(i) 持续监测信息和通信技术总体治理框架的效力。
(i) Monitor on an ongoing basis the effectiveness of the overall ICT governance framework.
16. 总部以外办事处和通过维和部管理的外地维持和平办事处的信息和通信技术单位将获得授权，以便：
ICT units at offices away from Headquarters and peacekeeping field offices administered through the Department of Peacekeeping Operations would be provided with delegated authority to:
(a) 评估业务需求和所需支助技术解决方案；
(a) Assess business needs and required supporting technology solutions;
(b) 确定当地信息和通信技术基础设施要求；
(b) Identify local ICT infrastructure requirements;
(c) 管理当地技术基础设施及信息和通信技术日常运作情况；
(c) Manage local technology infrastructure and day-to-day ICT operations;
(d) 确定并管理当地服务水平和合同协议；
(d) Define and manage local service levels and contractual agreements;
(e) 制定并管理当地信息和通信技术预算；
(e) Develop and manage local ICT budgets;
(f) 协调并为当地用户提供培训；
(f) Coordinate and provide training for local users;
(g) 制定和实施当地灾难恢复和业务延续计划；
(g) Develop and implement local disaster recovery and business continuity plans;
(h) 管理当地数据的存储、安全和可用情况。
(h) Manage the storage, security and availability of local data.
17. 维持和平行动部将获得授权，以便：
The Department of Peacekeeping Operations would be provided with delegated authority to:
(a) 确保首席信息技术干事所确定的全组织信息和通信技术构想扩展到外地信息和通信技术业务；
(a) Ensure that the organizational ICT vision, as defined by the Chief Information Technology Officer, is extended to field ICT operations;
(b) 按照联合国信息和通信技术政策并根据行业最佳做法和国际标准订立并公布针对外地的信息和通信技术政策、标准、程序和准则；
(b) Establish and promulgate field-specific ICT policies, standards, procedures and guidelines in alignment with United Nations ICT policies and according to industry best practices and international standards;
(c) 监测并确保外地特派团的信息和通信技术支出符合由信息和通信技术厅制定的全球信息和通信技术投资战略，以确保规模效益并减少重复；
(c) Monitor and ensure that field mission ICT expenditures are aligned with the global ICT investment strategy, as developed by the Office of Information and Communications Technology, to ensure economies of scale and reduce redundancies;
(d) 必要时规划、协调并指导外地特派团的各类信息和通信技术业务；
(d) Plan, coordinate and direct various ICT operations in field missions as necessary;
(e) 评估外地业务需求和所需支助技术解决方案；
(e) Assess business needs and required supporting technology solutions for the field;
(f) 管理外地广域网连通性。
(f) Manage wide area network (WAN) connectivity for the field.
18. 依照拟议的治理框架，与应用软件——无论是定制系统还是购置的成套软件——的开发有关的所有倡议，不论资金来源如何，都须经过信息和通信技术厅审批。
Under the proposed governance framework, all initiatives related to the development of application software, whether customized systems or the result of acquisitions of software packages, regardless of their source of funding would be subject to a review and approval by the Office of Information and Communications Technology.
此一审查过程的目的是要确保战略上的适当协调一致，并对其预期增值效果和投资回报进行评估。
This review process is intended to ensure proper strategic alignment and cohesion as well as the assessment of their projected added value and return on investment.
五. 结论
Conclusion
19. 秘书长坚信，本报告中提议的信息通和信技术管理与治理框架将使本组织能够利用信息和通信技术作为重要改革工具所具有的潜力，因而请大会予以批准。
The Secretary-General strongly believes that the management and governance framework for ICT proposed in the present report would enable the Organization to leverage the potential of ICT as a critical reform instrument and requests the General Assembly to endorse it.
2007年9月27日厄立特里亚常驻联合国代表给安全理事会主席的信
Letter dated 27 September 2007 from the Permanent Representative of Eritrea to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council
谨随函转递厄立特里亚外交部长奥斯曼·萨勒赫先生给阁下的信，信中谈到有关厄立特里亚和埃塞俄比亚之间当前和平进程中出现的令人担忧的迹象（见附件）。
I have the honour to transmit a letter addressed to you by Osman Saleh, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Eritrea, regarding the worrying signs in the current peace process between Eritrea and Ethiopia (see annex).
请将本信及其附件作为安全理事会的文件分发为荷。
I should be grateful if the present letter and its annex could be circulated as a document of the Security Council.