The World Telecommunication Day or World Information Society Day is being celebrated on Wednesday amidst various programmes.

The World Summit on Information Society, which was held in two phases (in Geneva in 2003 and in Tunis in 2005), proposed to celebrate May 17 as World Information Society Day.

The day is being celebrated to mark the founding of the International Telecommunication Union on 17 May 1865.

Experts said that in an increasingly networked society, safeguarding cyberspace as well as ICT systems and infrastructure has taken on real urgency. Achieving cyber security depends on the security practices of each and every networked country, business and citizen.

Nepal has taken the aim of promoting awareness of ICTs as a tool for economic and social development, while sharing information on the threats and vulnerabilities resulting from their misuse.