WSA (Nigeria) 2022 National Call for Innovation Applications Opens across 6 Geo-political zones:

– Creative Innovators exist in every village?
Programos Foundation’s InnovationbedAfrica Tech-Talents: Innovation Development Capacity Incubation-2030 hubs debuts in every LGA of your state. Invite them to showcase innovation on the world stage!

– Who preserves our Innovators?
Programos Foundation does every thing possible to preserve innovators in Nigeria just as the NGO has conscripted the globally rated home-grown producers into an innovation development capacity incubation-2030 faculty to re-grow and scout a new generation of innovators!

Records have it that owing to discomforts and provocations of COVID-19 pandemic across the globe the count of creative innovations emerging from restless youths and leaders of tomorrow taking positive ACTIONS on the SDGs in our sub-regions remain unprecedented.

Following some work done by Programos Foundation – builders of the Innovationbed Africa private digital ecosystem, quite a number of African countries have performed remarkably well at global innovation appraisal networks of the United Nations World Summit Awards, WSA.

The WSA is a unique awards system, selecting and promoting local digital innovation to improve society.Combining an ongoing  series of international events and activities with a global network of start-ups, social entrepreneurs, mentors, jurors, speakers, experts, government leaders, academia and civil society, WSA is an international platform for cutting edge examples of how ICTs can impact society in a positive way.

With over 17 years of international experience, WSA is a quality seal for digital content with societal impact in over 18 participating countries.

Breakdown of WSA (Nigeria) 2022 Timeline:

Nigeria’s call like of other 187 countries enjoys a nomination period of April 15th to August 31st, 2022.

July 31st, 2022: WSA (Nigeria) National Pre-Selection Jury – On-Premise and Virtual Jury

August 2nd – 4th, 2022: “NCS National Startups Pitch 2020”, Nigeria Computer Society, National Conference 2022, Ogun State, Nigeria.

August 31st: Country Level Deadline – for submission and Pre-selection/nominations to global database.

September 2022: Online Jury
October 2022: Grand Jury Meeting, Indonesia
March 2023: WSA Global Congress and Winners Ceremony to hold in Mexico

Interestingly this year’s programme may shortlist the best e-content startups across the 36 states of the federation plus FCT ahead of the global WSA competition involving 187+ countries to be showcased in the Nigeria Computer Society National Conference 2022 “NCS NATIONAL STARTUPS PITCH 2022” holding via a hybrid event in Ogun State of Nigeria, August 2022.

In collaboration with the Nigeria Computer Society Conferences 2022 Committee, I will lead the coordination for the maiden “NCS National Startups Pitch 2022” process, in my capacity as the United Nations World Summit Awards National Expert for Nigeria.

As nominated by the NCS International Conferences Committee Chairman, Mr. Rex Abitogun, Mr Jide Awe, CEO, Jidaw Systems Limited, will play an advisory role in the Strategy works on this National call.

Thank you,

Amos Emmanuel mNCS, FIIM, CDOA
‘Programos Software Group Chief Software Architect/Ceo, Founder Programos Foundation promoters of Innovationbed Africa – a digital ecosystem.
-National Expert for the United Nations World Summit Awards selecting and nominating Nigerian solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Innovation Category Description for Innovation

Local Innovations for Government & Citizen Engagement
GOVERNMENT & CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT

services | open data | democratic participation

The Government & Citizen Engagement category may entail solutions that:
Integrate the citizens in public administration & increase the citizen engagement
Deliver content rich solutions to the public & connect the public including individuals, businesses and organizations
Enable low threshold access of information, data & procedures & make public services accessible to all
Significantly improve and enhance service depth and quality & democratic processes
Increase transparency in governmental processes & facilitate participation of citizens and public services clients
Simplify administrations & foster efficiency of information exchange
Ensure equal rights to economic resources, access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance

Local Innovations for Health & Well-Being
HEALTH & WELL BEING

medical care | sport | lifestyle

Health & Well Being solutions may address for example:
Meeting healthcare needs of citizens and patients with innovative content applications
Reduce maternal mortality ratio & preventable deaths of new-borns and children
Prevention & reduction of epidemics like AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis or substance abuse
Supporting healthcare professionals, as well as the broader public, policy makers and healthcare providers with easy data access and communication tools & diagnosing with technical solutions & content
Supporting research and development of vaccines and medicines, health financing and recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce
Enable information on healthcare, nutrition, medication, disease & well-being by smart solutions
 Solutions to learn health & well-being by improving and enhancing healthy behaviour, nutrition, hygiene, sports
Content rich solutions to enjoy and facilitate sports, music, entertainment, style & fashion
Utilizing ICTs for hobbies, free-time activities and sports

Local Innovations for Learning & Education
LEARNING & EDUCATION

knowledge | science | skills
 
The Learning & Education category may entail ICT solutions that:
Provide intelligent solutions for easy & low threshold access of education for everyone
Address the learning needs of every level of learner and creating interactive e-learning communities & interactive, personalized and distributed education resources online
Support knowledge transfer and skills gain in a complex and interactive fashion
Help teachers to enhance and simplify teaching & material creation & find new methods and innovative teaching solutions using ICT’s
Enhance corporate training & lifelong learning
Foster global collaboration in science, provide measures to promote science and demonstrate results and value to society
Eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations
Provide child, disability and gender sensitive education tools and safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments

