectivity for the Lenca indigenous community of Azacualpa, in the municipality of Yamaranguila, La Esperanza, Honduras, in order to increase its educational and economic development. Its purpose is to contribute to one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, 2030), specifically Goal 9.c, which consists of significantly increasing access to information and communication technologies and striving to provide universal internet access for low income countries by 2020. Connectivity can contribute positively to overcome the community’s recurring limitations.

Comunidades Inteligentes

The Smart Communities project aims to install connectivity for the Lenca indigenous community of Azacualpa, in the municipality of Yamaranguila, La Esperanza, Honduras, in order to increase its educational and economic development. Its purpose is to contribute to one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, 2030), specifically Goal 9.c, which consists of significantly increasing access to information and communication technologies and striving to provide universal internet access for low income countries by 2020. Connectivity can contribute positively to overcome the community’s recurring limitations.

Angels on the Net (Anjos na rede)

The Project Angel on the Network was created through a multi-partnership, involving private and public sectors and civil society in Brazil. This project was designed to combat child pornography and pedophilia online and it proved to be a very successful initiative, allowing the Brazilian Federal Police to obtain sound results in the protection of children and adolescents against online exploitation. This project is a result of a partnership between the Federal Police itself, the Special Secretariat for Human Rights of the Presidency of the Republic ( SEDH ) and The NGO SaferNet.

OASIS: Open Architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardisation

OASIS introduces an innovative, Ontology-driven, Open Reference Architecture and Platform, which will enable and facilitate interoperability, seamless connectivity and sharing of content between different services and ontologies in all application domains relevant to applications for the elderly and beyond. The OASIS platform is open, modular, holistic, easy to use and standards abiding. It includes a set of novel tools for content/services connection and management, for user interfaces creation and adaptation and for service personalization and integration. Through this new Architecture, over 12 different types of services are connected with the OASIS Platform for the benefit of the elderly, covering user needs and wants in terms of Independent Living Applications (nutritional advisor, activity coach, brain and skills trainers, social communities platform, health monitoring and environmental control), Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications (elderly-friendly transport information services, elderly-friendly route guidance, personal mobility services, mobile devices, biometric authentication interface and multimodal dialogue mitigation and other smart workplace applications). Applications are all integrated as a unified, dynamic service batch, managed by the OASIS Service Centre and supporting all types of mobile devices (tablet PC, PDA, smartphone, automotive device, ITV, infokiosk, ...) and all types of environments (living labs, sheltered homes, private homes, two car demonstrators, public transport, DSRT, etc.) in 4 Pilot sites Europewide. As user friendliness and acceptability is a top priority for the project, a user-centred-design approach is followed along the service and application development. Tested iteratively and thoroughly by hundreds of end users, their caregivers and other stakeholders, the OASIS platform and applications will be optimized and submitted for standardization by the purpose-established OASIS world-wide Industrial Forum.

Computer Training of Kibera Soweto East slum

The target audience for computer training was women and men of Kibera Soweto East slum. The computer training was meant to address limited knowledge on information and communication technology skills. The main objective of this training was: To enable participants use basic computer skills to operate the computer, send emails and access online resources. To demonstrate on how to use some social media platforms to network and market products. Participants learned how how to create files using Microsoft Word and Excel.

Working in ICT is cool

This is a six-episode web series (80 seconds long each) called "Working in ICT is cool" (translated) for our Facebook audience, initially, that present young talents who are currently working in information and communications technologies positions, they explain why they think their job and the whole industry is "cool", presenting a different reason or topic in each chapter: loosen dresscodes, geographical diversity, working from home, arte in technology, alternative routines and diversion and relaxation at work. Four chapters present both women and men, to enforce gender inclusion. Two chapter are one-voice only (one a man, and one a woman). Our initial audience was Facebook young followers, and it was also posted on YouTube. On a parallel campaign, we developed a written series directed to recruiters and managers explaining why and how these trends are happening in the industry along with statistics and reactions from different actors within our sector. Now, organizations such as the Organization of Ibero-American States, the committee for industrial arts development in the Ministry of Public Education, NGOs, college and high school professors and several private companies have shown interest in using these videos to promote the ICT sector as a professional path for young talents and to promote gender equality and inclusion into their companies and careers. The most recently created Women Chapter in CAMTIC also showed interest in utilizing the platform created by this series to present other ICT-related entrepreneurial and professional growth success cases of women in Costa Rica.

Code Art

CodeArt works to increase the number of girls studying computer science by delighting and inspiring them with the creative possibilities of computer programming. CodeArt uses art as an onramp to coding for girls in grades 4-12. Through CodeHer clubs and community workshops where students learn how to write computer programs that generate art. CodeArt also puts on an annual event focused on spotlighting the achievements of young female coders and raising awareness for the need of more women in Computer Science. The event includes an exhibition of code-based art created by girls in grades 4-12, a friendly coding competition, coding workshops, additional hands-on STEAM activities, a speaker symposium, and awards ceremony.

OMobileFunding

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

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

CompanionAble

CompanionAble adresses the issues of social inclusion and homecare of persons suffering from chronic cognitive disabilities prevalent among the elderly, a rapidly increasing population group. Those people need support of carers and are at risk of social exclusion, yet this problem not well addressed by ICT technology, but would lead to a social and economical pressure for staying at home as long as possible. The main unique selling point of the CompanionAble project lies in the synergetic combination of the strengths of a mobile robotic companion with the advantages of a stationary smart home, since neither of those approaches alone can accomplish the demanding tasks to be solved. Positive effects of both individual solutions shall be combined to demonstrate how the synergies between a stationary smart home solution and an embodied mobile robot companion can make the care and the care person's interaction with her assistive system significantly better. Starting with a profound requirements engineering for ICT-supported care and therapy management for the care persons, basic technologies for multimodal user observation and human-machine interaction will provide the fundamentals for the development of a stationary smart home assistive system and a mobile robot assistant, building the cornerstones of the overall system integrating the promising solutions of both parts. Substantial support comes from the research activities focusing on an architectural framework, allowing such a complex care scenario solution be achievable. After the realization of the respective scenarios, long lasting field experiments will be carried out to evaluate and test the system, and both scenarios can be evaluated to show their strength and weaknesses. This will initiate the development of an overall, integrated care scenario (smart home with embedded robot companion). The realization of this integrated care concept is to be seen as the in-principal vision of CompanionAble.

Quest Digital Finance -Akellobanker

Quest digital finance has facilitated access to services and products for women and Youth in Uganda. The Flagship product Akellobanker (Named after a certain woman) enables women in trade and agriculture to access capital for stocking their businesses or improved technologies such as seed, irrigation equipment, tractor higher services over their mobile phones. They work with rural savings and credit cooperative societies (SACCOS) as placement centers (Where the technology is set up) for women who need to access these services. Moreover the platform generates credit scores for women hence enabling them to access credit services without placing any collateral security.

ABINEE Recibe Pilhas Program

The ABINEE Recibe Pilhas Program is a joint initiative of manufacturers and importers of batteries and portable batteries, which joined efforts to comply with CONAMA Resolution 401/2008, being responsible for post-consumption. The project began in November 2010 to implement reverse logistics systems and end-of-life disposal of common zinc-manganese batteries, alkaline batteries, rechargeable batteries and portable batteries. In this way, GM & C, a logistics company contracted by manufacturers and legal importers, strictly complies with all requirements for the transportation of products. The collection is free when the station is within the capitals of Brazil or within a radius of 50 km and has a minimum of 30 kg of batteries.

Wheelmap.org

Wheelmap is a map for finding wheelchair accessible places. The map works similiar to Wikipedia: anyone can contribute and mark public places around the world according to their wheelchair accessibility. The criteria for marking places is based on a simple traffic light system: =FAQ Green = Fully wheelchair accessible FAQ = Yellow = Partly wheelchair accessible FAQ = Red = Not wheelchair accessible Places that are not yet marked according to their wheelchair accessibility have a grey marker. They can be marked by anybody quickly and easily. The information that is collected in this way is easy to understand, available free of charge and can be shared freely. Wheelmap.org is based on the world map OpenStreetMap and shows 157 different types of places. These place types are illustrated by the icons in the green, yellow, red and grey markers. Have a look a the entire list of icons that are currently shown on Wheelmap. Wheelmap.org is available as a web application and as an app in the stores for iPhone and Android smartphones.

STEM your School

Girls in Tech Cameroon has been one of those key organizations in Cameroon that has set the ground work needed to inspire next generation female leaders in STEM in Cameroon and Africa. We are focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of girls and women who passionate about technology by bringing to light the special spice women have to offer in these fields. Since its inception in Cameroon, they have never relented their efforts in working towards the advancement and empowerment of girls through hands on practical approaches in building skills for next generation jobs in the field of ICTS, Science, Technology and Engineering. The target audience has been girls enrolled in schools, aged 7-18 year old. We have been able to harness the potential of female role models in schools by creating STEM clubs led by female STEM teachers in schools and have girls adhere to clubs and work around building projects through our project called STEM your School.

e-Notification

Notification is the formal letter that is sent to person about formal subjects by courts, prosecutors and executive offices, general and annexed budget institutions, municipalities, village legal persons, bar associations and notaries. It is essential to provide the right to be heard and informed. It takes days to reach the physical notification to the address and also there is possibility of notification not reaching the related person since the physical notification is made to the local authority, law enforcement officers etc in case of the related person is not at the address or moved to somewhere else. With the e-Notification Project which means transmitting of formal letters to the related persons electronically, it has become possible to make judiciary notification progress at little cost, within the shortest time, transparent and reviewable. Since no paper is used at e-notification, it is a nature-friendly Project, contributing protection of nature and green. Thanks to Project it has been provided that staffs in charge of preparing and registering notifications, use their labor more effective and productive thus it becomes possible to make time-saving.

BLITAB: the first Braille tablet

BLITAB® is the first ever Braille tablet using a disruptive actuating technology developed by our company, to create tactile text and graphics in real time. People call it “The tablet for the blind”. Our novel invention is the cross-industry affordable technology (ICT & MTech/Health), which allows a whole page reading on a tactile screen. BLITAB® allows for the first-time blind users to learn, work and play with one mobile device and to have digital access to information in real time. BLITAB® converts any document into Braille text; little smart dots (“tixels”) raise immediately from the surface and then fall down again when text changes. BLITAB® offers completely new user experience for Braille and non-Braille readers via touch navigation, text-to-speech output and Perkins-style keyboard application. BLITAB® is not just a tablet, it is a platform for all existing and future software applications for blind readers. So we do not compete, we integrate and collaborate. BLITAB® empowers children and students in the process of learning and acquiring new abilities at school and university, as well as adults using the Braille tablet at the office in their spare time – to read books, to web-surf on the Internet etc.

Descarte Green

Descarte GREEN is an initiative of GREEN Eletron - Manager for Reverse Logistics of Electronics, founded by Abinee - Brazilian Association of Electrical and Electronics Industry. The program shows the engagement of the business sector in the implementation of reverse logistics, aiming at an environmentally adequate disposal of discarded electronics, seeking to increase environmental awareness of the population and strengthen the link between all the actors involved. It is a project for the disposal of products such as cell phones , notebooks, tablets and other electrical and electronic goods.

China Unicom Big Data Product System in Different Application Fields

With the rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT), people are living in an era of data explosion. The problem of how to make full use of the data resource to promote the traditional industry reformation is a concern of many researchers and companies. China Unicom, as one of the largest telecom operators in China, is serving billions of mobile users. Accordingly, China Unicom holds massive amount of telecom big data, which contains abundant information on network and users. In this project, we have proposed a telecom big data based industrial product system, aiming at serving different application fields. These application fields involve all walks of life, which includes environmental protection, finance, transportation, tourism, etc. The big data product system consists of a series of industrial platforms, which are: “Smart blue” environmental protection platform, Tourism operation and management platform, Urban City integrated planning platform, “Fox-hunting” police security monitor platform, Transportation system planning platform, “Xing Kong” smart business operation platform in urban city. These platforms promote the traditional industry reformation with the help of big data. Furthermore, they help the Government and relevant Departments monitor the real time operation state of the city through advanced technologies, which can dynamically improve the effectiveness and efficiency of urban construction and management. These platforms also help build a comprehensive framework to radiate other fields of the society, which can finally benefit the whole society.

Wayfindr

Wayfindr is a non-profit organisation, we are creating a benchmark in standards for digital wayfinding on mobile devices. We want to empower vision impaired people to overcome isolation, through audio based navigation. We have created the world’s first internationally-approved standard for accessible audio navigation. There are an estimated 285 million people worldwide living with sight loss. This can often lead to isolation, poverty and depression. Of the estimated 2 million vision impaired people in the UK, almost half say they would like to leave their home more often. At the moment many vision impaired people are unable to travel independently, instead relying on other people to help them get around or just not venturing out at all. What if vision impaired people were empowered to navigate independently using the smartphone they already have in their pockets? This was the challenge investigated by the Royal London Society for Blind People’s (RLSB) Youth Forum and ustwo in 2014. We soon discovered that yes, this was possible. There and then we knew this was going to be life changing. Wayfindr was formed.

BIONICOHAND

[Translated from French] The Bionicohand project consists of the manufacture of an open source myo-electric forearm prosthesis. In simpler terms, the manufacture of a bionic hand for amputees. Since a prosthesis consists of several elements, the project brings together technical skills ranging from mechanics to prosthetics. Based on the user experience (Nicolas Huchet), the project federated volunteers around the disabled persons who were introduced to digital manufacturing and open source in a fablab. The goal is to document the manufacturing steps and make the prosthesis accessible to as many people as possible. It is therefore not a high-tech product designed by engineers, but a low-tech project seen by makers, that is to say, at best and cheap.

The RAPP Project

RAPP is a 3-year research project (2013-2016) funded by the European Commission through its FP7 programme. The RAPP project will provide an open source software platform to support the creation and delivery of robotic applications. These robotic applications are in turn expected to increase the versatility and utility of service and assistive robots. The emphasis of this project will be on applications that will enable robots to understand and respond to the intentions and needs of people at risk of exclusion, and especially the elderly.

Information Platform for Indigenous Communities and Peoples

Considering the importance of indigenous people and recognizing that, in order to respect the rights granted in the Political Constitution regarding access to information and communication technologies for all Mexicans, as well as radio and telecommunications services, and taking into account that these services must be provided under conditions of quality, universal coverage, competition, among others, the Federal Telecommunications Institute considered important to generate an Information Platform for Indigenous Communities and Peoples. This Platform hosts in one place all the information generated by the IFT to empower, protect and promote respect for the rights of users of telecommunications services in Indigenous communities and peoples. You can consult information related to promote respect for the rights of telecommunications services users, focused on the rights that communities and indigenous peoples have access to. The platform has an accessible structure for users and audience in general, highlighting 3 sections: 1.- Information for Users 2.- Diagnosis of Guaranteed Coverage 3.- Broadcasting Concessions

Satisfaction Indicators Methodology of Telecommunications Users

The IFT carries out the application of surveys to users of telecommunications services, to obtain items to measure their satisfaction, as well as other aspects that affect in it. Therefore, we carried out the publication of the Satisfaction Indicators of Users of Telecommunications Methodology, which aims to provide information with theoretical and methodological elements to assist with the analysis and/or decision-making of the different sectors, regulated agents, researchers and anyone interested in the analysis of the sector. Also for, making information available to users about the options, prices and quality of the telecommunications services which they are receiving, it reduces information asymmetries and, in turn, empowers the user to make informed decisions before, during and after hiring telecommunications services. Derived from the above, the measurement of satisfaction levels of telecommunications services through the perception of users provides an analysis that allows a deep sense of the collected data through surveys in terms of: the quality with which users receive their services and experience their use (complaints). It also allows them to value if the price they pay is in line with their expectations of quality (money value) and the loyalty that the user can generate towards their provider.

Prosperity4All

Over 2 billion people worldwide have different types, degrees, or combinations of disability, literacy, digital literacy or aging related barriers that impede or prevent use of ICT. Not long ago you could live without access to ICT quite well. However today access to ICT is required for most education, employment, and commerce, and is increasingly required for travel, health, safety, daily living and participation in most of our society. Yet we currently only reach 3 to 15% of these - in developed countries. We cannot socially, economically or politically afford to have this cumulatively large percentage of our society offline going forward. Yet there is no way to reach them with our current model. Proposed is phase II of an effort to create a paradigm shift in eInclusion. Part I was the FP7 project Cloud4all for creating instant, ubiquitous auto-personalization of interfaces and materials based on user needs and preferences. Part II, Prosperity4all, focuses on developing the infrastructure to allow a new ecosystem to grow; one that is based on self-rewarding collaboration, that can reduce redundant development, lower costs, increase market reach and penetration internationally, and create the robust cross-platform spectrum of mainstream and assistive technology based access solutions required. This will be done through a process based on true value propositions for all stakeholders and resulting in a system that can profitably serve markets as small as one, at a personally and societally affordable cost. This infrastructure will use cloud, crowd, game and smart technologies, to bring new players with both low and high technical skills into the development and delivery ecosystem, introduce accessibility as a ubiquitous service, and combine auto-configured access features built into mainstream products with assistive technologies and services to create the rich milieu of options needed to bring this diverse population of populations into our digital future.

ASSAM: Assistants for Safe Mobility

The ASSAM project aims to compensate for declining physical and cognitive capabilities of elderly persons by user-centred development of modular navigation assistants for various mobility platforms, such as walker, wheelchair, and tricycle, enabling sustained everyday mobility. For non-electric platforms, the Navigation Aid comprises odometry hardware in cooperation with a smartphone or tablet computer with GPS that interacts with Open Street Maps for precise navigation. Simple dialogues allow natural language interaction. Using additional laser-range sensors, the Driving Aid enhances the safety by recognising and warning for steps and obstacles, also enabling indoor navigation. Fully autonomous driving will be supported in charted indoor environments. The care centre connection is activated manually, or automatically in case of a fall or crash, and permits the caregiver to visually inspect the situation when authorised by the user. End-users will be involved from the beginning in the design and evaluation of the mobility assistants for everyday usability. The iterative schedule implies two refinement phases, where the initial prototypes will be adapted according to the users’ feedback. The ASSAM Forum will be set up for enterprises such as shopping centres, hotels, hospitals, airports or cities who intend to buy mobility assistants in numbers to rent to their clients for sharing.

CENARE

Since 2007, Computadores para Educar understood the need to carry out the ICT access and appropriation strategy in public education in an environmentally sustainable manner. Thus, the National Center for the Exploitation of Electronic Waste (CENARE) was created, with the aim of providing environmentally responsible final disposal to technological devices whose useful life had completed its cycle. Through this strategy, the devices carry out a rigorous de-manufacturing process, followed by the selection of the resulting materials, disposal of hazardous waste and management of usable materials. At the moment Computadores para Educar through CENARE has processed more than 300,000 devices which amount to around 5,700 tons of electronic waste as it was evidenced by the most recent impact study conducted by the National University of Colombia, the study evaluated the period between 2014 and 2017 and showed that the greenhouse gas emissions that are avoided with this project are 10 times higher than the environmental impact generated by the strategy.

Digital Literacy Workshops for Children, Teenagers, People with disabilities and Seniors

The Federal Telecommunications Institute as a regulator of telecommunications in Mexico, has the authority to design programs aimed at protecting and informing users of telecommunications services on their rights and how to guarantee these mechanisms and to promote access and use of these services. This, in order to contribute to the advancement of information society and knowledge in our country, by digital literacy as well as improving the quality of life and development opportunities for all Mexicans. In this regard and in order to benefit vulnerable groups, incorporating them into the world of technology and enabling them to access telecommunications services and ICT, the Institute has been given the task of imparting three times (2017 and 2018), workshops to children, adolescents, people with disabilities and seniors, allowing them to learn to use ICT (cell phones, computers, tablets, etc.) and telecommunications (Internet, mobile telephony) and know their rights and how to enforce them.

Learning solutions using artificial intelligence tools in different sectors.

AR Master Software and Design is a UAE company that provides Augmented Reality solutions which is one of artificial intelligence tools. We are investing heavily in providing learning solutions based on artificial intelligence tools. Since 2016 we started using Microsoft HoloLens which is fundamentally a holographic computer built into a headset which allows users to hear and interact with holograms in an environment such as a living room or an office space. Our company has started a bundle of HoloLens applications that serve training in the following five different sectors: 1. Aviation: HoloEngine is a Microsoft hololens application that allow users to interact with a 3D holographic models of a jet engine using voice commands. A HoloLens-wearing student can see engine parts and study its structure and connections. 2. Space: HoloISS is a Microsoft hololens application that allow student, researcher, and astronaut to interact with a 3D holographic models of an International Space Station ( ISS ) as they are there in the space. 3. Oil and Gas: HoloRig is a Microsoft HoloLens application that provides a virtual oil onshore rig to train a new employees and provide them an experience of the oil rig environment as they are there, which will lead to learn in safety environment by reduce exposure to hazardous areas and provide simulation to have proper training without disturbing real plant / staff. 4. Military: HoloWeapons is a Microsoft HoloLens application that displays F-16 (multirole fighter aircraft), Guided Bomb Unit (GBU-12), and weapons. Users can interact with these objects, show assembly, and the annotations using voice command. 5. Police: HoloAccident is a Microsoft HoloLens application that aims traffic accidents investigation courses by provide them a car accident scenario, so the trainee will investigate how this accident happened, after that he can verify his answer by using voice command which will run animation of the accident.

Jamii

Jamii is a mobile micro-health insurance product for the informal sector launched in partnership with vodacom tanzania ltd, the jubilee insurance of tanzania ltd and edgepoint digital ltd. It is increasing Digital Inclusion and Making an Impact. Start-up Jamii is expanding financial inclusion and health care coverage in Tanzania by delivering affordable micro-insurance through a mobile platform. In Tanzania, over 40 million subscribers have a cell phone, but only 4 million adults have health insurance. This is especially perilous for low-income, informal workers. Across the continent, high out-of-pocket health care costs plunge over 11 million Africans into poverty every year. Fortunately, digital technology offers a scalable solution to this challenge. Jamii offers a mobile-based micro-health insurance product for as little as $1 a month to Tanzania’s low-income, informal sector. Last fall, Jamii’s founder, Lilian Makoi, participated in infoDev’s pan-African accelerator program, XL Africa.

Refurbishing of computers

The Computer Refurbishment Centers promote the training of young people in situations of social vulnerability through workshops, courses and other training activities, both on the reconditioning and operation of computers, and on the environmental impact related to the disposal of electronic and electronic waste. This is a service of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications (MCTIC) and complies with Decree No. 9,094 of July 17, 2017. This service is free for the citizen.

Tainacan and Museums Project

Tainacan is a digital platform baptized from an indigenous legend originating from the Carajás peoples. The Ministry of Culture, the Brazilian Institute of Museums (Ibram) and the Federal University of Goiás have developed the Tainacan platform for the management of digital collections of Culture, with the novelty of covering different types of collections and the categorization and indexing of data. The aforementioned digital repository is free software and presents itself as an interesting possibility of hyperconnectivity, not only for its ability to gather multiple Brazilian museums, with its diversity of collections, in the same portal, but also to make the user participant active in the process . This creates a new relationship between the museums and the users of their digital collections, even if they are not currently in exhibition at the institution's headquarters. This opens new possibilities in the relationship of the "virtual visitor" with the cultural institution. It allows innovative experience, with the interaction of the collections, contribution of the visitor with comments in the accessed registry and the alternative of sharing it in the social networks most used in the virtual world. To produce intense connectivity.

Tainacan and Museums Project

Tainacan is a digital platform baptized from an indigenous legend originating from the Carajás peoples. The Ministry of Culture, the Brazilian Institute of Museums (Ibram) and the Federal University of Goiás have developed the Tainacan platform for the management of digital collections of Culture, with the novelty of covering different types of collections and the categorization and indexing of data. The aforementioned digital repository is free software and presents itself as an interesting possibility of hyperconnectivity, not only for its ability to gather multiple Brazilian museums, with its diversity of collections, in the same portal, but also to make the user participant active in the process . This creates a new relationship between the museums and the users of their digital collections, even if they are not currently in exhibition at the institution's headquarters. This opens new possibilities in the relationship of the "virtual visitor" with the cultural institution. It allows innovative experience, with the interaction of the collections, contribution of the visitor with comments in the accessed registry and the alternative of sharing it in the social networks most used in the virtual world. To produce intense connectivity.

Easy Track

EasyTrak: Manage vehicles and risk more effectively A fleet and vehicle management platform that enables monitoring, reporting and analytical functionality to administrators and fleet managers. This platform also allows insurers to offer discounts to their customers based on the customers’ driving habits. EasyTrak are the authorised resellers within the Caribbean Region for GEOTAB and we are committed to meeting your company’s fleet management needs. We understand that the decisions you make are only as good as the information you receive. Learn more about how our GPS tracking solutions help fleet owners reduce fuel costs, improve MPG, and transform the way you manage your business.

Easy Track

EasyTrak: Manage vehicles and risk more effectively A fleet and vehicle management platform that enables monitoring, reporting and analytical functionality to administrators and fleet managers. This platform also allows insurers to offer discounts to their customers based on the customers’ driving habits. EasyTrak are the authorised resellers within the Caribbean Region for GEOTAB and we are committed to meeting your company’s fleet management needs. We understand that the decisions you make are only as good as the information you receive. Learn more about how our GPS tracking solutions help fleet owners reduce fuel costs, improve MPG, and transform the way you manage your business.

