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Through research and expertise
Elisa’s management and experts are active in expert bodies and organisations in the sector in order to learn about other players in the sector, participate in developing the industry, and in monitoring the interests of the sector through these organisations.
A diverse network of international research organisations and partners complements Elisa Group’s R&D operations. Continuous collaboration with national and international research organisations is an important part of adopting and implementing new technologies.
National level
Elisa is involved in developing the information society.
- Veli-Matti Mattila, CEO, is a member of the Ubiquitous Information Society Advisory Board.
- An information society steering group is in place within Elisa, coordinating Elisa’s influence on the information society programme and utilising business opportunities generated by the information society development.
- Elisa has been participating in the Forum Virium Helsinki cluster project for digital content and services from the beginning.
www.forumvirium.fi
- Elisa is represented in the TIVIT Oy Board of Directors.
www.tivit.fi
International level
Elisa is an active participant in international research collaboration, including the European Union Fifth and Sixth Framework Programmes as well as research and standardisation cooperation in the following forums:
- 3GPP (The 3rd Generation Partnership Project) www.3gpp.org
- Ficora www.ficora.fi
- IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) www.ietf.org
- ITU (International Telecommunication Union) www.itu.int
- OMA (The Open Mobile Alliance Ltd) www.openmobilealliance.org
- W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium) www.w3.org
- WWRF (Wireless World Research Forum) www.wireless-world-research.org