A/RES/72/242
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 177
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 22 December 2017
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/72/L.38 and A/72/L.38/Add.1)]
72/242.
Impact of rapid technological change on the achievement
of the Sustainable Development Goals
The General Assembly,
Mindful that the impacts, opportunities and challenges of rapid technological
change on sustainable development, including in cases in which changes may occur
at an exponential pace, are not fully understood,
Recalling its resolutions 69/313 of 27 July 2015 and 70/1 of 25 September 2015,
in which it established and launched a Technology Facilitation Mechanism to support
the Sustainable Development Goals, composed of a United Nations inter-agency task
team on science, technology and innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals,
a multi-stakeholder forum on science, technology and innovation for the Sustainable
Development Goals and an online platform,
Recalling also its resolution 70/213 of 22 December 2015, entitled “Science,
technology and innovation for development”, and other relevant resolutions, and
noting the work on emerging technologies by relevant United Nations entities,
Noting the Co-Chairs’ summaries of the first multi-stakeholder forum on
science, technology and innovation, held in New York on 6 and 7 June 2016, 1 and of
the second forum, held in New York on 15 and 16 May 2017, 2 as well as the holding
of the joint meeting of the Second Committee of the General Assembly and the
Economic and Social Council on the theme “The future of everything — sustainable
development in the age of rapid technological change”, on 11 October 2017,
Recognizing the need for Governments, the private sector, international
organizations, civil society, the technical and academic communities and other
relevant stakeholders to be aware of the impact of the latest developments in rapid
technological change in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, which
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See E/HLPF/2016/6.
See E/HLPF/2017/4.
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