The focus of this priority is to foster an enabling policy and regulatory environment that responds to technological and market innovations and leverages wide collaboration and data-driven decision making in order to encourage sustainable and viable investment in infrastructure and innovative economic models, promoting sustainable digital growth and increased adoption of telecommunications/ICTs, including support for spectrum management in line with WTDC Resolution 9 (Rev. Baku, 2025).

The resilience of this environment relies on agile and capable administrations and regulators, empowered in their autonomy to take evidence-based decisions that enable a variety of business models and to defend consumers’ interest in the market and empower all consumers within it, taking into account their economic analysis of consumer choice in the telecommunication/ICT market. In addition, this work will support principles of transparency and accountability within policy and regulation that includes the perspectives of all stakeholders in their development and will explore models of collaborative regulation, where appropriate.