Local Innovations for Environment & Green Energy
ENVIRONMENT & GREEN ENERGY

climate | sustainable resources | agriculture


The Environment & Green Energy category may entail ICT solutions that:
Support maintaining ecosystems, sustainable food production systems & resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production
Adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters
Utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge for sustainable agriculture
Facilitation of timely access to market information, including on food reserves
Supporting methods via ICT’s to progressively improve land and soil quality
Enhance agricultural productivity and support small-scale food producers
Water-use efficiency across all sectors & water resource management at all levels
Support and strengthen the participation in water- and sanitation, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies
Enhance access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology

Local Innovations for Culture & Tourism
CULTURE & TOURISM

Heritage | entertainment | subcultures

Culture & Tourism solutions may address for example:
Preserving and presenting cultural heritage in line with the challenges of the future
Demonstrating valuable cultural assets clearly and informatively using state-of-the-art technology
Develop the diversity of cultures and sub-cultures and the multilingual nature of societies
Enabling travelers to find attractions, to be informed and enlightened, to enjoy safe travel and have access to up-to-date travel information
Enhance inter-modal use of public transport, supporting orientation in cities and countryside, allowing the hotel industry to address customers, and providing navigation-based content
Promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
Safeguard and transmission of cultural heritage
Promote cultural diversity

Local Innovations for Smart Settlements & Urbanization
SMART SETTLEMENTS & URBANIZATION

Mobility |productive work | sustainable living

The Smart Settlements & Urbanization category may entail ICT solutions that:
Support higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation
Support productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
Offer regional and trans border infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being
Enhance safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems
Entail inclusive and sustainable, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management
Solutions for safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces
Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, per-urban and rural areas
Solutions for financial and technical assistance, sustainable and smart buildings
Substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and
Support adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters and/or risk management
Consumer information and/or smart access to data at all levels

Local Innovations for Business & Commerce
BUSINESS & COMMERCE

Innovative services | security | finance | marketing

This category may entail ICT solutions with high social impact that:
support and optimization of business processes
are Fintech solutions with social impact
create of new business models in e-commerce and m-commerce
are solutions which demonstrate an incremental or radical / disruptive innovation development
are applications, processes, products or business models in the financial services industry
are solutions with regard to their supported business processes such as financial information, payments, investments, financing, advisory and cross-process support
are solutions for the insurance industry (“InsurTech”), like retail, private and corporate banking as well as life and non-life insurance
are Business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C) or consumer-to-consumer (C2C) solutions, internet security and other areas
are complementary services such as personal finance management systems, or competitive solutions such as e.g. peer-to-peer lending
provide Data security to protect sensitive consumer and corporate financial data

Local Innovations for Inclusion & Empowerment
INCLUSION & EMPOWERMENT

Diversity | gender | justice | human rights

This category may entail ICT solutions with high social impact that:
support integration of the global information society, empower the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
empowering citizens and stakeholders in public services
reduce “digital divides” between technology-empowered and technology-excluded communities
Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices in legislation, policies and action in this regard
Enhance resilience to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
Support mobilization of resources from a variety of sources
Ensure access for all everyone to food, education, information, data etc.
Strengthen the capacity, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and health risks
Reduce discrimination against all women and girls & prevent all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres
Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
SPECIAL:
WSA Young Innovators

taking action on the SDG’s | strictly for people under the age of 26  

Young (Boys & Girls) Innovationbed ‘Catch-Them-Young’ Excellence Award for Undergraduate Students from 36 states Tech-Talent Incubation in Nigeria : =N= 2.5*m Winning Project Support Advertised for States
WSA (NIGERIA) NATIONAL PRE-SELECTION CONFERENCE AND STARTUP PITCHES

1ST-EVER WSA GRAND JURY IN AFRICA – HOSTED IN ACCRA, GHANA

NIGERIA AND AUSTRALIA NATIONAL EXPERTS

NIGERIA AND SPAIN NATIONAL EXPERTS

INSET WITH JANS OF THE GIZ

AT WSA WINNERS CONGRESS IN CASCAIS, PORTUGAL

NIGERIA AND SOUTH KOREA WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS

NIGERIA AND GERMANY WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS
TRIBUTES TO OUR MOTHER, SISTER AND PARTNER ON THE UN WSA PROJECT ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA LATE DR (MRS) MARTINA EDEBOR – MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE.

NCS NATIONAL STARTUPS PITCH 2022 SESSION HOLDS AT NCS CONFERENCE 2022
Seeking more women innovations from Nigeria in 2022 …

NIGERIAN WINNERS U-TRUCKIT.NG AND NATIONAL EXPERT AT THE WSA WINNERS CONGRESS IN VIENNA AUSTRIA

A CONSTELLATION OF ABOUT 50-COUNTRY WSA NATIONAL EXPERTS MEETING IN VIENNA, AUSTRIA WINNERS’ CONGRESS
PROF PETER BRUCK, WSA CHAIRMAN AND ENGR RAUF AREGBESOLA, HON MINISTER FOR THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR DURING WINNERS CONGRESS IN SRI LANKA

United Kingdom, Nigeria, Bolivia, Morocco and Hong Kong WSA National Experts freeing up in Vienna jury photo session!

WSA NIGERIA NATIONAL NOMINEES CELEBRATING NIGERIA AT A SOCIAL EVENT

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