Establishment of a Network for the Exchange of Technological Information

Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, in consultation with the regional commissions and other appropriate organizations, to intensify their efforts, in their respective fields, to assist in the establishment in developing countries of centres for the transfer and development of technology at the national, subregional and regional levels, in order to provide fundamental elements for the adequate functioning of an international network for the exchange of technological information, through corresponding national, subregional and regional systems of information;

Also requests the Secretary-General and the Interagency Task Force to continue their work in accordance with paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 3507 (XXX). including the preparation and publication of the pilot directory of United Nations

Further requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Interagency Task Force, to provide, within the eX!i.sting capacity of the Secretariat, the necessary administrative services for carrying out, as far as is possible at present, the recommendations of the report;

Requests the Secretary-General and the Interagency Task Force to ascertain the availability of current inventories' of information capabilities at the national, regional and international levels in terms of information sources, means of access to information and information-related services;

Urges the Secretary-General and the Interagency Task Force to identify by means of those inventories any deficiencies that might inhibit the setting up of the network and to recommend to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session, through the Economic and Social Council, measures to remedy these deficiencies;