The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Expert Team, which is mandated by the UN, decided the winners at the 2017 WSIS Prize Champion event, including the PATTIRO, Kedesa.id initiative along with 300 international initiatives in 18 different categories.

The Kedesa.id program, which promotes accountability in the implementation of the Village Law, was successfully included in category three, namely Access to Information and Knowledge. This initiative will compete with 18 other initiatives. It should be emphasized that in this category, the PATTIRO initiative is the only nominee from Indonesia.

Apart from PATTIRO, there are also 17 other Indonesian initiatives. The 18 initiatives require votes in order to advance to the next round, the top five will then be selected as the winner for each category.

With the entry of 18 initiatives from Indonesia in 2017, it shows a rapid increase from the previous year when only three participants came from Indonesia, “With the entry of 18 Indonesian initiatives as nominees for the 2017 WSIS Award, this increasingly shows that Indonesia has to offer alternative solutions for the world facing challenges in “Today’s information age,” said Samuel Abrijani Pangerapan, Director General of Information Applications at the Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kemkominfo), Tuesday (4/4).

The process of determining the winner itself is ensured by five stages, namely registration, determining the nominees by experts appointed by the UN, global voting to determine the five best per category, after which the experts will choose one winner for each category. The award will be handed over directly by the Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at the 2017 WSIS Forum session in Geneva, on 12 June – 16 June 2017. The award will not only be given to the winner, but also to the five best.

“The WSIS Award can be a platform to recognize and at the same time display a number of success stories and best practices from various stakeholders in various corners of the world which can be examples or replicated by anyone,” he added.

The WSIS annual event is closely related to efforts to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Agenda. Through ITU, the UN formulated that SDG 2030 as a target, direction and reference for the development of world countries, including Indonesia, cannot be separated from the use of technology. information and communication in empowering society.

The 18 initiatives are spread across several categories. Apart from PATTIRO, 17 others are also waiting for votes from the Indonesian people.

• Category 1: The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development (2 of 34 initiative)
1. Data Revolution for Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals (by Bandung Institute of Governance Studies/BIGS)
2. Research on ICT Initiatives on the Governance Sector in Indonesia (by Bandung Institute of Governance Studies/BIGS)

• Category 2: Information and communications infrastructure (2 of 27 initiative)
3. Indonesia Internet Exchange (IIX) (initiative by the Indonesian Internet Service Providers Association/APJII)
4. Mandiri Indonesia Digital Cooperative (initiative by DIGICOOP)

• Category 3: Access to information and knowledge (1 of 18 initiatives)
5. Promoting Accountability of Village Law Implementation through ICT-based forum and feedback loop mechanism (initiative by PATTIRO)

• Category 4: Capacity building (1 of 30 initiatives)
6. Clevio Coder Camp (initiative by Clevio Coder Camp)

• Category 5: Building confidence and security in use of ICTs (1 of 12 initiatives)
7. Miss Internet Indonesia (initiative by Handoyo Taher)

• Category 6: Enabling environment (1 of 9 initiatives)
8. From Smart City to Open City: The case of Jakarta Smart City (initiative by the Center for Innovation Policy and Governance / CIPG)

• Category 7: ICT Applications: E-government (2 of 52 initiatives )
9. My Grandfather Came (initiative by Pulse Lab Jakarta)
10. Game My Village: Innovation for Strengthening Participatory Planning and Public Monitoring in Village Development (initiative by Sinergantara Indonesia)

• Category 8: ICT applications: E-business (1 of 18 initiatives )
11. Kaki5JKT (initiative by Pulse Lab Jakarta)

• Category 9: ICT Applications: E-learning (0 of 20 initiatives )
THERE ISN’T ANY

• Category 10: ICT applications: E-health (1 of 31 projects )
12. Track Malaria (initiative by Pulse Lab Jakarta)

• Category 11: ICT applications: E-employment (1 of 12 initiatives )
13. Employability, job platform for persons with disabilities (initiative by Saujana Indonesia)

• Category 12: ICT applications: E-environment (1 of 14 initiatives )
14. Backpack Radio Station (initiative by Iman Abdurrahman)

• Category 13: ICT applications: E-agriculture (3 of 22 initiatives )
15. UAV-Based Mapping For Village Planning And Precision Agriculture (initiative by Pulse Lab Jakarta)
16. Information System for Farmers (an initiative by PT. 8villages Indonesia)
17. iGrow My Own Food (initiative by iGrow)

• Category 14: ICT applications: E-science (0 of 6 initiatives )
THERE ISN’T ANY

• Category 15: Cultural diversity, identity, linguistic diversity, local content ( 0 of 10 initiative)
THERE ISN’T ANY

• Category 16: Media (0 of 11 initiatives)
THERE ISN’T ANY

• Category 17: Ethical dimensions of the Information Society (1 of 13 initiatives )
18. “Internet Sehat” (Internet Healthy) Towards the Indonesian Information Society (initiative by ICT Watch – Indonesia)

• Category 18: International and regional cooperation (0 of 9 initiatives)
THERE ISN’T ANY

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