Testimonials

“UNESCO has been supporting the World Summit Award since its launch in 2003. It especially values the efforts of the WSA in promoting the digitalization of cultural documentary heritage and in fostering local content.”
Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

“The overall goal of the WSA in bridging the digital divide and narrowing the content gap is a significant initiative that works in parallel with some important objectives of the World Summit on the Information Society and the International Telecommunication Union.”
Yoshio Utsumi, Former Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

 

“We at UNIDO and other UN agencies will promote World Summit Award a lot, because private sector development and growth is the key to poverty alleviation.”
Kandeh Yumkella, Director General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

 

 

“My personal vision is that we can together build, through the World Summit on the Information Society, a new global solidarity founded on a better mutual understanding between peoples and nations, of a shared knowledge society for the future. The World Summit Award will help us make this vision a reality by raising awareness of the enormous creative potential of information and communication technologies and by promoting , by its work, a global evolution from an information society to a shared knowledge society.”
Adama Samassekou President of the WSIS Preparatory Committee 2003

“Bridging the digital divide and building the edifice of a global, development-oriented Information Society is dependent on the quality of information and knowledge that can be made available to all. The World Summit Award, held within the framework of the World Summit on the Information Society, demonstrates the cutting edge in harnessing the vast potential of the digital revolution in the service of humanity. It is my fervent hope that this collaboration with WSA in bringing to the forefront the finest examples of e-content and showcasing best practices from around the world will go a long way in providing comprehensive shape to the vision enunciated in Geneva and pave the road ahead to Tunis and beyond.”
Charles Geiger, Executive Secretary of the Organising Committee of the WSIS 03-05

 

“We took a close look at the concept that’s behind this initiative and decided to support this project as it is in line with ISOC’s mission of promoting the use of the Internet for the benefit of people everywhere.”
Lynn St. Amour, President and CEO, Internet Society (ISOC)

 

 

“We share with the WSA the commitment to bridge the digital divide by empowering people, as we do this worldwide through mobile and data services. Our cooperation, so successfully started during the Winners Gala 2005 in Tunis, has shown an excellent example of a mutually-beneficial cooperation and synergies between the privat sector and a philanthropy-based initiative”.
Saad  H. Al Barrak, Managing Director (CEO), ZAIN Group

 

“I consider the WSA initiative to be highly important because it presents and supports the highest quality in e-Content production in the world and it fits with the priority focus of Austria on the creative use of ICTs for development and the future information society!”.
Alfred Gusenbauer, Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria

 

 

"The WSA 2007 Prize awarded to the Telecentres Portal of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC-Brazil) represented an important source of incentive to new developments in the areas of management, capacitation offerings, partnership and contents. It also provided the Telecentre of Information and Business Network (TIN Network) with national visibility in therms of public policies for digital inclusion initiatives, the possibility of establishing partnerships with prestigious public and private organizations, and the increase in the demand for TIN membership all over the country.

[...]The reaction we received at home was excellent. The result was mentioned in the government media and in official events of the Ministry of Development, Industryand Foregin Trade. The team was very happy and motivated to go ahead with the improvement of the Portal. Proffesor Francelino Grando, Secretary of Industrial Technology of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foregin Trade, was present at the Gala. He was very much impressed with the organization of the event"

Jose Rincon Ferreira, Ministry of Development, Industry and Foregin Trade of Mexico

 

"The WSA Gala was a big chance to meet other companies from different countries, which opened channels for communication and cooperation with them."

Yasser Fayez, Research & Development Int?l (RDI)