This year’s theme is centered on the use of new technologies to generate jobs and boost entrepreneurism.
México, Argentina, Spain, Colombia and Uruguay, amongst other eighteen countries around the world, celebrate today the seventh edition of the Internet Day.
During all day, in twenty three different countries, conferences, concerts, exhibitions, parties, contests and formation courses will be carried out in support of the new technologies.
This year’s theme is centered on the use of new technologies to generate jobs and boost entrepreneurism.
The celebration started on 2005, after the Internet Users Association from Spain suggested the United Nations, in the Information Society Summit in Tunis, to set the 17 May as the Information Society World Day.
In 2004, the European Union established the “Safer Internet Day”, with the objective of spread a safest and reliable internet.
Other similar initiatives also served as the basis for the creation of the Internet day. During the middle 90s, appeared in France “La fete de l’ internet”, a celebration that still exists and, every March, organizes different activities in francophone countries.
According to the UN the 17th of May marks the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) set to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICT) can bring to societies and economies, as well as of ways to bridge the digital divide.
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