A/RES/64/211
United Nations
Distr.: General
17 March 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 55 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2009
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/64/422/Add.3)]
64/211. Creation of a global culture of cybersecurity and taking
stock of national efforts to protect critical information
infrastructures
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 55/63 of 4 December 2000 and 56/121 of
19 December 2001 on combating the criminal misuse of information technologies,
57/239 of 20 December 2002 on the creation of a global culture of cybersecurity and
58/199 of 23 December 2003 on the creation of a global culture of cybersecurity and
the protection of critical information infrastructures,
Recalling also its resolutions 53/70 of 4 December 1998, 54/49 of 1 December
1999, 55/28 of 20 November 2000, 56/19 of 29 November 2001, 57/53 of
22 November 2002, 58/32 of 8 December 2003, 59/61 of 3 December 2004, 60/45
of 8 December 2005, 61/54 of 6 December 2006, 62/17 of 5 December 2007 and
63/37 of 2 December 2008 on developments with respect to information technologies
in the context of international security,
Recalling further the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information
Society, held in Geneva from 10 to 12 December 2003 (first phase) and in Tunis
from 16 to 18 November 2005 (second phase), 1
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Recognizing that confidence and security in the use of information and
communications technologies are among the main pillars of the information society
and that a robust global culture of cybersecurity needs to be encouraged, promoted,
developed and vigorously implemented,
Recognizing also the increasing contribution made by networked information
technologies to many of the essential functions of daily life, commerce and the
provision of goods and services, research, innovation and entrepreneurship, and to
the free flow of information among individuals and organizations, Governments,
business and civil society,
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See A/C.2/59/3 and A/60/687.
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