What is WSA?
The WSA Mobile is a global initiative to select and promote the world’s best in mobile content and innovative applications. The contest is based on the expertise, mechanism and network of the World Summit Award (www.wsis-award.org). It is planned to be held every two years.
Winners’ Gala is planned to take place in Abu Dhabi in December 2010 in cooperation and along with the UN DESA GAID Global Forum. National selections for the WSA Mobile run through experts in respective countries. For Ethiopia, EITPA is working as the national expert to propose the national bests.
All efforts of the World Summit Award are conducted within the framework of, and in cooperation with the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), mandated by the WSIS Plan of Action and executed in collaboration with UNESCO, UNIDO and UN GAID. The World Summit Award is the flagship initiative of the UN and its Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID).