15 - وذكر التقرير التجميعي() عن تطوير التكنولوجيا وبناء القدرات من أجل كفالة القدرة على المنافسة في مجتمع التكنولوجيا الرقمية، الذي يلخص أعمال اللجنة فيما بين الدورات خلال الفترة 2001-2003، أنه في حين أتاحت تكنولوجيا المعلومات والاتصالات فرصا جديدة.
The synthesis report1 on technology development and capacity-building for competitiveness in a digital society, which summarized the work of the Commission during the intersessional period 2001-2003, noted that while ICT had created new opportunities, they had also generated new challenges for countries in which technological capability, skill capacity and infrastructure were not sufficiently developed, and that technology could only be successfully acquired when supported by policies for human resource development and for the transfer and diffusion of technology.