United Nations A/RES/57/295 General Assembly Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 32 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/L.71 and Add.1)] 57/295. Information and communication technologies for development The General Assembly, Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted by the heads of State and Government at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations on 8 September 2000, 1 in which Member States resolved to ensure that the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communication technologies, in conformity with the recommendations contained in the ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the substantive session of 2000 of the Economic and Social Council, adopted on 7 July 2000, 2 are available to all, Recalling also that the ministerial declaration called for a coherent, systemwide information and communication technologies strategy that would ensure coordination and synergy among programmes and activities of individual organizations of the system and transform it into a knowledge-based system of organizations, Bearing in mind its resolution 57/238 of 20 December 2002 on the World Summit on the Information Society, in which it encouraged all relevant United Nations bodies and other intergovernmental organizations, including international and regional institutions, to further their cooperation in and support to the preparatory process of the Summit, Noting that information and communication technologies for development have been recognized as an important element in the outcomes of recent United Nations conferences and summits, 1. Affirms the need to use information and communication technologies as a strategic tool to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness and impact of the development programmes and technical cooperation activities of the United Nations system; _______________ 1 See resolution 55/2. See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/55/3/Rev.1), chap. III, para. 17. 2 02 56099 Distr.: General 4 March 2003