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:
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.
- IT Industry Partnership Value Proposition
- 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

IT and Telecoms Partners of the Forum Information Technology Industy Telecoms Industry Accenture Adobe Akamai Technologies AMD Applied Materials Autodesk BMC Software CA, Inc CSC Dell EMC Forrester Research Gartner Google HCL Technologies HP HTC - VIA Infosys Intel Lenovo McAfee Microsoft Salesforce.com SAS SAP Wipro Alcatel Lucent Amdocs AT&T BT China Mobile Cisco Deutsche Telekom France Telekom Huawei Liberty Global Motorola Qualcomm SK Group Telenor Telstra Turkcell VimpelCom Vodafone