Questions relating to information
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be a broadly accessible resource for information about the United Nations and its
activities, including through a multilingual home page, from within existing resources;
90. Welcomes the initiatives taken by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, in its
capacity as the focal point, to expand the scope of the regional training and
knowledge-sharing workshops organized for the depository libraries in developing
countries to include outreach in their activities;
91. Acknowledges the role of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library in enhancing
knowledge-sharing and networking activities to ensure access to the vast store of
United Nations knowledge for delegates, permanent missions of Member States, the
Secretariat, researchers and depository libraries worldwide;
92. Notes the efforts of the United Nations intranet and iSeek team to raise
awareness among staff members of new initiatives and developments in different
departments of the Secretariat, and requests the Department of Public Information, as
a matter of priority and in the spirit of synergies and efficiency, to study ways of
integrating the Member States’ e-deleGATE portal into the iSeek platform for more
efficient and effective sharing of information with Member States, and to report to
the Committee on Information on this issue at its forty-first session;
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Outreach services
93. Stresses that the central objective of the outreach and knowledge services
implemented by the Department of Public Information is to promote awareness of the
role and work of the United Nations by fostering dialogue with global constituencies,
such as academia, civil society, educators, students and youth, with the overall
emphasis on multilingualism from the planning stage, in close collaboration with the
substantive departments, specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United
Nations;
94. Notes with serious concern that many outreach and knowledge services
are not yet available in all official languages, and in this regard urges the Department
of Public Information, as a matter of priority, to mainstream multilingualism into all
outreach and knowledge services, bearing in mind the importance of making use of
all the official languages of the United Nations and ensuring their full and equitable
treatment in all the activities of the Department, with the aim of eliminating the
disparity between the use of English and the use of the five other official languages;
95. Encourages the United Nations Academic Impact to take effective steps to
facilitate exchanges between the United Nations and institutions of higher education
and academic, research and scientific communities in all regions to support the
common principles and purposes of the United Nations, contribute to the realization
of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, foster global citizenship and fill
knowledge gaps, while recognizing the role of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization and its constitution;
96. Notes the continued growth of the United Nations Academic Impact, call s
upon the Department of Public Information to promote global awareness of the
Academic Impact in order to encourage balanced participation among Member States
and their continued support for the initiative, within existing resources, and
encourages Member States to promote the initiative among their academic
institutions, as appropriate, with a view to their joining it, in accordance with General
Assembly resolutions 72/90 A and B;
97. Welcomes the educational outreach activities of the Department of Public
Information, and requests the Department to continue to reach educators and young
people worldwide through a range of multilingual multimedia platforms including, in
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