The Steering Committee has the following competencies and functions:

• On behalf of the Federal Council, it controls the implementation of the strategy by monitoring the goal-oriented and timely progress of the implementation work. To this end, it maintains a roadmap and requests the necessary information on the status of the implementation work from the competent departments and offices. It regularly informs the Federal Council on the progress made implementing the strategy.
• It assesses trends and developments of the information society and their relevance to the information society strategy in Switzerland. On this basis it submits to the Federal Council recommendations for the further development of the strategy and essential high-priority projects in relation to its implementation.
• It may, in cooperation with the participating agencies, initiate mandates for new projects.
• It mediates between the implementation partners in the event of strategic differences.
• It will arrange for the implementation of the strategy and the implementation structures to be evaluated by external experts before the end of the mandate.