The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2018 will convene under the theme ‘Leveraging ICTs to Build Information and Knowledge Societies for Achieving the SDGs’.

WSIS is the world’ s largest annual gathering of the information and communications technology (ICT) for the development community. As a global multi-stakeholder platform, it facilitates the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines for advancing sustainable development.

The Forum is co-organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UN Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in close collaboration with WSIS Action Line facilitators and other UN organizations, including the the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), UN Environment Programme (UNEP), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Women, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), World Food Programme (WFP), International Labour Organization (ILO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and others.

dates: 19-23 March 2018
location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
www: https://www.itu.int/en/Pages/default.aspx