World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2021 – Call for Submissions – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) on behalf of the WSIS Stakeholders announces the launch of the 10th edition of the WSIS prizes and calls for submission through the website  by the 25 January 2021.
The WSIS Prizes 2021 is an exceptional international recognition of the WSIS Stakeholders as Winners and Champions for their excellence in supporting the implementation of the WSIS outcomes, in particular WSIS Action Lines supporting the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
During the period from 1 November 2020 to 25 January 2021, all WSIS stakeholders are invited to submit WSIS related projects to the WSIS Prize 2021 contest. In the Agriculture domain, prizes can be submitted under the Category 13 – Action Line C7, E-Agriculture.
There are five phases to the WSIS Prizes 2021:
For detailed information about these phases read here
In 2019, in the E-Agriculture Category, the Swift Vee project from South Africa was nominated and won. Browse the other 2019 winning projects here.
The WSIS Prizes contest was developed in response to requests from the WSIS stakeholders to create an effective mechanism to evaluate projects and activities that leverage the power of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to advance sustainable development.Since its inception, the contest of WSIS Prizes has attracted more than 300,000 stakeholders.
Following the outcomes of the United Nations General Assembly Overall Review on WSIS (Res. A/70/125) that called for a close alignment between the WSIS Process and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Res. A/70/1), the WSIS Prizes is the unique global platform to identify and showcase success stories in the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines and SDGs.
More information here 
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