News Excerpt:
C-DOT wins United Nations’ WSIS 2024 PRIZE “Champion” Award.
More about the news:
- C-DOT (Center for Development of Telematics) wins UN’s WSIS 2024 PRIZE “Champion” Award for “Mobile – Enabled Disaster Resilience through Cell Broadcast Emergency Alerting” category at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+ 20 Forum High-Level Event held at Geneva.
- They were awarded for their commitment to leveraging technology for societal impact.
- C-DOT showcases its AI-based solution to detect and prevent Cyber Frauds at AI for Good Global Summit recognized under AI, C-7, E-environment, in the category of 'Benefits in all aspects of life - E-environment”.
- Two AI Startups – DeepVision Tech and Nayancom- from India, selected by C-DOT through a selection process, also showcased their innovative solutions along with C-DOT.
- Nayancom is an AI-based vision processing platform that collects and processes crowd-sourced visual data for improved road safety and smart city monitoring.
- DeepVisionTech - Let'sTalkSign - an automatic Sign Language Interpreter that works on any device, is helping Deaf, Speech & Hearing Impaired community to get education in sign language.
About C-DOT’s mobile–enabled Cell Broadcast Emergency Alerting Platform:
- It is an end-to-end solution for near real time delivery of life-saving emergency information to mobile phones through cellular networks.
- It is indigenous, cost effective and automated system.
- It has enabled geo-targeted multi-hazard alerting with multi – language support, improving overall efficiency of disaster risk management activities.
- The initiative aligns with global Early Warnings for All (EW4All), International Telecommunication Unions (ITU’s) – Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), ‘Call to Action’ and promotes SDGs (Sustainable Development Goal) targets.
- It enhances the country’s capacity building efforts towards disaster resilience.
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