A/RES/74/197
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 16
Information and communications technologies for
sustainable development
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2019
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/74/378)]
74/197.
Information and communications technologies
for sustainable development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 73/218 of 20 December 2018 on information and
communications technologies for sustainable development, as well as previous
resolutions on the issue, 1
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 2019/24 of 23 July 2019
on the assessment of the progress made in the implementation of and follow-up to the
outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, as well as previous
resolutions on the issue, 2
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions –
economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
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Resolutions 56/183, 57/238, 59/220, 60/252, 62/182, 63/202, 64/187, 65/141, 66/184, 67/195,
68/198, 69/204, 70/184, 71/212 and 72/200.
Economic and Social Council resolutions 2006/46, 2008/3, 2009/7, 2010/2, 2011/16, 2012/5,
2013/9, 2014/27, 2015/26, 2016/22, 2017/21 and 2018/28.
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