World Information Society Day

The World Telecommunication Day ( en.: World Information Society Day) was proclaimed in 1967 by the International Telecommunication Union and is recognized by the UN as an international day of remembrance. The day finds, based on the founding date of the International Telecommunication Union ITU in 1865, a year on May 17 instead.

The Telecommunications, across any exchange of information over a certain distance.

Telecommunications is a foreign word telecommunications belonging German word. However, it is used in practice since the mid- 1990s only to military facilities, civil protection and is almost completely disappeared in the spoken language, especially since the companies working in this field use the word " telecommunications ". In the strict sense is understood as a data exchange using electrical engineering, electronics, radio engineering and other transmission technology of modern telecommunications today.

Telecommunications facilities are now a fundamental part of the infrastructure. For this reason, in order to avoid spatial disparities their provision a joint task of spatial development and thus in practice a state task.