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    NIPOST Address Verification System (AVS) Emerges Winner of 2018 WSIS Prize

    Anibe IdajiliAnibe Idajili
    March 20, 2018
    NIPOST Address Verification System (AVS) Emerges Winner of 2018 WSIS Prize

    The  Nigerian Postal Service has emerged winner of the of the seventh annual World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes contest for 2018, through the NIPOST Address Verification System, NIPOST AVS. We reported earlier that the postal service had been selected as one of the finalists of the WSIS Prizes contest.NIPOST Address Verification System (AVS) Emerges Winner of 2018 WSIS Prize

    NIPOST AVS seeks to create a centralized and up-to-date database of physical addresses and details of their occupants.

    NEWS: The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) Address Verification System (AVS) today in Geneva, Switzerland, won a @WSISprocess Prize, after being shortlisted as a #WSISChampion earlier this month.

    Throwback video to the launch of #ANewNIPOST in October 2017. #WSIS #WSIS2018 pic.twitter.com/L8kqiuUEuv

    — Government of Nigeria (@AsoRock) March 20, 2018

    The WSIS Prizes Contest

    The WSIS Prizes contest is a global initiative for recognizing innovative projects using information and communication technologies, ICTs, to better the world.NIPOST Address Verification System (AVS) Emerges Winner of 2018 WSIS Prize

    The contest was developed by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to evaluate and recognize individuals, governments, civil society, local, regional and international agencies, research institutions and private-sector companies for outstanding success in implementing development-oriented strategies that leverage the power of ICTs as an enabler of the development.

    73 participants.
    14 teams.
    3 winners.
    1 aim. #ZeroHunger

    More info 👉 https://t.co/6LmwV1adCC pic.twitter.com/WvxNYatLr9

    — FAO4Members (@FAO4Members) March 20, 2018

    The finalists, known as WSIS Champions, represented the top 90 projects selected from a record-breaking 492 nominated projects.

    Today at the @WSISprocess Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) was awarded a Winning Prize in the 7th Annual WSIS Prizes Contest—for the NIPOST Address Verification System (AVS). Post Master General Bisi Adegbuyi was on hand to receive the Award. pic.twitter.com/ONQMm2niYa

    — Government of Nigeria (@AsoRock) March 20, 2018

    About NIPOST AVS

    The NIPOST AVS a verification platform that seeks to create a centralised and up-to-date database of physical addresses and the details of their occupants in order to bridge the gap in data verification. It has built on a highly secure and reliable platform powered by Youverify, one of the Village Capital, PayPal Fintech Accelerator participants.NIPOST Address Verification System (AVS) Emerges Winner of 2018 WSIS Prize

    The platform enables individuals, service providers, institutions and government agencies verify customers’ addresses, as well as identities.

    NIPOST

    It is, therefore, commendable that at the WSIS Process Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) was awarded a Winning Prize in the 7th Annual WSIS Prizes Contest—for the NIPOST Address Verification System (AVS).

    The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a two-tier United Nations-sponsored summit on information, communication and information society.

     


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