Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through information and communication technology (ICT) is on the agenda at the United Nations’ ICT Network meeting in Geneva, Switzerland during 17-18 October.
The meeting is discussing progress on its Digital Agenda Action Plan, designed to support UN programmes and the work being done towards the SDGs. Other important issues, such as information security, are also being discussed.
With ICT playing a vital and ever-increasing role in the modern world, the United Nations system continually assesses how it uses ICT to best advantage in contributing to its own institutional efficiencies and helping to meet its external objectives. It does this through the ICT Network of its Chief Executives Board and the UN International Computing Centre’s Management Committee, which follows the ICT Network meeting.
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