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17 May - World Information Society Day
UNESCO

World Information Society Day is celebrated each year on 17 May to help making the Internet a global facility for all people and to raises awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other ICT can bring to societies and economies, as well as of ways to bridge the digital divide.



Create a slogan for UNESCO's celebrating World Information Society Day

UNESCO invites everybody to submit proposals for a slogan for its celebrations of World Information Society Day.

UNESCO intends to select one of the proposals for its campaign for the World Information Society Day for 2007.

Submit your proposal or view posted proposals

Promoting cybersecurity

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    • World Information Society Day promotes awareness of the power of information and communication to build societies in which everybody can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge to achieve his/her full potential.

    The establishment of a World Information Society Day that was suggested in the “Tunis Agenda for the Information Society”, adopted by the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis in 2005 was decided by the United Nations General Assembly on 27 March 2006 by Resolution A/RES/60/252.


    Message from Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO
    [Official Statement]
    [Video]

    Message from Laurence Zwimpfer, Chairperson of the IFAP Council
    [Official Statement]

    Message from Torben Krogh, Chairperson of the IPDC Council
    [Official Statement]



    How do they participate in Knowledge Societies?


    Building and enhancing information networks between local communities in India
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    Secondary Schools’ Participation in Information Literacy Programmes in Northern Ghana
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