The rapid growth of the app economy from a handful of apps on a smartphone to a $1.7 trillion ecosystem of connected devices, software developer services, and funding created new opportunities for established developers and entrepreneurs. Just a year ago, ACT | The App Association concluded its cross country Developed [...]
ACT |The App Association joined 41 other orgs supporting IEEE-SA’s patent policy in a letter to the standards organization. The 2015 IEEE-SA policy change is the prime example of a standard setting organization demonstrating leadership in providing clarity on the meaning of fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) commitments to make [...]
Four and a half years have passed since the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU). On 24 December 2020, the two parties finally struck a last-minute agreement to avoid the disastrous scenario of a no-deal Brexit. The majority of provisions included in the new “UK-EU Trade [...]
Event organised by ACT | The App Association With the support of Dita Charanzová, Vice President of the European Parliament The Digital Services Act package is intended to strengthen the Single Market for digital services by modernizing the legal framework of the E-Commerce Directive and introducing the possibility of new [...]
Digital education is a longstanding priority of the European Commission (EC), most recently listed as a goal in its digital strategy “Europe fit for the digital age”. The COVID-19 crisis now brings this topic to a whole new level of urgency. The European Union’s (EU) 2018 Digital Education Action Plan [...]