Alerta Machitroll

Alerta Machitroll is a digital humor-based campaign seeking to deconstruct sexist discourses on the Internet. This is done through various strategies that aim to generate a social reflection around gender-based violence through a non-violent, humor-based discourse. One of the strategies is to show that violence through public comments that can be considered sexist, chauvinist or misogynistic. This is done using the campaign’s technological tool, the Alert Generator, which allows any person to add one of the 2 machitroll stamps. The other is through humorous content that plays with the idea of offering a strategy to rehabilitate machitrolls or those Internet users who characterize by the ferocious impulse to attack women or gender dissidents by using comments, gifs and violent images every time they find feminist content on the internet. The ultimate goal of this campaign is to make digital gender-based violence visible and to respond with a non-violent, humorous counter-discourse.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Ecosystem for Inclusive Design and Development WAI-Dev

WAI-Dev, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Ecosystem for Inclusive Design and Development, will develop strategies to support mainstream production of inclusive components and services; demonstrate the potential value and showcase good practice in inclusive design; and support enhanced policy strategies for consistent adoption and implementation of accessibility by public and private sector organisations.WAI-Dev will primarily target the Web as the essential technical platform and universal interface for information and communication technology (ICT) through which to address the accessibility of advanced technologies and delivery channels including those for mobile devices, portable computers, digital television, telephony, and more. It will build upon recent technical and policy advancements in accessibility and on the cross-cutting benefits of accessibility for everyone regardless of age, gender, software, hardware, connectivity, language, literacy, digital skills, social and economic situations, and physical and mental abilities. It will thereby facilitate more mainstream market adoption of accessible and inclusive design-for-all practices throughout the production chain, and support implementation of accessibility policies and targets set by the European Commission and EU Member States.WAI-Dev will result in:Support for industrial strategies for the production of inclusive components and services;Demonstration of the social and economic value and of good practice in inclusive design;Enhanced policy strategies that support the adoption and implementation of accessibility. WAI-Dev will be led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), through its European host, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). It will utilise the open W3C consensus process and mobilise participation from W3C Member organisations as well as from the public to develop authoritative resources with significant market impact.

Solar Powered Obstacle Detector Robot

The west African examination council statistics in my country shows a significant number of teenagers who's attention is more on literature rather than physics. Mathematics showed a decline rate. ARPG Tech is passionate for a positive change to this effect and so i invented a a Low Cost solar powered obstacle detector robot to help improve learning performance related to physics and mathematics for children. We provide service and product for them. The product is sold to schools with aided description on how to use it while the service is performed by our team of experts experts in rural and urban communities in form of summer of codes and robotics to break the social barrier involved in coding, robotics and applied maths. We have shown a significant traction of 125 children in 2 months who have benefited from this service training of the solar obstacle detector robot. We also provide digital marketing training for female entrepreneurs who are running their National Youth Service Corps so after their one year service they get mentored and placed in digital marketing companies within their catchment area. Also, we run basic ICT training for female retirees and dignified between the ages of 55 and above to develop their interest in using technology to maximize their productivity.

Ananke

Ananke is a non-profit, online interactive platform engaging women across the MENA region and beyond. The digital publication showcases women trailblazers, visionaries, women in leadership positions as role models for young women seeking inspiration, guidance and mentoring across the globe. Ananke strives to create social impact by advocating empowerment through awareness and education. A platform for knowledge exchange, it aims to empower women through dissemination of information. Ananke's mission is to enable women by documenting their contributions and achievements; thereby increasing awareness of her social issues also boosting her potential.

BeepCab (For Taxis)

BeepBus is the service that allows you to find a bus route in Barbados with the tap of your finger. Convenience and Simplicity to travel from Point A to B are our number one priorities and BeepBus helps you to get to your destination with no hassle! It is as simple as going to the BeepBus Planner (map.beepbus.com) or downloading our app. BeepBus was developed because there was no unified bus schedule information available in Barbados. We decided we would help answer the question that we’ve gotten hundreds of times. “How do we get there?” Founded in 2014 in Barbados, West Indies, BeepBus is on track to become the pioneer in bus schedule and related bus information in the Caribbean. Internationally, Bus system information has been available for over a decade, we think it’s time that the Caribbean had access too – enter BeepBus!

Energy Savings for Moroccan Businesses

eLum’s first target customer is the telecom industry in Morocco and across Africa. The company aims to help the industry optimize production, storage, and consumption of renewable energy. In recent years, however, the price for solar panels have dropped tremendously and several innovations have made solar energy systems more efficient and affordable. Karim is confident that their company can play a key role in enabling Morocco’s solar industry to flourish and commoditize local, decentralized, and carbon-free energy.Karim envisions a future where the entire continent of Africa will access cleaner, more sustainable energy at dramatically cheaper costs. For eLum to be a part of this future, timing is everything and their sense of urgency is palpable. He find that this project is a boom in renewable energies.

Geekulcha

Geekulcha is where the young, skilled, creative and ambitious tech minds meet to connect with each other, share knowledge, collaborate on projects, network with industry leaders, obtain training to further improve and enhance their skills and to put that newly acquired skill to work. The platform has over 9 400 students across Africa. Established 15 March 2013, our focus is on empowering young geeks through ICT skills development and training while giving them a taste of what awaits them in the big world through industry exposure.

Geekulcha

Geekulcha is where the young, skilled, creative and ambitious tech minds meet to connect with each other, share knowledge, collaborate on projects, network with industry leaders, obtain training to further improve and enhance their skills and to put that newly acquired skill to work. The platform has over 9 400 students across Africa. Established 15 March 2013, our focus is on empowering young geeks through ICT skills development and training while giving them a taste of what awaits them in the big world through industry exposure.

Hacker Girls Pact

The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology promotes access, effective usage and massive appropriation of ICT, through policies and programs to improve the quality of life of every Colombian and increase sustainable development. In Colombia, 7 out of every 1,000 women already begin to participate in the development of technologies because they manifest that they have created applications, software, movies or video games. Throughout its Vice Ministry of Digital Economy, which is in charge of diagnosing the degree of digitalization of different sectors of the economy and formulating programs for the development of the ICT industry, the Ministry created the “Hacker Girl Pact” last year. The Pact that has become a project aim to reduce structural barriers that challenge women participation in cybersecurity and also to promote education spaces, employment opportunities and entrepreneurship based on the highest standards ethics and gender equality; the initiative was signed in the framework of Colombia 4.0 in September 2017.

Hospital Albert Einstein

The Hospital Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital), is a Brazilian hospital located in the Morumbi district, on the south side of São Paulo. It's considered one of the best hospitals in Latin America. In 1955 a group of Jewish community members in São Paulo founded the Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein (SBIBAE). The hospital was inaugurated on 28 July 1971. In 1999, it was the first health institution outside the United States to be certified by the Joint Commission International. Due to their belief in the potential for the use of new technologies in the healthcare field, they have created different structures: Innovation Lab Technological Innovation Center (TIC) Telemedicine Albert Einstein is open to supporting an entrepreneurial environment in healthcare, encouraging technological innovations which have a positive impact on people’s health and quality of life.

Trekking in Nepal

Trekking in Nepal by Honeyguide is a mobile app (working offline) with trekking maps and all the necessary information needed to truly and safely enjoy trekking in Nepal. The planet isn’t lonely anymore. There is more to trekking than recommendations and trail information. Truly understand the land and people through stuffs like mountain finder, context sensitive placecards and deviation alerts. We believe that every traveler everywhere deserves to become an instant expert. HoneyGuide’s Trekking in Nepal App currently covers the following trekking areas (available as in-app purchases) Everest Base Camp Trek Annapurna Base Camp Trek Annapurna Circuit Trek Ghorepani Poon Hill Trek (Free)

MOWOZA

MOWOZA is an innovation focus company that develops solutions for emerging markets. ​ We believe that entrepreneurship can unlock human potential and make the world a better place. Millions of micro and small medium enterprises operate independently; we are building solutions to bring value to these enterprises. ​ Our insights are influenced by the data that we have collected. This is transforming value chains. Our solutions go beyond descriptive analytics and delivers predictive recommendations. MABIZ It is a training program that increases business skills for micro and small informal retailers WAZATI It is a digital marketplace that connects micro and small retailers to supply chains. MOWIRE It is a geolocation, microtagging solution to drive insights in informal markets and supply chains

Institute of Science and Technology

The target audience of the Institute is promising younger generation particularly young women who are interested in STEM subjects. The educational programs are on high technologies like Computer science and Engineering, Electronics and communications Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering: all in Bachelor degree and Master degree levels. The objective is to empower younger generation and and make a contribution to the Nation to help uplift the progress in high technology and also to formulate policy for overall development of the Nation. We pledge to ensure the quality of life by ensuring the quality of education.

E-Health João Pessoa / Paraíba

The project TelessaúdeJP is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS. The project TelessaúdeJP aims to increase the resolubility and promote improvements in the quality of health services and care, through the provision of Teleconsultoria and Tele-Education services, addressed to all health professionals in Primary Care (AB), which compose the Family Health Care, Family Health Support Center, Doctor's Office, Provab, More Doctors, Health in School Program (PSE) and Health Academy.

European Internet Inclusion Initiative

Online services have rapidly become the main channel of interaction between citizens and government. Both the European Digital agenda, and national e-government strategies share ambitious goals to radically increase the use of these services and harvest massive savings from digitalisation. Despite these ambitions, people with disabilities still find insurmountable barriers on web sites, audio-visual media and online services, preventing full participation. With increasing life expectancy in Europe the group of people with disabilities will grow as will the need for accessible public services and online content. Services need to be usable and accessible for all to reap the full potential of the digitisation. Successful implementation depend on reliable, high quality and harmonised testing and surveillance, assessing both technical and usability aspects of the systems. There are several one-off reports concerning accessibility of public services such as the European eGovernment study from Capgemini in 2009, or the ANEC report from 2011. The MeAC reports give a better progress overview from 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011. In some countries, e.g. in Denmark, Iceland, the Netherlands, and Norway national surveys are carried out on a regular basis. These reports will not aid repair. The EIII will support the recent European proposal for a Directive on the accessibility of public sector bodies' websites and build a new combination of existing tools to support crowd source enabled user testing, automated evaluation and surveillance of the web and audiovisual media. The chosen open source approach will ensure accountable evaluation results and facilitate adoption. To empower policy makers to monitor and communities to participate in achieving accessibility and inclusiveness of information and public services, the EIII will facilitate targeted exchange among leading European government agencies, engage communities and combine existing open source tools in new ways.

Zimba Women

ZimbaWomen is a flagship project of Zimba Group; which is an IT solutions provider specializing in the provision of technical and software solutions for Small and Medium Enterprises. We have trusted advisers offering strategic and tactical business counsel to enable development and empowerment of women-led SME's. The offices of ZimbaWomen is situated in Ntinda, Uganda. ZimbaWomen is working to create opportunities for women to actively, safely and fairly participate in the economy by providing access to skills and training for women.We believe that a full and robust economy depends on equal participation of women. Through our programs, we increase the participation of women in the economy and help them gain skills needed to take on greater leadership roles in business and entrepreneurship.

STEMintheCity

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.

younoh media

younoh media is a fast growing digital marketing agency based in Dubai. We provide professional and innovative solutions to clients across the UAE. Our core team is composed of creative and technical minds with high expertise in Social Media strategies, Search Engine Optimization, Online Advertising, Web Development, SMS Marketing, Email Marketing, and Mobile Advertising. In younoh media, we hire only women and girls that have no skills in digital marketing, and who couldn't get employment in the UAE. We train them, empower them to do the work properly and offer them a job so they can support their families. Younoh media is a digital agency, creating websites and managing social media for clients in diverse industries.

An accessibility layer for the inclusion in the information society of people with intellectual disabilities

The ABLE-TO-INCLUDE project seeks to improve the living conditions of people with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities (IDD). The project will produce an open source Software Developer Kit (SDK) that will foster the introduction of a communicational accessibility layer for people with IDD in any software development. This will be done by steering the creation on an open-innovation community including software developers.The main target users are people IDD, representing one of the most disadvantaged social groups in European countries, with very high levels of need for assistance. ICT tools can bring independency to IDD users but the failure to access or use ICT increasingly constitutes a major form of social and economic exclusion. A secondary but important target are the software developers, that will be enabled to use the new accessibility layer and SDK in existing and new software and apps.3 key technologies will be used as a framework to develop everyday tasks.• Tech 1: Text and content simplifier (Simplext)• Tech 2: A pictogram-text, text-pictogram and pictogram-pictogram translation tool (Text2Picto)• Tech 3: Text-to-speech functionalities (open-source available solutions)The new accessibility layer will be integrated with existing applications and tested in 3 pilots including 3 different usage scenarios. Every scenario will benefit from the use of the technologies available through the accessibility layer: simplification of texts, conversion text - pictograms and text-to-speech technologies.• Scen.1: Leisure within the information society. Application of the accessibility layer to Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp.• Scen.2: Mobility. Application of the accessibility layer into a guidance and tracking system.• Scen.3: Labour integration. Application of the accessibility layer (including text simplification, pictograms translation and text-to-speech) into the routine of the future workers during their preparation to become a real aid for IDD users.

Yielding Accomplished African Women

We're on a mission to empower women with a gender specific professional toolkit to succeed in finance and technology careers. We believe Africa's ability to contend on the global stage depends on her ability to equip men and women with transferrable skills, access, and opportunities in every facet of her socio-economic structure. Women, in particular, face greater obstacles on their journey to professional and personal success. The overwhelming majority of women battle with social stigma, wage discrimination, occupational segregation, and sexual harassment. These challenges are significantly widening the gender gap. As a result, we believe that by helping young college women break into the most dynamic industries, we can tackle one of the most pressing social issues and kickstart Africa's economy.

E-Health Alagoas

Telehealth of the State of Alagoas is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS. This program was created by the federal government in 2005, but only in 2011 was the agreement signed with the State Health Secretariat to cover the 9th and 10th health region. Being the 7th and 8th region with the Nucleus of Telehealth of the Municipality of Arapiraca and the 1st to the 6th region with Nucleus of Telehealth of the Municipality of Maceió.

Ekpa'palek Women : Empowering women in STEM

The lack of money and opportunities for professional development is still a big problem in Latin America. In addition, depending on the region that you are born, some students or young professionals are subjects of discrimination for being a woman or for having an indigenous background. So, to find a solution to this problem, in December of 2015, we created a non-profit called Ekpa’palek, which is an organization that seeks to empower Latin-American students from vulnerable backgrounds through free programs for professional development that align with the sustainable goals #4 (education), #5 (gender equality) and #10 (reduction of inequalities). The mission of Ekpa’palek is to awake, motivate and unleash the talent of Latin American students and young professionals (with a focus on women) and in this way to promote the social and economic development of our countries. We achieve this by the volunteer work of all our team, which is composed of diverse and talented professionals from different parts of the world. We are currently an international team of more than 40 professionals who work together and seek to support and give back to our communities (90% of our team is formed by professionals working in STEM and 87% of our team are women).

E-Health Espírito Santo

E-Health Espírito Santo is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS. Telehealth ES is a collaborative network that assists health professionals working in Primary Health Care (PHC). The registered professional benefits from the direct contact with the state technical references and specialists; The support provided by teleconsulting services, web-sites, courses and other tele-education products enables a permanent updating of the professional on PHC topics, qualifies the health care offered to the population served, increasing the resolution of PHC and reducing unnecessary referrals.

Núcleo Telessaúde Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul

Núcleo Telessaúde Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS. TelessaúdeRS is a research project of the Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. The actions of the project are addressed to the population, through support to primary health care professionals and other assistance levels of the Unified Health System.

Promoting STEM Education to find the Hidden Figures

ECS is the pioneer organization to promote Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) education in Bangladesh. Since the beginning ECS has been working on Science education development and with the present demand of the first world ECS started working on STEM education. ECS had organized a two days long Teachers’ Training for the qualified STEM teachers of renowned schools of Dhaka city and afterwards arranged a Grand STEM Innovation Fair for the students of those schools. Honorable U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bloom Bernicat was present as the Chief Guest in the fair and other high officials from the US Embassy were present on the occasion. This project was supported by the Federal Assistance Award of the US Department of State. In future ECS is going to promote STEM all over the country and will arrange STEM Olympiad in national and international level As my organization is working in the field level to promote STEM, I can say how challenging it is, it seems to me that we are just at the beginning stage. Many institutions, teachers, students are asking for our support. We are trying hard and hope to bring all hidden figures in light who can make a revolution.

E-Health Rio Grande do Norte

E-Health Rio Grande do Norte is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS.

IT GIRLS

IT Girls initiative, supported by the UN, UNDP, UNICEF and UN Women which aims to increase the number of girls and women in the STEM area. The most number of events were focused on children, in the form of workshops in elementary schools across Bosnia and Herzegovina and where a few of them were focused only on girls. IT Girls program impacts more than 1000 girls in the last year in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a pilot model before this program starts in the rest of the world. It is very important to underline that there is no any similar program in the local community before and the program involved a wider community under this umbrella creating different workshops.

IT GIRLS

IT Girls initiative, supported by the UN, UNDP, UNICEF and UN Women which aims to increase the number of girls and women in the STEM area. The most number of events were focused on children, in the form of workshops in elementary schools across Bosnia and Herzegovina and where a few of them were focused only on girls. IT Girls program impacts more than 1000 girls in the last year in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a pilot model before this program starts in the rest of the world. It is very important to underline that there is no any similar program in the local community before and the program involved a wider community under this umbrella creating different workshops.

ICT4Girls

Shbabeek ‘ICT4Girls’ Program: This program is a designed competition that directs 100 young girls from different backgrounds to become active and productive on ICT related fields. The Idea: Training the Yemeni girls in the age group 17 to 22 years in the fields of technology that helps her develop her abilities and enables her to exploit the energy she has; this is to enhance her direction in life and her entrepreneurial side. The competition consists of two stages Phase 1: Providing concentrated training program on: video and photo editing, photography, blogging, digital security, website building, and digital marketing. Phase2: Creating 10 different teams that generate 10 business ideas that compete for a micro fund and incubation period in Corner Stone to convert their business idea into a startup. Target group: Yemeni girl aged 17-22 years in both Sana'a and Aden with a simple background in technical fields. Program Period: 27 March - 30 May 2017 in Sana'a. 27 September - 30 November 2017 in Aden.

Women / Research / Data

WORD is an initiative to improve the capacity of women led initiatives to collect gender disaggregated data. We work with organizations and government institutions working in areas that have technology challenges such as low internet access and language barriers. In addition, we engage organizations that are addressing challenges of harmful cultural practices against women. This is achieved through developing technology-based channels for communities to report cases of harmful cultural practices to authorities and organizations. We have developed a platform, WORD Voice, for voice data collection and visualization mechanisms for harmful cultural practice report cases. We train communities to report cases of harmful cultural practices through WORD Voice.

E-Health Rio de Janeiro

E-Health Rio de Janeiro is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS.

Developers in Vogue

Developers in Vogue aims at creating a relevant community of highly skilled developers who are passionate about using technology to revolutionize Africa and beyond. We provide the ideal environment for women to code, connect and collaborate. We train them using a practical and project-oriented curriculum. Dedicated mentors are also assigned to them to provide them with the needed support. The ladies also get the opportunity to work on real-time projects and jobs to apply their skills and earn an income. Our solution is digitally inclusive, labour market inclusive and financially inclusive. Ladies who come unto the Developers in Vogue program need not have a coding background. All we need is their passion to learn and enough motivation to get them committed to the program. We have partnered with tech companies who recruit the ladies who complete our program for internships, full-time and remote roles. We are also very particular on giving back so the ladies are required to invest a minimum of 5 hours per month to teach a young girl how to code. What we believe in is simple: Technology for Impact. The stories of the ladies our company is impacting is enough reason for us to keep going. As one of the most promising tech startups in the country, we're showing the world that not only do we know how to take great selfies, we know how to build game-changing apps too.

WomEng

WomEng is an authentic values-driven organisation for women in engineering by predominantly women engineers who have developed programme to address the issues facing women in the engineering sector from school level all the way through to industry. Being a dynamic organisation, WomEng has been able to meet the changing demands and needs of the global engineering industry. WomEng has been able to deliver cost effective, impactful programming and has a successful track record spanning over 12 years in developing programme that work. It is a financially transparent organisation, with a strong board of directors. WomEng’s unique model ensures lasting impact created by passionate and committed people.

WomEng

WomEng is an authentic values-driven organisation for women in engineering by predominantly women engineers who have developed programme to address the issues facing women in the engineering sector from school level all the way through to industry. Being a dynamic organisation, WomEng has been able to meet the changing demands and needs of the global engineering industry. WomEng has been able to deliver cost effective, impactful programming and has a successful track record spanning over 12 years in developing programme that work. It is a financially transparent organisation, with a strong board of directors. WomEng’s unique model ensures lasting impact created by passionate and committed people.

Code for Gender

Womany initiated a global action of #CodeforGender and hopes to lead conversations between communities through design thinking and technology, to establish a gender-friendly ecological circle, and to resolve the contemporary gender issues through technology and multiple strengths. We invited the whole public to dig out gender issues and sort out issues by action. We have more than 10,000 followers and reached 500 actual participants.

Women’s Worldwide Web

Women’s WorldWide Web (W4) is an online crowdfunding platform aiming to promote girls’ and women’s empowerment worldwide, in cities and in rural areas, in both developing and developed countries. Harnessing the power of digital connection, W4 works to protect girls’ and women’s human rights and to promote their empowerment. Collaboratively, we work to ensure that girls and women everywhere have access to education, healthcare, economic opportunities, the exercise of their rights, and political participation—all of which benefit girls and women.

E-Health Paraná

E-Health Paraná is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS.

UK Academy

In Vietnam, gender equality has improved a lot over the years. However, in rural areas, ethnic minority areas, gender equality has not yet been addressed. The role of women is not yet appreciated in the family and society. Women who are not educated at higher levels of study or whose social interests are overlooked. In addition, the views on gender equality in each family are different. This affects the thinking of children as they grow up. We need to have educational programs on gender equality in the community, especially in rural areas, mountainous areas, ethnic minorities. I joined the organization as YouthSpark Microsoft Vietnam to carry out many programs for women in ethnic minority areas, such as "Dream Boat", "Technology Fellowship for Women". We create opportunities for the community to understand the role of women in society as well as women who struggle for their own interests in society. I am also the founder of the Vietnamese teacher community with nearly 6,000 members, of which 80% are female teachers. I regularly organize training sessions, seminars to improve the level of femle teachers, help they learn confidence in society.

UK Academy

In Vietnam, gender equality has improved a lot over the years. However, in rural areas, ethnic minority areas, gender equality has not yet been addressed. The role of women is not yet appreciated in the family and society. Women who are not educated at higher levels of study or whose social interests are overlooked. In addition, the views on gender equality in each family are different. This affects the thinking of children as they grow up. We need to have educational programs on gender equality in the community, especially in rural areas, mountainous areas, ethnic minorities. I joined the organization as YouthSpark Microsoft Vietnam to carry out many programs for women in ethnic minority areas, such as "Dream Boat", "Technology Fellowship for Women". We create opportunities for the community to understand the role of women in society as well as women who struggle for their own interests in society. I am also the founder of the Vietnamese teacher community with nearly 6,000 members, of which 80% are female teachers. I regularly organize training sessions, seminars to improve the level of femle teachers, help they learn confidence in society.

E-Health Mato Grosso (Telessaude Mato Grosso

Telessaude Mato Grosso is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS. The first project to implement Telehealth in Mato Grosso was prepared in 2009, covering 100 initial points. In December 2011 an agreement was signed between the Ministry of Health (SGETS) and the State Health Secretariat, for the cost of Telehealth.

Learning STEM over Summer - Summer Camps on Science, Mathematics, IT and Coding

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.

FORSATI for Her

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

Girls Go Tech School and Alumni Programme

Launched in 2015, Girls Go Tech is a year-long school-based programme that aims to encourage junior secondary school girls from under-privileged backgrounds to pursue traditionally male-dominated STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) related subjects to maximise their future career options. The Women's Foundation (TWF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls in Hong Kong, and is modelled on the best similar organisations around the world. We aspire to conduct groundbreaking research, run impactful and innovative community programmes, and engage in education and advocacy in the pursuit of three main goals: * Challenging gender stereotypes * Empowering women in poverty to achieve a better quality of life for themselves and their families * Increasing the number of women in policy and decision-making and leadership roles The key elements of our model can be distilled down to action based on empirical research, the leveraging of government, institutional, academic, business, media and other resources on a collaborative basis to drive change, and rigorous independent impact assessment.

1000 Girls, 1000 Futures

The future of STEM is powered by women! 1000 Girls, 1000 Futures is a groundbreaking initiative designed to engage young women interested in science, technology, engineering, and math, and advance their pursuit of STEM careers through mentoring and 21st-century skills development. WHO is this program for? Girls around the world, aged 13-18 years old currently enrolled in high school or an equivalent, who are enthusiastic about science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) Women working in STEM, across all disciplines and sectors, who are willing to act as mentors, coaches, and role models WHAT is included in the program? One-to-one mentoring from real scientists and engineers (two virtual meetings per month) Coursework, completed at your own pace, emphasizing college readiness, leadership, communication, and critical thinking. The opportunity to network with an awesome group of peers and female STEM professionals through social interaction, message boards, online events, and activities such as an optional Book Club. This is a safe, fun place to be a smart girl!

