Information Technology and Telecommunications Industry Partnership

Industry 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
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Events 
View Industry Partnership activities at Forum events in 2008
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Documents
Download material published for Industry Partnership activities and communities