WSIS 2024 Prize Winner Argentina - University Diploma in Internet Governance and Regulations
Winners of the WSIS Prizes, recognizing innovative technological approaches to support sustainable development, were announced on 28 May 2024 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 Forum High-Level Event 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Overall, projects from 18 countries were presented with WSIS Prizes top honours, showcasing leading efforts to bridge the digital divide, foster digital inclusion, and drive socio-economic progress on a global scale.
“This year's WSIS Prizes demonstrate the innovation and energy that exist to find technological solutions to some of the globe's biggest challenges," said ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin. “These are the creative contributions that the world needs in our effort to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals."
The "University Diploma on Internet Governance and Regulations" is a project created by the South School on Internet Governance (SSIG) in partnership with the University of Mendoza (from Argentina) and the State University of Paraíba (Brazil).
This University diploma focused on Internet Governance and its relgulations is granted at no cost to SSIG fellows.
SSIG has established three different academic stages that students must approve:
1- A pre-training course, available online in three languages (english, spanish, portuguese) of eight weeks.
2- An intensive hybrid format training of 40 hs (five complete days) organized in different countries of the Americas. 2023 edition was organized in the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba State, Brazil.
3- A research phase with tutors and guidance from the University of Mendoza (Argentina) and the Universidad State University of Paraíba (Brazil). This stage is done virtually.
The whole program is completed in six month, successful students recieve the University Diploma granted by these universities, as part of the SSIG academic project.
There are remarkable feautures of this University Diploma:
All activities can be done virtually
All activities and materials are available in : english, spanish and portuguese.
The second hybrid phase of one full week of 40 hs of training allows the face to face interation of fellows that participate in the selected venue.
All activities have NO cost for fellows who attend all classes, complete sucessfully the evaluations and do the final research.
This Diploma has been offered since 2022, since then two cohorts have finished the research and recieved the diploma. So far 70 fellows have completed the research and recieved the diploma from: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, México, Kenya., Italy, Panamá, Colombia, Uruguay, Perú, Paraguay and Venezuela. All stages of the capacity building including the research phase to obtain the "University Diploma on Internet Governance and Regulations" can be done virtually.
Project website
https://gobernanzainternet.org/
