United Nations
A/RES/71/212
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 16
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2016
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/71/460)]
71/212. Information and communications technologies
for development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 56/183 of 21 December 2001, 57/238 of 20 December
2002, 57/270 B of 23 June 2003, 59/220 of 22 December 2004, 60/252 of 27 March
2006, 62/182 of 19 December 2007, 63/202 of 19 December 2008, 64/187 of
21 December 2009, 65/141 of 20 December 2010, 66/184 of 22 December 2011,
67/195 of 21 December 2012, 68/198 of 20 December 2013, 69/204 of 19 December
2014 and 70/184 of 22 December 2015,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolutions 2006/46 of 28 July
2006, 2008/3 of 18 July 2008, 2009/7 of 24 July 2009, 2010/2 of 19 July 2010,
2011/16 of 26 July 2011, 2012/5 of 24 July 2012, 2013/9 of 22 July 2013, 2014/27
of 16 July 2014 and 2015/26 of 22 July 2015, and taking note of Council resolution
2016/22 of 27 July 2016 on the assessment of the progress made in the
implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the World Summit on the
Information Society,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly
for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions —
economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and see king
to address their unfinished business,
Recalling its resolution 70/299 of 29 July 2016 on the follow-up and review of
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the global level,
Reaffirming its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which
is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, sup ports and
complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with
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