Mansour bin Zayed honours winners of GovTech Prize, Global Best M-Gov Award at WGS 2025

In the beingness of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, honoured the winners of the GovTech Prize and the Global Best M-Gov Award astatine the World Governments Summit 2025.

The Summit, taking spot successful Dubai from 11 to 13 February, convenes heads of authorities and government, decision-makers, visionaries and manufacture leaders from crossed the satellite to signifier the aboriginal of governance.

The ceremonial was attended by H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi; H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence; H.H. Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, First Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance; H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah; and H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Crown Prince of Ras Al Khaimah

H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan emphasised that technological innovation is simply a cardinal operator for gathering a amended future, empowering societies, and enabling governments to instrumentality transformative solutions that heighten prime of life.

He stated: “The World Governments Summit serves arsenic a planetary level that nurtures and accelerates innovation. Through its specialised awards, it recognises outstanding achievements successful leveraging exertion to empower societies and heighten governments' readiness for the future.”

Sheikh Mansour awarded the Gold Prize to ExoHeal from Constructor University, Germany, for its AI-driven rehabilitation strategy that assists changeable survivors and individuals with paralysis. The solution combines a robotic mitt and instrumentality learning algorithms to accelerate therapy by 50% portion providing personalised attraction plans and gamified exercises to prosecute patients. The level besides allows doctors to show advancement remotely and set attraction successful existent time, marking a revolutionary advancement successful neurorehabilitation.

The Silver Prize was awarded to TERA from Ecole Polytechnique de Thies, Senegal, which tackles cultivation losses caused by inefficient retention and distribution. The level connects farmers, consumers, and warehouse managers, offering solar-powered retention solutions and a integer marketplace for businesslike nutrient distribution.

The Bronze Prize was awarded to AccessWay from Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, India, which leverages AI-powered navigation, AR-enhanced guidance, and accessibility mapping to assistance implicit 1 cardinal radical with mobility challenges. The app features a 3D avatar companion for step-by-step assistance and promotes economical inclusion by encouraging businesses to follow accessibility-friendly infrastructure, perchance contributing $50 cardinal annually to section economies.

H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan besides recognised the winners of the GovTech Prize, which celebrates excellence and innovation successful authorities services worldwide.

Best Use of Generative AI successful Government Services: VICA 2.0 from GovTech Singapore, an AI-powered virtual adjunct adopted by implicit 60 authorities agencies. VICA 2.0 integrates earthy connection processing (NLP) and generative AI, enabling multilingual, real-time interactions with citizens. In 2024 alone, it processed implicit 1 cardinal national queries, mounting a planetary benchmark for AI-driven nationalist service.

Best Human-Centric Government Service: Citizen Service Counter Program from Brazil, launched successful March 2024 to heighten integer inclusion. The inaugural provides in-person authorities assistance, escaped net access, and integer skills grooming to underserved populations, benefiting implicit 80,000 citizens and achieving a 95% occupation solution rate.

Best Government Service successful the World: Suomi.fi from Finland, a nationwide integer nationalist services portal utilized by 95% of Finnish adults. In 2024, it facilitated implicit 200 cardinal e-identifications and sent astir 20 cardinal integer messages, demonstrating a transformative attack to secure, unified integer governance.

The GovTech Prize is overseen by the Emirates Government Service Excellence Program (EGSEP) successful the UAE Prime Minister’s Office nether the UAE’s Ministry of Cabinet Affairs, aiming to accelerate innovation successful authorities services by engaging students, researchers, startups, backstage assemblage leaders, and authorities institutions successful processing breakthrough solutions for societal challenges.

Marking its 10th edition, the Prize expanded to admit some government-led initiatives and student-led innovations done the GovTech Prize and the Global Best M-Gov Award respectively fostering a future-ready GovTech ecosystem.

This year’s GovTech Prize recognized authorities work excellence successful 3 cardinal categories, Best Use of Generative AI successful Government Services, Best Human-Centric Government Service, and Best Government Service successful the World.

Meanwhile, the Global Best M-Gov Award spotlighted university-led projects that leverage exertion to heighten prime of life, with scalability for planetary impact. All nominations underwent rigorous valuation by an autarkic judging panel, assessing innovation, scalability, sustainability, impact, and alignment with societal needs. The awards observe solutions that present tangible benefits, heighten nationalist work efficiency, and acceptable caller planetary standards successful integer governance.

As a starring planetary platform, the World Governments Summit fosters forward-thinking governance, innovation, and nationalist assemblage excellence done its divers array of planetary awards.

In summation to the GovTech Prize, the Summit hosts awards including Best Minister successful the World Award, Innovative Government Solutions Award, Global Government Excellence Award and Best Teacher successful the World Award.

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