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The Foundation's governance is split into two key areas:
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Projects and Working Groups are always constituted within a single Program, and are expected to be aligned with the scope of that Program - so for example Projects and Working Groups within the VOICE Program would be expected to be involved in developing voice technologies, voice metadata and API standards, or workflow enablement between voice systems and other systems.
Within the boundaries defined by the Program's Operations Policy, Projects and Working Groups are predominantly autonomous in their day-to-day operation. Prioritization and roadmap planning, development methodologies and standards, staffing, meeting schedules, choice of tools and techniques etc. are all the responsibility of each Project or Working Group. This level of independence is intended to maximize momentum and progress, and minimize frictions (both bureaucratic and otherwise).