Burundi Innovation Hub (BiHUB)

Burundi Innovation Hub (BiHUB) is a first techpreneur hub initiative in Burundi whose aim is to bring together young talent in an environment conducive to innovation through capacity building, collaboration, the use of new technologies, the culture of entrepreneurship and the sense of service towards the society. Our target audience are youth, girls and Women . We currently run 4 programs and one of the them is ICT CULTURE designed to promote digital literacy and tech skills to youth, women and girls. This will help us fill the gap in the education system in Burundi and bridge the digital literacy gap. Burundian Education curriculum is not designed with coding literacy in mind, with students being trained as users rather than creators of digital technology.

Burundi Innovation Hub (BiHUB)

Burundi Innovation Hub (BiHUB) is a first techpreneur hub initiative in Burundi whose aim is to bring together young talent in an environment conducive to innovation through capacity building, collaboration, the use of new technologies, the culture of entrepreneurship and the sense of service towards the society. Our target audience are youth, girls and Women . We currently run 4 programs and one of the them is ICT CULTURE designed to promote digital literacy and tech skills to youth, women and girls. This will help us fill the gap in the education system in Burundi and bridge the digital literacy gap. Burundian Education curriculum is not designed with coding literacy in mind, with students being trained as users rather than creators of digital technology.

Weather Stations and Women's Rights

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.

Techtonica

Techtonica's mission is to make every engineering team as diverse as its local community while empowering low-income women and non-binary adults through tech training and careers. Techtonica breaks down the barriers that prevent those most in need of economic empowerment from receiving the training needed to join the rapidly-growing tech industry. Tech skills offer paths to higher salaries and stable incomes, but traditional postsecondary education that leads into the tech industry is currently very difficult for many people to acquire. With tech-heavy areas that have income disparities rivaling that of Rwanda, many people (especially gender minorities and people of color) are in danger of displacement. These blue-collar workers hold down two or more jobs and their families are often still in the hole once they pay rent. They can’t afford the investment required for tuition, supplies, living costs, and childcare during training. Limited scholarships don’t cover enough needs, maintaining a significant financial barrier. Techtonica addresses these barriers with a hands-on, project-based apprenticeship program for women and non-binary adults with low incomes.

Czechitas

Czechitas is the leading platform in the Czech Republic making technology accessible, relevant, and attainable for women and girls in their professional and personal goals, regardless of age groups, education level, or work experience. We provide lectures, workshops and long-term courses on programming, web development, graphic design, digital marketing, and data analytics all at low-cost to participants. Our trainings have influenced thousands of women who have opted to choose or change their career paths, using their new technical skills to advance themselves. Our unique platform connects employers interested in gender diversity for their teams, with talented women searching for new roles. We also inspire young people to pursue their interests in IT throughout their academic and professional lives. In addition to workshops and courses held during the school year, we also host IT summer camps. And we give voice on broader issues concerning women and technology through our participation in public forums, and consultations for the private, NGO, and public sectors. Czechitas helps girls and women to take the first steps towards tech knowledge and guides them along their digital journeys. If they continue to pursue work opportunities or studies in tech fields, our mission is accomplished. But we also stay connected, and engage our community to helping others find their way in an increasingly digital world.

Taungana Africa

Taungana is a movement that provides rural high school girls in the Southern Africa (starting with Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa) with an opportunity to explore the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Mathematics (STEM). The main objective is to contribute to equal representation in STEM fields by developing programs that address socio-economic and gender barriers to engagement in these fields. Taungana targets high school female students with high aptitude for math, science and application of STEM for community development. An excursion, entrepreneurship and skills exposure bootcamp occurs annually where students spend 7 days visiting STEM industries, meeting and interacting with STEM female professionals for mentorship. The organisation also conducts future skills sessions, career planning and tertiary readiness workshops for rural based high schools.

ARCCERT

ArcCert is a blockchain-based platform where educational institutions issue tamper-proof diplomas and certificates. Graduates have their verified diplomas and certificates all in one place, and are free to choose either to privately share certificates with whoever they want, or make them publicly available. Each certificate issued on ArcCert is encrypted and securely stored in file storage. The hash is calculated for certificate, digitally signed and recorded on blockchain. Only the graduate and the issuing institution will have access to it. ArcCert is a non-profit platform. Transaction fees typical to all blockchain networks will be kept within a reasonable corridor, upper and lower threshold. We will credit tokens to educational institutions for issuing certificates. Operations of getting and sharing diplomas for graduates will be free of charge.

UTS Women in Engineering and IT program

The Women in Engineering and IT (WiEIT) program at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is the longest-running initiative in Australia (since 1981) with a mission to increase female participation in engineering and IT, supporting low socio-economic, aboriginal, ethnic minority or disadvantaged backgrounds. We engage across the educational-workplace-policy spectrum. In schools we focus on outreach, while with University students we work to prepare them for digital careers through industry mentoring, internships and volunteering opportunities. Our alumni share their experience in mentoring schemes and we work with industry partners for outreach and program support and development. Our policy work partners with the Department of Education for teacher training and pedagogy development.

The Adoption, Use and Diffusion of Innovative Information and Communication technologies in Society: A Digital Divide Study

This project is based upon the principles and mechanisms of variables taken from theories of diffusion, adoption, usage and implementation in the social, organisational and government realms and how they can be brought to fruition using modern technologies; for instance, Broadband, Smartphones and social networks to guide and improve people’s experiences of modern technology. This has led to her research focused on the socio-technical aspects of internet related technologies, namely the digital divide amongst silver surfers, the diffusion and adoption of Information and Communications Technology (ICTs- namely, broadband and Web 2.0 technology-adoption and usage, smart phones amongst silver surfer owned microenterprises, diffusion, the usability of e-government web sites, the social aspects of information systems-namely, gender, age and cultural aspects, stakeholder theory, e-health and electronic commerce).

Childhood, Science, and Technology: a gender analysis from the family, educational and cultural environment point of view

The project are witnessing great progress towards the realization of women’s rights, in their struggle for a more equal participation in society. However, there are still gender inequalities that affect and condition the decisions that determine people’s future since childhood. Today, it is crucial to develop skills related to scientific and technological thinking. Thus, the scarce number of women in STEM-related careers (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) is a concern that has long ago become a source of discussion. This issue is critical to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2030 Agenda). To close the gender gap, girls must receive a comprehensive digital literacy education and acquire skills that guarantee their full development in today’s society. In this context, the research “Childhood, Science, and Technology: a gender analysis from the family, educational and cultural environment point of view” was carried out to generate knowledge about the conditions and factors that favor and/or limit in childhood the opportunities and possibilities of boys and girls to be interested, develop skills and build a satisfactory relationship in the learning of STEM.

Mobile Learning for Entrepreneurship Skills in Mexico

The Mobile Learning for Entrepreneurship Skills is a research project that takes place in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. This project aims to empower women to develop their own ventures through continuous training supported by information and communication technologies. It arises because women face more difficulties to develop their businesses, in addition to being the ones that suffer most from unemployment and must face various challenges due to their role as mother, student, worker and often the head of the family.

E-Health Maranhão (Telessaúde Maranhão)

Telessaúde Maranhão is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS. The Nucleus of Telehealth (NTS) of the University Hospital of the Federal University of Maranhão (HU-UFMA), created in 2007, has been responsible for the promotion of Telehealth activities and distance education of HU-UFMA. Infrastructure and technological resources were implemented by RUTE.

E-Health Ceará UFC

E-Health Ceará UFC is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS.

E-Health Amazonas (Telessaude Amazonas)

E-Health Amazonas is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS. The Amazonas Telehealth Nucleus presents itself as a timely strategy for improving the quality of life of populations located in remote and culturally diverse areas, such as indigenous peoples and those inhabiting the most remote and isolated geographic spaces in the state of Amazonas and Brazil.

PersOnalized Smart Environments to increase Inclusion of people with DOwn's syNdrome

Most people with Down's Syndrome (DS) experience low integration with society. There is a perception that they can achieve less than what they really can. Recent research and new opportunities for their integration in mainstream education and work provided numerous cases where levels of achievement exceeded the (limiting) expectations. Contrary to common belief, there is considerable variety and richness between individuals with DS. However, society tends to simplify their view of people with DS, usually in a way which is detrimental to them and in a way which reduces their chances to achieve their potential as citizens, despite having exactly the same rights than everybody else. POSEIDON aims at developing a technological infrastructure which can foster a growing number of services developed to help people with DS to become more integrated, to support their development as citizens and to enable them to make a greater contribution to society. There is a wide range of issues which can be tackled, we provide our contribution starting with a focus on supporting education, work, leisure and socialization. The infrastructure to be developed will provide a development environment which other organizations can use as a stepping stone to develop more new services for inclusion in the future. An outcome will be a working system with basic services to support inclusion which will illustrate the effectiveness and potential of our proposal. We are conscious that people with DS have their own strengths, preferences and needs so POSEIDON will focus on using their strengths to provide support for their needs whilst allowing each individual to personalize the solution based on their preferences. POSEIDON will be co-designed by final users. It has been user-centred from its inception and will give all main stakeholders ample opportunities to shape the output of the project, which will ensure a final outcome which is of practical usefulness and interest to the intended users.

E-Health Acre

E-Health Acre is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS.

WOMEN EMPLOYABILITY PROGRAM KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA

n the backdrop of increasing need for facilitating female university and college graduates CATD proposes to launch a project with an overall objective to increase employability opportunities for female graduates of women-based universities and colleges in Peshawar city. This intervention is aligned with the program priority area “Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship”. This project is proposed to be implemented in 05 women-based universities & colleges in Peshawar city. Through an integrated approach of engaging educational institutions, students and potential employer this project will benefit an estimated 1000 students from the five targeted educational institutions directly or indirectly. Through this project, CATD's team will train 250 senior graduate and recently graduated girls on employability skills. A 2-day women employability summit will be organized where an estimated 1000 students/graduates from 05 targeted institutions will enhanced interaction with potential employers along with receiving knowledge and information on employability related aspects. Further CATD's team will facilitate job placement/internships of 125 final year students. Alongside the project will conduct a comprehensive one-day project launching event with key representatives of key stakeholders. 02 one-day linkages development & coordination workshops are proposed between potential employers, educational institutions and potential job seekers

E-Health São Paulo UNIFESP

The Nucleus of the National Program Telehealth Brazil Networks is a partnership between the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), through the Ministry of Distance Education (SEAD) and the Ministry of Health. The partnership is signed through an agreement of technical, administrative and scientific cooperation, with the objective of ensuring the implementation of this Nucleus in UNIFESP, in the State of São Paulo, with 130 connection points, primarily in the municipalities that are difficult to access and remote areas and of greater vulnerability, in order to improve the quality of assistance in Basic Care in the Unified Health System through different educational, training and support strategies.

eNHANCE

The eNHANCE project key objective is to symbiotically mechanically support and motivate people with motor impairments resulting from muscular or neural degeneration (e.g. stroke) to perform complex daily life tasks. Our system aims to assist the user in performing their daily-life interaction with the environment through an intelligent multi-modal adaptive interface controlled by a high performance intention detection input interface and a personalised behavioural model. The eNHANCE active support orthotics enables the users to achieve their desired movement actions, while motivating the users to maximize their own force contribution. This will maximize user performance relative to their personal capacity, and so maximize therapeutic effects. This requires a personalized mechanical support system taking into account personal behaviour in response to arm and hand support characteristics, supplementary motivational inputs provided by the system and context. Our personalized behaviour model will be constantly predicting user performance. This model is adaptively identified based on the discrepancy between observed and predicted user performance. The eNHANCE consortium provides a unique combination of European companies, knowledge and clinical institutes required to tackle this challenge. The expertise covers such diverse fields as body-mounted sensing, high-performance intention detection, machine intelligence, behavioral monitoring and modeling, dexterous mechatronic arm and handfunction support, intelligent and user-enabling daily-life care, and economical and clinical exploitation of such new approaches. The research and innovation will be driven by clinical user and industrial requirements identification and is finalized by clinical validation and industrial prototype realization and demonstration.

Girls Smart Code

School of ICT for refugees and host community living in and around Dzaleka Refugee Camp. Focuses in Computer Programming and Business Entrepreneurship Remy Gakwaya is a Burundian refugee that resides in Dzaleka Refugee Camp. He is a natural born entrepreneur and has built his own coding organization, originally using paper cut out keyboards when he did not have access to computers. After the launch of the connectivity and AppFactory in the camp, he has taken on a new intiative in his company to bring 100 women into coding. They did a feasibility study and now running twice a week programmes with class sizes over 50, for women in the camp and in the surrounding villages. He does this work with very little financial support and with the power of purpose, knowledge, drive and community! He is a true game changer.

Latinas in STEM

Our mission is to inspire and empower Latinas to pursue, thrive and advance in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) fields. Our primary purpose is to spread awareness about STEM and inspire and encourage middle school and high-school Latinas, especially within underserved communities, to strongly consider pursuing a STEM career. We aim to not only educate students, but most importantly their parents so that they may be better positioned to support their daughters along this challenging journey. Our secondary purpose is to help Latinas in STEM thrive in their college and professional careers through mentorship, networking and recognition. Our goals are to: 1. Inspire young women to consider STEM careers 2. Increase the number of Latina women pursuing STEM careers 3. Create a network that helps women in STEM thrive

Next Generation Digital Professionals, Women en ICT Scholarship and Learn Work Grow Program

We live in the Digital Society. For Suriname to benefit from this transformation we need to empower Human Capital. Spang Makandra offers young people the opportunity to start a new career. On the 8th of march 2017, in connection with International Women's Day, Spang Makandra launched her Scholarship for women in ICT & Digital Media: ‘The Spang Makandra Next Generation Women in ICT & e-media Scholarship’. This is a scholarship for talented women in Suriname. The female talents that get the scholarship awarded will receive a training and coaching of Spang Makandra and its partners. With this initiative Spang Makandra would like to improve the participation of women in the ICT sector. Each year Spang Makandra Supports the girls in ICT Day.

Chama Tech

Chama Tech aims to contribute to Gender Equality one of the objectives of the SDG (Sustainable Development Goals, UN), and we do so by closing the gender gap in the technology industry, specifically in coding (front-end developers) of web pages and mobile apps. At Chama Tech we train young women and teenagers from the most disadvantaged and vulnerable sectors of Caracas, Venezuela as developers, and we do it through a training program that consists of three levels. Our main objective is that every day more women are part of the technology industry, not only as consumers but also as creators.

MoreGrasp

More than half of the persons with spinal cord injuries (SCI) are suffering from impairments of both hands, which results in a tremendous decrease of quality of life (QoL) and represents a major barrier for inclusion in society. Functional restoration is possible with neuroprostheses based on functional electrical stimulation (FES). However, current systems are non-intelligent, non-intuitive open loop systems without sensory feedback. MoreGrasp aims at developing a multi-adaptive, multimodal user interface including brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) for intuitive control of a semi-autonomous motor and sensory grasp neuroprosthesis to support activities of daily living in individuals with SCI. With such a system a bilateral grasp restoration may become reality. The multimodal interfaces will be based on non-invasive BCIs for decoding of movements intentions with gel-less electrodes and wireless amplifiers. The neuroprosthesis will include FES electrode arrays and different sensors to allow for implementation of predefined or autonomously learned sequences. MoreGrasp will consequently follow the concept of the user-centered design by providing a scalable, modular, user-specific neuroprosthesis together with personalized EEG recording technology. Novel multimodal software architectures including interoperability standards will be defined to integrate neuroprostheses into the field of assistive technology. Long-term end user studies will demonstrate the reliability, usefulness and impact on QoL of the MoreGrasp technology. A web-based service infrastructure including a discussion forum will be set up for assessing user priorities and screening of users’ status. The evaluation of the training and patterns of use will allow for user modeling to identify factors for successful use. The highly interdisciplinary MoreGrasp consortium consists of members from universities, industry and rehabilitation centers, which have a long history of successful cooperation.

Women & Digital Skills

The organization started with a program called Tech Needs Girls which is a mentorship program to teach girls from 6-18 years how to lead and innovate by learning to code. To scale the impact with the Tech Needs Girls program they started the first coding and human centered design academy in West Africa. Ghana’s unemployment rate continues to worsen, almost doubling to 11.9% in 2015. The World Bank in its latest report on jobs in Ghana estimated that some 48% of youth between the ages of 15-24 did not have jobs. The report confirms that young women are particularly disadvantaged and have much higher inactivity rates than men. While there is no foolproof guarantee to finding jobs, there is significant evidence that digital skills are critical to improving career opportunities and vital to survival in the modern workplace. The organization partnered with Stinsad Consult to provide digital, technical and entrepreneurial support to young women from disadvantaged communities with the hope linking them to employers following extensive training and preparation.

Alliance of Agricultural Information and Documentation Services of the Americas

SIDALC is an international alliance of information services on agriculture, livestock, forestry and the environment, through which ministries, universities and research centers in 22 countries in the Americas share information and services, thereby creating one of the most important windows for accessing knowledge in LAC and the world. The Alliance provides access to information produced in the hemisphere and duly organized in libraries and other specialized information centers in the areas of agriculture, livestock, forestry, the environmental information and related topics. It offers access to nearly three million reference materials and to more than 270,000 full-text documents, including books, magazines and journals, graduate theses and reports. Its success lies in the fact that it has taken advantage of the intellectual capital of 178 institutions which, acting as intermediaries in the management and dissemination of information, continually expand and modernize their services in light of the new paradigms of the “knowledge society” and the advances of the digital world. After 18 years: - The creation of one of the largest collections of information resources on agricultural sector. - Increased demand for reference services by users and a positive impact on the use of SIDALC’s specialized libraries. - Effective application of tools and methodologies for information management on agriculture, including courses related to these topics. - Increased recognition, both at national and international level, of each country’s information networks, libraries and other information centers. - Increased involvement in projects related to information and knowledge management for agriculture. - Greater visibility of institutional collections through SIDALC.NET and Google.com, without the institution losing its identity. - Backups of catalogues and information collections in IICA’s servers located in Costa Rica, which has facilitated the retrieval of data when national equipment has failed.

E-Health Santa Catarina (Telessaúde Santa Catarina)

Telessaúde Santa Catarina is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS. This Program was created in the Ministry of Health in 2007, but in 2005 the State Department of Health (SES-SC) had already begun a proposal for distance examinations with the offer of expert reports, through a Program State called Telemedicine. His proposal was to facilitate the citizen's access to medical examinations of medium and high complexity, starting his pilot with the emission of remote reports for Electrocardiograms and laboratory tests. A digital network was also implemented to facilitate intra-hospital communication for imaging services such as ultrasonography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and X-ray. The technological structure of the Telemedicine system was developed by INCoD.

MentorNations

Digital Literacy is a Human Right. MentorNations empowers underserved communities to transform their lives through technology. Our team of youth-led ambassadors focus exclusively on eradicating the digital divide. We inspire passion for digital literacy, computer science, and technology entrepreneurship. According to the United Nations, 60% of the developing world lacks access, skills, and utilization of technology, and 15% of women are less digitally connected compared to their male counterparts.

Multimedia Authoring and Management using your Eyes and Mind

Loss of the voluntary muscular control while preserving cognitive functions is a common symptom of neuromuscular disorders leading to a variety of functional deficits, including the ability to operate software tools that require the use of conventional interfaces like mouse, key-board, or touch-screens. As a result, the affected individuals are marginalized and unable to keep up with the rest of the society in a digitized world. MAMEM's goal is to integrate these people back into society by increasing their potential for communication and exchange in leisure (e.g. social networks) and non-leisure context (e.g. workplace). In this direction, MAMEM delivers the technology to enable interface channels that can be controlled through eye-movements and mental commands. This is accomplished by extending the core API of current operating systems with advanced function calls, appropriate for accessing the signals captured by an eye-tracker, an EEG-recorder and bio-measurement sensors. Then, pattern recognition and tracking algorithms are employed to jointly translate these signals into meaningful control and enable a set of novel paradigms for multimodal interaction. These paradigms will allow for low- (e.g., move a mouse), meso- (e.g., tick a box) and high-level (e.g., select n-out-of-m items) control of interface applications through eyes and mind. A set of persuasive design principles together with profiles modeling the users (dis-)abilities will be also employed for designing adapted interfaces for disabled. MAMEM will engage three different cohorts of disabled (i.e. Parkinson's disease, muscular disorders, and tetraplegia) that will be asked to test a set of prototype applications dealing with multimedia authoring and management. MAMEM's final objective is to assess the impact of this technology in making these people more socially integrated by, for instance, becoming more active in sharing content through social networks and communicating with their friends and family

E-Health Pernambuco UFPE

The Nucleus of Telehealth - NUTES is the Digital Health Unit of the Hospital das Clínicas (HC) of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). It is dedicated to the teaching, research and development of projects and actions for the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the health area. Started in 2007, it is a project that aims to improve the quality of health services provided to the population through telehealth. It is part of the Telehealth Brazil Program of the Ministry of Health, coordinated by the SGTES. NUTES was established through Regulatory Ordinance No. 17 of September 29, 2003 and inaugurated in HC on October 31, 2003. Our goal is to coordinate and execute actions related to IT in health, contributing to the strengthening of the health system by research and development of innovative technological solutions.

Tinker Bellas Initiative

Lamba Labs Beirut Hackerspace is a community of makers who like to share their skills with like minded people. They also work for the advancement of the makers community by promoting inititatives that teach skills and build potential careers. One such initiative was developed by Eng. Alaa Salam in January 2018 called the Tinker Bellas Initiative. It aims at the inclusion of more women into the fields of STEM especially from under represented communitites. This program is targeted at young ladies between the ages of 12 and 25 years. It started out by hosting ladies nights (build nights where small workshop sessions are given concerning coding and electronics, and leading local female figures who are well accomplished in fields of STEM are hosted as speakers), workshops in IoT (standalone sessions or within other events like Pi Celebration Party and International Women's Day), and intro sessions to coding, electronics and robotics (in collaboration with various entitites like Girls Got IT, Teens Who Code, Cherpa.io, GDG Coast Lebanon and Google Women Techmakers Lebanon). Now the Tinker Bellas inititative is working on developing a school curriculum to teach ICT skills and coding to underprivileged and refugee kids.

Tinker Bellas Initiative

Lamba Labs Beirut Hackerspace is a community of makers who like to share their skills with like minded people. They also work for the advancement of the makers community by promoting inititatives that teach skills and build potential careers. One such initiative was developed by Eng. Alaa Salam in January 2018 called the Tinker Bellas Initiative. It aims at the inclusion of more women into the fields of STEM especially from under represented communitites. This program is targeted at young ladies between the ages of 12 and 25 years. It started out by hosting ladies nights (build nights where small workshop sessions are given concerning coding and electronics, and leading local female figures who are well accomplished in fields of STEM are hosted as speakers), workshops in IoT (standalone sessions or within other events like Pi Celebration Party and International Women's Day), and intro sessions to coding, electronics and robotics (in collaboration with various entitites like Girls Got IT, Teens Who Code, Cherpa.io, GDG Coast Lebanon and Google Women Techmakers Lebanon). Now the Tinker Bellas inititative is working on developing a school curriculum to teach ICT skills and coding to underprivileged and refugee kids.

Laboratoria

We are working to become the leading source of female tech talent from Latin America to the world, transforming the future of thousands of women and the companies that employ them. At Laboratoria we work for thousands of women in Latin America to develop careers in tech that will change their future, while making the industry more diverse. Through our bootcamp, women that did not have access to quality education become Web Developers and UX Designers, accessing great jobs in technology. More than 820 women have graduated from our program, and more than 80% of them are working in technology, transforming their lives and the industry.

KamiLimu

KamiLimu is a 6-month structured mentorship program for Computer Science University students, whose inception was motivated by various criticisms of the computing degrees offered at Kenyan universities for failing to equip graduates with the necessary ICT skills needed by the job market. While there are many factors that affect the quality of university education, structured mentorship is one way that university computing students can adequately be prepared for global competitiveness, in addition to their classroom learning. KamiLimu aims to fill this gap.

GP4Tech

GP4Tech is a project that raised from a group of female software engineers in Jalasoft (the most big company of Software in Bolivia). Jalasoft is a part of Jala group, and another project besides Jalasoft, we have Jala Foundation which has as main objective educate the students that comes from the university or even school and prepare them for a real work environment. We started with 15 women involved. The idea was share knowledge, and motivates the participation of the girls in technology. Once we saw that we have few women in the technical area not only in the job but also in the university, we decided to work with girls of last years of the school. We asked ourselves, How can we do in order to motive to these young ladies to choose a career related to technology? We can provide them a female strong role to follow, and show them that there are women in tech that have fun and enjoying this. So we have the Jala Foundation that is working with more than 30 schools, and we took that advantage in order to invite to the students of these schools, and also invite outside students to talks about technology, and we have games/activities in order to show how fun are the areas related to STEM.

Igire Rwanda

Igire Rwanda, a Non-Governmental Organization, which has a mission to support youth and women to mass skills and opportunities for growth to make sure they are self-reliant. Igire Rwanda Organization is known in the community through empowering women and girls to have access to ICT skills and job readiness. In 2017, Igire Rwanda Organization worked on a projected called girls in ICT which aims to help girls who dropped out of the school because of social problems like pregnancy, family conflicts and poverty to basic computer literacy, professional competence and entrepreneurship. 25 girls were selected to participate in 3 months’ intensive boot camp, and the finalist of the program was offered job opportunity by JUMIA FOOD company a big online selling company in Rwanda.

