Global Policy Group^® advises clients through retainer relationships and customized consulting assignments on a wide variety of business and policy issues.  Examples of projects on information technology policy issues include:

• monitoring of regulatory and legislative issues affecting IT companies:

• promotion and regulation of broadband

• privacy and antitrust policies

• tax incentives to encourage business investment in equipment and software

• standards for electrical connectors and other components

• stand-by electric power regulations for appliances

• reform of U.S. telecommunications regulations

• proposals for mandated recycling of technology equipment

• studies and presentations on Obama, Bush, and Clinton Administration R&D programs, including next-generation internet, high-end computing and communications, nanotechnology, telematics, and hydrogen fuel cell technologies

• studies and presentations on e-commerce issues

• assessments of U.S. regulations, legislation, and lobbying activities that affect technology-based products

• analyses of U.S. trade policy affecting the IT industry, including tariff and non-tariff (intellectual property, e-commerce, privacy, etc.) issues

Global Policy Group^® has also prepared major studies of IT technology and policy trends, including:

• Fuel Cells and Advanced Batteries:  Next Generation Power Systems

• Automotive Telematics and Multimedia in the United States

• U.S. Industrial and Technology Policy at a Crossroads