UN World Summit Award Nigeria

Expansion of mobile and web content awareness programmes across the 6-geopolitical zones in Nigeria

Programos Foundation also hosts the UN World Summit Award process in Nigeria (www.wsanigeria.com.ng). Mr Amos Emmanuel is the eminent national expert for the WSA in Nigeria and has made Nigeria show several success stories in the global competition on mobile and web content innovation for many years. Recent awards for Nigeria recently celebrated in Colombo, Sri Lanka and Abu Dhabi last year, being the ‘Opon Imo’ or ‘Tablet of Knowledge’ educational product by Osun State Government, the ‘Transparent Nigeria’ open government and data product by Uchechi Iwealla, and iPolice Mobile – security and safety mobile innovation solution by Mr Ihesie Peter, Ceo, Complustech Limited.

About UN WSA Nigeria:

The World Summit Awards honour excellence in multimedia and e-Content creation. Forty winners (5 in each category) are selected from more than 100 UN member countries. Special emphasis is placed on those projects which show the benefits of information and communication technology for the development of

society at large. Over and above the judging criteria the judges look for the ‘value add’ to Nigeria – what are the products & services that can we put on the global stage to increase both NIGERIA visibility & create international sales. This is a great showcase for the innovative & clever thinking that is growing among entrepreneurs in the country.

“The needs of a modern society must be addressed by the development of digital content and applications”. So says: