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UN’s WSIS 2024 “Champion” Award
- 08 Jun 2024
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Recently, C-DOT (Centre for Development of Telematics), the telecom R&D centre of the Government of India, won the United Nation's WSIS 2024 "Champion" Award in the "Mobile-Enabled Disaster Resilience through Cell Broadcast Emergency Alerting" category.
- The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 Forum 2024 was conducted by the International Telecom Union (ITU).
- ITU is a UN specialised agency for information and communication
- technologies – ICTs.
- Founded in 1865, it is Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
- India has remained a regular member of ITU since 1952.
- The award recognized C-DOT's commitment to leveraging technology for societal impact and aligns with global initiatives like Early Warnings for All (EW4All) and the ITU's Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).
- At the AI for Good Global Summit (organised along with WSIS), C-DOT showcased its AI-powered solutions such as ASTR (AI and Facial Recognition powered Solution for Telecom SIM Subscriber Verification) for detecting fraudulent/unauthorised mobile connections.
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