Everest Amaefule, Abuja
The Address Verification System, a project of the Nigerian Postal Services, will on Tuesday in Geneva compete among 90 projects from around the world in a competition that will see to the emergence of 18 prize winners of the World Summit on Information Society.
By emerging on the finalist list, the NIPOST inclusion project has already been declared a WSIS champion and will so be recognised irrespective of the outcome of the final lap of the competition.
A statement jointly signed by the General Manager, Corporate Communications at NIPOST, Mr. Franklin Alao, and the Senior Media and Communications Officer, International Telecommunications Union, Jennifer Ferguson-Mitchell, said the NIPOST project was selected from 492 projects from around the world.
The WSIS champions represents all regions of the world,and all stakeholders, and are recognised as stellar models of using the ICT towards implementation of the WSIS Action Lines and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
The statement said, “Since 2012, the prestigious WSIS prizes contest has been recognising remarkable efforts made by entities and organisations from around the globe that focus on accelerating socio-economic progress of the whole world as a community.
“The finalists, known as the WSIS champions, represent the top 90 projects selected from a record-breaking 492 nominated projects.
“The NIPOST Address Verification System project recognised as a WSIS champion seeks to create a centralised and up-to-date database of physical addresses and the details of their occupants to bridge gaps in national financial inclusion strategy, empower the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Know Your Customer, and improve national security infrastructure while creating hundreds of thousands of jobs in a commercially sustainable manner.”
The WSIS Prizes 2018 Award Ceremony will be held on March 20, 2018 at the WSIS Forum 2018 in Geneva.
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the WSIS Forum in Geneva. Eighteen winners will be announced from the 90 finalists, and together all WSIS prizes winners and the WSIS prizes champions will be honoured at the event – including NIPOST.
Each winner is recognised as the best in each of the 18 prize categories, which are aligned with the 18 WSIS Action Lines outlined in the Geneva Plan of Action.
The WSIS prizes submission phase ran from September 11, 2017 to January 10, 2018. It received a record number of 685 project submissions, out of which 492 exceptional projects were nominated.
Close to one million online votes were cast, from January 29, to February 18, 2018, for the nominated projects.
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