WSIS
World Summit on the Information Society
A United Nations summit held in 2003 and 2005 that set shared goals for the digital world. It produced the working definition of internet governance The shared rules and decision processes that shape how the internet works and is used. Full definition of internet governance and created the IGF Internet Governance Forum A yearly United Nations forum to discuss internet policy, with no binding decisions. Full definition of IGF. Its 20-year review, called WSIS+20, ended in December 2025 and backed the multistakeholder approach.
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- Governance and policy