Tuesday, May 08, 2007
WTD at ITU now WTISD
The ITU's World Telecommunications Day has been celebrated on May 17 since 1969. In 2006 it was also adopted as “World Information Society Day” by the World Summit on Information Society -- a world-changing decision by that august body.
Now it has been re-renamed. It is the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. The theme this year is "Connecting the Young." As ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Touré says,
Now it has been re-renamed. It is the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. The theme this year is "Connecting the Young." As ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Touré says,
As we celebrate World Information Society Day, we invite all our stakeholders as well as international organizations, non-governmental organizations and public policy-makers to give children and young people around the world every possible assistance in accessing ICT. This is critical for the young as a means of learning, sharing information and knowledge, improving their health and nutrition, and communicating with other children and youth.A holiday for the kids! I'm so excited. I've cut down a telephone pole and set it up in the living room. I'm decorating it with copper wires and flashing lights and piling ASR-33s and 2600 sets underneath it. The children are waiting for Sane Clause to arrive in his bucket truck to tell them if their on line activity has been bad or good . . .
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