A/RES/73/17
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 December 2018
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 133
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 26 November 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.20 and A/73/L.20/Add.1)]
73/17.
Impact of rapid technological change on the achievement
of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets
The General Assembly,
Considering that technological change includes new and powerful tools that can
help to realize the vision of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 mindful
that the impact, opportunities and challenges of rapid technological change on
sustainable development are being assessed in order to deepen their understanding,
and recalling its resolution 72/242 of 22 December 2017, in which it decided to
continue discussing the topic “Impact of rapid technological change on the
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals”,
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, whose initial findings on this topic, as well as
those of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development , were
presented and discussed at its third multi-stakeholder forum on science, technology
and innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals,
Welcoming resolution 72/305 of 23 July 2018 that mandated the high-level
segment of the Economic and Social Council to consider future trends an d scenarios
related to the Council theme and the long-term impact of current trends, such as the
contribution of new technologies on the realization of the Sustainable Development
Goals,
Recognizing that the spread of information and communications technology and
global interconnectedness has great potential to accelerate human progress, to bridge
the digital divide and to develop knowledge societies, as does scientific and
technological innovation across areas as diverse as medicine and energy,
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