UN’s WSIS 2024 “Champion” Award | 08 Jun 2024

Source: PIB

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.