Александр, to pay attention to...и артикль перед attention не нужно )

A special attention is attached to the development of information technologies
That's what I thought you meant

Судя по Ngram Viewer, с артиклем тоже употребляется, но гораздо реже, и в основном не англоязычными товарищами. А без артикля "special attaention is paid to" - сплошь и рядом: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=special+attention+is+paid+to&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cspecial%20attention%20is%20paid%20to%3B%2Cc0
Перевод исправил.

И вот ещё три варианта в сравнении: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=special+attention+is+paid+to%2Cspecial+attention+is+focused+on%2Cgreat+emphasis+is+laid+upon&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cspecial%20attention%20is%20paid%20to%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cspecial%20attention%20is%20focused%20on%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cgreat%20emphasis%20is%20laid%20upon%3B%2Cc0

"a special attention is attached to" - только один результат: https://www.google.ru/search?lr=lang_en&newwindow=1&dcr=0&tbs=lr%3Alang_1en&tbm=bks&ei=EQVnWrGuDIySmgWC8KDYCg&q=%22a+special+attention+is+attached+to%22&oq=%22a+special+attention+is+attached+to%22&gs_l=psy-ab.12...12443.14849.0.17475.4.4.0.0.0.0.53.191.4.4.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.1sn1RoP8axY

без артикля больше, но выходит из моды:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=special+attention+is+attached+to&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cspecial%20attention%20is%20attached%20to%3B%2Cc0

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