The ITU Gateway for WSIS provides an overview of the ITU role and the activities carried out in the context of World Summit on the Information Society. It should serve as the main directory to the ITU web sites and electronic resources related to the WSIS.  

In line with its mandate and the WSIS outcome documents, the ITU continues playing key role in WSIS implementation and follow-up, including:

• WSIS Implementation [Leading Facilitating Organization]

• WSIS Forum [Leading Facilitating Organization]

• WSIS Action Lines [Facilitator]

  • ICT Infrastructure (AL C2)

  • Cybersecurity (AL C5)

  • Enabling Environment (AL C6)

• WSIS Action Lines [Co-Facilitator]

  • Action Lines: C1, C3, C4, C7, C8, C11

• WSIS Stocktaking Process

• United Nations Group on Information Society [Chair/Co-chair]

• Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development

• ICT Statistics

• Internet Governance

• Connect the World

Resolution 140 (Plenipotentiary 2010) invites all member states, sector members and associates to make voluntary contributions to the special trust fund set up by ITU to support activities relating to the implementation of the WSIS outcomes.

For more information, please see here.

• WSIS Outcomes

  • Geneva Declaration of Principles (GP)

  • Geneva Plan of Action (GPA)

  • Tunis Commitment (TC)

  • Tunis Agenda for the Information Society (TAIS)

• Provisions of the WSIS output documents related to ITU

• Some of the main ITU roles reflected in the TAIS:

  • § 27 and 50 c ii of TAIS - encouraging ITU to continue to study the question of international Internet connectivity (IIC) as an urgent matter to develop appropriate Recommendation

  • § 72 c of TAIS (in relation to IGF) to interface with appropriate intergovernmental organizations and other institutions on matters under their purview. 

  • § 78 of TAIS – The UN Secretary-General should also draw upon any appropriate resources from all interested stakeholders, including the proven expertise of ITU, as demonstrated during the WSIS process.

  • § 96 of TAIS - ITU and other regional organizations should take steps to ensure rational, efficient and economic use of, and equitable access to, the radio-frequency spectrum by all countries, based on relevant international agreements

  • § 98 of TAIS – encouraging partnerships such as the ITU-led "Connect the World" initiative

  • § 103 of TAIS – initiating establishment of the United Nations Group in Information Society (UNGIS) with consideration of the ITU, UNESCO and UNDP as lead agencies of this group  

  • § 109 of TAIS - ITU, UNESCO, UNDP to play lead facilitating roles for the implementation of the Geneva Plan of Action.

  • § 112 to § 115 of TAIS – calling for periodic evaluation using appropriate indicators and benchmarking to track global progress; developing ICT indicators, measuring the digital divide; efforts by the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development; ICT Indices which will build upon the common set of core ICT indicators as they were defined within the Partnership on Measuring the ICT for Development

  • § 120 of TAIS - encouraging all stakeholders to submit entries to the WSIS Stocktaking database maintained by ITU

  • Annex of TAIS – Action Line Moderators/Facilitators

News from the ITU CSD Newslog on World Summit on the Information Society  

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