Use internet and mobile applications to create digital content and applications to address the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and you be recognised at the World Summit Youth Award Winners' Events around the world!
The World Summit Youth Award- WSYA contest is a competition among the most committed and creative designers, producers, application developers, journalists, and writers who, by using internet and mobile applications, create digital content and applications which address the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Eligibility
- The online or mobile project to be entered in to the contest must be initiated and executed by young people under the age of 30 (born on or after January 1, 1982) from any of the UN member states.
- Registrants to the contest must hold the intellectual property rights to the work submitted and be the legal originator of the creative product or project. They also must possess the rights to the use of music, sound or audio components used in their project.
- With the registration, contest participants accept the rules of the WSYA contest as stated in the document. Any and all legal recourse to rules, actions and conditions of the WSYA are entirely excluded.
- Submitters of a project cannot become jury members in the year of submission.
Please note: Terms and conditions may be subject to change without notice. They will be published on the WSYA website.
Registration procedure
- The registration, including submitting the project information, must be completed online. After successful registration, participants will receive an ID number to be used in all communication concerning their submission.
- The registration procedure includes signing and transmitting of the release form to the WSYA Office. By signing the release form the submitters confirm that they are the rightful owners to the necessary rights to submit the project. These rights include the copyright, right for using pictures, sound or audio components.
- All WSYA applicants are invited to create a project profile on the YA Friends platform to increase the exposure of their product and serve as an example to others. Winners and Runners-Up are obliged to present their project on YA Friends.
Language
- The product, project, or application may be in any language.
- All registration information (such as description of the product, CV’s of producers) must be in English.
