Our Policy Priorities
Our policy priorities reflect the opportunities and challenges today’s small business app developers and IoT innovators face in the app ecosystem such as access to broadband, workforce development, and economic growth. We also contribute our thought leadership to broader issues affecting our members and consumers like data privacy, digital healthcare, and accessibility.
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Event Recap: ACT Calls for Privacy Laws that Support Good Business
As the use of technology expands to ever more parts of our daily lives, policymakers are working to address the challenges of how [...]
Event Recap: Packed Hill Briefing on AICOA Highlights Risks for Small Businesses and Digital Innovation
The small business voice is often hardest to hear in debates over “Big Tech” regulation. That was the central takeaway from ACT’s July 2 [...]
The Good, the Bad, and Everything You Need to Know about the Parliament’s Draft Report on the EU Inc. Proposal
For years, Europe's founders have had to navigate 27 different company law regimes just to expand across the Single Market. EU Inc. was [...]
ACT calls for proportionate, risk-based approach as the EU weighs in on child safety online
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – As the European Commission reviews the recommendations of the Special Panel on Child Safety Online, the Association for Competitive Technology [...]
Korea Targets Coupang, but Small Sellers Pay the Price
“South Korean regulators have consistently targeted Coupang and subjected the company to hostile regulatory treatment, unfair enforcement practices, and disproportionately large penalties not [...]
A Scroll Down Membership Lane: May 2026’s Member Mondays
ACT’s members drive the innovation that powers our digital world. Each month, through our Member Monday series, we showcase these trailblazing small businesses [...]
Welcome Letter to the Irish EU Council Presidency from the Association for Competitive Technology
ACT calls on Dublin to take the lead in realising the promise of a Single Market that fully supports start-ups and scale-ups. [...]
AI for Main Street: Trust, Skills, and Governance Will Shape Adoption
“A tool never started a business; a person did.” That observation, made by Theresa Bedeau, vice chair of the board of the Association [...]
