Enormous benefits can be derived from ICTs as a tool for development. This will require the mainstreaming of information and knowledge concerns within the broad range of societal goals, with focus on development policy, as well as sectoral and cross-sectoral policies. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), approved by the United Nations Millennium Assembly, provide a powerful methodological and political framework for using ICTs to achieve this. Read the key points of the draft action plan for the second Preparatory Committee Meeting (PrepCom II) for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in Geneva (Switzerland) from 17 - 28 February 2003.