[A2k] UNESCO invites proposal for slogan for World Information Society Day

[Teresa Hackett (eIFL)]

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UNESCO invites proposal for slogan for World Information Society Day
12-05-2006 (Paris)

Proposals for a slogan for UNESCO=92s celebrations of World Information
Society Day, which will be celebrated on 17 May each year, can now be
posted on the Organization=92s website.

Proposals for slogans, that should have a length of maximum ten words or
100 characters, can be submitted in the six official languages of the
Organization, namely Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

UNESCO intends to select one of the proposals for its campaign for the
World Information Society Day in 2007.

World Information Society Day is celebrated each year on 17 May to help
making the Internet a global facility for all people and to raise
awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other
ICT can bring to societies and economies, as well as of ways to bridge
the digital divide.

World Information Day promotes awareness of the power of information and
communication to build societies in which everybody can create, access,
utilize and share information and knowledge to achieve his/her full
potential.

The establishment of a World Information Society Day that was suggested
in the =93Tunis Agenda for the Information Society=94, adopted by the World
Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis in 2005 was decided by
the United Nations General Assembly on 26 March by Resolution A/RES/60/252.