World Telecommunication and Information Society Day: What is it all about?

Many might not be knowing but it is the ‘World Telecommunication and Information Society Day’ today. This was celebrated as the ‘World Telecommunication Day’ annually ever since May 17, 1969, however, in November 2005 this was renamed to World Information Society Day to focus on the importance of ICT and the wide range of issues related to the Information Society raised by WSIS. But in November 2006, the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Antalya, Turkey, decided to celebrate 17 May as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day.