The ICT Strategy for the UN Secretariat encompasses five cross-cutting priority areas:  (1) ICT management structure, (2) strategic programme delivery, (3) service delivery and performance management, (4) global architecture and standards, and (5) financial control and reporting.

Unprecedented advances in information technology, including improvements in both wired and wireless global telecommunications networks, are providing ever more opportunities for the United Nations to operate as a truly global and integrated Secretariat. Appropriately deployed, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) renders the Organization more effective and efficient in carrying out its work and adapting to changing environments across the globe.