It actually merges two days with similar goals, World Telecommunication Day, first celebrated on May 17, 1969, and World Information Society Day, first celebrated on May 17, 2006.

World Telecommunication And Information Society Day 2022 Theme. ... However, in November 2005, the UN General Assembly was urged to declare May 17 as World Information Society Day.

On May 17, 2022, World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) is celebrated to raise awareness about the opportunities and possibilities that the internet and other Information and ...

After a week in which the phone lines of the Associated Press were bugged and Google glasses that can record our every move are being tested, it seems fitting to mark World Information Society Day.

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 17 (UPI) -- The International Telecommunications Union celebrated the first annual World Information Society Day Tuesday in Geneva, Switzerland. The United Nations ...

Tunis - Tunisia observes on May 17 of each year the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD). Tunisia strives in accordance with President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's will to vitalize ...

Since then, the day came to be known as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) after 2005. This year marks 50 Years of World Communication Day which was first celebrated in 1969.

World Information Society Day promotes people’s awareness of the power of information and communication to build societies in which they can create, access, use and share information and knowledge to ...

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) is celebrated on 17 May annually. The theme for 2023 is 'Empowering the least developed countries through information and communication ...

World Information Society Day was an international day proclaimed to be on 17 May by a United Nations General Assembly resolution, following the 2005 World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis.