Mr. Kummer is a career diplomat who has been in his present position as eEnvoy of the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Berne, Switzerland since April 2002. His main tasks include foreign policy co-ordination with regard to information and communication technologies in general and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in particular. He chaired the negotiating group that developed an agreed text on Internet governance for the WSIS Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action.