World Development Information Day 24 October 2015
The General Assembly in 1972
instituted World Development Information Day to draw the attention of world
public opinion to development problems and the need to strengthen international
cooperation to solve them (resolution 3038 (XXVII)). The Assembly decided
that the date for the Day should coincide in principle with United Nations Day,
24 October, which was also the date of the adoption, in 1970, of the
International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development
Decade.
The Assembly felt that improving the
dissemination of information and the mobilization of public opinion,
particularly among young people, would lead to greater awareness of the
problems of development, thus, promoting efforts in the sphere of international
cooperation for development.
