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World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) is celebrated every year in May to honour the founding of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on May 17, 1969.
Date and Origin:
- World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) is observed annually on May 17th.
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) commemorates two significant events in the history of global communication.
- Firstly, it marks the founding of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 1865, when the first International Telegraph Convention was signed.
- Secondly, in November 2005, the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) called upon the United Nations General Assembly to also declare May 17th as World Information Society Day.
- In 2006, the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Antalya, Turkey, agreed to combine the two events as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day.
Theme :
- “Digital Innovation for Sustainable Development,” is the theme of World Telecommunications and Information Society Day 2024
- The theme signifies how digital innovation may help link everyone and create sustainable prosperity for all.
Significance:
- The simultaneous commemoration of World Telecommunication Day and World Information Society Day demonstrates the worldwide community’s commitment to promoting the development and application of ICT for the benefit of all people.
- It provides a forum for discussing the difficulties and possibilities posed by the fast-changing digital world, as well as reinforcing the importance of digital inclusion and sustainable development via the use of new technology.
Round table Discussion by DoT on “Sustainable Digital Development driven by AI”
- The discussion aimed at exploring the transformative potential that AI holds towards sustainable development and what more efforts are required from stakeholders to achieve the goals of SDG.
- Additionally, the event also focused on other initiatives of DoT that are using the power of AI, including
- The Sangam: Digital Twin
- Citizen-centric portal Sanchar Saathi.
Sangam Digital Twin: PoC to Showcase Practical Use Cases
- To demonstrate practical use cases for infrastructure planning and design, the DoT launched the Sangam Digital Twin with AI-driven Insights Initiative.
- This initiative called for Expressions of Interest (EoI) from a diverse pool of stakeholders, which includes industry giants, tech firms, startups, academia, and individual innovators.
- The goal is to validate through real-world applications and demonstration of use cases, to showcase potential benefits in planning and designing of infrastructure using Digital Twin, telecom data and AI.
Citizen-centric portal Sanchar Saathi
- Sanchar Saathi portal is a citizen centric initiative of the Department of Telecommunications to empower mobile subscribers, strengthen their security and increase awareness about citizen centric initiatives of the Government.
- Sanchar Saathi empowers citizens by allowing them to know
- The mobile connections issued in their name,
- Citizens get disconnected the connections either not taken by them or not required by them, block, trace stolen/lost mobile phones
- Check the genuineness of devices while buying a new/old mobile phone.
- Sanchar Saathi facilitates citizens for reporting suspected fraud communication.
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Centre for Development of Telematics celebrates World Telecom Day today
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