The United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force (UN ICT TF) was a multi-stakeholder initiative associated with the United Nations which is "intended to lend a truly global dimension to the multitude of efforts to bridge the global digital divide, foster digital opportunity and thus firmly put ICT at the service of development for all."
Read more about United Nations Information And Communication Technologies Task Force: Establishment, Aims and Objectives, Membership and Organization, WSIS II in Tunis, Follow-up, Selected Documents, Publication Series
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