Countries adopt plan to use Internet in implementation of SDGs | Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD)

Countries reaffirmed their commitment to utilize Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as an essential tool for achieving the new Sustainable Development Goals at a high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly.

The General Assembly adopted the outcome document on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society towards the end of a two-day 10-year review meeting.

The outcome document, in addressing a range of emerging challenges and opportunities, welcomes the remarkable evolution and spread of Information and Communication Technologies to almost every community in the world enabling knowledge sharing, economic growth and empowering sustainable development.

The meeting convened by UN General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft was attended by high-level representatives from all Member and observer States and observers, and representatives of all relevant stakeholders of the World Summit on the Information Society.

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