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5. ETSI’s Strategic Objectives

ETSI aims to maintain and strengthen its strategic position

through a number of Key Strategic Objectives, each defining
a major goal for ETSI. Together, they define ETSI’s direction of
travel and the developments underpinning these key strategic

objectives outline where ETSI is on the journey to reach its goals
and the expected major stages of that journey.

Being at the Heart of Digital

ETSI provides a platform through which its ETSI leverages on its global membership,
membership can be at the vanguard of global partnerships and liaisons, including
standards in ICT. collaboration with other standards setting
organizations, to broaden its portfolio
ETSI is the preferred point of call for ICT and engage with different market sectors,
related standardization, positioned for understanding and sharing their needs,
international adoption. concerns and methods.

ETSI enables a comprehensive end-to-end ETSI is a preferred ICT standards partner of the
vision of ICT architectures and technologies. European Commission and is recognized by the
European Union as an ESO.
ETSI in drafting standards has a close
cooperation with European spectrum ETSI engages and works closely with academia,
authorities, ITU and global spectrum allocation research and innovation communities to stay
discussions with the aim of maximizing the at the forefront of technology.
efficient use of the finite spectrum resource.
ETSI establishes effective liaisons with open
ETSI will continue assessing its ways of source foundations and communities, and
working to further explore concepts such makes efficient use of open source to the
as flexible spectrum and dynamic spectrum benefit of ETSI’s members and to further the
access to enable standards addressing the global adoption of ETSI standards.
ever-increasing demand for use of spectrum.

Being an Enabler of Standards

ETSI provides support and a range of tools ETSI is the place where its members come
to enable the identification of the needs to debate and exchange ideas about the
and requirements for standards and their development and use of technology of central
production and adoption. importance to their success. It also facilitates

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