In Madad Lab II After months of training and preparing, participants have finally presented their projects.

The participants presented their projects for the jury. Members of the jury are a group of foreign companies and institutes, EU representative, GIZ, TeraTarget, and government officials.

Ten teams were participating in the program. Competing teams had different project ideas and wanted to achieve the first place in the program.  The projects had many different themes, and all were making a great impact on the communities in their unique way

The projects were specializing in renewable energy and solar panels, also health care services, public services, and volunteering services. Each team gave a narrowed-detailed presentation about their projects for eight minutes and then. After presenting, they spend five minutes answering questions from the jury.

The board of jury started their process of filtering and ranking the projects of the teams. The number of the juries was eight experts, local ones and international ones.

The ranking of the winning teams was from the seventh to the first. They were chosen depending on amount of impact the project will have on the people’s life, environment, and society generally.

The team that took the first place in the competition had a project for helping refugees with their education. The first-place winners until the seventh-place winners, will all have to start working on their projects. They’ll receive an amount of financial support determined by the need of the project. Along with the financial support they will receive mentoring to establish their project.

The jury will choose the winners depending on how much impact the team members will achieve through the project. The jury will select winning participants to attend the upcoming events of the program.

Because of the attendance of local and international companies and institutes in the presentation date, the participants received more chances. The companies have promised to support the projects, financial and money wise.

The technical help in the workshops of TeraTarget made this stage of the program possible. TeraTarget is until now giving mentoring to the participants.

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WSA which stands for Worlds Summit Awards is a nomination-based award system in digital innovation. The yearly summit focus on new innovations in the field of IT. They also require these digital innovations to have a positive social impact.

The event is within the framework of UN SDG and partly funded by EU.

The significance of the upcoming events of WAS is that for the first-time inventors from Iraq can join too. This will open the door to many local pioneers and prominent figures. They can give their invention the chance to see the light on a global platform.

A fundamental part of the WSA is the National Experts. These are experts from 178 countries around the world. Each expert is coming from a different background and have a variety of social engagements.

The first National Expert that was selected by WSA in Iraq is Dr. Hemin Latif. He will be supervising the early nomination to the international summit.

Dr. Latif holds a BSc in Civil Engineering, a BSc in Computing and Statistics. Along with a Graduate Diploma in Computing and Informatics. And finally, a Ph.D. in Interaction Design and Robotics.

Moreover, he is Assistant Professor of Information Technology at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS). On an entrepreneurship view, he is the founding Director of the Center for Informatics and Data Analytics (CIDA). Along with being the Co-founder and Executive Director of TeraTarget for Digital Intelligence and IT Innovations.

Besides his education and entrepreneurship occupations, Dr. Latif has supervised numerous student projects and teams. Including winning projects of City Award of Sulaimani 2014, the winning project of the national competition of Microsoft ImagineCup 2012 . Finally, he has mentored many featured projects on multiple TV programs.

These experiences in a variety of fields have made Dr. Latif a strong candidate as a National Expert. Therefore, he was chosen by WSA as the first and only National Expert from Iraq.

Now, inventors can participate in the WSA, through their national expert. Additionally, have the chance to benefit from this international opportunity.

The World Summit Awards are a non-monetary award system. Instead, the program focuses on sustainable knowledge transfer through a worldwide network. This means that winners benefit not from a one-time financial reward, but a lifelong partnership and integration.

This lifelong partnership and integration will include the following: –

• Pitching seminars
• 5-minute pitch session in front of an international audience during the Congress
• A program of especially crafted workshops for the winners
• Invitation to the prestigious award ceremony and Gala night
• Board and lodging for the durance of the Congress
• Eye to eye exchange with speakers, jurors and international guests

• Integration into a network of internationally recognized digital content developers
• Access to the WSA community of global experts and industry leaders in over 180 countries
• Interaction with world-renowned sponsors and partners of the WSA community
• Workshops specially shaped for the winners needs
• A videoclip highlighting the winners projects
• Special placement on WSA website, Youtube channel and social media promotion
• Long-term coverage within WSA editorial channels

These chances are a crucial help to make any business or idea successful. People now, from Iraq and Iraqi-Kurdistan can benefit from it, too.

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