AG/RES. 1523 (XXVII-O/97)

INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EDUCATION

(Resolution adopted at the seventh plenary session, held on June 5, 1997)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

CONSIDERING:

The importance attached by member states to improving information technology in strategic areas such as science and technology, educational and social development, and protection of the environment;

The concern shown by member states to strengthen scientific and technological data networks, such as the Hemispheric Inter-University Scientific and Technological Information Network (RedHUCyT); and

The priority attached by member states to educational programs and projects as part and parcel of the process of social development and the struggle to overcome poverty,

RESOLVES:

1. To instruct the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), acting through the Permanent Executive Committee of CIDI (CEPCIDI) and within the framework of the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Development 1997-2001, to support projects related to development of information infrastructure and designed to strengthen and modernize the educational sector.

2. To instruct the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development, with a view to implementing the previous paragraph, to coordinate studies on the possible extension of the activities of the Hemispheric Inter-University Scientific and Technological Information Network (RedHUCyT) to the field of education, within the framework of the initiatives to be examined by the next meeting of ministers of education, convoked by CIDI.