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- THE UN ACTIVITIES ON FACILITATING THE APPLICATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY FOR THE PURPOSES OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE 1990S
- Fyadotaŭ L.A. The UN activities on facilitating the application of information and communications technology for the purposes of development in the 1990s. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2024, vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 66–77 (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2024-30-2-66-77
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2024-30-2-66-77
- УДК: 002:327
- EDN: DITRKO
- Publish date: 2024-04-24
- Annotation: In the early 3rd decade in the 21st century, the information and communications technology (hereinafter referred to as ICT) is regarded as an inalienable factor of the international development. This article presents the analysis of the events related to the outset of the UN involvement in this factor promotion at the turn of the 1980s and further until the late 90s. It marks out the most important measures initiated at the UN main and subsidiary bodies aiming at the ICT study as a development factor and the international community’s political will mobilisation on the ICT’s broadest possible adoption and application. Within the period under consideration, three stages marking the expansion of the UN involvement in the ICT issues, from attracting general attention to their importance in the development towards the drafting of recommendations for the international community on bridging the digital divide, are proposed by us. The article finds out that these recommendations just as other UN activities in the development field worked in favour of the globalisation and evidently reflected the neoliberal paradigm. However, in the meantime they counterbalanced market fundamentalists and provided the grounds for the need of planning the international aid for developing nations and guaranteeing social focus in the national ICT policies.
- Keywords: UN history, international development, digital divide.
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