Signal Reach Program in Africa

Over 60% of Africans lack mobile internet access, limiting access to education, healthcare, financial services, and economic opportunities. Rural communities face three major barriers: no power, no infrastructure, and high deployment costs, making traditional network expansion economically unviable.

ZTE’s Signal Reach Program delivers an end-to-end “EcoSite + EcoEnergy + EcoDevice” ecosystem combining modular solar-powered telecom sites, intelligent energy management, affordable devices, and digital skills enablement. Designed for “no power, no roads” environments, the solution provides sustainable 2G/4G connectivity today with a clear pathway to 5G.​​

Winner in the categories:

DWP SMART CITIES AWARD

DWP GLOBAL AWARD

Defeat the Leuk-Monster

Childhood leukemia is the most common pediatric cancer worldwide. While survival rates now exceed 90%, treatment success depends heavily on strict dietary management during chemotherapy. Yet 15–30% of pediatric chronic disease management fails due to low patient motivation, and approximately 40% of leukemia patients experience severe gastrointestinal complications linked to poor dietary adherence. Traditional educational materials are often too complex, passive, and poorly suited to children’s cognitive development.

Defeat the Leuk-Monster, launched and supported by Boke Foundation, is an evidence-based digital therapeutic that transforms dietary management into an engaging adventure game. The solution combines behavioral science, clinical nutrition guidance, and gamification to help children actively manage their recovery. Through interactive missions, educational challenges, doctor-recorded video recipes, and reward-based incentives, the platform bridges the gap between hospital treatment and home-based care.​

Winner in the categories:

DWP HEALTH & WELLBEING AWARD

PVMaster

Distributed solar PV is one of the most important enablers of the global energy transition, yet project development remains slow, fragmented, and highly dependent on specialist expertise. Traditional solar design requires multiple software tools, extensive site visits, and lengthy engineering processes, resulting in development cycles of 2–3 days per project, high costs, and significant barriers to scaling clean energy deployment.

PVMaster is an end-to-end intelligent solar design platform developed by LONGi that digitalizes and automates the entire distributed solar development workflow. By integrating site modeling, AI-powered layout optimization, electrical engineering, generation forecasting, and financial analysis into a single platform, PVMaster enables developers to design, validate, and optimize solar projects in minutes rather than days, dramatically accelerating renewable energy deployment.​

Winner in the categories:

DWP CLIMATE AWARD

Pade Technology 

Pade Technology has developed the world’s first AI + NIR (Near-Infrared) optical sorting system tailored for post-consumer textiles. This intelligent infrastructure enables the real-time classification of over 17 fiber types and blend ratios with over 90% accuracy, addressing one of the fashion industry’s most pressing challenges: scalable, high-purity textile recycling.​

The system integrates machine learning, cloud-based ESG traceability, IoT sensors, and predictive analytics, providing brands, recyclers, and designers with an end-to-end platform for material transparency, carbon tracking, and circular design integration. ​

Winner in the categories:

DWP CLIMATE AWARD

DWP GLOBAL AWARD

AI Ocean by Taiwan Mobile 

Recognizing marine biodiversity as a key sustainability priority, Taiwan Mobile began collaborating with BlueTrend in 2023 to develop the “AI Ocean” data center—the first Traditional Chinese marine biodiversity database application.​

The project engages citizen scientists to upload marine life images. Uses AI recognition and generative AI Chatbots to accelerate both data accumulation and knowledge dissemination.​

To date, over 9,000 citizen scientists have contributed nearly 20,000 images, training AI to recognize 150+ species and importing over 500,000 characters of marine data to train the AI model. “AI Ocean” data center will continue to expand data capacity, develop AI-driven biodiversity analysis, and create a marine knowledge map to support conservation policymaking.​

Winner in the categories:

DWP BIODIVERSITY AWARD

En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator​

En‑ROADS is a global climate simulator brought to us by Climate Interactive that allows users to explore the impact that dozens of policies—such as electrifying transport, and improving agricultural practices — have on hundreds of factors like energy prices, temperature, air quality, and sea level rise. Know more about this solution below.

