Pylon Network Receives Prestigious UN-Based World Summit Award For Spain

4 min readDec 19, 2019

Pylon Network from Spain awarded for world’s best Environment & Green Energy product

The WSA presents a global spectre of content driven digital solutions with real impact. Ranging from VR and 3D Printing to preserve UNESCO world heritage sites to a braille wearable, from a behaviour changing platform to AI and drones to monitor buildings — no matter what the technology, it’s the unique content that makes this top 40 exceptional.

Pylon Network is a near real-time, neutral energy data-hub, supported by an open-source blockchain technology — specially designed to play the role of the digital communication platform for the increased participation of distributed assets in the energy markets in order to transmit data efficiently, track and certify the source of energy, and offer new digital energy services to enhance customer engagement and empower energy communities.

For Pylon Network team “the recognition of WSA award is the best possible validation of our persistent efforts to make the energy sector more simple, transparent, efficient and engaging for consumers and local energy communities; as the most effective way to deal with the climate crisis”

40 Winners from 26 countries, selected from over 400 nominations from 110 UN members states.

WSA 2019 once more presents a diameter of digital innovation from Chile to Bangladesh, from Ethiopia to Lithuania. Ranging from Jana Reading, a Palestinian basic literacy application for Arab Content to Reducept from the Netherlands, using VR to train a different perception of pain. The Social Suite, Australia, is an impact measurement platform monitoring and evaluating organizational impact from the perspective of the UN SDGs. PayMho from Mexico offers a blockchain solution to create extra income in exchange of data.

The 40 winners from 26 countries, selected from 430 nominations from 182 participating countries by an international Jury, offer a perfect diameter of how of digital innovation solves challenges in the 21st century.

The WSA Winner’s 2019 list is manifold, offers many more jewels of innovation, and the above is just a small selection. Focusing foremost on content and impact in their local communities, not only the technical finesse and design, WSA assembled international experts from all regions and fields to select the 40 winners. The final jury phase concluded in an on-site three days meeting in Tunis, Tunisia of 18 international high-level experts, deciding in a democratic and transparent process on the most powerful and content rich solutions 2019.

Pylon Network will be honoured with the World Summit Award in front of UN representatives, ICT ministries and the private sector. Pylon Network will receive their Award in the Environment & Green Energy at the World Summit Awards Global Congress in Cascais.

“WSA combines two major perspectives in its initiative — first the commitment on the UN SDGs, and how to use ICTs to development. And second the development of a global knowledge society. The UN SDGs must be our measurement — in terms of what to look at and where to look. Today we are living in a completely different environment — through the mobile revolution, through the emergence of the algorithmic age — data has become a capital as much as labour, land money and machinery. Hence, it is more important than ever to evaluate what is excellent content that really offers solutions and impact. Qualitative, local content has become the key and permanent issue. WSA presents innovation that uses ICT for social connectivity. To connect for impact.“ WSA Chairman Peter A. Bruck states.

The WSA winners 2019 will present their innovations and receive their awards at the WSA Global Congress in Vienna, Austria (March 8–11, 2020). The agenda of the WSA Congress will be a compilation of interaction and inspiration, assembling workshops, business blind-dates and inspiring keynotes, bringing together the global and multi-stakeholder network of WSA.

About the WSA

The World Summit Award is a global initiative within the framework of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). WSA is the only ICT event worldwide, that reaches the mobile community in over 180 countries.

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