In 1972, the General Assembly established World Development Information Day to draw the attention of the world 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 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 deemed 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.
