BSA | The Software Alliance has published model digital trade provisions on cross-border data and digital trust for use in ongoing Digital Economy Agreement negotiations.

Data moving across borders is critical for the services that sustain global commerce, improve health and safety, promote social good, and enable the technologies of the future.

This paper identifies the challenges to US interests arising from the application of country- or region-specific technical requirements or standards (sometimes mandated via conformity assessment procedures or other means) to services that are delivered or performed electronically (“digitally enabled services”). It also proposes possible solutions to this challenge and introduces several draft trade agreement provisions.

BSA and its members have worked to develop Global Sustainability Principles that outline how the enterprise software industry is working on sustainability and climate resilience.