World Television Day

Electronic television was first demonstrated successfully in San Francisco in 1927 by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who scanned images with a beam of electrons showing first a line and then a dollar sign on the screen. Today, television continues to...

World Creativity and Innovation Day

The Creative Economy Report Widening local development pathways, co-published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) through the UN Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) notes...

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day

Also known as World Information Society Day, this Day highlights the possibilities that the Internet and other information and communication technology (ICT) can bring to societies and economies, as well as ways of bridging the digital divide. It marks the anniversary...