World Summit on the Information Society
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The
World Summit on the Information Society (
WSIS) was a two-phase United Nations-sponsored summit on information, communication and, in broad terms, the
information society that took place in 2003 in
Geneva and in 2005 in
Tunis. WSIS Forums have taken place periodically since then. One of the Summit's chief aims is to bridge the
global digital divide separating rich countries from poor countries by increasing internet accessibility in the developing world. The conferences established 17 May as
World Information Society Day.
The WSIS+10 Process marked the ten-year milestone since the 2005 Summit. In 2015, the stocktaking process culminated with a High-Level meeting of the UN General Assembly on 15 and 16 December in
New York.
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