Announcement of the winners of the fifth edition of the Crown Prince Award for Best Government Service Application

During the fifth edition, the number of registrants on the award's electronic platform (CPA.JO) reached 1,130 male and female students within 479 teams, while 879 students from 31 official and private Jordanian universities and colleges, distributed across 300 teams, completed the participation requirements, and their applications underwent successive stages of evaluation leading to the final stage and the selection of the winners.

The award adopted five criteria in its fifth edition to select the winners: innovation at 30 percent of the evaluation, impact at 20 percent, scalability and sustainability at 20 percent, application functionality at 15 percent, and team collaboration at 15 percent.

Smeirat said that the award has established its presence through its successive editions as a national space that allows young people to test their ideas, develop their skills, and transform them into applicable solutions, stressing that empowering youth is not a temporary station, but a continuous path with which their participation expands and their impact accumulates.

He added that the award comes in the context of the continuous interest of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II in empowering youth and motivating them to innovate and employ technology, within a broader vision to keep pace with future technology and enhance Jordan's readiness for it, pointing to the diligent follow-up that His Highness gives to the work of the National Council for Future Technology and its initiatives in the fields of digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and innovation and national capacity building.

Smeirat emphasized the importance of benefiting from the rapid development in artificial intelligence technologies and employing them in the submitted applications and solutions, in a way that achieves real value and contributes to addressing actual challenges, increasing efficiency, and improving the user experience, within a responsible use that takes into account data protection and privacy.

During the ceremony, Smeirat announced the launch of the sixth edition of the Crown Prince Award for Best Government Service Application, expressing his aspiration for wider participation, bolder ideas, more innovative solutions, and enhancing the employment of modern technologies and artificial intelligence in addressing real challenges.

In her speech during the ceremony, the Deputy CEO and Director of Programs and Performance Excellence at the Crown Prince Foundation, Nujood Sarhan, said that the most important value in the experiences of the young participants in the award lies in the way they dealt with challenges, starting from investigating and understanding the problem, all the way to developing practical solutions for it, pointing to the importance of continuing participatory work and cooperation with the concerned authorities to reach innovative solutions that serve the nation.

Sarhan pointed out that providing spaces that allow young people to learn, experiment, and develop their ideas reflects the approach of the Crown Prince Foundation in its work with youth over ten years, through various programs and spaces that help them develop their skills, undergo practical experiences, and transform their knowledge and ideas into initiatives and solutions that contribute to their communities, in line with the Foundation's belief that youth are a fundamental partner in Jordan's journey and progress.

Sarhan congratulated the winning teams in the fifth edition, praising the effort made by all participating teams during the stages of the award, and confirming that the experience the youth underwent and the skills they acquired during it in research, analysis, teamwork, and solution development represent a value added to their journey, calling on them to continue learning, experimenting, and developing their ideas.

The results of the fifth edition resulted in the selection of 10 winning teams, where the "Nashama Jo" application from Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan won first place, developed by students Maisam Al-Dayem and Nada Abbas, and aims to reduce food waste by allowing surplus meals from restaurants to be displayed and booked by beneficiaries, in addition to coordinating the distribution of quantities to the needy in cooperation with charities.

The "Krokti" application from Al-Hussein Technical University and Middle East University won second place, developed by students Yousef Abdul Qader, Omar Al-Awawdeh, Hamza Salim, and Adel Al-Awawdeh, which is an application for documenting minor traffic accidents electronically, allowing drivers to report them from the accident site, document damages, and enter data.

The "SMART PARK JO" application from Al-Balqa Applied University came in third place, developed by students Hashem Ghazawi and Yaman Gharaibeh, which is an application that connects parking owners with drivers, and allows booking parking spaces and paying electronically easily and securely.

The "Yusr" application from Yarmouk University won fourth place, developed by students Suhaib Al-Njadat, Fares Ashraq Laban, Duaa Al-Mashaleh, Moamen Al-Matarneh, and Mohammed Harb, which is a national traffic management platform that relies on artificial intelligence and data analysis to predict traffic congestion and contribute to reducing it proactively.

The "Hasad" application from Al-Hussein Technical University came in fifth place, developed by students Hashem Al-Dous, Khaled Al-Omari, Yaman Abu Laban, and Aws Abu Zeid, which is an agricultural platform that supports farmers' decisions through data analysis and providing recommendations supported by artificial intelligence.

The teams that won from sixth to tenth place will also be integrated into the innovation and startup support network, allowing them to benefit from support and development opportunities and continue working on their ideas and solutions.