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Welcome to the UN Library at Geneva Disarmament Research Guide on Science & Emerging Technology!

Today's technological development is characterized by rapid advances and a distributed nature. This poses several challenges on arms control and international security. However, new technologies also offer chances for disarmament, trust creation and treaty implementation.

This disarmament research guide aims at giving a broad range of resources about current technological developments under both a technological and arms control perspective. It was developed in cooperation between the Geneva branch of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the United Nations Library Geneva.

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A/75/816 - Report of the Open-ended Working Group on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security
(18 March 2021)
Find documents of the UN. Open-ended Working Group on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security
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By its resolution 73/27, the General Assembly decided to convene, beginning in
2019, an open-ended working group acting on a consensus basis, to continue, as a
priority, to further develop the rules, norms and principles of responsible behaviour
of States, and the ways for their implementation; if necessary, to introduce changes
to them or elaborate additional rules of behaviour; to study the possibility of
establishing regular institutional dialogue with broad participation under the auspices
of the United Nations; and to continue to study, with a view to promoting common
understandings, existing and potential threats in the sphere of information security
and possible cooperative measures to address them and how international law applies
to the use of information and communications technologies by States, as well as
confidence-building measures and capacity-building, and to submit a report on the
results of the study to the Assembly....