Adaptive Multimodal Interfaces to Assist Disabled People in Daily Activities

The AIDE concept goes beyond the current state of the art in using a novel modular multimodal perception system to customize an adaptive multimodal interface towards disabled people needs. The multimodal interface will analyse and extract relevant information from the identification of residual abilities, behaviours, emotional state and intentions of the user, from analysis of the environment and from context factors. Finally, the humanEmachine cooperative system will be designed in accordance with specific user needs. A series of applications for the AIDE system have been identified across several domains in which disabled people could greatly benefit: Communication: The main objective is to improve the communication of severely disabled people for social autonomy. The user will be assisted in communicating with her/his relatives and friends. Communication will be provided by using standard Internet services, such as email, Skype and whatsapp and standard social networks (i.e., Facebook and Twitter). The developed system will provide support for web browsing as well. Home Automation: The goal is to allow severely disabled people to interact with the devices present at their smart home environments. In short, the user will be supported by AIDE multimodal interaction system in daily activities, such as turning lights, radio and television off and on, answering or initiating telephone calls, lock or unlock a door, closing or opening drapes, changing environmental settings and in medical emergency situations. Wearable robots for assisting in ADL: adaptively and dynamically modify the level of assistance provided by the intelligent robotic exoskeleton in accordance with specific user needs. Entertainment: Severely impaired people have reported that participation in normal entertainment activities, like playing a computer game or watching a movie, as an important need.

HETAVED SKILLS NETWORK GENDER EMPOWERMENT DEPARTMENT

The concept of Digital Ideas- D2Bs-Training Boot camp for women and girls, is firstly needed to stimulate and motivate all towards awareness on digital education and business opportunities. It also includes model and instructions on how to convert ideas into profitable businesses in line with current global trends. The world has changed and is not becoming digital but the WORLD IS DIGITAL and we in Africa can no longer be left behind. Thus, this program is a structured training, mentoring and empowerment program to produce young digitally sound educated entrepreneurs, innovators and creative women and girls to find their foot into digital start-ups or develop and expand existing small scale businesses into global scales.

Technology for Gender

Help to Help is an international non-governmental organisation focused on creating possibilities for sustainable poverty reduction in East Africa by increasing access to education, employment opportunities and gender equality. The organisation has developed a structure for identifying young people with a potential to become change makers in the society but who lack the financial means needed to access education and the skills needed to secure employment. Through a Scholarship Program for those selected students Help to Help has financed higher education for more than 200 students in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. In cooperation with companies and institutions, Help to Help identified the need of complementing academic education with crucial skillsets in order to make students become employable. One of the most desired and required skills on the labour market are basic ICT skills. 43% fewer women than men have access to Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa (Intel 2012). This mirrors a structural gender inequality in Tanzania that marginalizes women and hinders them not only from accessing education, but it also limits their opportunities to enter the labour market, earn a fair income and become financially independent.

E-Health Minas Gerais HC/UFMG

E-Health Minas Gerais HC/UFMG is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS. This Telehealth Center is linked to the Hospital das Clínicas of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (HC-UFMG). It is formed by a team of health and information technology professionals and health managers, aiming to provide services and research in the field of telehealth, with an emphasis on teleassistance. For this, it coordinates the Teleassistance Network of Minas Gerais (RTMG), formed by the partnership of seven public universities located in the state. It acts in fine tune with the national, state and municipal public policies of Minas Gerais, always with the objective of facilitating the access of the patients to the health services and of the professionals to the health knowledge. Transparency, sustainability, quality, and innovation are the organizational pillars of the HC-UFMG and RTMG Tele-Health Center.

Cognitive Control of a Hearing Aid

We propose to design a hearing aid system that can be mentally (cognitively) steered so as to allow a more “natural communication” for the hearing disabled, a population that forms over 7% of Europeans (50 million people). Hearing disabilities lead to a degraded quality of life, exclusion, and associated costs for society. Hearing aids (and cochlear implants), while effective in quiet, are still unreliable in noisy reverberant environments typical of realistic everyday life situations. Based on recent success in decoding non-invasive cortical recordings (EEG, MEG), and our multidisciplinary team (of engineers, neurophysiologists, psychophysicists, and audiologists), we propose to develop and implement algorithms to decode brain signals picked up by EEG electrodes to extract intention signals, and to match them to acoustic sources within the environment. These in turn will steer an acoustic beam-former towards the targeted speaker or sound source. We propose to implement the design within a real hearing aid, and to evaluate the outcome with normal and hearing impaired subjects. The results of this project will benefit hearing aid and cochlear-implant industries (well represented in Europe), and the end users who are the elderly and hearing impaired. It will also lead to increased scientific understanding and knowledge of attention mechanisms, and how they might be harnessed to control sensory inputs. We hope the results of this project will be a forerunner for broader applications of cognitive brain imaging to decipher and exploit human intentions in prosthetic sensory systems, especially given the increased availability, miniaturization, and affordability of EEG recording setups in scientific research and medical diagnostics.

E-Health Goiás (Telessaude Goias)

E-Health Goiás is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS. The mission of E-Health Goiás is to provide assistance and promote permanent education to professionals in the Health Units, regardless of their location, fostering reception, diagnosis and therapeutic behavior through information and communication technology, in an ethical and effective way, seeking to improve the quality of local assistance and reduce the number and qualify the referrals to the reference units.

3DTuneIn: 3D-games for TUNing and lEarnINg about hearing aids

3D Tune-In (3D-games for TUNing and lEarnINg about hearing aids) brings together relevant stakeholders from traditional gaming industries (SMEs - Reactify, Vianet, XTeam, Nerlaska), academic institutes (Imperial College London, De Montfort University, the University of Nottingham, the University of Malaga); a large European hearing aid manufacturer (GN); and hearing communities (through Associations - Extra Care, Hearing Link, Action Deafness, Accesibilidad y Personas Sordas and Ente Nazionale Sordi) to produce digital games in the field of hearing aid technologies and hearing loss in children and older adults, addressing social inclusion, generating new markets and creating job opportunities.

Jaracare

Jaracare is an online medical consultation platform which enable people in remote areas to consult Doctors at no cost.We are solving the problem of poor accessibility to quality health services among people in remote areas.we run a B2B business model where we refer patients to hospitals and the hospitals pay for our referral.We use Internet and USSD to provide health information and service access to people in areas where there are no Doctors. we have over 100000 patients in our platform now and we have the potential reaching out to over 50 million people in Nigeria and beyond. Mission Statement: “Valuable community Healthcare Service at the Fingertips for everyone in everywhere at anytime” Company Goals and Objectives: To become the number one digital healthcare service provider in Africa by constantly adapting to technologies that improves community healthcare delivery through bridging scarcity of physicians in order to create abundance that support the voices of patients. Started by a team of three; a doctor and two business graduates, Jaracare.com is a subsidiary of Jaracare internet company ltd registered in Nigeria and UK. As a telemedicine community healthcare platform, jaracare.com allows users with health challenges to meet patients like them who share similar health challenge for support and encouragement and even refer doctors since Nigeria has limited doctors and specialist with patient to doctor ratio at about 1doctor to over 4000 patients against WHO recommendation of 1: 600 (patients). Beside consulting doctors, users can also read health tips or use Jaracare as an assisting partner in their medical trip to India which accounts for 75% of the $1 dollar medical tourism market value in Nigeria. Since there is health inequality, scarcity and an unequal access to doctors, jaracare.com will utilize and leverage the internet with over 60million users (Business Impact) to create abundance in primary and preventive healthcare access anywhere anytime.

E-Health Bahia (Telessaude Bahia)

E-Health Bahia is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS). It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS. The Technical Nucleus Scientific Telessaúde Bahia began its activities in 2013, with the proposal to enhance the qualification of Primary Care / Family Health Strategy, aiming at improving the quality and resolubility of health services and care.

HackYourFuture

HackYourFuture is a code school (foundation) teaching computer programming to refugees. Our aim is to empower our students through coding and get them to work as software developers. With 40 developers (all volunteers) we have created a 6-month program in which our students learn the fundamentals of web-development. After graduation we guide our students towards employment via our network. Besides learning our students how to code, we also teach them how to work on projects in a modern tech team. We teach every Sunday in Amsterdam, during the week we coach and support our students online with their homework. Throughout our course our students have multiple business visits, masterclasses from various tech experts, and get individual coaching in their career.

ECOMODE (Event-Driven Compressive Vision for Multimodal Interaction with Mobile Devices)

The visually impaired and the elderly, often suffering from mild speech and/or motor disabilities, are experiencing a significant and increasing barrier in accessing ICT technology and services. Yet, in order to be able to participate in a modern, interconnected society that relies on ICT technologies for handling everyday issues, there is clear need also for these user groups to have access to ICT, in particular to mobile platforms such as tablet computers or smart-phones. The proposed project aims at developing and exploiting the recently matured and quickly advancing biologically-inspired technology of event-driven, compressive sensing (EDC) of audio-visual information, to realize a new generation of low-power multi-modal human-computer interface for mobile devices. The project is based on two main technology pillars: (A) an air gesture control set, and (B) a vision-assisted speech recognition set. (A) exploits EDC vision for low and high level hand and finger gesture recognition and subsequent command execution; (B) combines temporal dynamics from lip and chin motion acquired using EDC vision sensors with the auditory sensor input to gain robustness and background noise immunity of spoken command recognition and speech-to-text input. In contrast to state-of-the-art technologies, both proposed human-computer communication channels will be designed to work reliably under uncontrolled conditions. Particularly, mobile devices equipped with the proposed interface technology will facilitate unrestricted outdoor use under uncontrolled lighting and background noise conditions. Furthermore, due to the sparse nature of information encoding, EDC excels conventional approaches in energy efficiency, yielding an ideal solution for mobile, battery-powered devices. ECOMODE is committed to pave the way for industrialization of commercial products by demonstrating the availability of the required hardware and software components and their integrability into a mobile platform.

Code4Impact

Code4Impact (C4i) is a hands-on learning program building digital literacy skills, especially coding and analytical skills in young girls and young women. The C4i program encourages, trains and mentors young girls in secondary schools (aged 10-17) and young women in tertiary institutions (aged 18-25) to choose STEM careers. The main objectives of the of the project are: To build the capacity of 2,000 young women age 18-25 in 4 technology tracks, web application development, mobile application development, microelectronics and game development over a period of 5 years. To support 2,000 Young women to use skills gained to develop SDGs-focused solutions To train 5,000 young girls age 10-17 on basic digital and coding skills To increase female involvement in technology in Nigeria by mentoring young girls in secondary school to pursue careers in STEM A core component of the C4i Program is the C4i Bootcamp.

GlobalGirl Media Trainign Academy

GlobalGirl Media promotes the voice and leadership capacity of young women from underserved communities by teaching them digital journalism and storytelling to affect social change. Through online workshops, mentoring, project-based learning and access to a worldwide network of media partners, we prepare unrepresented young women to be competitive in an increasingly tech and media-driven world. By turning up the volume of girl’s voices globally, we also challenge existing media structures to better represent girls and women’s issues, which sparks advocacy and policy reform in media and society as a whole.

GirlsTEK Global

GirlsTEK Global is a Nonprofit organization which is out to promote girls in S.T.E.M. (Science Technology Entrepreneurship & Mathematics) and entrepreneurship by equipping & training them with advanced technological & entrepreneurial skills to emerge as young women who can provide solutions to Africa’s and the world’s social problems through technological innovation thereby impacting others and bringing sustainable growth to their communities. Our headquarters is in Molyko, Buea in the South West Region of Cameroon.We focus at transforming young girls into highly skilled technological innovators through technological education and entrepreneurial knowledge. We achieve this through our six months TECHNOVATION BOOTCAMPS that run twice a year. We exist for any young woman who has interest in technology and economic growth

Girls Speak Out

Girls Speak Out is a youth led media initiative that aims to develop the media, advocacy and coding literacy skills of young women between the ages of 14-24 living in Zimbabwe’s under-served communities through journalism, advocacy and code training, combined with civic leadership mentoring, designed to trigger community activism and bring about social change. Girls Speak Out offers free media, advocacy and code training to girls between the ages of 14 -24 living in low income, high density suburbs in Zimbabwe, helping to bridge the digital gap between the poor and the rich, and also helping to bridge the gender divide in the computer science, particularly in ICT. The organisation is working to create safe spaces of learning for girls who want to learn ICT and code, and also encouraging the girls to use their tech skills as tools for advocacy to address issues of concern in their local communities and spark social change.

Girls Make Apps

Girls Make Apps is a national nonprofit organization based in the United States that has taught hundreds of girls to code through free workshops, programs, and hackathons. Girls Make Apps major objective is to provide a positive first experience in tech to the girls and women in their programs and they have achieved this through a number of different ways. The many initiatives Girls Make Apps has conducted over the past two years can be broken into three different categories: workshops (usually short-term crash courses in a technical subject like machine learning or virtual reality), programs (longer multi-week experiences with the goal of project ideation and creation), and hackathons (24-hour programming competitions that combine the workshop and product creation experiences).

Audio Bracelet for Blind Interaction: a new technology based on sensory-motor rehabilitation for visually impaired children

The development of technologies to support the inclusion of adults and children with visual disabilities is a big societal challenges for ICT Research. Vision is essential to build up important cognitive representations and early onset of blindness affects adversely psychomotor, spatial and social development. Moreover, early intervention is fundamental.ObjectivesThe ABBI project aims at:• Developing a new set of devices to rehabilitate spatial cognition, mobility and social interaction of children and adults with visual deficits through natural audio-motor and tactile-motor associations,• demonstrating and validating the technology through user, experimental and clinical studies.The core idea of the project, based on a new understanding of the role of vision in the development of blind and normal children, is that audio feedback about body movements might help the blind child to build a sense of space. The main device to achieve this objective is the Audio Bracelet for Blind Interactions (ABBI) which will be positioned on the wrist of the child and/or of the people around. The generated sound (for which the position will be perceived aurally) will be triggered by the body movement and will give spatial information on where and how the movement is occurring. The use of ABBI will provide important information for posture control, motor coordination and spatial orientation reducing the risk of exclusion for disabled individuals.Why it is innovativeUnlike most existing sensory substitution devices that are introduced in late childhood or adulthood, the approach proposed in ABBI does not require to learn new "languages" and it can be applied in the first years of life. Further development of the ABBI in this project will endow the device with the capacity to interact with other ABBIs and react in a smart manner to the context as well as additional assistive functions.

YCDI Women In IT Mentoring Program

This program Youth Can Do I.T. (YCDI) is a youth empowerment organization that uses technology and strengths based initiatives to develop and empower young people. This year the Founder and organizers of the organization started a Women In IT Mentoring program for females (grades 4th - 6th form) from several high schools and Universities in Kingston and St. Andrew, Jamaica. It is an exciting 1 year pilot program that aims to expose girls to the most versatile and fastest growing industry in the world and empower them to take a more active approach to their goals and dreams. The program provide these females with a networking community of support to which they can call on, and teach them recognize that they possess all the strengths and skills they need to progress.

Spare Rooms Buenos Aires

We are a company that rents rooms in family homes to students who want to spend a period of their life in Buenos Aires. Or another way of saying it is that we help women over 60 who can have an extra income, renting that free room they have. We created a digital bridge between them and their future guest. Our target audience are women over 60 years old. Mostly these women never worked or did not have enough income to mantain their homes or pay the bills. Retirements is not enough. So we work to get them a guest, young, foreign or from other parts of Argentina, who comes to study in Buenos Aires, who stays in their spare rooms and pays a monthly rent.

MUJERES CONECTADAS by SHEVA & TIGO

Mujeres Conectadas is a program created by Sheva and supported by Tigo Guatemala that aims to reduce the digital gender divide by providing workshops to more than 10,000 girls and women every year. Through Mujeres Conectadas women can learn how to use mobile technology and mobile tools to better their lives. The program consists of two parts, we developed an educative app, called Mujeres Conectads, using an award-wining microlearning platform, where women can learn how to use Internet and Mobile Technology Tools for free. The platform consits of tutorials and aspirational videos, short summaries, and interactive tests. The second part of the program consists of one-to-one workshops where we teach them more detailed information about life-changing tools, including: how to sell products and services online, how to use mobile finance tools, how to use design apps (ex. Canva), and learn new languages (ex. Duolingo). Our program started in Guatemala and due to its success it will be expanded to 7 more countries in Latin American starting in 2019 with our alliance with Millicom. We are working with the University of Zurich to study how mobile technology can increase young women´s aspiration, in order for them to escape from their poverty cycle, due to the opportunities found in our digital borderless world.

BlindPAD

For visually impaired people it is difficult to digitally get graphical contents increasingly conveyed through sight. The sense of touch can potentially bridge the gap, as it is crucial -in absence of vision -for understanding abstract concepts and acquiring information about the surroundings. Examples are learning at school and developing mental maps in orientation and mobility daily tasks. However, available touch screens have limited or no tactile feedback at all. The potential and the market of tactile displays are largely unexploited, although there is a clear demand from users: these devices need to become more versatile, cheaper, portable and socially acceptable. This project has made graphical contents accessible through touch by building and field-testing a Personal Assistive Device for BLIND and visually impaired people (BlindPAD). BlindPAD puts veridical touch-based information into the hands of users, exploiting and enhancing their residual sensory abilities. The BlindPAD has explored several technologies, compared in terms of actuation force, resolution, safety, power consumption and reliability. By adopting a user-centred approach within an accessible and usable ecosystem, we have assessed, with serious games, how the BlindPAD can help visually impaired people in two paramount use cases: touch-based learning of symbolic content at school age; orientation and mobility skills indoor. We have shown that our programmable tactile display increases, in persons with sensory deficits, the spatial working memory, the mathematical abilities, the capacity to find one’s own position in an unknown space and spatial knowledge in general, beyond current rehabilitation protocols. BlindPAD will be a personal, portable and cheap solution to improve knowledge and independence, thus increasing chances of employment, of social inclusion and, ultimately, of a better quality of life

m-Women

Launched by Orange in 2015 the m-Women programme promotes women’s self-sufficiency through the use of digital technology offering essential services tailored to their needs, with support from local stakeholders. Digital inclusion for women aims to boost their contribution to sustained social and economic growth.In Africa, women are the core of the family. Women manage most aspects of everyday life, from healthcare to food, agriculture, schooling, management of the family finances, and trading. Regardless of their status they are an essential part of the social apparatus. This is why the digital inclusion of these millions of informal “micro-entrepreneurs” constitutes a formidable growth driver for social and economic development. Providing women with access to the essential services that will facilitate and improve their daily lives through an ordinary mobile phone is part of a broader approach driving progress and shared value-creation. Activities : challenges on ICT, leadership and self confidence workshop, road show. Objectives : 20% of women in Senegal use digital to improve their activities

m-Women

Launched by Orange in 2015 the m-Women programme promotes women’s self-sufficiency through the use of digital technology offering essential services tailored to their needs, with support from local stakeholders. Digital inclusion for women aims to boost their contribution to sustained social and economic growth.In Africa, women are the core of the family. Women manage most aspects of everyday life, from healthcare to food, agriculture, schooling, management of the family finances, and trading. Regardless of their status they are an essential part of the social apparatus. This is why the digital inclusion of these millions of informal “micro-entrepreneurs” constitutes a formidable growth driver for social and economic development. Providing women with access to the essential services that will facilitate and improve their daily lives through an ordinary mobile phone is part of a broader approach driving progress and shared value-creation. Activities : challenges on ICT, leadership and self confidence workshop, road show. Objectives : 20% of women in Senegal use digital to improve their activities

DevelopHer

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!

Technologies & Youth: investigating gender differences in Internet use

The qualitative framework proposed to investigate the practices of access, use and activities of young people online is pioneer in researching such areas, with the purpose of identifying gender differences in terms access, uses and opportunities; self-presentation online and self-image; perceptions of privacy online, socialisation of privacy and personal boundaries; and online violence. Thus, one of the tangible results is the qualitative framework itself, which can be easily replicated in other contexts as the dimensions are broad and the interview guides are composed by open questions, designed to stimulate the discussion in the focus groups and in-depth interviews. As the nature of this work is to propose and apply the research framework, is not possible to determine the number of girls benefitted, as such research is aimed at different stakeholders, including policymakers. However, identifying the existence of the gender differences - and investigating them - through the activities that young people do online and how they are affected in different ways based on their gender are relevant results as the Internet plays an important role in their lives. Although the digital divide in terms of access is still relevant, it is valuable to advance further and note that the digital gender inequalities also involve issues related to consent and privacy of girls in online violence situations. By shedding light on (gendered) situations that youth experience online, we encourage other researchers in different contexts to use the framework to further investigate gender differences related to the use of the Internet by the youth in their realities. Furthermore, the results are useful for practitioners, policymakers, advocates and civil society, as those can be used to provide data for an evidence-based policy.

An Approach to Gender Digital Divide in Costa Rica

This specialized study aims to analyse the evolution and characterization of the Gender Digital Divide (GDD) in Costa Rica. Its results are an input for the formulation of public policies in ICTs / Telecommunications. It is also material for the discussion, analysis and decision-making process of public, private and civil society institutions. The methodological approach covered three main areas: the GDD in access, the GDD in use, and the GDD by profession. They were analyzed in a cross-sectional way with socio-economic variables suggested by the empirical evidence such as income, educational level, and the area and region of residence. This research analyzes the gender digital divide in Costa Rica from interdisciplinary perspectives, based on reference data provided by public institutions in the country. To measure the access divide, the National Household Survey (ENAHO) of the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) was used. Concerning the use of telecommunications services, the data was collected from the Telecommunication Services Access and Usage Survey (EAU) of the Vice-Ministry of Telecommunications. Regarding professionalization, the data was obtained from the Continuous Employment Survey (ECE) conducted by INEC. The period selected for the analysis begins in 2010 and ends in 2016, as the study seeks to present an overview of how the GDD has behaved in a national context upon the opening of the telecommunications market in 2008 and the entry of Mobile Network Operators (MNO) in the country. The year 2010 marks a turning point between the opening and the entry of the private MNOs in the country, which increased the supply of electronic devices such as cell phones and tablets as well as services such as Internet.

After Access

After Access has collected the most comprehensive database on mobile phone and Internet access and use in the Global South. The data is nationally representative across 22 countries, covering a sample of over 26,968, representing approximately 30% of the Globalsouth population. The data is representative with a +/- 3% margin of error (with 95% confidence intervals), and the sample sizes are large enough to allow for gender-disaggregation of data. Few, if not no comparative and nationally representative data sources exist with this level of rigor. Furthermore, the indicators collected are compliant with the universal indicators of the ITU and UNCTAD measuring the Information Society Partnership. Economies of scope: The sampling method adopted across the research countries allows for other nationally representative samples to be drawn in parallel in an affordable way. the sampling procedure involves the listing of target sample units (e.g., households, informal businesses, households with persons with disabilities, etc) at the PSU level, enabling a nationally representative sample of these units to be drawn along side the household sample.

Cunhatã Digital

This is a Program involving actions and projects aimed at encouraging the participation of women in Science and Technology in the Amazon region. This program includes activities such as lectures at scientific meetings, training students to participate in competitions and develop computer applications. These actions resulted in highlights obtained in programming contests and prizes obtained through application development, and have provided a more conducive academic environment to discuss issues related to the female gender in the science and technology fields. The next steps are also intended to include primary and secondary schools so that women feel motivated to choose their career regardless of social prejudices.

Safernet

SaferNet Brasil is a civil association of private law, with national, nonprofit or economic activity, without political party, religious or racial bond. Founded on December 20, 2005 by a group of computer scientists, professors, researchers and law graduates, the organization emerged to materialize actions conceived throughout 2004 and 2005, when the founders developed social research and projects aimed at combating child pornography on the Brazilian Internet. SaferNet Brazil has established itself as a national reference entity in the fight against crimes and violations of human rights on the Internet, and has been institutionally strengthened nationally and internationally by the capacity for mobilization and articulation, content production and coping technologies cybercrime and cooperation agreements signed with governmental institutions, such as the Federal Public Ministry .

Safer Family Movement on the Internet

The Safer Family Movement on the Internet is an unprecedented action of digital social responsibility with an educational focus that aims to guide technology users more about the rules and laws applicable to the current digital life that we have in the Knowledge Society. The Movement was born in October 2009, with the support of several entities, It is an initiative project of the ABA , Brazilian Association of Advertisers, idealized by Patrícia Peck Pinheiro Advogados and administered by I-START . It was created in order to reduce the dangers of the web by preparing children and adolescents to use the Internet in an ethical, healthy and legal.

Internet Segura

Conceived by CGI.br, the Internet Segura portal brings together awareness-raising initiatives on security and responsible use of the Internet in Brazil, helping Internet users to locate information of interest and encouraging the safe use of the Internet. This a useful platform especially for parents and teachers. The portal also brings initiatives from other entities and institutions on the safe use of the Internet. It concentrates all the initiatives of awareness of CGI.br in one place. In this platform, NIC.br has produced several materials focused on different audiences: children, adolescents, parents, educators, and the general public. All material produced by NIC.br can be used and distributed freely. The NIC.br (The Information and Coordination Center of Ponto BR) is a private, non-profit civil entity that implements the decisions and projects of the Internet Steering Committee in Brazil.

STEM for Refugees - Sonbola Little Engineer Robotics Program

The STEM for Refugees program that is developed in partnership with The Little Engineer International brings quality 21st century learning to address both emergency needs as well as long term and quality based learning to Syrian refugee children and youth living in Lebanon. Through this patented program, refugee students learn to apply STEM and Robotics concepts through hands-on, experiential and contextual learning experiences leading to solutions that are applicable in their daily lives. This program aims to create a generation of community actors who are well equipped to contribute to the rebuilding of Syria by also nurturing citizenship values. In the last two years, over 300 students have completed this program and have addressed real-life problems with low-cost STEM-based solutions such as a sensor-activated gate to improve security in refugee camps, a solar powered crane to aid with trash collection in the vicinity and a cost-effective water filtration device. The program has also played a key role in bringing STEM and robotics education to female learners with a gender balanced cohort every year. This program aims to be the building block towards equipping learners with out of the box, practical, sustainable and effective solutions to become agents of change within their communities.

