A/RES/73/218. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2018

• Resolution Number: A/RES/73/218
• Session: 73rd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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/RES /73/ 218

General Assembly

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Seventy -third sess ion

Agen da item 17

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 20 December 2018

[on th e report of the Seco nd Commi ttee (A/ 73/5 35)]

73/218. Information and communications technologies

for sustainable developme nt

The General Assembly ,

Reca llin g it s resol utions 56/183 of 21 De cember 2001, 57/238 of 20 De cember

2002 , 57/27 0 B of 23 J une 20 03, 59 /220 o f 22 Dec ember 2004, 60/252 of 27 March

2006 , 62/ 182 o f 19 Decembe r 200 7, 63 /20 2 of 19 De cember 20 08, 6 4/18 7 of

21 Dece mber 200 9, 65/141 of 20 Decembe r 2010, 66 /18 4 of 22 Decembe r 2011,

67/1 95 o f 21 Dec ember 2 012, 68 /19 8 of 20 Dece mber 2 013, 69/ 204 of 19 Dece mber

2014 , 7 0/18 4 of 22 D ecembe r 2 015, 71/21 2 of 21 D ecember 2 016 and 72/2 00 of

20 Dece mber 20 17,

Reca lling also Ec onomic an d S ocial Coun cil resolut ions 200 6/46 of 28 Jul y

2006 , 2008/3 o f 18 July 2 008, 2009 /7 o f 24 July 2 009, 2010 /2 of 19 July 20 10,

2011/ 16 o f 26 July 2011, 201 2/5 of 24 July 20 12, 2013 /9 o f 22 July 2013, 20 14/2 7 o f

16 July 2 014, 2015/ 26 of 22 July 2015, 2 016/ 22 of 27 July 2016 an d 2 018 /28 of

24 July 2018 , and taki ng no te of Coun cil r esolutio n 2 017/ 21 of 6 July 2017 on t he

asse ssment of t he progr ess made i n the imple mentati on of and fo llow- up to the

outc omes of the World Summit on the I nformati on Soci ety,

Reaf firm ing its resolu tion 70/1 of 2 5 Septemb er 2 015, entitled “Transf orming

our worl d: t he 2 030 A genda for Susta inable Deve lopment ”, in which it adopte d a

comp rehensiv e, fa r-reachi ng and peopl e-centr ed set of universa l and transf ormativ e

Sust ainable D evelop ment Goa ls and tar gets, its commitm ent to wo rking ti relessl y for

the f ull impl ementati on of th e A genda by 2030, i ts recog nition t hat eradi cating

pove rty i n al l its for ms an d di mension s, in cluding extr eme poverty, is the greates t

glob al cha llenge and an in dispens able r equirem ent fo r sus tainabl e deve lopment , its

comm itment to ach ieving sus tainabl e de velopme nt in its thr ee di mension s —

econ omic, social and e nvironme ntal — in a bal anced and in tegrated manne r, and to

buil ding up on the achie vements of t he Mil lennium Devel opment Goals and s eeking

to ad dress t heir unfi nished busines s,