What does GIS stand for?

Global Information Society

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Information technology (IT) and computers
Science, medicine, engineering, etc.
Organizations, NGOs, schools, universities, etc.

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The global downturn will particularly pose a challenge for the poor and slow the progress made in the evolution of the global information society and the implementation of the goals set out in the World Summit on the Information Society.

News in brief

Focusing on these priority issues will create a meaningful framework for demonstrable progress toward the long-term sustainability of a truly global information society.

Lithuania: Keep the Internet Run by the Private Sector

Oceana Publications (Dobbs Ferry, NY) has published "Legal Issues in the Global Information Society," a volume that examines the 12 major topics discussed at the November 02005 Tunis World Summit on the Information Society.

Information

We want the global information society to be based on universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms," said Sergio Marchi, Canada's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, in Canada's statement to the Summit.

The United Nations grapples with the idea of a global "information ...

The objective of the WSIS is to formulate a common vision and understanding of the global information society.

Editorial

But Prime Minister Lionel Jospin thinks it's time that France and French culture become less isolated and start asserting "their rightful place in the global information society.

France welcomes the world

Europe 1996 was declared the European Year of Lifelong Learning (EYLL) and seen to be a 'great enabler for us [Europeans] to build the global information society and for Europe to achieve its [development] goals in the broadest sense'.

Libraries and learning: a partnership for life

Perhaps more than any other specialists in the information science professions, archivists are encountering a myriad of changes brought about by a global information society, digital technology, and by the democratization of governments, institutions, and consumer advocacy.

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