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Information and communication technologies for development
Date of consideration:
19 October 2005 (PM)
Second Committee Report
(59th session):
A/59/480
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Documents:
A/60/111 [F]
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Letter dated 5 July 2005 from the
Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations
addressed to the Secretary-General
A/60/323
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Report of the Secretary-General on
information and communication technologies for development: progress in the
implementation of General Assembly resolution 57/295 (Mandate:
GA dec.
59/531)
A/60/=
(to be submitted after the meeting)
Report of the Secretary-General of
the International Telecommunication Union on the World Summit on the
Information Society, Tunis, 16-18 November 2005 (Mandate: GA res.
59/220, para. 11)
Summary:
At its
fifty-sixth session, in 2002, in the course of its
consideration of the item entitled “Report of the Economic and
Social Council”, the General Assembly decided, on the proposal
of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Venezuela, to convene a
meeting of the Assembly devoted to bridging the digital divide
and promoting digital opportunities in the emerging
information society during that session and to organize,
parallel to the plenary meetings, separate informal panels
(see A/57/280). It further decided to include in the
provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session an item
entitled “Information and communication technologies for
development” (resolution 56/258).
At the same
session, under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy
questions: science and technology for development”, the
General Assembly endorsed the proposal of the
Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union
(ITU) to hold the World Summit on the Information Society in
two phases, the first in Geneva in December 2003 and the
second in Tunis in 2005 (resolution 56/183).
The General
Assembly considered this question at its fifty-seventh session
(resolutions 57/238 and 57/295). At its resumed fifty-eighth
session, in July 2004, the Assembly decided to consider the
report of the World Summit on the Information Society directly
in plenary meeting at its sixtieth session (decision 58/569).
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly took note of the
note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the
Secretary-General of ITU on the first phase of the World
Summit on the Information Society; endorsed the Declaration of
Principles and the Plan of Action adopted by the Summit;
welcomed the establishment of the Working Group on Internet
Governance and the Task Force on Financial Mechanisms; invited
countries to be represented at the highest possible political
level at the second phase of the Summit; and invited the
Secretary-General of ITU to transmit, as soon as was
available, the report of the World Summit on the Information
Society (resolution 59/220).
At the same
session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General
to submit a further report on the implementation of the
information and communication technology strategy to the
Assembly at its sixtieth session (decision 59/531).
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