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The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Information Technology Industry Council Home Page )〕 is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association that represents companies from the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. As an advocacy organization, ITI works to influence policy issues aimed at encouraging innovation and promoting global competitiveness.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=May 17, 2010 article in The Hill highlighting ITI’s recognition of Rep, Mccaul as legislator of the year )〕 Ars Technica has described the Information Technology Industry Council as "a lobbying group with a membership list that includes almost all the heavy-hitters of the tech world".〔John Timmer: (IT group: stimulus money needed for broadband, smart grid ) Ars Technica, January 8, 2009〕 In 2006, ''InformationWeek's Digital Life Weblog'' called it "a lobbying group of 40 of the most powerful tech firms, including Cisco, Dell, eBay, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle SAP, and Sun".〔"(Big IT Takes Step To Influence Tech Policy In U.S. )", ''InformationWeek'', March 29, 2006〕 ITI works to help shape policy pertaining to tax, trade, talent, security, access, and sustainability issues for its member companies through its three main divisions: Environment and Sustainability, Global Policy, and Government Relations. ITI further supports its members by organizing industry-wide consensus on policy issues and providing access to global markets.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Background Information on ITI )〕 Dean C. Garfield is the current President and Chief Executive Officer of ITI.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dean Garfield Biography from Huffington Post )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=May 10, 2010 article in CFO.com Tech CFOs Eye Role in Policy Debates )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=May 5, 2010 op-ed in Politico, High Tech Will Help Spur Economic Recovery )〕 According to its website, it was founded in 1916 in Chicago as the "National Association of Office Appliance Manufacturers", renamed the "Office Equipment Manufacturers Institute" in 1929, and became the "Business Equipment Manufacturers Association" (BEMA) in 1961.〔(History of ITI ) Itic.org, retrieved August 12, 2010〕 In 1973, it became the "Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association" (CBEMA), before receiving its current name in 1994.〔 ==Environment and Sustainability Division== ITI’s Environment and Sustainability division focuses on energy efficiency. Internationally, ITI engages with product stewardship and electronics recycling, product design and materials restrictions, energy efficiency and climate change, and environmentally preferable purchasing. According to the Basel Action Network, a "non-governmental charitable organization working to combat the export of toxic waste, toxic technology and toxic products from industrialized societies to developing countries," the ITI has also proposed exemptions to international regulation of e-waste that "would allow untested or non-functional electronic waste, often containing toxic lead, cadmium, mercury and brominated flame retardants, to be considered a non-waste and subject to free-trade in many circumstances so long as the exporter can claim that that the old equipment might be ‘repairable.’" ITI’s Environmental Leadership Council is a separate membership entity that represents principal manufacturers of information technology equipment, wireless and consumer electronics devices, and other electronic and high-tech products and systems. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Information Technology Industry Council」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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