GEN

Calls upon all stakeholders to increase efforts towards funding of and investment in information and communications technologies in order to advance broadband access, including wireless access, in areas and countries in which it is still limited or non-existent; calls upon all stakeholders to increase their efforts to reduce the disparity in cost of access, through, for example, the establishment of Internet exchange points and the creation of a competitive environment, at both the backbone network and local levels; recommends that all States strive for gender equality in access to the Internet and in building the information society in both developed and developing countries; calls upon all stakeholders to continue the development and spread of easy-to-use applications and services for mobile phones and related devices, especially those that are useful in rural areas and work with low bandwidth and high latency; also calls upon all stakeholders to cooperate more closely in making global networks more stable, resilient and secure and in overcoming outages of, incidents affecting and attacks on these networks; recommends the mainstreaming of information and communications technology policies into national development or poverty reduction strategies; recommends that the Partnership on Measuring Information and Communication Technologies for Development consider the creation of benchmarks and indicators, including impact indicators in order to track progress towards the attainment of the specific goals and targets set out in the outcome documents of the World Summit on the Information Society, particularly section B of the Plan of Action adopted in Geneva.

Adopted without vote, 34th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 2008 (30 June to 25 July 2008) - E/2008/INF/2/Add.1 - 15 August 2008 - p. 15-19.