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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.

- 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

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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

    
 
  2009 Upcoming Partnership Events

Please see here for all upcoming Forum hosted public events.
- Annual Meeting 2009


  Recent Events

September 
- Innovation 100
- Annual Meeting of the New Champions
November
- India Economic Summit


 Related Links

- Global Agenda Councils
- Global IT Report
- Technology Pioneers
- WELCOM


Contact Us

For more information or to register for an event contact:

Alan Marcus
Director, IT and Telecommunications Industries
Alan.Marcus@weforum.org

Joanna Gordon
Global Leadership Fellow, Information Technology Industry      
Joanna.Gordon@weforum.org

Nicholas Kim
Global Leadership Fellow, Information Technology Industry
Nicholas.Kim@weforum.org

Anne Neville
Global Leadership Fellow, Information Technology Industry anne.neville@weforum.org

Michelle Barrett
Team Coordinator, Information Technology Industry
Michelle.Barrett@weforum.org

William Hoffman
Associate Director,
Telecommunications Industry
William.Hoffman@weforum.org

Rico Oyola
Global Leadership Fellow, Telecommunications Industry
Rico.Oyola@weforum.org

Jessica Lewis
Team Coordinator, Telecommunications Industry
Jessica.Lewis@weforum.org



    
 
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