STEM for Refugees - Sonbola Little Engineer Robotics Program

The STEM for Refugees program that is developed in partnership with The Little Engineer International brings quality 21st century learning to address both emergency needs as well as long term and quality based learning to Syrian refugee children and youth living in Lebanon. Through this patented program, refugee students learn to apply STEM and Robotics concepts through hands-on, experiential and contextual learning experiences leading to solutions that are applicable in their daily lives. This program aims to create a generation of community actors who are well equipped to contribute to the rebuilding of Syria by also nurturing citizenship values. In the last two years, over 300 students have completed this program and have addressed real-life problems with low-cost STEM-based solutions such as a sensor-activated gate to improve security in refugee camps, a solar powered crane to aid with trash collection in the vicinity and a cost-effective water filtration device. The program has also played a key role in bringing STEM and robotics education to female learners with a gender balanced cohort every year. This program aims to be the building block towards equipping learners with out of the box, practical, sustainable and effective solutions to become agents of change within their communities.

ImpactMapper

The indirect reach and scale of ImpactMapper is in the millions; this is because we work with the top foundations and nonprofits around the world that already reach hundreds of millions of women and girls globally. By using ImpactMapper, these foundations and nonprofits have the ability to see previously unseen trends, understand their effectiveness and value added more clearly so they can change existing programs to be more impactful or develop programming and outreach strategies that are more effective and powerful in meeting communities’ needs in the future. The power that even simple data can bring to highlighting an issue cannot be understated. As we all know from working in this field, even getting baseline data on, say, the prevalence of domestic violence in a community can be incredibly important platform for legal advocacy, service provision, funding, etc. All of our current users and early adopters have organizational missions that value participation, and the promotion of gender equality or social justice. Additionally, the majority of them also have explicit aims to seed or expand movements of collective action. These movements strengthen in numbers and yet often, the factors that fostered such growth can get lost if the appropriate documentation systems are not in place. The exciting thing is that with IM, these groups have had opportunities to strategically review, reflect and document progress made towards their organizational or programmatic goals/outcomes of interest. This supported these groups in pushing forward their bold and transformative social justice agendas.

Cubaeduca, portal curricular para la educacion cubana

This Portal constitutes a virtual space and an integrating platform that serves as a gateway to a whole set of contents and services related to Cuban education. It is a channel of interactive, systemic and dynamic communication, committed to the training curriculum of the Cuban school. . This Portal constitutes a virtual space and an integrating platform that serves as a gateway to a whole set of contents and services related to Cuban education. It is a channel of interactive, systemic and dynamic communication, committed to the training curriculum of the Cuban school. During decades, it has been a space for communication and the exchange of information through the use of technologies and has also contributed to pedagogical development.

Women in Tech and Entrepreneurship in NY

The mission of the Women in Technology and Entrepreneurship in New York initiative is to facilitate, encourage and enable a significant increase in the participation of women in both higher education and entrepreneurship in fields related to technology in the New York market. Through strategic initiatives and purposeful integration with key institutions and program in the city of New York, WiTNY targets high school girls getting ready for college, undergraduate and graduate women, preparing them to secure a rewarding and lucrative position in the technology industry.

mHub

mHub is Malawi's first Technology Hub. The hub trains, mentors, incubates and accelerates emerging innovators with digital skills to build sustainable technology solutions. The hub targets children, girls and youth ages 7 to 35. The hub's main objective is to enhance digital skills amongst children, girls and youth to transcend from consumers of technology to creators of technology Some of the Hub Activities include: Childrens Coding Club: Over 2000 children have been trained to develop animations, games and mobile applications. Girls Coding Club: Over 4,000 girls have been trained basic computer skills to develop games, web and mobile applications. Robotics Club: Training girls the basics of Robotics. This is Malawi's first Robotics club. Social Entrepreneurship Boot Camps: Girls are trained how to develop sustainable business models. Impactathon: Social Entrepreneurship challenge for youth to pitch and dvelope their social impact business ideas further. 265 Pitch Nights: A platform where emerging entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to potential investors, clients and partners

Comundos

What kind of education do we want to realize that simultaneously develops critical thinking, collaboration, creative development, innovation, flexibility and communication? How can we enable efficient learning within and outside the school context in this world of increasing complexity and global challenges? Comundos wants to influence education (mostly in the southern hemisphere) with digital storytelling for didactics, making use of analysis and reflection on the context and environment of young people. We give train-de-trainer workshops in which we teach young people the techniques of storytelling, as well as the technology to digitize and disseminate those stories, and to deal strategically and critically with new media carriers. In an investigative and participative way we discover the power of storytelling together with educators and young people.

AI Accelerator

BCSWomen, the women’s group of British Chartered Institute for IT, was founded by Dr Sue Black in 1991, building great credibility around women in tech/computing. It won the inaugural GEM Tech award 2014 for supporting women in IT, under the leadership of then chair, Gillian Arnold. Sarah Burnett became chair of BCSWomen in 2017 and made a personal commitment to focus particularly on artificial intelligence (AI) and increase the number of women interested and working in this field. To do this she launched AI Accelerator, a program of free AI-focused webinars, seminars and workshops specifically targeted at women. Why? AI is a critical and urgently growing issue to ensure gender equality, a key issue in achieving the UN’s SDG5. Only 17% computing employees in the UK are women – it is believed that even fewer are in AI. Because men are programming AI in everything from recruitment to health, unconscious bias is creeping in and could lead to backward steps in gender equality. Sarah does not receive any additional funding for AI Accelerator from the BCS but runs it within the BCSWomen budget on a voluntary basis, with help from other volunteers such as the BCSWomen committee members and speakers who give their time or corporate facilities for free.

Educadigital

Founded in 2010, Educadigital is an organization whose mission is to contribute to the creation and development of new learning opportunities that encourage the formation of critical and creative citizens capable of sharing information, knowledge, and culture in a constantly changing society. As part of its network growth strategy, Educadigital also offers distance training in its areas of activity - Open Education, Thinking Design for Educators, Digital Culture and Human Development Education - with the objective of benefiting more people in Brazil and also in other countries. The technology used is Moodle, a free software, which allows its constant updating by a community that develops and shares improvements.

Assure Uganda

Assure Uganda is a girl led organization with currently the membership of 464 girls and 58 boy who all work as volunteers. Assure Uganda works in Kabale Municipality south western Uganda.The organization targets youth but more so adolescent girls and young women all below 27 years. If a member goes beyond 27 she becomes a promoter and or senior adviser and ceases to have voting rights but can be appointed to represent the organization any where. Assure Uganda works to achieve the following objectives. 1.To engage young people in health, policy and advocacy issues through providing development education and support. 2. to create HIV prevention awareness among girls in and out of school and to demand for safer sex. 3. to contribute towards the reduction of school dropout level among young people in Uganda through influencing positive behaviors change. 4. to provide professional peer education services to young people in Kabale Municipality. 5. to contribute towards a reduction in all forms of violence against girls and young women in Uganda 6. to equip girls with digital knowledge and gainful employable skills for self reliance. 7.to empower generations to make informed decisions and life choices through restoring hope among girls and women. Assure Uganda currently runs the following objectives -Empowering Women Through Improved Cooking Stoves. -Girls and Skill Development Project -Increasing Awareness of Women's right and Participation in governance. - Life Skills

Asikana Network

Asikana Network is an organisation based in Lusaka, Zambia which focuses on empowering girls and women in STEM with a specific biase towards Technology. The organisation does this by teaching women tech skills needed in order to help them stand financially independent as well as mentorship and outreach programs to schools. Our target audience includes primary schools. Secondary schools, colleges/Universities, women in working environments, young women who are transitioning from high school to college and are unsure of their career path. Our major objectives of this initiative are to encourage more females to study more courses in STEM as well as encourage others to take up computers in some aspects of their lives. We work to equip women with life skills that we are sure will be most essential for them to gain financial freedom. The idea is, if we can teach them a skill that they can utilize even without supervision, they are capable of freeing themselves from poverty as well as tech their children and others in the community. We hold frequent classes in different areas: - Video editing classes - Photography - Basic computer usage - Web development - Social Media management - Graphics design - Mobile app development In addition, we also hold regular outreaches to primary, secondary schools and colleges as well as Mentorship programs for the members of the network.

SoCCs for Peer Mentoring

Asia Initiatives leverages social capital to promote education, healthcare and skill empowerment for underserved communities, with a focus on women and young girls. Our innovative community currency, Social Capital Credits (SoCCs), is a powerful incentive for social good, empowering participants to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. SoCCs have been implemented successfully over fifteen sites across Ghana, Kenya, India and the United States. Our methods have been incorporated into education, health and general livelihood programs, but after fifteen years of development work, our team has come to understand that digital literacy is one of the best paths to truly transformative change for women and girls. Closing the gender gap in technology and STEM will revolutionize the field of development and gender equity around the world, which is why we prioritize digital education. In light of this, AI implemented its “SoCCs for Peer Mentoring” project in Ahmedabad, India to establish a center for adolescent girls, a safe space where participants can access mentoring, homework help and, most importantly, computers and computer training. Our objective is to equip the girls with the confidence, knowledge, skills, self-awareness, abilities and opportunities required to build a better future for themselves.

IT4Girls

Amazon du web is an NGO made up of passionate women fighting for women's digital literacy. IT4Girls is first and foremost an initiative set up to educate young girls from high schools and colleges in the fields of technology. We then proceed with practical training, company visits. Then, there is a contest in order to discover the talents that are then entrusted to mentors who accompany them, guide them, inform them about these professions of technology still unknown women in our country.

PROMISE OF A CYCLE

Promise of a cycle initiative has provided free sanitary pad kits (reusable pads which lasts for 3 years) to girls in the rural areas. It also launched a sms campaign in Nepal through which women and girls will now have access to information about menstruation, hygiene and the taboos they face in everyday life. We are working on a sms campaign where women and girls will get valuable information without being embarrassed and shamed. School girls who have phones will also get information they need so they will be prepared for their 1st period. Having access to information at the tip of their fingers and talking about it will also ‘normalize’ periods and can help end the menstrual taboos. The target audience is women in the villages and school girls all over nepal. We are working with schools from August 2018 to spread awareness about the sms platform people now have access to know about menstruation which is still a topic of shame and taboo. Through the sms platform, men and boys will also have access to information to what menstruation really is and what barriers girls face. This will help end the restrictions women and girls face everyday. We have also organized education and awareness programs for 130 students on health, sanitation and fighting menstrual taboos.

Cassava Link

Since 2013, the organisation has been involved in various agriculture education empowering and educating women farmers through digital literacy. Our major objectives are: -To promote commercial production and increase the local consumption of yellow cassava varieties that is rich in vitamin A in Nigeria through technology. -To promote adoption of production technologies for enhancing sweet cassava yields. -To optimally utilize their ICTs for purposes such as strategic learning, monitoring, evaluation, scaling, communication and stakeholder engagement.

Argentina´s Women Programmers. First quantitative research

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.

Millicom Connected Women

Millicom is leading the way in gender equality in the telecommunications industry. In Latin America and the Caribbean, 49% of women are not connected while the number rises to over 67% in Sub-Saharan Africa. As one of the leading mobile operators in Latin America and Africa, we believe it is our responsibility to break down digital gender barriers and connect women worldwide, empowering communities and supporting women’s integration into local economies. It is for this reason that we have taken a leadership role in closing the digital gender divide through our pioneering commitment to GSMA’s Connected Women Initiative in Latin America and Africa. The aim of the initiative is to increase the proportion of women utilizing mobile internet and mobile money services so that we can reduce the digital gender divide.

Millicom Connected Women

Launched in August 2017, Khabrona.Info (Khabrona or خبرونا means "inform us" in Arabic) harnesses the potential of digital tools and mobile connectivity to increase the security and self-reliance of refugees, particularly female refugees. It is a website and mobile application that links vulnerable populations with reliable and trustworthy information about all aspects of life as a refugee. The audience for Khabrona.Info is Syrian refuges and vulnerable Jordanian host community members. Multi-channel engagement allows users to connect with Mercy Corps Program Officers from the safety of their own homes. The two goals of the Khabrona.info are to deliver credible and accurate information to as large a group of target beneficiaries as possible and to provide a convenient two-way communication channel to receive and respond to feedback from beneficiaries. To date, Khabrona.Info has over 700 app downloads and more than 30000 active followers on social media. In the coming months, Khabrona.Info will expand its scope to include information provision and service mapping from peer organizations and governmental institutions, transforming Khabrona.Info into a primary hub for vulnerable populations in Jordan.

Millicom Connected Women

Launched in August 2017, Khabrona.Info (Khabrona or خبرونا means "inform us" in Arabic) harnesses the potential of digital tools and mobile connectivity to increase the security and self-reliance of refugees, particularly female refugees. It is a website and mobile application that links vulnerable populations with reliable and trustworthy information about all aspects of life as a refugee. The audience for Khabrona.Info is Syrian refuges and vulnerable Jordanian host community members. Multi-channel engagement allows users to connect with Mercy Corps Program Officers from the safety of their own homes. The two goals of the Khabrona.info are to deliver credible and accurate information to as large a group of target beneficiaries as possible and to provide a convenient two-way communication channel to receive and respond to feedback from beneficiaries. To date, Khabrona.Info has over 700 app downloads and more than 30000 active followers on social media. In the coming months, Khabrona.Info will expand its scope to include information provision and service mapping from peer organizations and governmental institutions, transforming Khabrona.Info into a primary hub for vulnerable populations in Jordan.

Brazilian Digital Strategy

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

Redefining Right for a Gender Inclusive Networked future

This research not only attempted to identify the main challenges towards improving the gender access and rights online, especially in the Global South but also to highlight the best practices which nations or regions have adopted to overcome those challenges. The study also attempts to identify the different strains of thoughts, along with their convergence and divergence, review the central issues from the global south perspective, and then attempt to share the areas of public policy or social aspects that need to be addressed along with suggestions. The top challenges highlighted include existing social and cultural norms in the society; low literacy rates due to lack of access and opportunities to education, digital skills and ICT; lack of access to infrastructure, resources, devices and relevant content; lack of comprehensive approach towards women empowerment, including understanding of gender equality and issues and inadequate policy implementation; issues of trust and privacy online; limited access to financial support and opportunities; workplace limitations, few role models and limited platforms to interact and network. Further the research also highlighted the best practices adopted in over 28 countries to address the issue. Some policy reforms suggested in the research include: implementation of better and effective policies; focus in promoting literacy, ICT skills and Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) studies amongst women and encouraging digital literacy; policy reforms for ensuring gender inclusive access to the internet; building trust online, including better legislation and enforcement of laws against online harassment; economic incentives to encourage diversity in the workforce; encouraging more engagement amongst women networks and promoting content in local language.

Call for e-health, e-agriculture and smart cities pilot projects

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.

The Women's Hub Project (ICT for Women Empowerment )

The project seeks to deliver evidence-based research on women and the Campaign for Human Rights and Development International to facilitate policy dialogue on women’s empowerment and ICT issues in 4 Districts in Sierra Leone . Project outcomes aim to promote the commitment and incorporation of action plans on women’s rights in ICT decision and policy-making spheres. Global, regional and national ICT governance and policy frameworks can either enable full participation in the information society or inhibit access to technology, information and knowledge.

JEEViKA Mobile Vaani

Gram Vaani has been running a phone based media platform (using interactive voice response service/ IVRS) that fulfills information needs of rural women on maternal dietary diversity and complementary feeding practices. Known as JEEViKA Mobile Vaani, this free audio platform works over a missed call, i.e. users give a missed call to a promoted phone number, and receive a callback from the server on which they can listen to relevant content uploaded on the platform and thoughts/opinions/ feedback shared by other users, or share their own viewpoints for others to listen. Being implemented in partnership with the Project Concern International (PCA) and the Bihar Rural Livelihood Promotion Society, BRLPS, India (popularly known as JEEViKA, which currently reaches out to 9 million households across the state of Bihar); the project, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, targets a population of 10,000 women Self Help Groups (SHGs) in the district of Nalanda and has been accessed by more than 30,000 women till now.

Tech Girls Advocacy Program - TGAP

The Tech Girls Advocacy Program (TGAP) targeted 100 adolescent girls with digital literacy training and built the creative skills of the girls using digital technology, media and the arts and provided a platform for girls to advocate their issues through their digital creative skills. The target group of the TGAP was unique in its focus on adolescent girls who are often a missing population in development conversations and interventions. TGAP worked to position girls to target a wide audience with advocacy for girls' issues and equip the girls to use digital technology, coding, film, photography, creative writing, and digital painting/illustration to make girls voices count.

Study "Internet of Things: an action plan for Brazil"

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.

StartUp Brasil

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.

Ghana Code Club

The Girls in ICT project was initiated on the ticket of the Ministry of Communication. Ghana Code Club facilitated the project by first of all teaching teachers the basic rudiments of Programming Logic and also programming using SCRATCH and HTML in the most basic form. This served as a platform from which over 250 girls from various schools in the Ashanti Regioned were trained in these computational skills with support from Ghana Code Club. In the end the objective was to get the girls grounded enough to make simple applications and Web pages.

DIV:A Initiative

Div:a is a non-profit initiative dedicated to empowering young girls with coding and development skills. It’s the brainchild of Fadzayi Chiwandire, Development Lead at OnePointFour Consulting. She’s taken it upon herself to pass on her significant knowledge and experience to her students (Div:as), in order to protect their futures and address the industry’s gender imbalance. Our aim is to: Give young girls truly useful and relevant skills to fall back on in the event that they’re not able to receive a tertiary-level education. The idea is that no Div:a student should find themselves in the kind of vulnerable position where marrying young is their only prospect after leaving school; Address South Africa’s (and by extension SADC’s) significant shortage of developers in general; Ensure that women are better represented in the development industry by empowering our girls to go out and correct the gender imbalance themselves; Meaningfully contribute to correcting South Africa’s youth unemployment rate by giving young people skills that are in high demand

Connected Women

Connected Women Jobs is an online jobs platform where highly skilled Filipino women virtual assistants are matched to remote jobs with women entrepreneurs globally. Our job matching initiative creates opportunities for Filipino women who are not in the workforce by matching them to women entrepreneurs for online jobs through a digital platform. Using a unique matching technology called MettaMatch, our proprietary algorithm takes into account the skills, preferences, aspirations, flexibility and training requirements of both employer and employee, thus ensuring a long-term, mutually beneficial working relationship.

Empowered Female Healthcare Professionals, Empowered Pakistan

Sehat Kahani, a TeleHealth based social enterprise, was founded by two female doctors, Dr Sara Khurram and Dr Iffat Zafar Aga, who understood that the gap between health providers and low income communities could only be bridged if women in the medical field were empowered to provide service to those who needed it. Sehat Kahani aims to create quality health care solutions for communities where access to quality and affordable health care services is still a dream, using cost effective ICT enabled solutions. Hence Sehat Kahani caters to a wide range of audience including -female medical doctors who are unable to continue their services due to cultural and social restrictions after getting married and having kids -underpaid and underemployed female nurses and CHWs within rural communities and urban slums -low income women and families who do not have access to quality healthcare.

#SkillsForChange Project

The Center for DevelopmentSupport Initiatives CEDSI through its enterprise hubs has for years worked with in School based groups and out of school based groups domiciled in rural communities to provide access to training and capacity building in STEM.The project had a target of providing training access and skills development to 5 thousand youths every year and in collaboration with other partners achieved this key objective through its innovative skills for change project . The project uses the power of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to empower women and girls across Rivers State. Besides improving women and girl's digital technology access, connectivity and security in collaboration with target partners like Google,EU/W2030 etc The project supported the development of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills of women and girls. Building their capacity in coding,Programming etc and enhancing their ability to design solutions to societal challenges using technology.The women and girls are trained to identify community challenges and profer target solutions that technology cam address like violent extremism through utilising a social media alert system.

BOMA Project / Rural Entrepreneur Access Project

The BOMA Project is a U.S. nonprofit and Kenyan NGO that helps ultra-poor women in the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) of Africa achieve financial inclusion and self-sufficiency. BOMA works with extremely poor women of rural pastoralist communities in Northern Kenya, who are among the poorest people in the world. The BOMA Project implements a technology-driven, gender-focused poverty graduation program called the Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP) to help lift ultra-poor women of the African drylands out of extreme poverty and build their resiliency to future shocks. Through REAP’s two-year long sequenced interventions, enrolled women receive a cash grant to launch their own enterprises as three-women business groups to support themselves and their families. They also receive financial and life-skills training, covering topics such as family planning and the importance of girls’ education; sustained mentoring; and a mobile phone. These mobile phones give each woman access M-PESA, a Kenyan mobile money service that allows users to electronically send, deposit, and withdraw money. Digitally connecting women to phones, M-PESA accounts, and other digital financial services (DFS) is crucial to helping them break the intergenerational cycle of extreme poverty, gain confidence and achieve gender equality. After 6 months, these women join and contribute to savings associations where they can access savings and loans to cope with drought and cover family expenses. Mentors continue to provide training sessions and mentoring for the remaining 18 months of the program.

AkiraChix

Our Mission To provide training, mentorship and outreach programs to increase the number of skilled women in technology and positively impact the community. Our Vision Nurturing generations of women who use tech to develop innovations and solutions for Africa. About 8 years ago a group of young women practicing tech in various places convened at the iHub and had a conversation which led to one conclusion. They were a minority! There were hardly any girl coders and they were constantly mistaken for more subordinate roles simply because they were women. This was, and is, just a small part of a larger conversation which is, despite progress in ensuring opportunities for women in STEM fields, women and girls continue to be systematically underrepresented as users and leaders in the fields of science, and technology. These young ladies (Judith Owigar, Angela O. Lungati, Linda Kamau, and Marie Githinji) came together and agreed to do something to change the landscape of the tech field by introducing more women to tech. This was the foundation of AkiraChix (Akira means energetic and intelligent in Japanese ). They decided they would best impact this demographic by reaching out to young local girls from poor social and economic backgrounds who otherwise would have no chance of post-secondary education. This many years later, AkiraChix has grown to include various other programs that impact women and tech in various ways.

#techmums

#techmums has one simple mission – to create and connect kick-ass, tech-savvy mums. Launched in 2012, by digital evangelist Dr Sue Black OBE, #techmums is fuelled by the belief that empowering mums leads to improvements for them, their families and their communities. #techmums began by offering free tech courses to mums across the UK, from online safety to python coding and have been credited with opening doors to new careers and further education. But Sue and the #techmums team faced a challenge. Young, disadvantaged mums are one of the hardest groups to reach. Many young mums face isolation, single-handedly bringing up their children, and finding it hard to connect with others, often feeling intimidated by traditional mother and baby groups. Sue and her team wanted to find a way to connect with this group, help them to feel part of a community, and increase their confidence. One of the most used channels by this group is social media, and Facebook has the best combination of content features (live video, groups, etc). So, Sue approached Facebook about a partnership, and the concept for #techmumsTV was born. Conceived as a live magazine-style TV show targeted at mums aged 18-24, #techmumsTV was broadcast live from Facebook’s London HQ. The show was supported with ongoing social media content to create a community who could connect, share ideas, seek advice and ultimately build their confidence to embrace digital opportunities.

UNA - the first virtual assistant (VA) of public administration in Latvia

Within the framework of the pilot project, the Register of Enterprises of the Republic of Latvia by using the artificial intelligence technologies established the innovative tool for the client service sector – virtual assistant UNA, which provides answers in writing, in Latvian to the frequently asked questions of the clients for 24/7h on the website of the Register of Enterprises as well as on the Facebook Messenger application of the Register of Enterprises. Communication with clients through virtual assistant enables employees to settle much more complicated situations of clients, thus the labour force resource is being usefully used, when performing more qualified work. The virtual assistant UNA makes the communication with the client more available and friendly; clients do not have to attend the client service centres in presence, saving their time and money, they do not have to wait for a conversation with the operator of the Register of Enterprises in the call centre, because replies to questions of clients are provided immediately. The statistics of use of the virtual assistant shows that it is used every day both, on the website as well as Facebook Messenger application of the institution.

The Development and Comparison of Arabic Sign Language Gesture Recognition Models

Previous research has shown that there is not a single classifier modeling approach suitable for all gesture recognition tasks (such as recognize Arabic Sign Language), therefore, this research investigated which combination of sensor devices and algorithms, set with different parameters, produces higher ArSL recognition accuracy results in a gesture recognition system. This research proposed eight gesture recognition models: seven for static gesture recognition (Static Proposed Model -SPM) using Kinect and Leap Motion Controller- while the eighth was for dynamic gesture recognition (Dynamic Proposed Model –DPM) using only Kinect. All eight models were developed using the same process: 1) determining the sensors to be used to capture human skeleton joints, 2) creating a prototype interface to collect the dataset, 3) participants gesturing the words, 4) extracting features from the dataset, 5) classifying the dataset observations using supervised machine learning, and 6) evaluating the performance. In spite of the high recognition accuracy achieved by SPM1 and SPM2, SPM1 required users to stand at a fixed distance from the sensor, while SPM2 required complex processing in real time. The recognition accuracy rate for SPM3 – SPM7 was as follow: SPM3 (86.00%), SPM4 (97.059%), SPM5 (96.119%), SPM6 (87.05882%), and DPM (83.01887%).

