The Tunis Agenda for the Information Society was a consensus statement of the

World Summit on the Information Society The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a 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. WSIS Forums have ...

, adopted on November 18, 2005 in

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. It called for the creation of the

Internet Governance Forum The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a multistakeholder governance group for policy dialogue on issues of Internet governance. It brings together all stakeholders in the Internet governance debate, whether they represent governments, the privat ...

and a novel, lightweight,

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structure for the

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Tunis Agenda for the Information Society
International Telecommunication Union

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