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[...] there has been an increasing concern among the international community about the growing digital divide – not only between developed and developing counties but also in terms of gender, geographical [...] [...]

Despite the positive developments towards narrowing the digital divide, constant attention is needed to ensure that developing countries [...]

[...] [...] Member States, the Secretariat, the United Nations agencies, programmes and funds); the senior leaders’ programme, a compulsory orientation course for all mission personnel at the D-2 level and above, conducted twice annually in New York; and SMART, an intensive year-long programme involving distance learning and three week-long workshops for two groups of 40 candidates.

[...] [...] fair competition and provide the wrong incentives for efficiency, innovation and competitiveness in general; and (c) prolong outdated practices and political institutions, including co-optation, corruption and the capture of public policies by specific industries or groups, delaying the modernization of State institutions and impeding overall economic, social and political development over the longer term.

[...] [...] to narrow the digital gap by the creation in the South of multimedia centres and [...] [...]

[...] [...] media workers; bridging the digital divide through community multimedia centres [...] [...]

At the sixth special session of the General Assembly in 1974, States Members of the United Nations solemnly proclaimed their “united determination to work urgently for the Establishment of a New International Economic Order based on equity, sovereign equality, interdependence, common interest and cooperation among all States, irrespective of their economic and social systems which shall correct inequalities and redress existing injustices, make it possible to eliminate the widening gap between the developed and the developing countries and ensure steadily accelerating economic and social development and peace and justice for present and future generations” (resolution 3201 (S-VI)).

[...] [...] agreements; they must be compatible with and implementable alongside other proposals with a view to providing a coherent vision for the future of the treaty body system; and, most importantly, each proposal [...]

Investments in green technologies will yield pay-offs in the long term for a safer environment and more sustainable growth.

Tangible progress towards disarmament and the elimination of nuclear weapons could be achieved in the long run not by emphatic statements of good intentions, but through a comprehensive strategy that included the resolution of regional tensions, enhancement of collective security mechanisms and implementation of the action plans for which the European [...]

[...] [...] other supplies from remote markets and through [...]

Owing to their small size, low population levels, limited production base and vast inter-island distances, shipping services to and between these countries face unique challenges related to low and often irregular traffic volumes, long voyage distances and physical constraints in associated seaport infrastructure and equipment.

However, in the light of the growing digital divide between developed and developing countries, [...] [...]

The Ministers expressed concern over the digital divide in access to ICT tools and broadband connectivity between developed and developing countries, which affects many economically and socially relevant applications in areas such as, inter alia, government, business, health and education, and further expressed concern with regard to the special challenges faced in the area of broadband connectivity by developing countries.

[...] [...] and analysed the current gender divide in FOSS.

E-learning (Action Line C7): In order to contribute to reducing the “digital” or “knowledge” divide, Open and Distance [...] [...]

[...] [...] narrowing the digital divide, and to examine, within [...] [...]

Cross-border communication may reveal, for example, some fact or procedure that will substantially inform the best resolution of the case and may, in the longer term, serve as an impetus to law reform.

Calling for speedy and concerted action to address effectively debt problems of least developed countries, low-income developing countries and middleincome developing countries in a comprehensive, equitable developmentoriented and durable way through various national and international measures designed to make their debt sustainable in the long term, including, as appropriate, existing orderly mechanisms for debt reduction such as debt swaps for projects.

[...] [...] approach for addressing the digital divide.

The principal result of its seventeenth session was the understanding that sustainable agricultural development was important not only for the resolution of the economic and food crises but also, in the longer term, for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, poverty eradication and combating environmental degradation.

It is not clear whether this makes much difference in practice, although a more rights-based approach may prove important over time.

[...] [...] its establishment and praised the range of valuable and innovative services that it had delivered in terms of ICT human capacity-building and bridging the digital divide in ESCAP members and associate members.

[...] [...] archives) thereby reducing the digital divide.

[...] [...] the growing digital divide and disparities in [...]

Here, I would like to stress the importance for the Government to lay out clearly the future vision and orientation of the PNTL — what kind of national police it would like to develop, for instance, with emphasis on community policing.

In the long run, most of the investment funds needed to effect a shift to environmentally sustainable and low-carbon growth will need to come from the private sector, but private capital is unlikely to appear rapidly enough or to be [...] [...]