The Award results were announced on 15 March 2023, during the Arab Forum for Sustainable Development, and are included in the Brochure on Winners 2023.
ESCWA launched the second cycle of ESCWA Digital Arabic Content (DAC) Award for Sustainable Development 2022-2023, in July 2022, in collaboration with the World Summit Awards. The Award recognizes the best digital Arabic content products that relate to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Award cycle was concluded during the 2023 Arab Forum for Sustainable Development with the announcement of winner projects in two categories - Institutions and Young Entrepreneurs:
- Institutions: Existing digital Arabic content products that support the achievement of SDGs developed by the public sector, private sector, academia, non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations or by any other relevant stakeholders.
- Young entrepreneurs: Formal start-ups, teams of young people, and individuals younger than 35 years of age, open to any entrepreneur, company, student group or project team where at least one of the founding members and the majority of the team is under the age of 35 and from an Arab country.
The rules and conditions for participation and evaluation criteria were set by a joint ESCWA-WSA steering committee, and a jury of experts have evaluated the submissions and selected the Award winner projects for 2023.
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