The oceanic city of Colombo, Sri Lanka, erupted with a digital climax after a week-long United Nations-backed World Summit Award Global Congress on e-Content and creativity Saturday night as the Opon Imo, Osun’s Tablet of Knowledge was recognized as one of the best 4 e-learning devices across the world.
Africa’s leading representative, Nigeria, won two awards in eight categories, at the grand finale of the ceremony.
The award ceremony was the climax of the week-long annual assembly of the world’s most innovative e-content initiatives in the following categories: e-Government & Open Data, e-Health & Environment, e-Learning & Science, e-Entertainment & Games, e-Business & Commerce, e-Culture & Tourism, e-Media & Journalism and e-Inclusion & Participation.
The august event was inaugurated by Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka.
The winning projects, Transparent Nigeria (e-Government & Open Data category), pioneered by Harvard-based Mr. Uchechi Iweala (son of Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala), and Opon Imo – Tablet of Knowledge (e-Learning & Science category) from Osun State, triumphed over 421 other innovations for the 2013 Awards vetted by the grand jury of global eminent experts.
The World Summit Awards (WSA) is a project of the International Centre for New Media, which is organised among 190 UN-member States and runs within the United Nations (UN) framework of the World Summit on the Information Society. The World Summit Awards has been an on-going activity since 2003.