KT said on the 10th (local time) in Geneva, Switzerland, that KT Artificial Intelligence (AI) Station won the champion award in the information and knowledge access institutional sector at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2026 ceremony.

The WSIS Prizes is the most prestigious awards in the information society field organized by International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

At an awards ceremony for WSIS Prizes 2026 in Geneva, Switzerland, on the 10th (local time), Mun Sang-ik, KT ESG Planning Team Lead (left), poses for a commemorative photo with Seizo Onoe (right), Director of ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau. /Courtesy of ITU

From 1,595 projects submitted from around the world, winners are selected through online voting and expert review. In Korea this year, KT was the only winner.

KT AI Station is a mobile AI education platform. Since 2025, it has directly visited schools and communities in regions such as remote islands and mountain areas with low access to AI education, helping teenagers experience AI technology and AI ethics. A total of 1,797 teenagers participated in the education programs operated last year at 21 regions and 19 schools nationwide.

In 2024, KT won the champion award in the WSIS Prizes information society ethical dimension (C10) institutional sector for its KT Digital Citizen project. Among domestic private corporations, it is the only one to be selected twice as a WSIS Prizes champion.

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