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 178 countries. WSA highlights digital content improving society and focuses on local content with global relevance.
A Jury of international ICT experts in two democratic rounds selected the WSA winners. Each UN Member State is eligible to nominate one product per category for the World Summit Award. This way, any nomination results from a national pre-selection prior to the international WSA Jury and guarantees a fair and democratic process.
Mr. Zaman Abdulhameed Zaman said we are extremely honored to have won this prestigious award. We are proud to have built a world class product that is used by our clients from all sectors from around the globe. The global recognition from WSA is a testament that products and startups from the MENA region can innovate and push technological boundaries that can impact and better millions of lives, said the CEO and founder of the company which he co-founded with the company’s Chief Creative Officer, Ricardo Gaspar and Alharith Alatawi, the Chief Operating Officer .
Skiplino is multilingual queue management system that allows businesses to handle customer queues smartly and speedily. It is an intelligent cloud-based system that can monitor data related to queues in real time, and collect customer feedback using its mobile app and its suite of other applications.
The Award-winning company has received global recognition for its groundbreaking technology since the company’s inception. It was one of the top three startups out of more than 400 Startups that participated in Step 2016 in Dubai, which is the biggest MENA Startups conference. It was also selected as of the top 20 startups from around the globe in The Next Web 2016 Europe, which was held in the Netherlands and is the biggest technology conference in Europe. The company also received the Al Sabah Award for Informatics last November, and was recently named as one of the top 10 Startups to Put on your Radar in 2017. It was also featured as one of the top retail solutions in many technology publications and websites, as featured in insider-trends.com.