World Summit Awards

Company profile

World Summit Awards company profile

The World Summit Awards (WSA) is an international competition which aims to select and promote the world’s best startup companies in digital content and innovative applications. It is organised by the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), mandated by the WSIS Plan of Action, cooperates with UNESCO and UNIDO and is operated by the International Center for New Media (ICNM), Salzburg, Austria. 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, the WSA is an international platform for cutting-edge examples on how ICTs can affect society. WSA emphasizes on its homepage cultural diversity and identity, the creation of varied information content and the digitalization of educational, scientific and cultural heritage. It aims to make the benefits of the new Information Society accessible and meaningful for all humanity, and in particular, to raise public awareness and give deserved public recognition to the highest quality e-Content, produced all over the world. It, as of 2018, involves representatives from 180 countries on each continent.