QNA
Doha
The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MCIT) has called on citizens, residents and stakeholders in the State of Qatar to vote for the Qatari projects nominated for the awards of the World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS) 2023 via the voting link of the competition before the deadline of the voting stage which is specified as January 25, 2023.
Organised by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the competition is a global platform to identify and unveil the success stories in implementing the 18th action lines endorsed by WSIS Forum in Geneva action plan to establish an effective mechanism to evaluate the projects that harness the capabilities of information and communications technology in giving impetus to the sustainable development, MCIT pointed out.
It noted that the list of the nominated projects included 10 projects represented by Tasmu Digital Valley-MCIT- for the first category which is the "Role of governments and stakeholders in mobilising ICTs for sustainable development”, Government Data Centre-MCIT- for the second category which is "Information and Communication Infrastructure”, Government Network-MCIT- also for the second category "Information and Communication Infrastructure”, and Qatar Open Data Portal- MCIT- for the third category "Information and knowledge accessibility”.
It further mentioned the e-learning programme to train the elderly- The Elderly Empowerment and Care Centre "Ehsan”- for the fourth category "Capacity building”, National Information Security Compliance Framework (NISCF)-National Cyber Security Agency- for the fifth category "Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs”.
In addition, MCIT mentioned that among the Qatari projects nominated for the forum were Qatar e-Government Portal (Hukoomi)-MCIT- for the seventh category "Electronic government”, and Industrial Services Platform-Ministry of Commerce and Industry- for the seventh category "Electronic works”, Digital Farmer Community-MCIT- for the seventh category "e-agriculture”, and Media Analytics Service-MCIT- for the ninth category "Media”.
The ministry pointed out that after the expiry of the voting deadline for all projects nominated from various countries around the world, five projects that have received the largest number of votes will be identified for each of the 18 categories. It added that in the fourth stage of the competition, a team of experts from ITU will conduct an in-depth analysis for the five most voted projects for each category, and select one winner project for each category, while winners and champions will be announced accordingly.