A Committee under the UN General Assembly has endorsed a resolution that emphasizes the importance of the use of ICT for development.

Among other things, the resolution requests the UN Secretary-General to report on the status of development as a follow up to the proposals in the World Summit on the Information Society. See http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/12/14/un-ict-development-resolution for the news report and http://news.dot-nxt.com/sites/news.dot-nxt.com/files/member/A:C2:66:L80.pdf for the resolution.