Posts on the Country "Switzerland"
WSIS Forum Photo Contest 2020
13/12/2019
WSIS is inviting you to picture how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs ) are playing an enabling role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Participate in building a collage of ICT for Sustainable Development photographs from around the world. Send photos of your...
Girls in ICT Day (25 April 2019): Expand horizons, change attitudes
25/04/2019
Today is the 25 April 2019 and more than 170 countries worldwide get set to promote tech studies to girls and women on ‘ Girls in ICT Day’. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the global technology community and an expected 170+ countries will celebrate 'Girls in ICT Day', an...08/ 04
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WSIS Forum 2019
Geneva, Switzerland 08/04/2019 – 12/04/2019
To mark its tenth anniversary, the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2019 will convene under the theme, ‘Information and Communication Technologies for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals’.WSIS is the world’ s largest annual gathering of the information and communications technology (ICT) for the development community. As a global multi-stakeholder platform, it facilitates the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines for advancing sustainable development.
Communities of Practices and Digital Integrated Platforms
05/04/2019
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in conjunction with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) are organizing a parallel session during the WSIS 2019. The session is entitled ‘ Communities of Practices and Digital Integrated Platforms’ and will be held on the 8th of...
WSIS Prizes 2019 Champion Projects announced
22/02/2019
ITU has just announced 90 Champions of the WSIS Prizes contest. From the announced 90, 18 projects will be selected to be Winners will be awarded for each of the 18 categories of the WSIS prizes. The submission phase opened on the 2nd of July 2018 to the 5th of December 2018 and 1,149 submissions...
Call for abstracts on Capacity Building in a Changing ICT Environment 2019 Edition
23/11/2018
ITU invites interested authors to submit papers to be considered for the third issue of the publication " Capacity Building in a Changing ICT Environment 2019". The ITU online publication “Capacity Building in a Changing ICT Environment”, which is released annually, puts together scholarly articles...
Submit your project for WSIS Prize 2019
12/11/2018
The WSIS Prize 2019 is calling for submissions from interested and qualifying projects. The deadline for the submission is the 30th of November 2018. The submissions can be made in English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French and Russian. To submit your project click here. WSIS Prizes is a unique...
#WSISPrizes 2019 Call for Submissions open
03/07/2018
The WSIS Process has just announced the opening of submissions for the #WSISPrizes2019. All stake holders are invited to submit #WSIS related projects during the period 2 July to 30th of November 2018. WSIS prizes are part of the annual World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum which is a...
Focus on WSIS Forum 2018
02/04/2018
This year’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum was held on the 19-23rd of March 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland under the theme “ Leveraging ICTs to Build Information and Knowledge Societies for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”. While each WSIS Forum is different...