Member Spotlight: Greenly
Have you ever thought about how your phone could help you live a more sustainable life? Alexis Normand did. Alexis leveraged his experience in the connected health industry and passion for the environment to fight climate change through technology. Along with his two co-founders, Alexis founded Greenly, an app with a goal of encouraging behavioural change to reduce carbon emissions, turning the user’s phone into a personal carbon emissions tracker through their spending habits. Alexis and his team believe that [...]
EU Events: Problems & Solutions: A Two-Part Online Discussion Series on the App Ecosystem in the Context of the Digital Services Act
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 obligations for gatekeeper platforms. These changes will cause ripple effects throughout the platform ecosystem, from the largest stakeholders to the smallest micro-enterprise, across verticals as diverse as social media websites, [...]
“Download with Developers” Webinar with the App Association and Congressional App Challenge
If you want to advance in your career you can develop skills in a number of ways, whether you are entering the workforce for the first time, making a career switch, or further developing your current career. Part of it is the mindset of continuous learning and having the internal motivation to guide you. The other part is finding what you want to learn. If you’re being practical, a prime example of one such skill is coding. Both a highly [...]
EU Events: High-Level Reflections on Standard-Essential Patents: In pursuit of a balanced system
High-Level Reflections on Standard-Essential Patents: In pursuit of a balanced system 10 November 16:00 -18:30 CET Online Conference With the support of Iban Garcia Del Blanco, Member of the European Parliament & Concurrences, Media Partner This high-level online conference will reflect on recent developments related to standard-essential patents (SEPs) in the European Union, the role of competition law to enforce ‘fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory’ (FRAND) terms related to SEPs, and the steps that need to be taken to ensure a [...]
Advancing the Internet of Things with Needed Updates to Patent Injunction Policies
An entire ecosystem of small businesses drive innovation today and power the growth of the digital economy. As they invent and integrate software and hardware solutions and develop new internet of things (IoT) innovations, they will rely on new 5G connectivity capabilities and consistent intellectual property frameworks. If economies around the world foster the right environment, IoT can increase efficiency and generate millions of jobs, while improving products, services, and processes across all sectors of the economy. Numerous policies will [...]
The Sudden Urgency of Digital Education
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 was due for implementation by the end of 2020, but the EC is now looking to update the Action Plan. The basis of this update will be the views and [...]