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United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force
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In March 2001, the United Nations Economic and Social Council requested the Secretary-General to establish an Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Task Force. This initiative is intended to lend a truly global dimension to the multitude of efforts to bridge the global digital divide, foster digital opportunity and thus firmly put ICT at the service of development for all.
To achieve tangible and sustainable results, action in the area of ICT-for-development must be local, cooperation should be promoted at the sub-regional and regional levels, but the broad agenda should be set globally. The contribution of the United Nations to this effort, via the ICT Task Force, reflects the Organization’s unique strengths –legitimacy, universality, global development reach and experience and presence on the ground, as well as its convening and catalytic roles.
The objective of the Task Force is to "provide overall leadership to the United Nations role in helping to formulate strategies for the development of information and communication technologies and putting those technologies at the service of development and, on the basis of consultations with all stakeholders and Member States, forging a strategic partnership between the United Nations system, private industry and financing trusts and foundations, donors, programme countries and other relevant stakeholders in accordance with relevant United Nations resolutions."
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