# Technical Steering committee (TSC)

## What is the Technical Steering Committee?

The Technical Steering Committee ensures that the governance of Cardano is based upon sound technical awareness and best practices.

## Why is this committee important?

The Technical Steering Committee provides expert technical guidance to support Cardano's development. By bringing together key developers, suppliers, and third parties, the committee advises on contract arrangements and service level agreements, creates technical proposals, and evaluates community submissions like parameter updates and hard forks, ensuring technical decisions are well-informed and sound.

## Which topics does this committee cover?

Takes a leading role in defining and advising on Cardano continuity development to support the Cardano network, including contracts and agreements with Intersect members. It’s a highly technocratic committee, providing deep technical analysis and advice to ongoing development projects, parameter settings (through the Parameter Committee (PC)), and any other network related conditions.

## How to join?

The TSC participates in Intersect committee elections to select the next cohort of members. Intersect always communicates details on how to apply and vote well in advance of each election.

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