The Meri Panchayat app has been awarded the WSIS Prizes 2025 Champion Award under the Cultural and Linguistic Diversity category.

About Meri Panchayat App

• Meri Panchayat App is an m-Governance Platform for Panchayats of India.
• Developed by:  The Ministry of Panchayati Raj & National Informatics Centre (NIC)
• Reach: It empowers over 25 lakh elected representatives and serves around 950 million rural citizens across 2.65 lakh Gram Panchayats.
• Linguistic Diversity: The app supports 12 Indian languages, promoting inclusivity through a multilingual user interface.
• Impact on Governance
  • Ensures real-time access to panchayat budgets, payments, receipts, and development plans.
  • Citizens can access Gram Panchayat Development Plans (GPDPs) , track projects, view Gram Sabha decisions, and raise grievances with geo-tagged and geo-fenced evidence.
  • It enhances transparency, accountability, and grassroots participation by enabling citizens to propose, rate, and review local works.
  • Bridges the digital divide and promotes participatory democracy in rural governance.

About WSIS Award

• The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes are awarded by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to recognize outstanding digital projects.

• The award honors efforts aligned with inclusive, people-centric information society development.
• Categories: The Prizes categories are aligned with the WSIS Action Lines, which are derived from the Geneva Plan of Action.
  • These categories cover various aspects of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) and their impact on development.
• Total 18 winning projects and 72 champion projects were awarded at the WSIS Prize 2025 Ceremony at the WSIS+20 High-Level Event 2025

About WSIS

• WSIS is a UN process that involves more than 32 UN Agencies and is built on the framework of the 11 WSIS Action Lines.
• Members: Digital cooperation within UN Agencies including the Governments, Private Sector, Civil Society, Academia and the Technical Community.
• Goal: To achieve a common vision, desire and commitment to build a people-centric, inclusive and development-oriented information and knowledge societies where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information.

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