The WSIS is hard to understand. The 2003 Geneva meeting of the UN World Summit on the Information Society has brought thousands of people to Geneva to articulate a collective vision about the benefits and potentials of information in society and the policies needed to realize them.

Even immediate participants have difficulty understanding what has been achieved. With so many recommendations, which ones will lead to concrete political action and social change? What is important and why?

To help answer such questions, this report provides an institutional analysis of WSIS.
It focuses on two main features: its characteristics as a policy forum and the mechanisms
available to it for policy implementation.