culture, gender or geographic location”. UNESCO - Patronage to WSA In 2004, UNESCO granted patronage to the World Summit Award 2005, as it contributed to overcoming the digital gap and at the same time encouraged the creation of “locally relevant, high quality multimedia content”. WSA Categories WSA Categories reflect the UN WSIS line. They derive from the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), UN Geneva Agenda, the Tunis Action Plan and the United National Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). They are regularly updated in order to meet and adapt to the development of the markets and societal changes. There are 8 WSA Categories. Every year, five projects are awarded in each of the eight categories. The categories are the following: WSA Grand Jury WSA Grand Jury is a Jury meeting that is considered highly relevant in the whole WSA Process. A jury of international experts evaluates and selects the 5 best projects from each category. The jury process is a moderated, democratic vote in two stages, typically held as grand jury events about two months before the winners' events and the Congress. Moreover, since 2003, WSA has celebrated the WSA Grand Jury to select the best content and innovative applications. The meetings have taken place in several locations, such as Bahrain, Croatia, India, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Azerbaijan,Berlin and - latest - Jakarta. WSA Network WSA is a global community that seeks to combine voices, perspectives, and insights of entrepreneurs, and national and corporate experts from different fields and expertise. Coming from NGOs, Governments, and Professional Associations. Always with the main goal to reach the UN Sustainable Goals. National Experts and nomination process WSA works with and through a network of national experts that expands over 170 countries. National Experts are responsible for the pre-selection, therefore the nomination process of the solutions in their countries. Their task is to scout the national ICT markets for suitable applications, that fit the evaluation criteria of the WSA. In some countries, the national experts hold official national pre-selection competitions, and thus their deadline applications may differ from the WSA Global Application. Youth Ambassadors Youth Ambassadors are part of the WSA Network. They are Young Innovators who support and engage youth in the entrepreneurship sector. Moreover, they have diverse backgrounds and support the national pre-selection of entries of WSA. Board The WSA Board consists of high-level international ICT Experts from 15