A friend just forwarded me a great BBC article on WSIS that came out in December. It put things in a very different perspective:

"If we want to appreciate WSIS, I think we need to look at the interactions between people, and the traces the events of these three days in Geneva will leave in the organisations and individuals that are attending....

It is perhaps somewhat ironic that the real benefits of WSIS should come almost entirely from the fact that it has enabled thousands of people to meet face to face without email.

Its importance over the next two years is not going to be in terms of government agendas and increased spending - the politics of the summit have effectively ruled that out - but in new projects, new collaborations and new ideas on the ground."

Sounds very similar to the strategy we were aiming at with YCDO and the Youth Caucus all along :-)