23. Also recognizes the potential of information and communication technologies to serve as a powerful tool for development and poverty eradication and to help the international community to maximize the benefits of globalization, and welcomes in this regard the holding of the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society from 10 to 12 December 2003 in Geneva and the offer of Tunisia to host the second phase in Tunis from 16 to 18 November 2005;
23. 又认识到信息和通信技术具有潜力成为促进发展和消除贫穷的有力工具，帮助国际社会尽量增加全球化的惠益，并就此欢迎2003年12月10日至12日在日内瓦举行的信息社会世界首脑会议第一阶段会议及欢迎突尼斯表示愿意在2005年11月16日至18日主办第二阶段会议；