RealtimeBoard

RealtimeBoard is a visual collaboration platform for cross-functional teamwork. RealtimeBoard set out on a mission to help teams create the next big thing, even if they are distributed across the whole world. We are developing a visual collaboration platform to help teams achieve desired results faster. RealtimeBoard’s goal is to enable team members to collaborate as if they were in the same room—regardless of their location and time zone. RealtimeBoard is an infinite canvas and whiteboarding platform that allows your team to ideate, visualize, and share ideas without any boundaries. RealtimeBoard integrates with your favorite tools and media, providing endless possibilities for collaborating in various formats. All of you — managers, designers, developers, coaches, marketers and other talented professionals — work together to build great things. Team members are all different and speak many "languages" — data, pictures, spreadsheets, tasks, charts and more. RealtimeBoard combines all these pieces in one place to let your team or whole organization collaborate beyond formats, tools, locations and timezones. As a team, you have your favourite apps and tools. As a company, you work with trusted vendors and reliable products. Our goal is to support your existing workflow. Our deep integrations with cloud storage services, G-suite, product development and graphic design tools are created to simplify and accelerate your collaboration.You-can-trust-us-your-best-ideas secure. Find everything your information security team wants to know on our enterprise-ready features page.

Olhododono

Software that revolutionizes the livestock production. Weight measurement of the catle based on images from portable 3d cameras: track each animal and the group. Increase productivity and profitability of your farm. Simple, practical and stress-free for the animal. Do you know the weight of your cattle? And the number of head you have? Take decisions based on actionable, trustable and easy to obtain data. Weight the cattle, anytime, anywhere. Weight measurement can be done at the pasture, confinement, or where is best for you. No transportation, no trauma, fewer (or none) workers, no accident risk for the animal, and even better: no weight loss. BENEFITS: Weight measurement: Know the evolution of the weight of individual and the group of animals, identyfying the ones that are sick and need some attention. Food/supplements: Know the efficiency of the food and supplment plan. Right time to sell: Sell the catle at the optimal time, differentiating the ones that eat and don't gain weight and the ones that are still gaining. Genetic evolution: Know the best and worst genetics, do your next buy only from the most productivity genetic based on your results. SIMPLE & PRACTICAL, NO INTERNET REQUIRED Place your portable 3d camera and Olho do Dono will record automatically each time the animal pass. It's possible to film 250 animals in less than 20 minutes. At the end just press the "Weight" button to see the weight of the animals and reports. Take decisions knowing the weight gain/loss, animals that need treatment, time to sell, genetic evolution, food/supplement efficiency, and other information.

Space AG

SpaceDat brings big data to agriculture with a drone enabled digital platform. DIGITALIZE YOUR FIELDS We use professional drones to create a cartographic database of your fields. Organize your plots and field units to generate a digital and geographic database of your farm. Learn your exact cultivated areas and topographic variations to optimize costs and field installations. RAPIDLY IDENTIFY PROBLEMS IN YOUR FARM We monitor your plants health. Equipped with infrared and thermal sensors, our drones quickly detect crop anomalies related to water stress and vegetation. Make fast and better decisions to increase your yields.

Unima

We work to take diagnostics out of the lab and into resource limited settings, even to the most remote areas. Our goal is to solve the problem of lack of access to timely diagnostic regardless of where you live and your ability to pay. OUR TECHNOLOGY We developed a fast and low cost diagnostic and disease surveillance technology for diseases which allow doctors, nurses and community health workers to diagnose diseases directly at the point of care, in less than 15 minutes, without the use of any lab equipment and at a very low cost. IN THREE SIMPLE STEPS Taking a drop of blood Putting a drop of blood in a diagnostic paper device Taking a picture of the device with an app in a smartphone

Mark Robots

MARK is a Uruguayan enterprise dedicated to the design and manufacture of technological kits for educational purposes. MARK seeks to bring the STEM education model (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to the classrooms of Uruguay. MARK is an educational robotics kit that allows children and young people to make robots in a simple and fun way. The Uruguayan kit follows the logic of the Lego games and pieces: The student receives a set of loose pieces and can put together whatever comes to mind, without putting any limits on his imagination; different challenges can be posed and ways to solve them and then the child decides which robot to assemble and how to program it.

Dronfies

Dronfies is the first application that allows people to interact with drones in real time, easily and instantaneously. Its mission is to generate innovative and fun memories on people’s smartphones through images taken by drones. Dronfies is the first DJI drone control platform that allows its pilots (the world’s leading manufacturer) to instantly send and share the content they generate with the drones. The application can be used for fun or for work in different areas like marketing, tourism and events. The users can generate an extra income with the use of this Application. Those people who do not have drones receive their selfies from the sky on their smartphones. Dronfies is a part of Dronfies Labs, Dronfies Labs, we develop software for Drones in the areas of entertainment, security and agriculture.

DataSense

Data is the new currency. We manage and protect it. Maximizes data governance, security and compliance with minimal effort through artificial intelligence. Data is our expertise. We understand that a risk to data is a risk to the business. That is the reason that when it comes to critical data assets – our customers call us first. We proudly manage and protect data records of millions of individuals worldwide, making sure that their critical data will not fall into the wrong hands. Cognigo was founded in 2016 by an experienced team of machine learning experts with cyber security and enterprise data security veterans. Our mission is to ensure that critical data assets, which are now more important than ever before, will not fall into the wrong hands. We believe that IT-security has to deliver business value rather than just being a mere mandatory expenditure. Our journey began with data security and compliance and our long-term vision is to deliver business value through cognitive computing to every aspect of the enterprise.

WeRecover

WeRecover is the first and only online matching platform for addiction recovery centers. WeRecover is the much-needed bridge that connects every individual suffering with an addiction with rehab centers that match their clinical needs, fit within their budget and accept their insurance. We’ve built a business model focused on real-time and transparent results curated for each individual, reducing the time it takes to get into rehab while empowering people with options they never knew they had. WeRecover was founded in early 2016 with the express mission of making treatment available to anybody suffering from addiction who desires to get help. In the realization of this vision, WeRecover has developed the first two-sided platform for the treatment industry, in which clients can input their clinical needs, insurance and budget requirements, and instantly see every center they are a match with, receive transparent price quotes and connect with the programs they are interested in. WeRecover aims to be an unbiased source of truth and transparency, while using technology to make access to care available to anybody who needs it.

Mintos

Mintos is an online marketplace for loans connecting investors and alternative lending companies around the world. We provide retail investors with an easy and transparent way to invest in loans originated by a variety of alternative lending companies around the world. Our mission is to facilitate free and efficient movement of capital. Mintos is a global online marketplace for loans. We provide retail investors with an easy and transparent way to invest in loans originated by a variety of alternative lending companies around the world. Our mission is to facilitate free and efficient movement of capital. At Mintos, investors can invest in different types of loans originated by many different loan originators. There are no fees for investing on Mintos; investors can invest in multiple currencies and start small. Loan Originators, on the other hand, gain access to flexible and scalable funding for growing their loan book.

Specializing multimedia training courses on e-health

Specializing multimedia training courses on e-health were developed by A.S. Popov Odessa National Academy of Telecommunications (Ukraine) with support of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as part of the Regional Initiative on “Development of e-health to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at all ages”, adopted at World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) 2017 (Buenos-Aires). The course is divided into three stand-alone courses: “ICT for medical students” (a course for medical students on the use of ICTs in heal care); “ICT for doctors” (an advanced course for practicing medical staff on the use of ICTs in health care); and “e-Health for ICT engineers” (a course for ICT specialists on working with medical IT systems). Each part is devided on thematic modules with tests after each module. After finishing tests ITU’s certificate is issued automatically on completion. The course contains more than 140 interactive slides (screens), including clips, images, photos etc. All slides voiced.

iBanFirst

Founded in 2013, iBanFirst empowers companies to make foreign exchange payments and transfers, using real-time FX rates. We offer a solution that’s cost-effective, secure, simple and fast. We recognise traditional banks provide a wide range of services for business, but specifically for FX services to companies, we are a genuine alternative to their complex, costly, slow service and hidden fees. Instead, we offer a platform whose technology is purpose-built for efficient ease of use by our clients, while also being fully transparent. Licenced by the National Bank of Belgium , we are the only 100% online service to create multiple IBANs for 25 different currencies on behalf of companies. The best FX for companies, with iBanFirst better banking means better business.

Egypt’s National Program for ICT Inclusive Community Centers to Empower Persons with Disabilities

Egypt’s National Program for ICT Inclusive Community Centers (ICT-ICC) for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) program is the first national program to utilize ICT to provide an enabling inclusive environment to support the inclusion of PwDs into mainstream projects to promote social justice. ICT-ICC represents a milestone in the approach of the Egyptian Government towards the projects directed to PwDs, as it shifts from projects directed, only, to PwDs, to inclusive projects that serves their needs side by side to non-PwDs. Since PwDs were excluded, for decades, from capacity building programs, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) launched the ICT-ICC program to transform community centers across the country into accessible inclusive ones by equipping them with accessible ICT infrastructure, internet services, computer labs, and Assistive Technologies for different types of disabilities. In addition, MCIT provided capacity building grants to PwDs and non-PwDs in order to equip them for the job market, in cooperation with several reputable ICT and non- ICT companies; and NGOs in a Public Private Partnership (PPP) approach. Such approach was effective in overcoming the several challenges facing the program by leveraging the resources of the various partners. This program is currently operating at 59 centers at eight governorates, and delivered more than 20,000 capacity building grants. Due to its impact, the project became part of a Presidential Initiative to empower PwDs using ICT with a target of accessibilizing 200 centers at 20 governorates and providing 40,000 capacity building grants till the year 2020.

Twiga Foods

Twiga builds fair and reliable markets for agricultural producers and retailers through transparency, efficiency and technology. Twiga Foods Ltd is a business-to-business marketplace platform that sources produce directly from farmers and delivers it to urban retailers at below market prices. We source quality produce from Kenyan farmers, and deliver to vendors in urban areas. Since 2014, Twiga has been bridging gaps in food and market security through an organised platform for an efficient, fair, transparent and formal marketplace. Today, we source quality produce from thousands of farmers, providing them with a ready guaranteed market, and deliver from our pack houses to thousands of vendors, at prices fair to everyone.

Twiga Foods

Twiga builds fair and reliable markets for agricultural producers and retailers through transparency, efficiency and technology. Twiga Foods Ltd is a business-to-business marketplace platform that sources produce directly from farmers and delivers it to urban retailers at below market prices. We source quality produce from Kenyan farmers, and deliver to vendors in urban areas. Since 2014, Twiga has been bridging gaps in food and market security through an organised platform for an efficient, fair, transparent and formal marketplace. Today, we source quality produce from thousands of farmers, providing them with a ready guaranteed market, and deliver from our pack houses to thousands of vendors, at prices fair to everyone.

Canopy

Canopy’s app helps you discover sights, sounds, and stories to inspire your life. Experience personalized discovery while protecting your privacy. Canopy uses on-device machine learning to understand what you like in order to predict what you’ll love. We’re taking a new approach to personalized discovery. One that doesn’t require knowing every action you take or every preference you have. Your personal data stays on your phone, in your hands. Canopy doesn’t see your personal information or track your behavior. We don’t know your activity or your history—in fact, there’s not even a sign-up. No login required.

Anarestan

Developing contents for kids in cyberspace and creating safe environment for growth of them are a necessity for comprehensive development and realization of educational justice in society. Therefore, Amin Company has started working as an aggregator of services in the field of education & entertainment for kids and teenagers since 2010. The mission of Anarestan as the most important project of Amin company is to create kid-friendly and content-rich internet ecosystem for kids and teenagers to educate them using new technologies. Also, Anarestan holds special events and programs with other players of this field to empower teachers and students. The goals of Anarestan are: • Creating an opportunity to provide educational and entertainment digital contents for students of the country, especially deprived regions, in order to provide educational justice. • Creating safe access to cyberspace through whitelist feature which is provided by the professionals and experts with wide experience in dealing with kids and teenagers from different backgrounds such as sociology, psychology, anthropology, education and etc. • Offering educational contents using internet technology to parents and teachers to increase their efficiency. • Enriching the content level through presenting various educational, training and entertainment services in cyberspace. Till this moment Anarestan succeed to distribute 1,100k free prepaid SIM cards to users. And present a localize tablet, VAS services and other facilities to improve the subscribers’ satisfaction.

CMS For Digital Magazine

CFDM is a program that has been designed to elevate the capabilities of the members in the all the school in Malaysia to utilize CMS as a main medium in designing a better reading material to enforce the online based reading and learning process. This program also helps the educators and teachers to reduce the usage of carbon copy materials to reduce pollution and also helping the youth to understand on how to utilize CMS as a platform to share and express knowledge for the betterment of the world. After two moths duration of the program, most students and teachers are able to produce their own Digital Magazine which easily accessible and editable for them in the future. Through this program, the educators and students are enlightened with the power or technology in changing the humanity and way of learning thus they also able to see this program is not only for the usage within their institution but also might be used and shared to allow all citizen to produce Digital Magazine and share their knowledge. Later on that will be archived to make it accessible for people all over the world by generations to learn and practice the useful knowledge to help us to make our country and world a great place.

CE-Digital: Capacity Building Programme on ICT for Latin America

CE-Digital is a partnership between CAF - Development bank of Latin America, the GSMA and eLAC 2020. It is an extensive telecommunications capacity-building programme for national regulatory authorities and policymakers from Latin America and the Caribbean. Established in 2016, its work is ongoing. CE-Digital’s main goal is to deliver free training opportunities, via 14 face-to-face and online courses offered in Spanish, to help keep policymakers and regulators abreast of current industry trends and how they affect the telecommunications services offered to their country’s citizens. Despite significant development of the digital ecosystem in Latin America, the region still faces great challenges in progressing current digital transformation programmes and initiatives. By providing a supportive capacity-building environment, CE-Digital aims to promote knowledge generation and sharing in the region to develop and consolidate regulatory and institutional skills and knowledge within telecommunication authorities. As a result, these authorities will be better placed to meet the challenges presented by the new digital ecosystem via the provision of enhanced policy and regulatory frameworks, helping expand and strengthen the telecommunications landscape in Latin America. This programme is a combined effort of three international organisations to contribute towards achieving the WSIS capacity building action line. So far, CE-Digital has delivered more than 900 days of training to over 450 regulators and policymakers from 19 countries across the region, representing 24 ministries and government entities and 15 telecommunications regulatory agencies. CE-Digital’s great challenges for the future are in looking for ways to extend the reach of the programme even further and working to ensure our courses continue to be highly relevant to course participants.

Central Birth & Death Register

The Central Birth and Death Registration (CBDR) is the nation-wide birth/death registry which interconnects health institutions and the national registry system (NRS) quickening issuance of certificates through process integration. The birth/death data was collected and processed in a decentralized way which was both inefficient and inaccurate. Citizens/residents had to approach multiple channels to submit notifications and receive certificates making a lengthy process loop of many days. Lack of communication between healthcare institutes and ROP caused difficulty for applicants to get status updates. Any errors in documents caused process repetition and delays. That’s when the CBDR was created, it is a centralized online registry of the birth/death events reported by all healthcare facilities in the country that integrates the workflows between stakeholders through validated processes. 1. Organizes the process workflow from submitting application at healthcare institutions to receiving the certificate from ROP. 2. Improves turn-around-time to issue certificates from weeks to hours. 3. Data corrections can be requested and done online. 4. Real-time SMS/eMail status updates 5. Updates eMPI (Master Patient Index) registry which connects patient records across healthcare facilities. 6. Builds family trees linking new-born ID to parent IDs. 7. Facilitates Government to provision healthcare services, measure mortality/birth rates, and conduct researches.

Citizen Account

Citizen Account is a national program that is envisioned to encompass all government benefits and subsidies. With Saudi Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia has unveiled an ambitious plan to build sustainable and a prosperous economy with a reduced dependence on oil. Citizen’s Account (CA) program is “in the medium-term” introduced to provide direct compensation to a large portion of the population to offset the expected increase in costs. The CA’s website began accepting individual registrations in February of 2017, a few months before the initial reduction of fuel and electricity subsidies. The registration process has collected data for more than 15 million individuals (viz., around 4 million registrant’s households), providing a rich data set for household incomes and family structures in the Kingdom. Which allowed for extensive analysis and simulations of policy design options. Since December 2017, the program has disbursed monthly payments of around 2.4 billion riyals to more than 3.5 million IBAN’s of entitled households; with exceptional accuracy and complex date validation procedures. Integrated with more than 15 government and semi-government entities.

MoHE Integration System (ACR)

ACR is part of ASAS portal. ASAS is the MoHE core portal, which contains 22 modules providing MoHE, and stakeholders (Internal & External) more than 300 electronic services in all business domains and covering all business areas and processes. One of these modules is ASAS Central Repository (ACR). ACR is an end-to-end customized data integration solution designed by MoHE IT team. Integrates MoHE with internal (Inside Oman) entities such as Banks, public / private higher education institutions (HEIs) and governmental entities; and external (Outside Oman) entities such as Banks and Omani cultural attaché offices (CAs) worldwide. The collected data by ACR resides in a central data repository at MoHE data center for business intelligence, data analytics, and statistics purpose. The collected and processed data is a key success factor in Oman E-census 2020 project (by providing either row data or ready statistics). Ministry of Higher Education is the first and only organization in the Middle East applies a dynamic data integration solution collecting and distributing data electronically from multiple sources, different types of database engines, electronic sheets (ex; Oracle, MS-Access, SQL Server, Excel Sheets, etc..) and based on different methodologies of network connectivity (Ex: MPLS, VPN, WEB Services)

MUJERES CONECTADAS

Since 2017 Tigo Guatemala and Sheva have worked together to execute the program Mujeres Conectadas, where we have trained more than 20,800 girls and women in Guatemala. Through our face-to-face trainings and free access to an educative micro-learning platform, women learn how to take advantage of tools found in mobile technology to better their personal and professional lives. Our goal is to reduce the digital gender gap found in the mobile world and help women be prepared for the digitalized world. Our program has been nominated for two consecutive years by the UN Equals Awards, as one of the top 15 projects in the world working in gender equality in a digital world.

Improved accessibility in buildings through indoor WiFi positioning

The main idea is having an application that knows where a smart phone is in a building, thereafter to be able to provide greater accessibility to indoor spaces for people with low or no vision. Depending on the position of the device, information related to the specific use of the application is displayed. More specifically auditory information to improve the experience of people with low or no vision. This could be information of a route or information on different points of the premises as the device approaches them. For this an indoor location system based on WiFi was built in order to provide the capabilities to make this possible, in conjunction with a smart phone application that allows users to improve the building experience. The user will be able to make interactive tours, cultural tours, even the visit of stores in a way that allows better accessibility taking into account the disabilities that this present.

Establishment of an e-learning centre

The idea of setting up an e-learning center to overcome barriers to elearning The disadvantages of e-learning that we have identified and most of which have been addressed include the need for infrastructure, in terms of the availability of computers, high speed Internet connectivity, and the cost of its application is very high. The need for specialists to manage e-learning systems is not simple and needs to be studied and intelligent in implementation and application, so there must be qualified staff and able to manage this technical system. The presence of a large number of existing teachers are unable to use digital technology in a way that enables them to deal with them and to teach through them, so intensive courses must be held to help them. The loss of the human factor in the educational process, the absence of dialogue and effective discussion, and many students are unable to express their ideas in writing, and they need direct verbal communication to express what they think. We started to create an integrated center that accommodates more than 40 students and includes a sophisticated network and participation with a global company in e-Learning manages the site of the center efficiently and ably with the necessary protection 24-hour teacher training to take advantage of the possibilities at the center training students on Ways to access the curriculum and accomplish the required tasks are easy and fast communication with the teacher and the student even outside the official working hours, where there are many means of instant communication distance. Different teaching methods suitability for students, the e-Learning center allowed the teacher to focus on important ideas and to take into account the order and order in the annotation process so that the lesson is easily and quickly understood. The educational material is available throughout the day and all days of the week, helping many students to arrange the time of their studies, and enabling them to do other work alongside the study.

Social Intelligence

Social Intelligence is a project of Information Age Consulting (Kuwait). This project was developed by Dr. Salah Alnajem, the founder and CEO of Information Age Consulting and the associate professor of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing at Kuwait University. The project consists of a web site and a mobile app (iOS and Android) which provide social media analytics services to the governmental agencies and private sector entities. Social Intelligence allows the user to view trending Twitter tweets, hashtags, media, images, and accounts in Kuwait for the last 24 hours (updated every 2 hours) and the last 48 hours. Historic trending Twitter tweets, hashtags, media, images, and accounts in Kuwait are also available through our historic archive of Twitter trends in Kuwait which date from 29 March 2014 till today. Our system of Twitter trends utilizes Trendsmap API to collect trending Twitter data for Kuwait. In addition, Social Intelligence provides live (real-time) and historic listening of social media discussions about specific topics, keywords, and key-phrases in a specific time frame. The listening results are sorted by date and engagement (reaction). Our social media listening service utilizes Pulsar TRAC API to provide the users with their customized listening requirements using an Arabic customizable interface or interactive dynamic dashboards . Besides, the user can use our system "Social Intelligence Analyzer" to analyze the linguistic content of what is has been said about a specific word, phrase, or brand on Twitter and other social media channels in a specific recent time frame or in a historic period. To achieve this, the users can use the system directly as an add-on to Pulsar TRAC. Otherwise, they can utilize our professional analytics services that provide them with their social media analytics requirement. These analytics services provide the users with interactive infographics and/or interactive dashboards showing the results of the analytics reports.

RoadBotics

RoadBotics provides automated and affordable road assessment to revolutionize the way our infrastructure is managed and maintained. How it works? You provide a map of your roads Our professional drivers collect images of your roads using smartphones Collected images are analyzed by computer algorithms You receive a map of your assessment on a web browser WHY ROADBOTICS Support your decisions with objective data Overcome the subjectivity of windshield surveys and objectively reaffirm what you already know about your roads. Communicate easily with visual information Present the status of your road conditions to council members and constituents, using a simple map. Maintain a photo library of your roads View a time-stamped image of every 10-foot section of your roads from anywhere at anytime.

System 001 Deployment

The ocean is big. Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using conventional methods - vessels and nets - would take thousands of years and tens of billions of dollars to complete. Our passive systems [System 001] are estimated to remove half the Great Pacific Garbage patch in just five years, and at a fraction of the cost. The system consists of a 600-meter-long floater that sits at the surface of the water and a tapered 3-meter-deep skirt attached below. The floater provides buoyancy to the system and prevents plastic from flowing over it, while the skirt stops debris from escaping underneath. Both the plastic and system are being carried by the current. However, wind and waves propel only the system, as the floater sits just above the water surface, while the plastic is primarily just beneath it. The system thus moves faster than the plastic, allowing the plastic to be captured.

FurzAid

Our mission Is to arm every animal lover, sanctuary, organisation and volunteer with the tools needed to make a difference for animals in need. With the FurzAid Animal Rescue App, you can easily bring assistance to any stray, lost, injured or ill animal that you find, anywhere in the world. Let’s face it, everyone has that story of the stray or injured animal that they came across and wished they could do something. And yet, it’s often not that simple. Many people face the same barriers when it comes to animal rescue: they don’t know who to contact and what to search for; they don’t know how much this is going to cost them in terms of time and money; they often perceive the problem as too difficult, look the other way and try to move on from that unpleasant experience. Facing the same difficulties over and over again, we’ve decided to create a tool that evaporates all of the obstacles mentioned above along with many others. We are developing an app that empowers you to take action in less than 30 seconds, using only your phone. There is no other platform anywhere in the world that provides quick access, connectivity and assistance, with such broad scope but also with a simple and streamlined user experience. Who is the App developed for: The application is designed to assist both people who want to help animals in need, and organizations, vets and volunteers that have the resources to come to their aid. How does it work: In case you stumble upon an injured animal or lose your beloved family pet, with our app all you have to do is capture (or upload) a photo with your phone, add a location tag and post the rescue. FurzAid will take it from there. We will reach out to those in location that can bring the best assistance to the animal you’ve found or help with your lost pet.

Lokalny Rolnik / Local Farmer

Natural and real food market - it is a virtual space (not an online shop!) where local farmers share with citizens their products. They share what they produced with their own hands, what they tried to make the best. Our website is a platform to provide you with local and organic food; it connects the farmers and small producers directly with inhabitants of big cities who often do not have easy access to this kind of products. It is a win-win situation: citizens get to find local and healthy food just around the corner and farmers get more clients and are able to sustain themselves and their production. The website is a collection of pick-up points (and available there products) which can be found nearby based on a user's location (when this option is enabled in a one's browser).

SpeakLiz

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.

SpeakLiz

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.

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Introducing Muhafiz-Ai​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​r, an intelligent, fully self contained and portable wireless sensor stick capable of monitoring air quality at your home, office, your favourite cafe, even in your car. Muhafiz-Air is packed with a diverse set of fully calibrated sensors and runs a state of the art signal processing algorithm paired with artificial intelligence to monitor concentration of CO₂, airborne chemicals, aeroallergens, dust and smoke. Muhafiz-Air's Architecture Muhafiz-Air is packed with processing power, a radio and a versatile set of sensors. It can sense: Carbon dioxide gas (CO₂) Airborne chemicals (Volatile Organic Compunds) Aeroallergens (pollen, mold spores etc.) Dust Smoke Temperature Humidity

INWITE

The communication device for hiking, skiing, tracking without cell coverage. Private&Group Calls, GPS-Navigation, SOS Features & More! How INWITE works ? Smart warnings and programmable SOS button Smart warnings are a very important part of our system. They allow you to identify the problem immediately or even in advance. For this we have made our system that is customizable and self-learning. Communicator has some smart warning options. There are four types of intellectual warning (or SOS): Free fall and long absence of activity Shock and lasting absence of activity Exceeding the maximum distance Exceeding the maximum period of absence of radio communication We aim to provide our clients with maximum safety and comfort during the travel. In order to achieve the aim we are use AI to foresee unpredictable problems and occasions, which might appear during the voyage. The device can work as a router, when it has Internet connection through Bluetooth to the cell phone. Other devices can share tracking data through the router to cloud AI.

