Tunis Agenda for the Information Society
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The Tunis Agenda for the Information Society was a consensus statement of the World Summit on the Information Society
, adopted on November 18, 2005 in Tunis, Tunisia. It called for the creation of the Internet Governance Forum
and a novel, lightweight, multi-stakeholder governance structure for the Internet
.
World Summit on the Information Society
The World Summit on the Information Society was a pair of United Nations-sponsored conferences about information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis...
, adopted on November 18, 2005 in Tunis, Tunisia. It called for the creation of the Internet Governance Forum
Internet Governance Forum
The Internet Governance Forum is a multi-stakeholder forum for policy dialogue on issues of Internet governance. It brings together all stakeholders in the internet governance debate, whether they represent governments, the private sector or civil society, including the technical and academic...
and a novel, lightweight, multi-stakeholder governance structure for the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
.