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Home Home Browse Resources Toolkits & Publications Creating an Enabling Environement: Toward the Millennium Development Goals
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Creating an Enabling Environement: Toward the Millennium Development Goals
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Articles & Essays

Author
UN ICT Task Force

Publication Date
April 5, 2005

Posted
April 30, 2005

Categories
Technology

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The ICT and development communities have a unique opportunity. The recent report of the United Nations Millennium Project and the United Nations Secretary-General's report “In larger freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all” (A/59/2005) have both highlighted the importance of science, innovation and technology in realizing the MDGs and related national development priorities. ICT have an especially significant role to play here for it is only with the strategic, widespread, intensive and innovative use of ICT in development polices and programmes that the ambitious agenda of the MDGs becomes that much more possible to achieve. But this involves the need not only to unleash the potential of ICT per se but also the need to ensure that an enabling environment and capacities that can facilitate its development uses are in place.