A NEW DEPARTURE FOR THE ITU - AN INSIDE VIEW OF THE KYOTO-PLENIPOTENTIARY-CONFERENCE

This report, written immediately after the Kyoto conference, is an ins ider's assessment from three perspectives: first, a summary of the mai n achievements of the conference in organizational and policy terms; s econd, a more detailed look at the main output - the strategic plan - and at the most important policy decisions related to it; and third, t he lessons that might usefully be applied at future ITU conferences an d criteria that will probably have to be met in order to implement the decisions taken at Kyoto.