BSA Technology Policy Agenda

BSA Technology Policy Agenda

The world’s leading software companies and their hardware partners issued their 2009 Technology Policy Agenda, calling on the new Congress and Obama Administration to take action on a range of issues from economic stimulus to innovation, a skilled workforce, cyber security, trade, and intellectual property.

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) represents leading computer software and hardware companies with collective annual revenues in excess of $200 billion and employment of nearly 1 million.

In a Washington press conference, BSA President and CEO Robert Holleyman said, “Software and computers are indispensable tools of daily life, making our lives easier and more enriching in a variety of ways. As a group, BSA member companies employ and partner with some of the most visionary business leaders of our time, and they invest billions of dollars a year in the next generation of technology solutions. The software industry clearly has a role in contributing to America’s future, and the policy debate needs to reflect that.”

The Technology Policy Agenda lists a number of specific recommendations in five broad categories, which are based on the policy principles that BSA advanced earlier this year with the Obama and McCain campaigns.