Information Technology Association of America

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Logo of the ITAA

The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) is a leading industry trade group for information technology companies. The Association's membership contains most all of the world's major Information and communications technology (ICT) firms and accounts for over 90% of ICT goods and services sold in North America.

Former Under Secretary of Commerce Phil Bond became the association's President in August 2006. He replaced Harris Miller who resigned as President in January 2006 in order to run for the U.S. Senate in Virginia. Miller was defeated by James Webb in the June Democratic primary. Harris Miller was named CEO/President of the Career College Association in February 2007.^[1]

In March 2007 ITAA President Phil Bond expressed his desire in merging ITAA with another high tech trade association.^[2] On January 17, 2008, ITAA announced that it had agreed to so-called "merger of equals" with the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association (GEIA), and that the combined association would retain the ITAA name.^{[3][4] [5]} Until earlier in the year GEIA had been an affiliate of EIA (a trade association formerly known as the Electronic Industry Alliance)^[6] EIA has been very financially successful, unlike ITAA. GEIA is slated to share in the distribution over $50 million in assets resulting in the breakup of EIA . [The fall of EIA: What happened?^{[7] [8]} After the merger, the combined membership will grow back to 400.

With affiliates in 40 states through CRITA and its role as Secretariat of the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA),^[9] a global network of 67 countries' IT associations, ITAA offers members access and influence across America and around the world.

On a policy front, the Association plays a leading role in issues of IT industry concern including information security, globalization, workforce, immigration, taxes and finance policy, digital intellectual property protection, telecommunications competition, workforce and education, immigration, online privacy and consumer protection, government IT procurement, human resources and e-commerce policy.

ITAA membership is open to any company with operations situated in the U.S. and offering IT products and services. Companies eligible for full IT membership include firms with headquarters, division offices, or branch offices located in the U.S. as well as foreign firms with subsidiary operations in the U.S. In addition, ITAA offers affiliate membership to firms that sell business products and services to IT companies.

Surveys

ITAA conducted surveys of CIOs.^[10]

Real ID

ITAA has actively lobbied on behalf of the funding for the Real ID.^[11]

Some have asserted that Real ID will turn state driver’s licenses into a national identity card and impose numerous new burdens on taxpayers, citizens, immigrants, and state governments – while doing nothing to protect against terrorism.^[12] As a result, it is stirring intense opposition from many groups across the political spectrum.^[13] Critics have claimed that ITAA supports the national ID card because its member companies would benefit from financially from implementing the card.^[14]

ITAA Publications - ITAA E-Letter

ITAA publishes a series of newsletters. The ITAA E-LETTER^[15] covers the issues of the networked economy. These include coverage issues such as information and telecommunications public policy, as well as pertinent news about the businesses of electronic commerce, Internet service and enhanced telecommunications service providers. The ITAA E-LETTER is distributed exclusively by electronic mail and available for free^[16]

ITAA Board of Directors

Chairman: Peter J. Boni Peter J. Boni is the Chairperson of the TechAmerica Board of Directors and the President and CEO of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc.

Vice-Chairman: Dennis Stolkey Dennis Stolkey is the Vice-Chairperson of the TechAmerica Board of Directors and the senior vice president of the U.S. Public Sector for HP Enterprise Services.

Immediate Past Chairman: Henry Steininger Hank Steininger, Managing Partner of Grant Thornton’s Global Public Sector practice, served as the Chairman of TechAmerica’s Board of Directors from 2009-2010. He was the ITAA Chairman of the Board prior to the merger with AEA. ^[17]

References

External links

• Information Technology Association of America web site
• ITAA CALLS ON CONGRESS TO RAISE CAP FOR TEMPORARY WORKERS February 25, 1998 The Law Offices of Carl Shusterman website
• Labor Market in Flux: How Can States Respond to Outsourcing, Labor Shortages & Job Creation? 29-Apr-04 ITAA website newsroom
• E-Democracy: The Lowdown on E-Voting June 1, 2004 Issue of CIO Magazine
• World Information Technology & Services Alliance web site
• Council of Regional IT Associations web site
• ADAPSO and ITAA Records, 1960-1999, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
• Oral history interview with Lawrence Schoenberg, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Schoenberg describes his role in ADAPSO and its successor ITAA, of which he served as Chairman of the Board in 1982.
• Oral history interview with Oscar Schachter, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Schachter discusses his extensive activities within ADAPSO.
• Two oral history interviews with Luanne Johnson, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota - one of the early women entrepreneurs in the computer software products industry, Luanne Johnson talks about her many years in leadership positions in ADAPSO which became Information Technology Association of America.