Development Goals and the Plan of Action adopted by the World Summit on the Information Society.
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Saudi Arabia aims to become a regional leader in an information society and the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
"The year 2000 was the year of real breakthrough of Internet in Europe, " said Erkki Liikanen, commissioner for the information society.
The IGF grew out of a previous meeting called World Summit on the Information Society that was held in Tunisia in 2005.
Information Literacy is a prerequisite for participating effectively in an Information Society.
The prize will be awarded at a special event in Geneva, Switzerland, parallel to the World Summit for the Information Society, on December 11.
The creation of an Information Society is key to social, cultural, and economic development of nations and communities, institutions and individuals in the 21st century and beyond.
World Information Society Day, celebrated on 17 May, reaffirms the strong commitment made at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to build inclusive knowledge societies.
The research was supported by UNESCO within the framework of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and as part of UNESCO's activities related to Internet Governance.
Now, as we prepare for the World Summit on the Information Society, we might spare a thought for Tim Berners-Lee, the scientist who gave us the World Wide Web.
Because of the growing importance of such skills in the emerging information society, industrial nations mounted a number of efforts in the 1990s aimed at identifying and understanding patterns of adult literacy.
Strenuous efforts will be needed to capitalize on the opportunities offered by the World Summit on Information Societies (WSIS) to bridge the gender divide which is already apparent within the emerging information society.
This is the reason why Information Literacy is so important, because, without it, the Information Society will never be able to rise to its ll potential and will remain, instead, only an unrealized dream.
Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, has expressed a preference for the spectrum to be used for broadband internet access and to help bridge the digital divide especially in rural areas.
Freedom of information is also central in the framework of the World Summit of the Information Society, which has reaffirmed freedom of expression and universal access to information as cornerstones of inclusive knowledge societies.
The free and open character of the Internet, which is a precondition for online safety, is underpinned by a multi-stakeholder model of governance as confirmed by the resolutions of the World Summit of the Information Society.
Let's hope that as the politicians head out of Tunisia, they have a little more insight into what really makes the net work, and that they ensure that it is preserved as the information society develops.
The symposium tried to determine the issues to be followed up by ICSU organizations and by UNESCO in preparation for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva in December 2003 and in Tunis in 2005.
The final statement of the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society is as much a framework for control of the ways the net is used as it is a call for "the freedom to seek, receive, impart and use information".
The 10 targets in the WSIS Plan of Action for improving access and connectivity to ICTs by 2015, which were endorsed by 175 Member States, were all rated as very important to achieving an information society that would benefit all of humanity.
The Director-General outlined the main points of the Recommendation concerning the "development of public domain content" and "reaffirming the equitable balance between the interests of rights-holders and the public interest", issues which are expected to be central to the World Summit on the Information Society.
The World Summit on the Information Society being organized by ITU in co-operation with UNESCO and other UN agencies in December this year, with a second round in 2005, will need to tackle head-on the problem of inequitable access to telecommunications and the handicap this poses for global development.
The survey shows overwhelming support for the belief that if the information society is to be one in which all citizens throughout the world can equally access and use information resources for sustainable economic and social development, that cyberspace should be declared a resource to be shared by all for the global public good.
In addition, in order to deal with the ever increasing volume of information, society has created rigid structures to compress and channel the information.
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Participants issued "The Prague Declaration: Toward an Information Literate Society" (attached).
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