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The Recommendation concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace was adopted on 15 October 2003 by the General Conference at its 32nd session. The Recommendation is a unique normative instrument that encourages international organizations, governments, civil society, academia, and private sector organizations including the information technology industry, to collaborate in the development of multilingual content and systems, facilitate access to networks and systems, develop public domain content, and seek an equitable balance between the interests of rights-holders and the public interest. 

At its 33rd session, in October 2005, the General Conference requested each Member State to prepare and submit to the Secretariat a first report on such measures by January 2007, and subsequently once every four years with effect from that date (33 C/Resolution 54).  The 5th consolidated report of the Recommendation was presented to the General Conference in 2023.  

UNESCO analyzed the 31 reports submitted by Member States on the measures taken between 2019-2022 to implement the Recommendation. The consolidated report noted that Member states have taken measures to encourage innovation and facilitate access, digitization, transmission, and distribution of digital information, especially in the scientific and public domain at the national level, through respective legislative measures. Member States have taken concrete steps to improve universal, free, and open online access to multilingual knowledge and information, taking advantage of technological advances and AI. 

Despite the immense value of languages, more than half of all languages are in danger of falling into disuse, with devastating impacts for the global linguistic diversity and the situation of language communities, particularly Indigenous Peoples. As part of its action to implement the United Nations resolution (), UNESCO is the lead United Nations agency for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages in collaboration with UNDESA and other relevant agencies.