A/RES/69/204
Information and communications technologies for development
Recalling further the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on
the Millennium Development Goals and its outcome document, 6 as well as the
special event to follow up efforts made towards achieving the Millennium
Development Goals, convened by the President of the General Assembly on
25 September 2013, and its outcome document,7
Recalling the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, and its outcome document, entitled
“The future we want”,8 and General Assembly resolution 68/310 of 15 September
2014,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on progress made in the
implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the World Summit on the
Information Society at the regional and international levels,9
Noting the holding of the World Summit on the Information Society Forum,
jointly organized annually by the International Telecommunication Union, the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the United Nations
Development Programme, the first 10-year review event of the World Summit on
the Information Society, coordinated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization in Paris from 25 to 27 February 2013, and the high-level
event on the 10-year review of the World Summit coordinated by the International
Telecommunication Union in Geneva from 10 to 13 June 2014,
Noting also the hosting by the Republic of Korea of the Information and
Communication Technologies Ministerial Meeting, held in Busan on 19 October
2014,
Noting further the Connect 2020 Agenda for Global Telecommunication/ICT
Development, adopted by the 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference of the International
Telecommunication Union, held in Busan from 20 October to 7 November 2014,
Noting the establishment of the Broadband Commission for Digital
Development, at the invitation of the Secretary-General of the International
Telecommunication Union and the Director General of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, taking note of the “Broadband
targets for 2015”, which sets targets for making broadband policy universal and for
increasing affordability and uptake in support of internationally agreed development
goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, taking note also of the report
of the Broadband Commission entitled The State of Broadband 2014: Broadband for
All, which provides a country-by-country evaluation of those targets and the state of
broadband deployment worldwide, as well as the report of the Broadband
Commission Working Group on Broadband and Gender entitled “Doubling digital
opportunities: enhancing the inclusion of women and girls in the information
society”, which identifies a digital gender gap of approximately 200 million fewer
women online than men, noting that without further action to increase access to
broadband for women and girls, this digital gender gap could grow to 350 million
by 2015, and taking note of the report of the Broadband Commission Task Force on
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Resolution 65/1.
Resolution 68/6.
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Resolution 66/288, annex.
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A/69/65-E/2014/12.
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