The Digital solidarity fund (DSF, also known by its French name Fonds mondial de solidarité numérique/FSN) was a fund that aimed to reduce the global

digital divide The digital divide is the unequal access to digital technology, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the internet. The digital divide creates a division and inequality around access to information and resources. In the Information Age i ...

, established following talks which took place during the

World Summit on the Information Society The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a two-phase United Nations-sponsored summit on information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis. WSIS Forums hav ...

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in 2005. The foundation operated under Swiss law with its headquarters in

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situ ...

, Switzerland. The DSF has been described as "woefully wasteful, or at least grossly mismanaged". It was dissolved in 2009. The DSF was open to voluntary funding and did not rely on governmental help to function.

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External links

Webcast archive of the discussions that helped establish the DSFOfficial website
archived version at the

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, 2012) Foundations based in Switzerland Organisations based in Geneva