BabyDoc24

Next-generation pediatrician symptom checker built with AI. We concentrate on pediatric patients only and non-emergency conditions to save money, time, unnecessary treatment and stress. We have known each other since 2010 and have been working on numerous projects with success together. Each of us has his own area of expertise and as a team we are capable of accomplishing the goal. We want to create a product to solve the real problem of access to the pediatrician and give parents the feeling that there is always help for their children. Right now most people Google their symptoms. That is the front door of healthcare, but the information is unreliable. We want to change this. So how our next-generation symptom checker works? Our vision - We concentrate on pediatric patients only and non-emergency conditions to save money, time, unnecessary treatment and stress. In combination with medical data and machine learning technologies we will create models and path to prompt and put precise diagnosis. Our goal is create an application (as a service) with a functional interface for parents and business partners. First we'll ask about your symptoms, how long you've had them, and whether they're getting better or worse Our algorithm analyzes your answers in real time and decides the most important questions to ask next. In minutes, our algorithm gains a detailed understanding of your case you'll see options for what to do next, personalized to you. Know whether to treat at home or see a doctor If you need medical attention, we will be able to send you to one of our partner across the world.

Sisa monitor

It is a system of identification and monitoring of pests and diseases in the floriculture. This is an initiative developed in Ecuador, which seeks to evolve agriculture through the use of technology. Sisa Monitor is a technological and multidisciplinary undertaking that combines technology and agriculture. With more than 15 years of experience in these areas, the creators of this initiative base their work on agri-tech. The work of Sisa Monitor is to monitor pests and diseases of crops to improve productivity, save resources and time, obtain reports to meet the control requirements. One of its main objectives is to impact the agricultural world and also have a responsibility to take care of the environment for present and future generations.

Sisa monitor

It is a system of identification and monitoring of pests and diseases in the floriculture. This is an initiative developed in Ecuador, which seeks to evolve agriculture through the use of technology. Sisa Monitor is a technological and multidisciplinary undertaking that combines technology and agriculture. With more than 15 years of experience in these areas, the creators of this initiative base their work on agri-tech. The work of Sisa Monitor is to monitor pests and diseases of crops to improve productivity, save resources and time, obtain reports to meet the control requirements. One of its main objectives is to impact the agricultural world and also have a responsibility to take care of the environment for present and future generations.

Telemedical Platform

Telemedicine (medicine at a distance) is an innovative form of providing medical services and health care, combining elements of telecommunication, IT and medicine. As a result of using new technologies, it enables geographical barriers to be overcome, making it possible to exchange specialist information by sending static as well as dynamic pictures (sending highest-quality ECG, USG and MRI pictures). This enables a diagnosis to be made at a distance. Telemedical Platform is one of the solutions of a modern telemedicine. It allows to: Integrate a patient and a doctor Collect of medical data Use of modern telemedical devices enabling remote patient care Monitor of selected medical parameters Easy access for all users (doctors, nurses, patients, family members, Monitoring Center) from anywhere in the world through a web browser Advantages of Pro-PLUS Telemedical Platform Efficient operation of the Platform made ​​possible by devices equipped with Pro-PLUS GSM, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules, which allows for an immediate and wireless data transfer after measurement Immediate (almost in real time) availability of the results to a physician, patient, Descriptive Center Ability to present immediate doctor response in an emergency Ability to provide services round the clock and long-term patient monitoring Opportunity to accumulate of research in a long period of time without having to visit a patient Ability to provide description services and researches of cardiac patients for medical institutions that don’t have a cardiologist Platform is a place of where a doctor “meets” a patient and all users are offered personalized services.

WorkSafe

Apius WorkSAFE® is an original and fully autonomous work environment characterised by high stability, safety and speed of operation. A very high level of security combined with flexibility in relation to the hardware constitutes its unique feature. WorkSAFE® can be run traditionally from a hard drive, but it is not the only option. The environment can be run from any data storage device, as long as the hardware architecture enables it. As a result, you can take your office with you wherever you want and use it on any computer, laptop or terminal without worrying about the security of your data. Whether it is a computer in a hotel's cybercafé, a terminal at a university or a hot- desk in your office, your data will always be safe. Regardless of whether you use a private network, public network or Wi-Fi in a shopping mall, the whole transmission is encrypted by default in such a manner that third parties are not able to listen to it and take over your data and information.

Wideotlumacz / Video Translator

The video translator enables translation from a sign language to polish language and vice versa, using a computer software. It provides with an easy and comfortable communication of a deaf (or hearing impaired) person with a translator. The service is carried by certified sign language translators. The video translator is designed especially for all kinds of administrative institutions in Poland (town and city halls, finance offices, police offices, hospitals, etc.). Moreover our service is also suitable for private entities which aim to enhance their customers' satisfaction (like banks, private clinics, private schools, etc.).

Delivereo

Delivereo, is a mobile application developed under the concept of a collaborative economy, which allows users to access a messaging service, home delivery, and intelligent shopping service. With this application you can make express deliveries of Documents, Packages, Flowers, etc. and also allows users to buy and order online anything online such as food, medicine, Home Purchases and much more. Users can buy and send everything they want. There is a wide variety of available brands and this service allows the user to access the services quickly, easily and from the comfort of their home and optimizing their time.

Delivereo

Delivereo, is a mobile application developed under the concept of a collaborative economy, which allows users to access a messaging service, home delivery, and intelligent shopping service. With this application you can make express deliveries of Documents, Packages, Flowers, etc. and also allows users to buy and order online anything online such as food, medicine, Home Purchases and much more. Users can buy and send everything they want. There is a wide variety of available brands and this service allows the user to access the services quickly, easily and from the comfort of their home and optimizing their time.

EyeBorg

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.

The European Digital Mathematics Library

The EuDML Initiative is association without legal personality, formed by a network of universities, public research institutions, publishers, scientific databases administrators and leading technology providers, and further subjects, dedicated to producing quality scientific information in mathematics. Purpose and Objectives The purpose of the Initiative is to provide a Digital Mathematics Library (DML) for the worldwide scientific community as a public service with the aim to help scientists locate the information that is distributed in various digital repositories and discover information related to their work in optimal way, be exhaustive and comprehensive in the field of mathematics.

Wolne Lektury

Wolne Lektury is a free online library open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It archives books5518, including set readings recommended by the Ministry of National Education which have already fallen in the public domain. All the texts are adequately edited - annotated with footnotes and motifs - and are available in several formats - HTML , TXT , PDF, EPUB, MOBI. The library also contains a few hundred audiobooks read by famous actors like: Danuta Stenka, Jan Peszek or Andrzej Chyra. The audiobooks can be used in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats. They are also available in DAISY format suiting the needs of people with poor vision, the blind, and those having reading difficulties. The Wolne Lektury library is available through mobile devices. You are allowed to browse, listen to, and download all the items in Wolne Lektury, as well as share and cite them, entirely free of charge.

DigiTutor

Imagine a world in which everyone has access to high-quality education. Everyday. DigiTutor is a lifelong learning education device providing knowledge when and how you need it most. DigiTutor uses data accessible online to encourage you to learn and expand your knowledge every day. DigiTutor consists of a communication component worn behind an ear and a detachable micro-drone scanning the surroundings to provide context-relevant information. Your private teacher - with you everywhere you go: DigiTutor is a learning device independent from classroom environment. By providing educational content related to its user’s immediate surroundings and suggesting new knowledge based on earlier interactions with the device - DigiTutor enables lifelong education. Anytime, anywhere.

Otwarte Zabytki / Open Monuments

The “Otwarte Zabytki” (Open Monuments) project is meant to facilitate access to the knowledge about Polish historical sites and help in their preservation. “Open” means legally accessible by anyone. All of the project’s effects will be published on the Internet under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license which means that all will be able to freely use, modify, copy and share. In the first stage of the project we went through with an effort to create a citizens’ catalogue of historical sites based on the data provided by a government registry. We used a tool available on the Otwarte Zabytki website. It gave the opportunity to fill in basic information about a historical site: the name, adress, foundation date and GPS coordinates. The registry of historical sites (created by voivodeship conservators and collected by The National Heritage Board of Poland) is a collection of over 65 000 records. As collecting info such as GPS geographical coordinates wasn’t a requirement throughout the years the registry lacks this kind of information. Also, the address or precise foundation date happen to differ from the reality, which makes practical use difficult. By the means of our initiative to complete the data from the historical sites registry we wanted to show the participants and the public that it is possible to act together to make better a common good, such as the registry. We already learned that such conduct is highly effective during the Open Data Day 2011.

arVerse Project

The arVerse Project is an initiative aiming to create a new generation of Augmented Reality platform and ecosystem, allowing AR technology to be widely adopted by the mainstream. Users will get the ability to use powerful Augmented Reality logic and content to make their life easier. The community will receive a unified platform and ecosystem for creating and making profit out of the new generation of Augmented Reality experience. The arVerse Project is an initiative aiming to revolutionize our world by adding new, AR-based Digital Dimension on top of the real world. Everyone with a smartphone or smartglasses could enter the arVerse Digital Dimension and experience Augmented Reality in the new, powerful way. Every real object in our world could have additional AR content assigned to it. Just by observing the reality through an arVerse compatible device, you will witness completely new, virtual enhancements which will make your life easier and smarter. From navigation hints, current activities overview, personalized heads-up display to digital objects and animations sticked to the particular places, or even AR events and games - all of those scenarios will be available to create in arVerse Ecosystem.

EyeClip

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.

Otwarte Dane / Open Data

This is a one-stop shop for data from over 100 public institutions. The portal is a source of reliable, constantly updated data, made available free of charge for re-use. An up-to-date list of data providers is available in the Institutions section. We have created this website for: citizens interested in the activities of the state; companies that build innovative products and services based on data; NGOs using data in their daily work; scientists carrying out research; officials preparing reports and analyses. No registration is required to use the portal. If you would like to access additional functionalities, including creating your own data sets and conveniently tracking data updates, you should create an account on our portal.

Czytanie Obrazow / Reading Images

Reading Images is our response to a dream of sharing art with anyone, especially with disabled people who are often excluded from socio-cultural sphere of life. Our website as well as an app is an invitation to visit all the Polish museums and art galleries, to get to know their variety, to feel and understand their collections. The collections presented on our website and in our app are often presented in permanent expositions in certain museums across the country. But our website also gives an insight to these which are sometimes kept in magazines or travel somewhere in the world. Reading Images is yet another idea to eliminate the barriers in accessing the culture and its heritage. Our website and the app offer something interesting for everyone; we have audiodescriptions, translations in a sign language, simplified descriptions, photos, etc. - everything we were able to come up with in order to give an access to art and culture to everyone. We collaborate with numerous museums and art galleries in Poland.

Audiodecsription

We specialize in audiodescirption which is a description enabling the vision impaired and blind people to access all kinds of visual impressions, movies and theater performances in particular. We offer an audiodescription text for movies and performances. We have a standard version (with a detailed text record of all the voices and sounds), a version for kids, and live-displayed subtitles for theaters. We use professional software (FAB Subtitler and EZ Titles) which enable a precise synchronization of subtitles and visual image. We also organize workshops on audiodescription and subtitles which are based on our materials and experience.

A Website without Barriers

A Webiste Wihout Barriers is an unique initiative in Poland. It aims to provide an access to the Internet for all - the disabled, older persons, the poor or the ones who are excluded from a digital society. Moreover its goal is to popularize awareness of creating websites which are accessible for all in order to prevent a digital exclusion. It is an annual contest, open for everyone - be it a public entity, a NGO, a company or an individual. The contest's goal is to select websites which are accessible for vision impaired or deaf people.

Empowering and inspiring mothers in the Arab Region

360Moms is an online parenting platform that provides original, localized and trusted content in both Arabic & English languages. It is the only platform in the region that delivers original content developed in collaboration with specialized experts to cover all topics related to parenthood. 360Moms also delivers offline activities, which include interactive workshops and the Rewards Card program. The program ‘Mama’s Rewards’ specifically targets mothers by providing discounts, free items or special offers from over 100 brands. Results so far: We have more than 110,000 followers, and around 85,000 monthly users to our website. We have organized 33 workshops to date. Published around 2000 original scientific Articles. Answered hundreds of Mothers questions. Helped mothers achieve getting thousands of dollars to fund their children's operations. Problem: Parents in the Arab region are easily misguided by different untrusted resources of information; they don’t have a scientific resource to turn to. Which leads to numerous wrong decisions that directly affect the new generation. **Arabic speaking internet users are the 4th largest in the world. 3% of the internet content is in Arabic. Vision: To improve families lives in the Arab region, through supporting and empowering them with trusted and original content brought by highly experienced Experts and through mother’s inspiring stories.

Wiibell

Yacaré Technology is an Ecuadorian company with more than 20 years of experience in International projects and the development of tools, products and technological services that respond to the needs and daily life of users. Thus, one of its products has focused on the individual and family security of its customers, with this idea they created Wii Bell: an intelligent electric door opener that can be managed from anywhere in the world with access to the internet. This device allows you to register the people who visited your house or apartment even if you had not been present to attend them. This device watches at all times what happens outside your house and the people who were in front of the doorman. You can also control the lighting of your home or office from the cell phone in case the user has left the building without turning off the lights.

Poliestudios

Poliestudios is an educational services company that complies with monitoring and strengthening standards at the individual and community level. It establishes a trend within learning with innovative proposals based on information and communication technologies. It has world-class experts for training and education. Supported with support and innovation team. Our educational offer complies with standards of monitoring and strengthening at the individual and community level; and establishes trends within learning with proposals based on information and communication technologies. The axis of this platform is to potentiate and promote inclusive education. Poliestudios is a center of pedagogy and continuous training, which offers a wide variety of advanced continuous training in the field of education, communication, psychology, and technology. Being in constant learning, is of vital importance for the human being, knowing how to approach issues of difficulties is considered an obligation of the human being.

Talleres de Computacion

The Sentido Foundation seeks to develop the necessary skills for the insertion of children and young people between 12 and 18 years old who are or have been institutionalized and who participate or have participated in outpatient programs of the National Service for Minors (Sename) in Chile. These children and young people come from contexts of extreme poverty and social vulnerability and have suffered violations of their rights, being removed from parental care by family courts, coming to reside in SENAME protection centers and / or participate in their programs. In response to their situation, Fundacion Sentido seeks to offer them a comprehensive training model that prepares them for independent living, strengthening self-concept, autonomy, will, and projection. Among the workshops and training that take place are the computer workshops. The foundation carries out We conducted 2 computer workshops each semester with 10 participants each. Each workshop lasts 1.5 hours and is held once a week. We achieved coverage of 40 children and young people each year.

Public Security Video Surveillance Cloud Platform

Public Security Video Surveillance Cloud Platform is located in Jiangyin city, Jiangsu province, it facilitated the development of an orderly coordinated public security emergency command communication system with the characteristics of rapid response and smooth commanding in modern information society through the deep integration of video surveillance system and cloud computing as well as other IT technologies. It has effectively protected the life and property safety of vulnerable groups such as women, children and the old. It can also prevent illegal criminal activities and maintain social stability. In later period, the project will be deployed in more fields to realize the sharing of massive social video resources, which provides a reliable and easily spread scheme for the establishment of modern information society where everyone feels safe.

Enabled to Enable/ Computer/ICT Literacy unit

Enabled to Enable is a non-governmental organization in care and support vulnerable women and girls, especially those living with disabilities. They empower women and girls with disabilities, other vulnerable women and children, through advocacy, training programs and the provision of support services to enable them contribute meaningfully to their immediate and global development. They envision an egalitarian society void of any form of discrimination/limitation against women and girls with disabilities, other vulnerable women and children where their rights to life are protected and respected. an egalitarian society void of any form of discrimination/limitation against women and girls with disabilities, other vulnerable women and children where their rights to life are protected and respected. So far, the organization has registered and commenced training for about 90 beneficiaries, which exceeds the target of 50 beneficiaries in the first month only. As a result of the training, especially the computer literacy training, about 40 women and girls now understand what they are capable of accomplishing with a Computer. They are not just more confident but also more critical and creative when faced with any computing problem.

elearning classrooms in city of joburg libraries

The 12 eLearning classrooms (or what is traditionally called computer labs in other libraries) are located in 12 libraries from all 8 regions in the City of Johannesburg and were introduced in 2016 to be used only for online courses, and this was an initiative introduced and managed by a private company. In 2017 the City discontinued funding the management of these facilities, therefore City of Joburg libraries had to find ways of ensuring that these facilities continue being utilised. The eLearning unit redesigned and introduced different programs in these eLearning classrooms in 2018, turning them into spaces where the communities can enjoy various services both offline and online and also to assist libraries without computer facilities through the concept of “mobile elearning classrooms. While generally the introduction of technology, internet and online learning has made libraries more appealing, the Elearning Classrooms have played a major role in encouraging communities to come back into libraries in a safe environment to access internet and also learn online. Mobile elearning classrooms have made the library environment more vibrant wherever they are brought in, and also encourages resource sharing for the under-resourced libraries

Fiber Optic essential mean for Border Area Sustainable Development Programme

The optical fiber deployment project in the most border areas of the country is considered in the strategic dimension an optical belt oriented towards the development approach as a major issue of territorial equality, according to the National Plan for the Territory Laying out (SNAT) decided by the public authorities. So, the guideline is to promote digital incorporation with a wide vision, while highlighting a participative democracy between the population, per the interconnection of 57 border municipalities and linking all concentrations of living population in this important cross-border with 07 neighboring countries (Morocco, Sub-Saharan, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya and Tunisia), and which will always allow in this slate the multiplication of international access points through the backbone. However, this mega fiber optic project in the border areas. Which a great part has been achieved, aligns perfectly with the United Nations programme (UNDP) within the framework of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations by 2030 (UN) and also the African Union Border Program (AUPP).

Fiber Optic essential mean for Border Area Sustainable Development Programme

The optical fiber deployment project in the most border areas of the country is considered in the strategic dimension an optical belt oriented towards the development approach as a major issue of territorial equality, according to the National Plan for the Territory Laying out (SNAT) decided by the public authorities. So, the guideline is to promote digital incorporation with a wide vision, while highlighting a participative democracy between the population, per the interconnection of 57 border municipalities and linking all concentrations of living population in this important cross-border with 07 neighboring countries (Morocco, Sub-Saharan, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya and Tunisia), and which will always allow in this slate the multiplication of international access points through the backbone. However, this mega fiber optic project in the border areas. Which a great part has been achieved, aligns perfectly with the United Nations programme (UNDP) within the framework of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations by 2030 (UN) and also the African Union Border Program (AUPP).

Training and Digital Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Chad

The 2014 edition of the World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC 14) and the last Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have in turn adopted measures to ensure the accessibility of ICTs for people with appropriate legal frameworks, laws, regulations and policies at national level. In solidarity with the set of resolutions adopted by the United Nations and its specialized agencies, the President of the Republic of Chad, Ydriss Deby Itno initiated a policy on the care and social inclusion of persons with disabilities in all spheres of life. Chadian society. As part of the translation into action of the vision of the Head of State, one of the major axes of the development strategy of the Digital Economy developed by the association of technicians in information and communication technologies is dedicated to the promotion of digital culture through the widespread use of ICTs in society. This reference document serves as a strategic anchor for several initiatives, like the present project whose overall objective is to enable the digital inclusion of the social class made up of people with disabilities in Chad. From this objective, follow several activities, listed in the rest of the document, budgeted for one million seven hundred thirty three thousand three hundred thirty two (1,733,332)

Preventing and reducing depression by bringing nature to people with disabilities via Virtual Reality (VR)

The aim of this project is to examine the possibility of bringing the experience of nature to a person with disability through augmented and virtual reality AR/VR. It is the researchers’ goal that with the help of improved 3D visualization tools such as VR goggles and 3D projectors, persons with disability whom does not have access to nature on a regular basis, can have a similar experience. Hence, improving their mental wellbeing and to avoid/reduce depression, from staying indoors or in the city due to environmental barriers.

qAIRa

qAIRa is a company that monitors polluted air with the help of drones equipped with high technology. It is a remote manned vehicle that, with the help of sensors, detects the degree of contamination of the environment. The drone was flying over mining areas located at 4,000 meters above sea level. This is an innovative venture that was born in the mechatronics engineering classrooms of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. The idea is that all the data obtained will reach the hands of municipalities, ministries, regional governments, etc. and also that it will be easily accessible to the entire population through an application in the cell phone and thus be able to know the pollution levels of a place or specific city.

Ojo Vial

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.

Open Mind Pakistan

Open Mind Pakistan is an exclusive management trainee Inclusion program designed by Telenor Pakistan aiming to act as a Launchpad for persons with disabilities and help them build a successful career in the corporate world. As part of the program, 16-18 persons with disabilities (PwDs) on board for a one year regular program to enhance their skills and abilities to pave way for better career opportunities. As an organization, we take pride in pioneering inclusion and accessibility in Pakistan and believe in creating opportunities and a level playing field for everyone. Based on ILO’s Inclusive Work Trial and Supported Employment Models, Open Mind Pakistan is an exclusive Management Program where trainees are placed across the organization under a comprehensive on-job training and capacity building module. It aligns with the UNs SDG No. 10 – Reducing Inequalities and Telenor’s commitment to promote a diverse and inclusive workforce, where everybody can realize their true potential. The program not only enables persons with disability to improve their skills, exposure and make them a productive member of the society but also develops a diverse talent pool for employers to tap into. Telenor Pakistan is also the first BU outside the Nordics to strategically take up the initiative and demonstrate promising results. We have successfully concluded 5 annual iterations so far where 73 talented and inspiring PwDs have gone through the program, learning as well as contributing immensely in their respective roles. So far 2 out of 3 graduates are successfully working in Telenor Pakistan and in other likeminded organizations which makes 75% success rate of open mind Pakistan.. This is a great ratio keeping in mind the prevalent job conditions in Pakistan.

ICT Public Training Administration & Service Center for Hi-skilled Workers

ICT Public Training Administration & Service Center for Hi-skilled Workers (ICT Training Center), located in Shenzhen, is the first public service center in China aims to cultivate hi-skilled workers using high technology as training methods. It has following seven functions: skill training, skill appraisal, skill competition, technology innovation experimentation, technical communication, skill training achievements and vocational demonstration. The center capable of training 15,000 ICT workers per year, after experimental verification, these workers can meet the employment demands of enterprises and these enterprise employed this kind of workers perform better in prospering regional economy. The project is easily replicated in other communities as well as countries as it provides a basic framework and can be adjusted to different situations. In the future, the center will continue to expand the curriculum range and serve a wider area to lay the talent foundation for the realization of “Made in China 2025” and to provide labor services export for countries along “the Belt and Road Initiative”. This center can also contribute to the development of information and knowledge society as it can equip workers with advanced ICT skills which make them better adapt to the changing needs of society.

KosmoHealth

KosmoHealth is a mobile resource for pregnant women and individuals seeking urgent care and home-based healthcare services. Key features include geolocation to help users search for nearby doctors and specialists, a call button for first aid support (urgent intervention) and access to home-based antenatal care. The app allows users to register at any point in their pregnancy and receive advice and alert messages related to their pregnancy term. For emergency health cases, individuals can use KosmoHealth App’s call button for urgent care from the hospital they want or call for mobile clinic. For pregnant women, they register and enter the week of their pregnancy, and start receiving advice in alert messages related on their pregnancy term and week, and depending on their wish they can order for home-based postnatal care. For parents whose babies are sick or individuals feeling unwell, they use a GPS feature in the App to search for nearby doctors, by specialty or by location. Kosmotive published 1500 printed copies of Kosmos magazine for 3 maternal and child health editions published online red by 32000 individuals. By the average number of children per household in Rwanda that is 4, Kosmotive estimates that we have impacted 134000 lives.

Smartbus

Smartbus is an initiative created by young people from Peru, who aim to modernize public transportation in the city of Arequipa. These young people have gathered their knowledge in computer science, electronics and business to give information trying to create an intelligent bus with different functions. This is a new venture that was launched a few months ago, but that has strong expectations and projections to scale to higher platforms. What they seek is to help reduce the technological gap by transforming the buses currently in circulation into smart buses. While the bus is circulating, a mobile application connected to speakers informs passengers about the whereabouts and places of interest they are passing through. Despite being a relatively new venture, they have already been selected as a winning project of seed capital of 50 thousand soles in the innovation contest of the Innovate Peru Program, and also have the support of Jaku, the UNSA business incubator and Startup Peru.

Laboratoria

We work so that thousands of women in Latin America develop careers in technology that change their future and make the industry more diverse. Through our Bootcamp, women who did not have access to a quality education, become Web Developers and Designers of User Experience, accessing transformers jobs in technology. Learning to code is becoming mainstream but in Latin America not many women work in the tech sector. With the work of Laboratoria, more than 820 women have graduated from our programs and more than 80% work in technology, transforming their lives and the industry. Laboratoria is a Peruvian initiative created by Mariana Costa, who moved from New York to Lima to start a tech social enterprise that gives young women access to education and work in the digital sector. In Laboratoria we identify young women with great potential through a selection process with 680 measurement points. Then we use an agile teaching methodology to train them as Web Developers or UX Designers. In our 6 month bootcamp they create +40 web products and develop the technical and soft skills necessary to work in high-performance technological equipment. Our program ends with a "Talent Fest", a hackathon where companies come to recruit, with real challenges that our students solve in 36 hours. We have already placed talent in more than 200 companies and the satisfaction rate of our employers is 4.5 / 5.

