New Zealand has continued past history in providing winning entries to the WSA Award, this time at the 2009 WSA Award judging. New Zealand had three winners in the e-Entertainment, e-Government and e-Learning sections.

In 2009 selected entries from New Zealand were judged at the World Summit Award in India. Previous years have provided winners and highly commended projects.

There is a special emphasis on those projects that show the benefits of information and communication technology for the development of communities and society at large. Impressively, against entries from 136 other countries, New Zealand won two awards at the first summit held in Geneva in 2003.

Again New Zealand's submissions did extremely well in 2005. The finalists were evaluated with entrants from 196 other countries by the WSA 2005 Grand Jury in Bahrain and New Zealand received Special Mentions for two of the eights projects submitted.

In 2007 NZ had two winners and three special mentions along with a winning entry from Fiji