World Summit on the Information Society

two-phase United Nations-sponsored summit on information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a series of UN-sponsored conferences about information and communication that took place in 2003 and 2005. One of its chief aims was to bridge the so-called "digital divide" separating rich countries from poor countries by spreading access to the Internet in the developing world.