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# 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 and created the IGF. Its 20-year review, called WSIS+20, ended in December 2025 and backed the multistakeholder approach.

## related terms

- [internet governance](https://tldlog.com/glossary/internet-governance/)
- [IGF](https://tldlog.com/glossary/igf/)
- [ITU](https://tldlog.com/glossary/itu/)
- [multistakeholder model](https://tldlog.com/glossary/multistakeholder-model/)