Azerbaijani scientist attends World Summit on Information Society in Paris

Director of the Information Technologies Institute (ICT) and Associate Member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Rasim Aliguliyev is attending World Summit on Information Society in Paris.

The summit is co-organized by the International Telecommunication Union, UNESCO, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and UN Development Program.
The event brings together 2000 representatives from governmental and non-governmental organizations, private sector and civil unions.

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a pair of United Nations-sponsored
conferences about information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis. One of its chief aims was to bridge the so-called global digital divide separating rich countries from poor countries by spreading access to the Internet in the developing world. The conferences established 17 May as World Information Society Day.


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