UNESCO invites proposal for slogan for World Information Society Day
12-05-2006 (Paris)
Proposals for a slogan for UNESCO’s celebrations of World Information Society Day, which will be celebrated on 17 May each year, can now be posted on the Organization’s website.
Proposals for slogans, that should have a length of maximum ten words or 100 characters, can be submitted in the six official languages of the Organization, namely Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
UNESCO intends to select one of the proposals for its campaign for the World Information Society Day in 2007.
World Information Society Day is celebrated each year on 17 May to help making the Internet a global facility for all people and to raise 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.
World Information 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 26 March by Resolution A/RES/60/252.
UNESCO intends to select one of the proposals for its campaign for the World Information Society Day in 2007.
World Information Society Day is celebrated each year on 17 May to help making the Internet a global facility for all people and to raise 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.
World Information 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 26 March by Resolution A/RES/60/252.
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