37% rural youth sans Internet access: Study
After two and a half years of technical analysis and discussions, six months of deliberations among all stakeholders, and intense negotiations at the United Nations, at three o’clock in the morning on December 12, 2015, the talented co-facilitators from the United Arab Emirates and Latvia dropped the gavel on the outcome document for the ten-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). That consensus document presents international principles that will guide the UN’s work on Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-related issues.
The original WSIS — a two-phase United Nations Summit that took place in 2003 (Geneva) and 2005 (Tunis) — established principles and a plan of action to catalyze and organize efforts towards achieving a “people-centered, inclusive and development-oriented Information society.” At that time, only 12 percent of the world’s population was online, and the developing world in particular remained almost completely unconnected.
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