The EC homepage for Competition

This site facilitates the IBA's work with the International Competition Network (ICN).

The OECD's Competition Committee is the world's premier source of policy analysis and advice to governments on how best to harness market forces in the interests of greater global economic efficiency and prosperity.

The International Competition Network (ICN) provides antitrust agencies from developed and developing countries with a focused network for addressing practical antitrust enforcement and policy issues of common concern.

The UK Competition Appeals Tribunal is a specialist judicial body with cross-disciplinary expertise in law, economics, business and accountancy.

The CC is an independent public body which conducts in-depth inquiries into mergers, markets and the regulation of the major regulated industries.

A good resource on UK competition

The OFT is responsible for making markets work well for UK consumers.

Databse of national competition case law and weekly bulletin in English. Some cases require registration.

The EC homepage for Public Procurement, containing links to all EC legislation and related papers

A good resource on UK procurement

The Procurement Forum is open to commercial, governmental and not for profit organisations engaged in the acquisition of information and communications technologies (ICT) products and services.

The European Public Procurement Network (PPN) is a co-operation network of public procurement expert officials, dedicated to European companies taking part in procurement procedures in other countries of the network than theirs.

Links to all UK Procurement Regulations

Promoting innovation and customer choice in mainframe computing

The Communications Law Committee is a leading global forum for legal practitioners with specialist expertise or interest in the communications sector.

Dedicated to the belief that the cloud should be open

The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) is an industry body that champions and advocates the adoption and use of Cloud-based services by businesses and individuals.

The goal of this group is to bring together cloud consumers and cloud vendors to define common use cases for cloud computing. The use cases demonstrate the performance and economic benefits of cloud computing.

A source of strategic insight, news and analysis on Cloud Computing.

Centre for Commercial Law Studies

Vietnamese Association of Information Processing

The Vietnam Software Association (VINASA) is a non-governmental, non–profitable organization with the purpose to promote co-operation and mutual support among the members.

PIKOM, THE NATIONAL ICT ASSOCIATION OF MALAYSIA is the association representing the information and communications technology (ICT) industry in Malaysia.

The ATCI is a membership led organization. ATCI's membership listing includes all leading companies of Thailand's information industry, granting the association a high recognition factor and respect; both nationally and internationally.

The Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organization (ASOCIO) stands tall as the bridge for IT companies in the region to expand their network of contacts, do business together and develop their capabilities.

The Information and Software Industry Association (ISIA) was established in July 1999.

The Hong Kong Information Technology Federation was founded in 1980 as a non-profit, non-political trade association to provide a forum in which the IT-related business in Hong Kong can work together for the benefit of the industry.

Founded in 1970, the Hong Kong Computer Society (HKCS) is a non-profit organisation focused on developing Hong Kong's Information Technology (IT) industry.

Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) is Singapore’s premier infocomm industry association and brings together 400 corporate members from MNCs and local companies.

Established in 1967, the Singapore Computer Society has a membership of over 26,000 and is the largest IT professional body in Singapore.

Information Service Industry Association of R.O.C., known as CISA, is Taiwan’s sole representative body of information service industries. Founded in 1983, CISA is one of the most time-honored hi-tech associations in Taiwan.

NASSCOM® is the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPO industries in India. NASSCOM is a global trade body with more than 1200 members, which include both Indian and multinational companies that have a presence in India.

The Indonesian Information Technology Federation (IITF) was established in 2001. IITF was formed in order to capture all of the aspirations of various national associations in one federated body, and, to accelerate industrial development.

Since 1979, FKII has contributed to spurring the growth of the IT industry and informatization of Korea. FKII has emerged as a beacon of the IT industry in Korea to lead the ubiquitous area.

National association of organisations involved in the development, marketing and support of goods and services related to the processing of information.

The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) sets the strategic direction of the industry, influences public policy and provides members with productivity tools, advisory services and market intelligence to accelerate their business growth.

The Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) is the umbrella organization for the fastest-growing industry in the Philippines: offshoring and outsourcing (O&O).

SME is an association formed in 2007 to represent the interests of Europe’s ICT SME sector

IADBC is an EU programme tasked with issuing recommendations, developing solutions and providing services that promote interoperability between European Administrations

Latest news on ICT standardisation and competitiveness including links to EU policies, legislation and ongoing work in this area

Includes latest news and links to reference documents and relevant legislation in this area

Latest news on the progress of reform proposals in addition to the proposals themselves and explanation of the current regulatory framework for interoperable telecommunications

Includes news on antitrust actions including actions which have been taken to ensure supply of interoperability information

Includes information on ICT research sponsored by the EU and the research programme generally