A/RES/73/218
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 17
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/73/535)]
73/218.
Information and communications technologies
for sustainable 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, 70/184 of 22 December 2015, 71/212 of 21 December 2016 and 72/200 of
20 December 2017,
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, 2015/26 of 22 July 2015, 2016/22 of 27 July 2016 and 2018/28 of
24 July 2018, and taking note of Council resolution 2017/21 of 6 July 2017 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 tirelessl y 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 seeking
to address their unfinished business,
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