KaiOS Technologies has achieved the runner-up position in the Prosperity – Promoting Economic Growth category at the SDG Digital GameChangers Awards 2024. This prestigious award recognizes KaiOS's remarkable contribution in providing millions of people with affordable, internet-enabled feature phones, thereby promoting digital inclusion and creating economic opportunities worldwide.
Sonia Jorge, former Board Director of KaiOS, proudly received the award from Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). This accomplishment marks a significant milestone in advancing sustainable digital growth.
About SDG Digital GameChangers Award 2024:
The 2nd edition of the SDG Digital GameChangers Award will honour organizations that are working towards rescuing the Global Goals through digital. The award ceremony will take place during SDG Digital on 20 September, 2024. Participants submitted their innovative solutions, demonstrated practical applications, and showed how digital could help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
About Prosperity – Promoting economic growth category:
This category considers ICT projects, applications, or policies that promote economic growth, job creation, and the development of sustainable infrastructure.
Submissions for this category may include but are not limited to ICT projects, applications, or policies that promote:
- Entrepreneurship and Digital Innovation, recognizing initiatives that foster entrepreneurship, support start ups, and leverage digital to drive innovation and competitiveness in various sectors
- Job Creation and Skills Development, highlighting initiatives that promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth by creating job opportunities, particularly for youth and vulnerable populations, and enhancing digital skills through training and capacity-building programs
- Sustainable Infrastructure, recognizing initiatives that leverage digital for the planning, development, and maintenance of resilient and sustainable infrastructure, including transportation, energy, communication, and digital connectivity
- Access to Finance and Digital Payments, highlighting initiatives that promote financial inclusion, expand access to finance, and enhance digital payment systems to support economic growth and empower individuals and businesses
- Industry Transformation and Sustainable Production, recognizing initiatives that drive the transformation of industries towards more sustainable and responsible practices, including circular economy models, resource efficiency, and sustainable production and consumption patterns.
About SDG Digital:
SDG Digital is a key component of the digital track and a cornerstone of our ongoing efforts to leverage digital innovation for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), set within the broader context of this year’s UN General Assembly, the Summit of the Future and its Action Days. SDG Digital will exemplify how digital technologies can lay the groundwork for a more sustainable, inclusive, and responsible future.
By convening leaders from government, civil society, the private sector, youth, and academia, SDG Digital will propel participants forward into the future, encouraging exploration of the trends, risks, and opportunities presented by digital and emerging technologies on our journey forward.
The key objectives of SDG Digital are to:
- Illustrate how digital technologies, in particular artificial intelligence, space and green technology, present a unique opportunity to attain universal and meaningful connectivity and to implement a plan of action for people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership, with a commitment to leaving no one behind.
- Highlight successful models and partnerships that effectively strengthen digital cooperation and bridge the digital divide, hearing directly from countries and communities. These examples will showcase how the potential of science, technology, and innovation is harnessed to address challenges and risks arising from technology use.
- Spotlight key pledges from ITU’s Partner2Connect (P2C) Digital Coalition as well as other partnerships (Digital Public Infrastructure) that are using new technologies to connect the unconnected through a human and planet-centred approach.
- Introduce the second edition of the SDG Digital GameChangers Award to honour individuals and organizations working towards accelerating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals through digital.
Source: ITU