Showing posts with label Happy World Information Society Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy World Information Society Day. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Happy World Information Society Day

What exactly is World Information Society Day? Hell if I know. Wikipedia, care to explain?
World Information Society Day was proclaimed to be on 17 May by a United Nations General Assembly resolution, following the 2005 World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis. The day had previously been known as World Telecommunication Day to commemorate the founding of the International Telecommunication Union in 17 May 1865. It was instituted by the Plenipotentiary Conference in Malaga-Torremolinos in 1973. The main objective of the day is to raise global awareness of societal changes brought about by the Internet and new technologies. It also aims to help reduce the Digital divide.
I'm all for reducing the digital divide. How 'bout a music video to begin the process?



For our non-YouTube fellas (Dave and Hoboken Mike), a picture: