The Swiss-government supported ICT4Peace project, after its ground-breaking research and advocacy successes in 2005, has established itself as a Swiss Foundation in Geneva in early 2006. This Foundation will serve as a hub for research, advocacy and networking on the topic of ICT use to prevent, respond to and recover from conflict.

Following the publication of the research report "Information and Communication for Peace: the role of ICT in preventing, responding to and recovering from conflict" as part of the United Nations ICT Task Force Series, and the adoption of paragraph 36 of the Tunis Commitment at WSIS 2005, the ICT4Peace Foundation is in a key position to encourage research and collaboration between the stakeholders in humanitarian relief, peacekeeping operations, diplomacy and conflict prevention, including the private sector.

The initial Foundation Board members include Daniel Stauffacher, Chairman, and former Ambassador of Switzerland, Ms. Maria Cattaui, former Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. Alain Modoux, former Assistant Director General of UNESCO. As in the first phase of the project, Mr. Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland has agreed to be the Chairman and former Under Secretary General of the UN Nitin Desai, Stephen Brown, Sundeep Waslekar, Shahid Akhtar, Sanjana Hattotuwa and Mathias Stiefel, President of Interpeace to be members  of the Informal Policy Advisory Board of the Foundation.