UN ICT
Task Force
Mandated to provide overall leadership to the United Nations role in helping to formulate strategies for the development of information and communication technologies and putting those technologies at the service of development
and forging a strategic partnership between the United Nations system, private industry and financing trusts and foundations, donors, programme countries and other relevant stakeholders in accordance with relevant United Nations resolutions.
[www.unicttaskforce.org]
 UNDP
ICT for Development
UNDP helps countries draw on expertise and best practices from around the world to develop strategies that expand access to ICT and harness it for development. Working in 166 countries, UNDP also relies on ICT solutions to make the most effective use of its own global network.
[www.unep.org]
 UNCTAD
S & T Programme and E-commerce Programme
UNCTAD carries out policy-oriented analytical
work on the implications for developing
countries of the adoption of e-commerce and
Internet technologies.
[www.unctad.org]
 International
Telecommunication Union
Secretariat
of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), ITU is where governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and services.
The ITU is the leading publisher of telecommunication technology, regulatory and standards information.
[www.itu.int]
 United
Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
The project on Information Technologies and Social Development is designed to explore the institutional and policy environment affecting the likelihood that new information and communications technologies can be used to improve the lives of large numbers of people in developing countries.
[www.unrisd.org]
World
Bank's Global Information and Communication Technologies Department (GICT)
The World Bank
provides governments, private companies, and community organizations with the capital and expertise needed to develop and apply information and communication technologies to reduce poverty and foster development.
[www.worldbank.org]
United Nations
University-Institute for New Technologies (UNU-INTECH)
The World Bank
provides governments, private companies, and community organizations with the capital and expertise needed to develop and apply information and communication technologies to reduce poverty and foster development.
[www.intech.unu.edu]
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