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#WeareETSI: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness

ETSI is committed to raise awareness of diversity, equity and inclusiveness – the key pillars of the ETSI community.

Our campaign #WeareETSI highlights the people behind our standards: #TheStandardsPeople.

We dedicated the month of March, coinciding with International Women’s Day, to gender diversity, and received an amazing response from our female contributors – the women of ETSI. Watch their video testimonials on this webpage and hear their views on diversity, equity and inclusiveness in the ETSI community. You will learn how they got into ITC standardization, their role and experience in ETSI, and whether and how gender played a role in their experience. Fellow women considering ICT standardization as their future career may obtain some good advice.

It’s never too late to contribute! If you’d like to make your voice heard, send us your video testimonial (self-recorded in landscape format, length of approx. 2 minutes): branding@etsi.org

We look forward to receiving your contributions to which we will add the ETSI logo and the hashtag #WeareETSI.

All contributions will be promoted via ETSI social media channels and on our website. 

Our Members' Testimonials

Suno Wood, Association of users for life cycle resource management for information communication technology (FR) - Chair of ETSI TC eHealth Cristina Lumbreras, European Emergency Number Association (BE) - Chair of ETSI TC EMTEL Zou Lan, Huawei Technologies (UK) Co., Ltd. (GB) - 3GPP SA5 Vice Chair, Rapporteur of ETSI GS ZSM 003 Marianne Mohali, Orange (FR) - oneM2M RDM Vice Chair Bettina Funk, ITS (SE) - ETSI Board Member, Chair of ETSI Board Process Group Shane HE, Nokia (DE) - Chair of oneM2M RDM Working Group     Guangjing Cao, Huawei (FR) -  Vice Director of ETSI Coordination Department Claire d'Esclercs, ETSI (FR) - Director for Membership Development in ETSI    Chantal Bonardi, ETSI (FR) - Technical Officer at ETSI Susana Fernandez, Ericsson (SE) - Vice-Chair 3GPP CT WG3    Sophia Papathanasopoulou, Ministry of Digital Governance (GR) - Head of Broadband Unit Isabelle Valet-Harper, CommLedge (FR) - Standards Consultant & ETSI Board member    Muriel Deschanel, b<>com (FR) - Senior Director Applications and Hypermedia  Rana Kamill, BT (UK) - IoT Ecosystem Architecture Solution Manager & ETSI and oneM2M Delegate    Lena Chaponniere, Qualcomm Inc (US) - Sr Dir, Technical Standards & 3GPP CT1 Vice Chair Nurit Sprecher, Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co (DE), Vice Chair of ETSI ISG ZSM    

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#WeareETSI: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness

ETSI is committed to raise awareness of diversity, equity and inclusiveness – the key pillars of the ETSI community.

ETSI is committed to help raise awareness of the value of SMEs and micro-enterprises and we would like to highlight the people behind our standards: #TheStandardsPeople. SMEs and micro-enterprises make up an impressive 27% of ETSI’s diverse membership of over 900 organizations from 64 countries. Like any other member, they participate directly in our standards-making activities in a consensus-based environment. Expertise and collaboration count for much more than company size.

At ETSI, we recognize this strategic importance of SMEs and micro-enterprises, and they in turn recognize that participating in standardization activities may significantly benefit their business. As a member of ETSI, SMEs and micro-enterprises have commercial benefits over competitors that are not present, they enhance their company's credibility and reputation through the association of having been “on the inside” and reduce time to market for product development in line with standards being drafted. 

As the backbone of our economy, SMEs and micro-enterprises are crucial for economic growth and prosperity, and with a high capacity for innovation. Many SMEs and micro-enterprises are highly influential and active in ETSI – working alongside the world’s leading telecommunications companies and holding official positions.

35 Nationalities 27% of our members are SMEs and micro-enterprises >50% of official positions in our technical groups are held by SMEs

Our Members' Testimonials

Charles Brookson - Zeata Security Ltd Emilio Posca - NEWEN Axel Ferrazzini - GovStrat SPRL  Sebastiano Toffaletti, Naira Lopez Canellas and Omar Dhaher, DIGITAL SME Alliance     Yann Chevalier - Intersec  

It’s never too late to contribute! If you’d like to make your voice heard, send us your video testimonial (self-recorded in landscape format, length of approx. 2 minutes): branding@etsi.org

We look forward to receiving your contributions to which we will add the ETSI logo and the hashtag #WeareETSI.

All contributions will be promoted via ETSI social media channels and on our website. 

Axel Ferrazzini, ETSI Board Member