The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) is the global contest for online or mobile initiatives to raise awareness and help resolve the most pressing global issues. If you rely on the web for creating culture, overcoming gender inequality, lack of education and access to clean water or to address hunger, poverty, disease and environmental degradation, then you should take part! The World Summit Youth Award showcases you as young developers and serves as a platform for people from all UN member states to work together on the efforts of reaching the Millennium Development Goals! The rewards are global recognition within the United Nations, invitations to the WSYA Winners events in Mexico and networking contacts on a global scale.

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Contest ‘09
Categories
e-Contents and ICT applications may be submitted in the following five categories, each of which will have three winners who will be presented at the World Summit Award Winners Gala in Mexico in June 2009. read more…
 
Timeline
Here you can find more Information on WSYA key dates, such as registration deadline, first and second round of judging, as well as the winners announcement and winners celebration. read more…
 
Eligibility Criteria
All online platforms need to be led by youth under the age of 30 and have conform to some criteria, in order to be eligible for the WSYA. read more…
 
Criteria for Evaluation
Excellence in content, design, innovation, interactivity and sustainability are the main criteria that projects will be evaluated on. read more…
 
Jury and Evaluation
The jury of experts to evaluate the applications will be comprised of up to 12 members, consisting of international experts from the backgrounds of youth activists and young entrepreneurs, journalists and media workers, researchers and teachers, representatives of relevant international organisations and partners.
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YA WINNERS 2005
In the last round of the WSYA in 2005 the top three projects in each WSYA category have been selected out of over 300 applications hailing from more then 70 countries. read more…

Details: http://www.youthaward.org/?q=node/19