Advocacy

Cloud Computing Scorecard

The first-ever report to track year-over-year change in the international policy landscape for cloud computing shows that cloud readiness is improving, if unevenly.

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Lockout Report

How a new wave of trade protectionism is spreading through the world’s fastest-growing IT markets — and what to do about it.

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IT Competitiveness Index

The IT Industry Competitiveness Index compares 66 countries on the extent to which they are capable of supporting a strong IT production sector.

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BSA Advocacy Agenda

Accelerating the Digital Economy

The global software industry is driving rapid evolution in technology. To share in the broad economic and social benefits this offers, governments around the world must craft legal frameworks and foster market conditions that encourage innovation and creative enterprise.
That entails three overriding priorities:

Safeguarding intellectual property rights and protections;
Opening global markets to digital trade; and
Enabling the growth of cloud computing.

Governments also must focus attention on foundational issues for the digital economy and society, such as cybersecurity, privacy, and workforce development.

Accelerating the Digital Economy

Safeguarding intellectual property rights and protections;
Opening global markets to digital trade; and
Enabling the growth of cloud computing.

Governments also must focus attention on foundational issues for the digital economy and society, such as cybersecurity, privacy, and workforce development.

Advocacy Issues Expand All

Intellectual Property & Innovation

BSA advocates robust IP rights and protections that drive the digital economy by encouraging technology innovation.

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Global Markets

BSA advocates a comprehensive digital trade agenda that opens markets around the world to all of the products and services that define and enable the information age.
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Advancing the Global Cloud

BSA advocates legal and regulatory cohesion in the global marketplace so companies can provide services across borders and customers can choose from the best the world has to offer.
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Security

BSA advocates policies that harness market forces to promote rapid innovation and adaptation in the face of a constantly evolving threat landscape.
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Privacy

BSA advocates policies that respect and encourage informed consumer choices while ensuring industry can provide products and services tailored to consumers’ specific needs.
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Human Capital

BSA advocates policies that increase the number of highly skilled workers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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