The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is organizes a competition in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Where the best applications and accomplishments that have adapted networking and information technology to fulfill the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the Sustainable Development Goals are selected in eighteen divisions (SDGs).
This award is given out during the World Summit on the Information Society Forum, and applicants must go through four stages: (project submission, nomination, voting, and selection).