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UNESCO and WSIS

UNESCO and WSIS

Towards Knowledge Societies

UNESCO with its unique mandate to promote the free exchange of ideas and knowledge has played a key role in WSIS. UNESCO’s contribution incorporated the ethical, legal and sociocultural dimensions of the Information Society and helped to grasp the opportunities offered by the ICTs by placing the individual at its centre.
WSIS IMPLEMENTATION and FOLLOW-UP

UNESCO works with all stakeholders towards the implementation of the outcomes of WSIS.

WSIS Forum 2009
Action Lines
  • C3 - Access to Information and Knowledge
  • C8 - Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
  • C7 - E-learning
  • C7 - E-Science
  • C9 - Media
  • C10 - Ethical dimension of the Information Society
  • Database of UNESCO WSIS related activities

    UNESCO is contributing to the implementation of the WSIS Plan of Action by a variety of activities that operationalize UNESCO's concept of “Knowledge Societies”. This Database provides information on these activities. >> Go to the Database

    WSIS Facilitator's events
    >> Upcoming Events
    >> Past Events
    >> More on Implementation and Follow-up

    WSIS Follow-up community platform

    Purpose of the platform is to facilitate information gathering and exchange, and common development of ideas and projects among the multi-stakeholder team for each Action Line through collaborative and community oriented online tools. >> Visit the platform

    UNESCO and WSIS

    Resources

    Features

  • UNESCO’s follow-up to the World Summit on the Information Society
  • Fourth consultation meeting on WSIS Action Line C9 "Media": 19 May 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Fourth consultation meeting on WSIS Action Line C9 "Media": 19 May 2009, Geneva, Switzerland