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WSIS Forum 2012 launches 10-year review to measure goals set at UN World Summit on the Information Society
May 2012 by ITU
Stakeholders from government, civil society and the private sector are meeting in Geneva this week to agree on an effective and meaningful review process (WSIS+10) for measuring progress towards targets set in 2005 in Tunis at the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and to forge a common vision for new actions beyond 2015.
Co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNCTAD and UNDP, the WSIS Forum 2012 event (14-18 May) is the world’s largest annual gathering of the ‘ICT for development’ community. It aims to define strategies and tactics to help countries and organizations more effectively harness the power of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, now just three years away.
Topics on the agenda include rural development, ICT infrastructure, cybersecurity, multilingualism, environmental sustainability, education, healthcare and innovation. Over 1,500 representatives from around 150 countries are expected to attend the week-long event, which comprises almost 140 sessions.
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