• A web-based, system dynamics climate model powered by ~21,000 equations.​
• Enables users to test the impact of policies like renewable energy adoption, electrification, land use change, etc., in real time.​
• Outputs over 150 data visualizations updated instantly as users manipulate variables.​
• Open source and available in 21 languages​.

Winner in the categories:

DWP EDUCATION AWARD

Huijia Health’s nFOPT​

Huijia Health’s nFOPT is a disruptive, AI-powered non-invasive fiber optic sensing platform that transforms any surface—beds, chairs, helmets, machines—into a smart, real-time health or performance monitoring device. At just 2mm thick fiber optic sensor, it requires no wearables, no batteries, and emits no electromagnetic fields. The sensor transforms vibrations—whether from humans or machines—into high-quality signals readable by AI.​

It enables contactless, continuous measurement of vital signs like heart rate, respiration, sleep quality, and stress indicators, while also supporting industrial ESG applications such as predictive maintenance and machine aging detection. Detectable health indicators include arrhythmia (AF), apnea, heart and lung failure, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, fatigue, and stress response.​

Winner in the categories:

DWP HEALTH & WELLBEING AWARD

AirView+ by Google

AirView+ is a collaborative, ecosystem-driven air quality monitoring solution developed by Google to address the widespread lack of hyperlocal air quality data in Global South cities. By partnering with local climate-tech firms, researchers, city administrations, and corporates, AirView+ deploys cost-effective sensor networks and integrates real-time data into city systems and public platforms like Google Maps. This enables both targeted policy action and public health awareness.​

Winner in the categories:

DWP SMART CITIES AWARD

Salmon Protection Solution in Norway

Developed under Huawei’s TECH4ALL initiative with local partners Berlevåg Hunter and Fishermen’ s Association (BJFF), Simula Consulting, and Troll Systems, the award-winning solution is able to recognize different fish species and filter out pink salmon, an invasive species that is not native to Norway’s rivers and has had a significant negative impact on native salmon.

Winner in the categories:

DWP BIODIVERSITY AWARD

DWP GLOBAL AWARD

My Charge

“My Charge” from Taiwan Mobile Co., Ltd. was the winner of the DWP SMART CITIES AWARD in the 2024 edition.

My Charge aims to address Taiwan’s traffic congestion due to its geographic environment, conserve energy and reduce carbon emissions. This service focuses on developing destination slow-charging stations based on the lifestyle habits of Taiwanese people. The goal is to build a nationwide electric vehicle network and encourage more enterprises to join in sustainability efforts. By providing convenient and high-quality charging services, Taiwan Mobile aims to increase the adoption of electric vehicles among the public, thus expanding the popularity and usage of green transportation solutions.

Winner in the categories:

DWP SMART CITIES AWARD

Ubbu

Ubbu was the winner of the DWP EDUCATION AWARD in the 2024 edition.

Ubbu is an edtech platform, designed by Unicorn Treasure, to revolutionize the way children aged 6 to 12 learn computer science and develop digital literacy. Ubbu offers a dynamic and interactive learning experience that transforms coding education into an engaging adventure. Through gamification, interactive activities, lessons, and projects, Ubbu introduces young learners to the world of programming, logic, and problem-solving, all while fostering a sense of curiosity and creativity. For teachers, Ubbu offers extensive support with manuals, progress reports, and suggested curricula, ensuring effective implementation even without prior tech knowledge, giving schools the opportunity to include programming in their curriculum without having the need to hire a specific teacher, by using Ubbu any teacher can incorporate the topic in their classes, namely in the citizenship class.
With a focus on sustainability and aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, Ubbu goes beyond traditional coding education, each lesson embeds at least one SDG, raising awareness about global challenges and empowering children to become agents of positive change in their communities and the world.

Winner in the categories:

DWP EDUCATION AWARD

Analytics4Vegetation

Congratulations to E-REDES –with their Analytics4Vegetation digital solution – for taking home the DWP Global Award in 2023. Analytics4Vegetation, consists of an advanced analytics solution effective in controlling vegetation, due to its ability to anticipate risk situations and allow teams to act proactively. This platform makes it possible, for example, to predict the growth of vegetation, calculate the degree of risk of the associated network asset and automatically execute a maintenance order to clean vegetation, taking into account the stipulated safety distances. 

Winner in the categories:

DWP GLOBAL AWARD