Resolution nº E/RES/2021/28 of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. 22-07-2021

• Date: 22 July 2021
• Issuer: Economic and Social Council of the United Nation

United Nations

E

/RES /202 1/28

Economic and Social Council

Distr. : Genera l

30 Jul y 2021

21-103 27 (E) 05082 1

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2021 s ession

Agen da item 18 (b)

Econom ic and enviro nmental ques tions:

scienc e and techno logy for deve lopment

Resolution adopted by the Economic and Social Council

on 22 July 2021

[on th e recommen dation of the Com mission o n Science and Technolo gy

for Dev elopment (E/2021 /31)]

2021/28. Assess ment o f the progres s made in t he implementation of and

follow-up to the outcomes of the World Summit on t he

Information Society

The Economi c and So cial Cou ncil,

Reca llin g the ou tcome doc uments of t he World S ummit on th e Informat ion

Soci ety,

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Reca lling also its r esolutio n 200 6/46 of 28 July 2006 on the follow -up t o the

World Summ it and revi ew of the Comm ission on Scien ce and Techno logy fo r

Deve lopment and the mandat e that it gave to the C ommissi on,

Reca lling further its resolu tion 2020/12 of 1 7 Jul y 202 0 on the assessm ent of

the progr ess made in the implem entation of and foll ow-up to the outc omes of the

World Summit,

Reca llin g Gene ral A ssembly re solution 70/1 of 25 Sept ember 2015 , entitled

“Tran sforming our wo rld: the 2030 Age nda for Sustain able Dev elopmen t”,

Reca lling als o Gener al Assembl y resolut ion 70/ 125 of 16 Decem ber 2015 ,

entit led “ Outcome docum ent of the high- level meeting of the Ge neral As sembly on

the ov erall rev iew of th e impleme ntation of the out comes of th e World Sum mit on the

Infor mation Society” , in wh ich the Asse mbly rea ffirmed the World S ummit v ision of

a peo ple-cen tred, inc lusive an d develo pment -oriente d inform ation soc iety, wher e

ever yone c an cre ate, a ccess, utilize and share inform ation and k nowledg e, ena bling

indi viduals, comm unities an d peoples to ach ieve thei r full poten tial in prom oting the ir

sust ainable de velopme nt and impr oving the ir quality of life , premise d on the purp oses

and pr inciples of the Chart er of the Un ited Natio ns and resp ecting ful ly and upho lding

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See A/C. 2/59 /3 and A/60 /687 .