In a time of crisis, a global lockdown needs a digital unlocking, explains Ivo Ivanov, CEO of DE-CIX International. Read more on dotmagazine.

In this issue, dotmagazine explores the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on behavior and IT and infrastructure questions, and dives deeper into the future-oriented topic of how to bring women into the tech industry.

Working groups, meetings, round tables, workshops: Many events that can no longer take place in the real world due to the COVID-19 pandemic are being recreated online. For online collaboration to be as productive as live on site, it takes more than video telephony and chat functions. The eco expert for online work and managing director of aixvox GmbH Detlev Artelt explains the secret of successful online events.

For the Association of the Internet Industry, the responsibilities and liability for IT security must be regulated in a balanced manner within the framework of the IT-SiG 2.0 and security gaps must be closed quickly: State back-doors and the targeted weakening of encryption are counterproductive for IT security and jeopardise confidence in the use of digital services.

The Association of the Internet Industry welcomes the fact that the judgement has removed ambiguities in the setting of personal cookies and that the handling of data has been regulated uniformly at European level.

eco publishes guidelines on the current reform of the German Network Enforcement Act: The Association of the Internet Industry supports the containment of hate, incitement and right-wing extremism as well as the fight against illegal content on the internet. The controversial law continues to cause fierce debate due to an obligation to surrender passwords as well as a duty to disclosure inventory and usage data by telemedia service providers.

The online surveillance by the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) of non-German nationals when not in Germany is unconstitutional in its current form, the German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has decided.

dotmagazine spoke to Inger Paus from the Vodafone Institute on digitalization, social inclusion and the impact of digital skepticism on women in the tech industry. Read more on dotmagazine.

Lucia Falkenberg of the eco Association on how eco's new study on Women in Tech can help companies to find and retain female talents – and reap the rewards for doing so. Read more on dotmagazine.

eco draws up a 6-point catalogue of requirements from the Internet industry for the strengthening of Europe as a digital location

On Friday, 8 May 2020 leading industry experts from different layers of the Internet infrastructure - including Access Providers, Internet Exchange Points, Content Delivery Networks, Data Centers, and Cloud Service Providers – will discuss how they are maintaining the Internet during COVID-19. John Graham-Cumming,...