App Antonia

App Antonia is an application recently launched in Chile with the aim of alerting any attack or violence between couples, especially young couples. It is a help app that, in the presence of an attack, activates the user's support network with just one click. It will show where you are while transmitting and recording the attack. This is an application of the Antonia Foundation, which premiered the tool this year, in honor of the death of the young Antonia Garros, the same day that marks a year since the death of Antonia Garros, the girl of 23, who He died after throwing himself from his ex-boyfriend's apartment on the 13th floor. The Foundation also carries his name.

CancerQ

Our mission @ CancerQ is to ensure no family has to face cancer alone - without access to the right tools, information, and knowledge. Our CancerQ team has built & launched a digital dashboard that helps families facing or who have previously faced cancer get organized, learn, & connect with others. Your support helps us get our tool (at scale) into the hands of those who need it most - those fighting cancer today and tomorrow. We make it easy and efficient to quickly access valuable, highly-curated resources when faced with cancer. Everything we do, every product we create, is designed to help save you time & energy, precious resources when facing cancer.

1DOC3

1Doc3 is a Colombian enterprise founded in December 2013 that forces a digital platform that allows anonymous health questions that are resolved by real and certified doctors. 1Doc3 has more than 500 registered doctors. It has specialists in areas such as pediatrics, gynecology, rheumatology and sexuality, among others. The doctors answer the health questions anonymously, free, and 24 hours a day. So far, 66,403,251 queries have been offered by this system. This initiative originated in 2014 in Colombia. The benefits of 1doc3 have crossed national borders, according to the figures of the platform, there has been traffic from more than 90 countries, including Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela and the United States. But in addition to having an international presence, they were invited to participate in internet.org, an initiative of Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook.

Anka

ANKA is an engineering company, focused on the collection, monitoring, control, processing and reporting of information of a cartographic nature. The information is captured by the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. As technology manufacturers, we have a fleet of drones. This ability and ability to fix the equipment, allows us to meet the needs of response time and quality of results. They have a state-of-the-art aerial equipment, which allows the inspection, scanning and lifting with one of the most reliable autopilots on the market, together with sensors and high-end cameras, at the service of your business. Our sensors allow the creation of high-density point clouds, and subsequently georeferenced 2D and 3D maps at the submetric level. Measure, calculate and project. Our results are guaranteed according to your needs. Always under a policy of discretion.

Citizens Network

informacjapubliczna.org is the on-line resource centre on access to public information in Poland (and sometimes outside) created in 2006 by the Citizens Network Watchdog Poland. In one place it collects articles, analyses, information on legal framework in Poland or internationally and provides practical information on how to use the right to know. The users are co-creators of the website content. They can add articles and information on their experience, inform on their complaint submitted to a court, invite people to attend hearing and they can comment the articles that are presented. They also co-funded the new design of the website.

Sppeaker

Sppeaker.com is a digital platform created in Colombia, which seeks to connect experts in different areas with apprentices through classes, courses, workshops, lectures, and conferences. It is a learning platform that groups profiles and information of members of the educational sector and all those experts in any area of knowledge and with the ability to teach, in order to offer the user an efficient search engine with a variety of reliable options. educational services. They offer a permanent and updated list of experts and different options in terms of what the user can or wants to learn. By 2020, Sppeaker aspires to be the most popular face-to-face virtual educational community in Latin America. Translated into multiple languages and with a presence in more than ten countries.

USING ICT TO PROVIDE LEGAL AID TO RWANDAN POPULATION

The project titled ‘Using ICT to Provide Legal Aid to the Rwandan Population’ is implemented by Legal Aid Forum. With it, the wide use of mobile technology in Rwanda is allowing LAF to provide legal information and advice to vulnerable populations in Rwanda free of charge by calling 845 for IVR or dialing *845# for USSD. As of August 2018, mobile phone penetration in Rwanda is at a rate of 80.59% whereby a total number of active mobile telephone subscriptions is 9,516,926 78.2%. This motivates why using mobile phones. The project has two primary goals: 1) Rwandan Citizens are aware of their rights, procedures and laws in force; 2) Citizens have better and easy access to legal services. So far 55 legal messages were developed and are available under form of both IVR and USSD. The project started in March 2018 and by mid-September 2018, around 1998 persons have been received by the call center operators (legal experts based at LAF offices); 19230 people booked calls (wanting to talk with legal experts); 53585 people listened to the legal information uploaded on 845 platform in form IVR and 63585 persons read legal information uploaded on 845 platform in form of USSD.

Ecolones

Ecolones is the first incentive system that rewards recycling promotes sustainable shopping and experiences and offers an electronic commerce tool. Ecolones is the first virtual e-currency that gives value to sustainability. It is given in exchange for valuables that are separated at home and taken to recycling through an incentive system in which they can be exchanged for discounts on sustainable products and services. This promotes recycling and promotes a green and solidary economy in Costa Rica where space is given to companies and national enterprises that offer sustainable and healthy products. Ecolones is a social and environmental enterprise that encourages recycling by returning people "virtual money" for each bottle, can or container delivered to the collection centers. The 'ecolones' they receive can be exchanged for discounts on products, services and experiences.

Ecolones

Ecolones is the first incentive system that rewards recycling promotes sustainable shopping and experiences and offers an electronic commerce tool. Ecolones is the first virtual e-currency that gives value to sustainability. It is given in exchange for valuables that are separated at home and taken to recycling through an incentive system in which they can be exchanged for discounts on sustainable products and services. This promotes recycling and promotes a green and solidary economy in Costa Rica where space is given to companies and national enterprises that offer sustainable and healthy products. Ecolones is a social and environmental enterprise that encourages recycling by returning people "virtual money" for each bottle, can or container delivered to the collection centers. The 'ecolones' they receive can be exchanged for discounts on products, services and experiences.

Zafrales

Zafrales is a technology-based company that connects work with workers for temporary and temporary operational tasks in the agricultural sector with great particularities and differentials for both workers and companies. This Uruguayan company has a great social impact in the agricultural and insdustrial sector. Zafrales is the most effective way to link workers and producers for temporary and seasonal operational activities through technology. The operation of this platform is simple, fast and secure. Zafrales constantly offers up-to-date job opportunities through its web platform and also through its social networks. From October of 2017 to August of 2018 with the platform of Zafrales, they managed that more than 6,000 wages are connected with companies that looked for qualified labor and managed to be hired.

Safetyforlife

Safety For Life facilitates the application of labor safety standards and procedures, increases compliance with legal provisions and improves the current training of workers in the field. At Safety for Life, we believe in the welfare of workers. We believe that if any company can access the available technologies and adds an innovation quota, we will have safe, healthy and productive workers. Together with our clients and their employees, we promote a culture of safety, contributing to the care of people and the development of the national industry. We look for technological solutions that companies and workers can incorporate in their own processes in a simple way, sharing our knowledge and vision of management in occupational safety and health. We have an innovation laboratory called SafetyLab, which allows us in a creative environment to experiment systematically different alternatives to address complex problems, articulating solutions in a collaborative way and based on learning.

Work Wizard the digital platform for disability

Our short video: https://vimeo.com/302795863 Advanced Info Services (AIS), the leading digital life service provider in Thailand, aims to assist each sector of Thailand especially to people with a disability. Having set the objective of creating decent jobs for and reducing the inequality to the disabled, AIS has initiated a project called “Work Wizard, the digital platform for the disability”. Work Wizard: Digital Platform for People with Disabilities combines two programs which offer job opportunities to people with disabilities ranging from visually- and hearing impaired to physically- and intellectually disabled. Through professional training with technology-assisted programs and digital devices, AIS employees with disabilities have gained valuable experiences including skills in customer service, computer software development, assistive technology, and increased in self-esteem, and social inclusion. “Providing Job Opportunity at AIS Call Center” - AIS collaborates with partners to build facilities and installations for the disabled to be trained professional skills and to work as AIS Call Center both online and offline. “Smart Farming by Children with Down Syndrome at Rajanukul Institute” - AIS with Rajanukul Institute support children with down syndrome to work in organic farming with the support of AIS the Internet of Things (IoTs) platform and mobile application. Work Wizard provides people with disabilities jobs to sustain themselves and help society perceive them as valuable and contributing individuals, not as a social liability. More importantly, Work Wizard meets multiple SDGs as SDG 8 to create decent jobs or careers for the disability, SDG 10 to reduce inequality in society, SDG 4 to provide professional skills for the disability to be self-reliant, SDG 17 to collaborate with partners and the disability to generate values to Thailand’s economy , and SDG 1 to eradicate poverty among people with disability.

TOC Biometrics

Toc biometrics is a Chile-based firm specializes in biometric customer onboarding, KYC, and mobile transactions. This company is specialized in the development of biometric identity verification technology and applications, and it is based on a “no database" principle. The applications are focused on facial and fingerprint authentication, remote and onsite, for the finance and insurance industries. It uses Remote Facial Authentication in order to have a Facial ID verification platform, in which customers are able to use a smartphone or computer to allow remote secure transactions such as KYC, OnBoarding, Digital Signature, Approvals, etc. The patented platform for biometric mobile authentication allows secure and private transactions between banks and their customers. The company relies on a multidisciplinary team comprised of Systems Engineers, Electronic Engineers, Civil Industrial Engineers, Lawyers, Commercial Engineers, Developers, Advertising Agents and Designers, all dedicated to the development and integration of biometric technology systems for use in diverse industries.

Providing Safe and Secure Deliveries around the World

The current project's aim is to provide safe and secure deliveries for expectant mothers’ healthcare using ICTs. This project targets country with high fetal mortality rate and by spreading this platform, we expect to strengthen the perinatal care condition by partnering with local medical facilities and organization. So far, this project has intervened into countries like Thailand, Myanmar, and Republic of South Africa to run a test phase. This platform can monitor fetal condition virtually from anywhere, which enables professionals to check the expectant mother and fetus condition and decide the emergency transportation of expectant mothers in a critical condition more rapidly. Moreover, regions with few numbers of doctors are utilizing this scheme to its advantage, allocating human resources more efficiently. Within Thailand, our scheme is now being tested throughout Chiang Mai prefecture as a result of Chiang Mai prefecture's recognition of this project as a prospective and beneficial scheme.

Silabuz.com

Silabuz is a company created in Peru that aims to train young people about different digital tools. Silabuz offers programming classes for teenagers and schoolchildren and for this they work in cooperation with different schools. In the training classes and modules, students learn to create technology, convert their ideas into visible and tangible products, and undoubtedly stimulate their creativity and other skills. For example, young people can learn to create a startup in just a module of 6 lessons. Another advantage is that students can take the lessons on their portable devices everywhere and review, practice, and can even request help from any place and device (PC, Laptop, Tablet or Smartphone). It works in a very simple way: First, the school must obtain the course and then the student registers with the access code of the school. With these simple two steps, the students will take the classes in the school and virtual available at any time and place.

Luabooks

The mission of Luabooks is to link reading with technology. Luabooks is a Colombian publishing house that offers children, parents, and teachers deep stories that invite you to know and transform the world. They are multi-language, animated, narrated and musicalized books that reconcile new technologies and reading. Luabooks makes paper books that are animated with a cell phone. The goal is to capture new readers and those who are no longer attracted to traditional reading. They also develop interactive books, animated shorts and mobile applications. In the vision and production scheme of Luabooks, technological advances are at the service of the construction of meaning through all communication channels of people: our books can be read, see, listen, touch, build and narrate. The books have a noticeable electronic content. This editorial is revolutionizing the children's book industry in Colombia.

Fibre to the Community

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.

Fibre to the Community

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.

Data Bojonegoro

DATABOJONEGORO.COM Is a Book Search and Book Material System that was built and developed by Bojonegoro ICT Volunteers together with the supported by the Bojonegoro District Government. This application is designed to be a book search portal, journals in all libraries in Bojonegoro. This application also provides sophisticated catalog features and a full power journal system, which has been integrated with the existing system in the National Library through the Indonesia One Search network "onesearch.id". With the Bojonegoro Data platform, in addition of being a digital library more accessible to the public, it can also channel different literary work. Through this digital library (electronic library) students and the public find it easier to get different types of books that are in demand since they have been digitized. This program involves the Bojonegoro District Government, the Bojonegoro District Education Office, the Regional Library Service and archives, ExxonMobil Cepu Limited.

Promotion of Bojonegoro UMKM Creative Products through Online marketing and Exhibition Participation 2018

Commonly, many people and companies that are running business in different parts of the world, are still not familiar with the internet and the technology that can help them to develop and expand their businesses to higher and diverse levels. In response to this fact, Information Technology Utilization Program is a digital platform created in order to help the development of SMEs in Bojonegoro, a Regency in East Java, Indonesia This program aims to help the marketing of MSME products through have a focus on the marketplace, by utilizing available platforms, and conducting exhibitions in various cities in Indonesia. This is an innovative program that is looking to apply the use of ICT in order to support learning activities and capacity building. This program was created and developed in collaboration with Relawab TIK Bojonegoro, the Bojonegoro District Government and ExxonMobil Cepu Limited.

EpicQueen

EpicQueen is a Mexican non-profit organization that works for girls and woman in order expand and built their skills and leadership in the world of technology. This civil society initiative tries to overcome the gender digital gap in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics). They are working in different activities such as: • Develop science and technology education programs for girls and women. • Create local communities of Epic Queen in cities of Mexico and other parts of the world. • Conduct meetups, events and talks with young people and women leaders in STEAM. They usually make workshops for little girls from 6 to12 years old. They believe that if we have more experimented girls at coding, programming and technology environment in general, women can build their future in a stronger and easier way. Nowadays, 94% of the leadership roles in the world of technology are occupied just by man. This is an evident inequality.

Pygmalion.tech

Pygmalion.Tech is a Colombian technological education company that seeks to empower human talent for its insertion in the knowledge society. This company offers different services and products of technological training using tools such as educational robotics, electronics, computer programming, among others, through active methodologies where fun and learning is possible. Pygmalion.Tech also supports the development of human talent of teachers and students in educational institutions through extracurricular or curricular programs that strengthen the educational processes of the classroom under the STEAM trend (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics). Its objective is to work under highly practical and immersive methodologies that provoke an accelerated and integral learning. Some of its products are Robotics Seedbed, Introduction to Electronics Course, Design Course of Printed Circuits with application in Robotics, Robotics Course for Children. Each product is supported with guidance, support, and workshops for teachers with the possibility of reaching different regions of Colombia.

Sunu Band

The Sunu Band is a Smart Watch designed by Mexican entrepreneurs in order to Help People who is blind or visually impaired. The band, which is designed to be wearied daily, emits a high-frequency ultrasound wave that bounces off the objects that it encounters. The band considers the strength of this reflection and produces a vibration that’s stronger or weaker depending on how close or far away the object is. Sunu Band is the only smart-band that guides the user on its way around obstacles and enables him to walk and travel with confidence. It uses sonar or echolocation to detect objects up to 16 feet or 5.5 meters away. Sunu Band compliments the white cane, guide dog or low vision. . Our mission is empowering independence through technology that bridges the "access gap" by augmenting our human abilities.

upme

Upme is a mobile application created by three young students from El Salvador. Upme target students and aims to innovate the university transport system through the practice of carpooling. This is an innovative tool looking for students with vehicles that can provide transportation services to other students who want to travel to their universities in a more convenient and faster way than when using public transportation. This application not only facilitates a more agile and safe transport for students, but also offers the possibility of generating income for students who put their vehicle for this service when making their normal route to the University. This is an application that plays with the concept of collaborative economy with the aspiration of being able to provide solutions that benefit everyone and can also contribute to a more sustainable world.

Hezaar Afsaan

Our goals in this project are to increase the reading time per person of the country and the culture of study from the age of childhood and adolescence, as well as to create the same access for all types of society to a variety of educational, scientific and entertainment books for free. Because reading time per person in Iran is very low and there is no equal education for everyone. That's why we built an electronic library that motivates our users to read more books by providing interactive books, as well as rating the user's reading time and sending awards such as a tablet and book collection to top performers on the first day of each month. We also select the best books in various fields of science, education and entertainment and make their interactive version available for free in our library to everyone have equal access to information, fun and knowledge. The cost of producing books, buying prizes and purchasing licenses was originally provided through our personal capital, but now people are also helping us by donating. As our library is become more famous, many of people are now helping us achieve our goals. For example, the Mayor of Isfahan has helped us to introduce this program to all the people of the city, or recently a German author has been willing to give his books licences to Iran for free and in exchange we produce interactive version of his books in different languages. All these and the fact that we increased reading time per person of our users by 400% in last 10 months, gives us energy and confidence to do more!

Valentina

The Sergio Paiz Foundation, also known for its acronym Funsepa, is a non-for-profit organization created aiming to provide technology that improves the educational system and contributes to the alleviation of poverty in Guatemala. We aim to be the leading organization, pioneer and innovative in the scope of education through technology, in order to impact and transcend Guatemala’s development. “Valentina” is one of the projects of FUNSEPA that was launched in 2018 aiming to promote training in technology and job placement for young people between 18 and 24 years old. So far, more than 50 Guatemalans that have been part of this program, have had the opportunity to be trained and are currently in the process of being placed in different financial, agricultural, TICs, beverage and food companies, among others. FUNSEPA’s mission is to improve the nation’s social and economic development through the innovative use of technology as an effective educational tool for youth. Perhaps one of the most significant factors contributing to Guatemala’s failing education system is the severe lack of technology.

Abriendo Futuro

The Sergio Paiz Foundation, also known for its acronym Funsepa, is a non-for-profit organization created aiming to provide technology that improves the educational system and contributes to the alleviation of poverty in Guatemala. We aim to be the leading organization, pioneer and innovative in the scope of education through technology, in order to impact and transcend Guatemala’s development. FUNSEPA’s mission is to improve the nation’s social and economic development through the innovative use of technology as an effective educational tool for youth. Perhaps one of the most significant factors contributing to Guatemala’s failing education system is the severe lack of technology. Less than 20% of people in Guatemala have access to the internet which means children cannot connect to resources on the world wide web. Funsepa has a training program for all the teachers in our equipped schools. It focuses in the using the technology as a pedagogical tool in the classroom, this program is called "ABRIENDO FUTURO", which in english means: Opening the Future.

Technology for Education

The Sergio Paiz Foundation, also known for its acronym Funsepa, is a non-for-profit organization created aiming to provide technology that improves the educational system and contributes to the alleviation of poverty in Guatemala. We aim to be the leading organization, pioneer and innovative in the scope of education through technology, in order to impact and transcend Guatemala’s development. FUNSEPA’s mission is to improve the nation’s social and economic development through the innovative use of technology as an effective educational tool for youth. Perhaps one of the most significant factors contributing to Guatemala’s failing education system is the severe lack of technology. Less than 20% of people in Guatemala have access to the internet which means children cannot connect to resources on the world wide web. The program called, Technology for Education, was created with an innovative vision, focused in change. Its goal is to establish a self-sustainable program that is capable of continuously providing used computers to all the public schools in the country.

Schoolbuzz

This application was created and developed by three Guatemalans: José Gálvez, Luis Sierra and Hsing-Li Chang. They created this platform that allows to monitor the school bus route, in order to provide to the parents, the opportunity to know and track in real time the trajectory of their children on their way to school. Besides, it allows parents to know the arrival time of the school bus to their home, which allows them to better organize their time. With this application parents feel more confident about where their children are, and also it can help them for avoid delays and the possibility that the kids can be late for take the school bus. Schoolbuzz is not used just by parents, it is also designed so that schools have a better and greater control in the transportation service they use for transport their students. At the moment, several educational establishment has already joined the project.

The Virtual reception of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

This governmental project was launched just two years ago on the 23th of September in 2016. This is an institutional website that tries to create an effective mechanism of interaction of different bodies of the State power and administration. It also tries to stablish a direct communication with the citizens at all levels, considering diverse topics that can allow to solve the most pressing problems of the population. The website organize this direct dialogue with the population, ensuring the functioning of qualitatively new and effective system that can manage the complaints of the people, but also aimed at full protection of people's rights, freedoms and legitimate interests The analysis showed that the largest number of requests comes on the removal of barriers and obstacles to development of business entities, cancellation of departmental decisions that are contrary to the law, employment, health, access to bank credit, improve the quality of housing, communal and road services, judicial, law enforcement and regulatory authorities. All these problems can now be addressed efficiently and easily through the website created. Despite it is relatively new, we have already numerous positive outcomes and feedback.

DataBojonegoro

DATABOJONEGORO.COM Is a Material Book and Book Search System built by Bojonegoro ICT Volunteers and supported by the Bojonegoro Regency Government and ExxonMobil Cepu Limited This application is designed to be a book search portal, journal in all libraries in Bojonegoro This application is made with the same two versions, desktop version and Mobile / android version which can be downloaded in PlayStore This application also provides advanced catalog features and a full power journal system, which has been integrated with existing systems in the National Library through the Indonesia One Search network "onesearch.id"

Active for Good

We’re inspiring people to get active and healthy while making an impact for severely malnourished kids by simply download the free Active For Good app. We’re creating programs that monetize physical activity of people all over the world. Activity tracked during challenges, by people being active, is converted into life-saving therapeutic food packets for children suffering from SAM. Our mission is to inspire people to get active while helping provide life-saving treatments to severely malnourished children in the developing world. We provide companies and groups with activity challenges that utilize purpose as a motivator. We are connecting physical activity with a great cause, and we hope to double the global budget for Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), the main line of defense against Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). We've worked with our partners to get life-saving packets to kids in countries like Somalia, Kenya, Nigeria, Mali and South Sudan. When these kids are treated with three packets a day for just six weeks, more than 90% of children recover.

Providing knowledge

It is a computer glossary and it is divided into categories (IT, Multimedia, Networks and Database/Programming). This division was made because the same term can have a meaning in the Networks category and another in Programming, for example. There are more than 10,000 definitions in the glossary (increasing and updated). There are also more internal pages (a list of acronyms, heroes/personalities, ephemeris, a set of questions, etc.). Everything always related to computer science, technology and Internet. One or another term is being updated or edited, and the technology is advancing and certain definitions need to be refreshed. The objective is to provide knowledge to the users and to reach every corner of the planet, which becomes a great impact. That someone can learn or remove any doubt about some other term is the end of the site. We are reaching every home or device that is connected to the Internet, this being a great result and in which it gives visitors to our site continuous learning.

Information Society Innovation Fund

The Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF Asia) has successfully invested over USD3.4 million in 97 innovative initiatives in 24 Asia Pacific economies, tracking every project contribution against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ISIF Asia empowers communities across the Asia Pacific to research, design and implement Internet-based solutions for their own needs. Since 2008, ISIF Asia has provided 69 grants and 28 awards that focused on exciting and new access solutions, connectivity, cybersecurity, research specifically around Internet network operations, as well as other uses with social impact such as education, health, localization, language preservation, freedom of expression, open data, support for disabilities, among others. The program operates completely online, with support from a network of subject matter experts that assist in the selection process. All the reports are available on the ISIF Asia website on a Creative Commons license. Besides funding, ISIF Asia provides a range of capacity building and networking opportunities for selected recipients, looking in particular at increasing women's participation and representation across the Internet industry, as creators and producers of technology, content and services, not only as users or beneficiaries of technical solutions.

Electronic Municipality "E-Commune".

Our future vision of municipality is an electronic municipality "E-commune",a municipality that switch into digital area with dematerialized exchanges gradually replacing paper. The Ministry of Interior, local authorities and Territory Development involved in this major modernisation process with this huge project have to be achieved and deployed on the pilot site in 2018. Algeria lags still behind in the widespread use of technology information, and in particular the implementation of electronic systems to facilitate citizen access to government services. However, the Government has encouraged the use of ICT to improve the socio-economic development and improve the quality of governance. The implementation of the “e-commune”, a first milestone in the administration, is a real challenge and a model of the e-government to the municipality scale.

Electronic Municipality "E-Commune".

Our future vision of municipality is an electronic municipality "E-commune",a municipality that switch into digital area with dematerialized exchanges gradually replacing paper. The Ministry of Interior, local authorities and Territory Development involved in this major modernisation process with this huge project have to be achieved and deployed on the pilot site in 2018. Algeria lags still behind in the widespread use of technology information, and in particular the implementation of electronic systems to facilitate citizen access to government services. However, the Government has encouraged the use of ICT to improve the socio-economic development and improve the quality of governance. The implementation of the “e-commune”, a first milestone in the administration, is a real challenge and a model of the e-government to the municipality scale.

Punto México Conectado Program

The Mexican government through the “Puntos México Conectado” Program aims to bridge the digital divide and enhance broadband internet access for all Mexicans, in order to maximize the endless possibilities it has to offer. With one center operating in each state of Mexico, 32 in total, which

USING FINANCIAL TRANSACTION DATA TO MEASURE ECONOMIC RESILIENCE TO NATURAL DISASTERS

This project explored how financial transaction data can be analysed to better understand the economic resilience of people affected by natural disasters. The project used the Mexican state of Baja California Sur as a case study to assess the impact of Hurricane Odile on livelihoods and economic activities over a period of six months in 2014.

10 years fostering the digital and media literacy

The Programa Escolhas was launched in 2001, with a mission to promote equal opportunities among youngsters in lower socioeconomic segments, where local consortiums are invited to submit p