Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
ESCWA is launching the third cycle of the ESCWA Digital Arabic Content Awardfor Sustainable Development, in collaboration with the World Summit Awards (WSA). The Award recognizes the best digital Arabic content products that relate to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Applications for the Award are open to institutions and young entrepreneurs from Arab countries that have created digital Arabic content applications or products with a clear impact on society.
Award Time Line:
- End July 2023: Call for Applications.
- Mid October 2023: Web applications closes.
- Mid October-December 2023: Evaluation process to select a short-list of products and
Winners. - January 2024: Endorsement of the evaluation results by the Steering Committee.
- End of January 2024: Announcement of short-listed products.
- March 2024: Announcement of Winners during AFSD-2024.
Benefits
- Each of the winners in both categories will receive a Trophy and Travel and Accommodation in the city where the 2024 Arab Forum for Sustainable Development takes place.
- Additionally, winners in the Young Entrepreneurs category will be sponsored to attend the 2024 WSA global congress and will benefit from training and mentoring programmes offered by ESCWA and WSA.
Eligibility criteria
- Applications for the Award are open to institutions and young entrepreneurs from Arab countries that have created digital Arabic content applications or products with a clear impact on society.
- Institutions can be public, private, academic, civil society, non-governmental, or other stakeholders, with existing products that support the achievement of the SDGs.
- Young entrepreneurs can be start-up founders, or teams of young people or individuals where at least one of the founders and most of the team are younger than 35 years old.
Projects Conditions:
- Submissions for the ESCWA Award can contain digital Arabic content applications with a clear impact on sustainable development, such as: apps, webpages, portal, e-services, sms-based products, mobile games and mobile applications. There is no limitation regarding the platforms or channels the projects work with.
- All submissions have to be launched products. No drafts, prototypes, demonstrations or unfinished projects can be accepted. The solution needs to prove that it is a working product and demonstrate its impact at the national, regional or international level.
- All submitted products must have been completed after Jan. 1, 2015. For a project or product completed earlier, the submitters have to indicate the significant improvements and updates that have been made in the period thereafter.
- A product can be submitted for one or more SDGs and the application should specify the main goal(s) addressed and explain the linkage with these goals.
- In case of multiple submissions by the same Institution or Entrepreneur, each product requires a separate application.
- Products that were submitted to this Award in the previous cycles and were not selected as winners, can be re-submitted this year. Applicants should specify the new features/updates, if any, in the new submission for 2023.
About ESCWA:
ESCWA was established in 1973, it is one of five regional commissions under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. The role of the Commission is to promote the economic and social development of Western Asia through regional and subregional cooperation and integration. It plays a critical role in promoting a holistic approach to development in their regions and balancing the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development in their member States.
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