Today the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is celebrated all over the world, which this year is celebrated under the theme: Enabling the positive use of Artificial Intelligence for All.

Today the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is celebrated all over the world, which this year is celebrated under the theme: Enabling the positive use of Artificial Intelligence for All.

This day is a professional holiday for all programmers, system administrators, Internet providers, web designers, editors of Internet publications and all other people engaged in information technology. On March 27, 2006, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution stipulating that World Information Society Day shall be celebrated every year on 17 May.

It should be noted that this holiday was established back in 1969 by the decision of the session of the Administrative Council of the International Telecommunication Union, but until 2006 it was called the World Telecommunication Day. This is due to the fact that in those years there was no modern ICT, and the information society was considered a theory.

It is noteworthy that this date was not chosen at all by chance. So on May 17, 1865, after two and a half months of difficult negotiations, the first International Telegraph Convention was signed in Paris, and the International Telegraph Union was founded, renamed in 1932 to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

In different years, the festival was held under different themes, focused on solving important global issues. They include promotion of global cyber security, provision of communication between people with disabilities, protection of children in cyberspace, improvement of the lives of rural communities through ICT, involvement of women and girls in IT, ICT in improving road safety, and development of ICT entrepreneurship.