On the future of the information society at the WSIS summit in Geneva

On the occasion of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which was opened yesterday in Geneva, State Secretary at the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Tatjana Matić said that the goal of this year’s Summit is to achieve a shared vision that will lead to building an inclusive, development-oriented Information Society where everyone can create, access, use and share information.

This year’s WSIS+10 will adopt the reports on the implementation of the outcomes and visions of the World Summit on the Information Society in 2015, through an open and inclusive multi-stakeholder platform.

The high-level WSIS+10 Summit is expected to adopt the reports on the implementation of the outcomes and vision of WSIS in 2015, through an open and inclusive multi-stakeholder preparatory platform. This event includes high-level panels, a ministerial round table, a number of meetings, thematic workshops and the exchange of knowledge and experience in this field.

WSIS brings together numerous stakeholders in the field of ICT in order to create links, exchange views on future development and raise questions of key importance for the implementation and monitoring of the implementation of ICT.