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Information Technology and Telecommunications Industry Partnership

Information Technology and Telecommunications Industry PartnershipIndustry Partnership serves as the World Economic Forum’s primary means for engaging its corporate partners.  It leverages the Forum’s neutral platform and global networks, and focuses on three areas: Industry, Cross-Industry, and Corporate Global Citizenship.

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The aims of Industry Partnership are:

  • Provide privileged exposure to the Forum’s networks and activities,
  • Identify the issues that can benefit from collaborative action
  • Bring together a critical mass of the most key “movers and shakers” to create necessary change. This change could be in understanding, regulatory involvement or behaviour by leading corporations.

Download the IT Industry Partnership Value Proposition 
Download the Telecoms Industry Partnership Value Proposition

How this improves the state of the world:

The Industry Partnership activities of the IT and Telecoms sectors support the World Economic Forum’s mission in the following ways:

  • Increasing access: Enhancing connectivity; Identifying policies that improve environment for deployment of and access to infrastructure (broadband, spectrum, etc)
  • Enhancing services: IT, Telecoms and Media/Entertainment convergence; Extending the Reach of the Healthcare Industry; Increasing Financial Inclusion; Increasing Quality of / Access to Education
  • Maintaining growth / mitigating risk: Improving Environmental Security; Ensuring Information Infrastructure Security; Aligning Government & Corporate Strategies for Growth and Innovation; Supply chain risk mitigation

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Key Issues
View highlights of the IT and Telecoms-specific Industry Partnership issues for 2008
Download IT and Telecoms specific documents according to issue

Communities
View information on communities of the IT and Telecoms Industries
Download related documents by community

Events 
View Industry Partnership activities at Forum events in 2008
Download related documents by Industry Partnership activity

Documents
Download material published for Industry Partnership activities and communities

    
 
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  2008 Upcoming Partnership Events

Please see here for all upcoming Forum hosted public events.

September 
- Innovation 100
- Annual Meeting of the New Champions
October 
- Strategic Government Affairs Meeting


  Recent Events

Please see here for all upcoming Forum hosted public events.

2008

June 
- World Economic Forum on East Asia
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East Asia Post-Industry Meeting Report (PDF)
May 
- World Economic Forum on the Middle East
-Middle East post - IT/Telecoms Industry Meeting Report
April 
- World Economic Forum on Latin America
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Strategic Government Affairs Spring Meeting
March 
- Global IT Report 2006-7
January
- IT, Telecoms Governors Meeting, Davos 2008

2007

December

- India Economic Summit      
Digital Ecosystem Session Summary (PDF)      
November
- Digital Ecosystem Meeting Summary       
October
- Strategic and Government Affairs Fall Report (PDF)
Media & Entertainment Strategy Meeting (PDF)
September 
- Annual Meeting of New Champions:
ITTC Post Meeting Report (PDF)
May
Strategic and Government Affairs Inaugural Report (PDF)

Contact Us

Simon Mulcahy
Head of Information Technology Industries
Simon.Mulcahy@weforum.org

Joanna Gordon
Community Manager for Hardware Industries      
Joanna.Gordon@weforum.org

Ana Sepulveda
Community Manager for Software Industries
Ana.Sepulveda@weforum.org

Michelle Barrett
Team Coordinator of Information Technology Industries
Michelle.Barrett@weforum.org

Silvia Von-Gunten
Head of Telecommunications Industry and Associate Director
Silvia.Von-Gunten@weforum.org

William Hoffman
Senior Community Manager - Telecommunications Industry
William.Hoffman@weforum.org

Sandra Bétemps
Senior Team Coordinator - Telecommunications Industry
Sandra.Betemps@weforum.org

 

    
 
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