eco’s Managing Director Alexander Rabe is a new member of the jury for the Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award. The members of the jury represent a cross-section of the innovation landscape as well as the five clusters of the capital region.

eco – Association of the Internet Industry & ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers invite you to a joint ICANN74 Readout to summarise and discuss selected topics from the Hybrid Policy Forum in The Hague. Speakers from different constituencies of the ICANN community will provide an overview of...

The winners of the 20th eco://awards have been chosen: eco - Association of the Internet Industry has honoured five solutions and one outstanding personality at the eco://awards ceremony.

The roll-out of digital infrastructures and renewable energies are fundamental prerequisites for reducing CO2 in the future with the help of digitalisation. This is illustrated not only by the hybrid event of the eco Alliance in Berlin but also by a survey by the DE-CIX Internet Exchange.

Another step towards the Digital Services Act (DSA) has been taken: Following the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the EU Member States (COREPER), the Parliament’s Internal Market Committee (IMCO) has now also endorsed the DSA.

While China and North America continue to strengthen their position in the field of AI with massive government and private sector investments, Europe has fallen behind in the development of large AI models. European companies may face a stark choice in the medium term: Should they use non-European AI applications and thus...

Important decisions on core functions of the Internet will be taken in Hamburg in 2023: eco - Association of the Internet Industry and DENIC eG, together with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg as host, will organise the 78th meeting of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) from 21 to 26 October 2023.

deltaDAO AG is a software development, integration and consulting company based in Hamburg. The company was founded in 2021 and focuses on solutions to enable a transparent, secure and decentralised data economy in which large companies, SMEs and public institutions retain full technical control over their private data.

In its most recent session, the German Bundesrat gave the green light for a nationwide minimum speed of 10 megabits per second. This corresponds to the requirements issued by the German Federal Network Agency for the so-called minimum Internet provision.

With ambitious goals, the traffic light coalition has made a strong start in digitalisation and must not now get caught up in the minutiae or in wrangling over responsibilities. Digital transformation will only succeed if it is not weakened by divided leadership, too many responsibilities and bureaucratic red tape.

How should SMEs prepare for IT emergencies and crises? How important is a careful risk assessment and a well-prepared emergency plan? And how can the damage be minimised after an emergency occurs so that companies can continue with their core business as quickly as possible? An interview with Sebastian Lacour, Manager SI & Cloud Germany, Veeam Software on Business Continuity Management.

What risks and extra costs arise if cybersecurity in IoT use cases is not implemented and monitored along the entire lifecycle? An interview with Axel Dittmann, Senior IoT, Data & AI Technical Specialist EMEA, Microsoft Germany, about best practices and avoidable mistakes.

Waste heat from data centres ensures more sustainability: eco Alliance in an exchange with Patrick Burghardt, State Secretary for Digital Strategy and Development and CIO of the German Federal State of Hesse, at the Data Center Expert Summit.

Christian J. Pereira is Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer at grandcentrix (a Vodafone company), where he manages sales and projects. Christian Pereira is one of the pioneers in the field of cloud and IoT and has been sharing his practical experience in technical articles and lectures for many years.

Commenting on the German federal government’s start-up strategy presented on 3 June, eco’s Managing Director Alexander Rabe has the following to say:

On 29 and 30 September 2022, the Internet Security Days (ISDs) will return to Phantasialand near Cologne. Participants can expect four main topics over two days with approximately 40 exciting presentations. Keynotes will be delivered by Arne Schönbohm and Felix Lindner, among others.

The two Gaia-X projects Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) and Gaia-X Federation Services (GXFS), which are funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, are combined and tested together on open infrastructure in the now beginning implementation phase.

The Internet Industry Monitor conducted by eco and Arthur D. Little sheds light on the likely effects of the Russian war of aggression on the Internet industry in Germany. Apart from continued inflation and self-imposed restrictions in the industry as a result of the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine, the impact on the German Internet industry is quite limited compared to other industries.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in force in Europe for four years. However, there is still uncertainty about its interpretation and implementation. eco – Association of the Internet Industry calls for a uniform application of the GDPR that not only creates legal clarity and the necessary scope for development and innovation but also makes it easier for Internet users to handle.

In the run-up to the event, we spoke to Bastian Faßnacht, Product Manager at NetCologne, about the many possible uses of the LoRaWAN transmission technology and the ThingsNet IoT platform.

How secure are our devices when they connect to the Internet? This is difficult for consumers to discern. The IT security label of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) now provides a solution. The eco Association welcomes this initiative and at the same time appeals to manufacturers and consumers to take responsibility for IT security.

The European Commission has proposed new legislation to “prevent and combat child sexual abuse”, with which it plans to have extensive search and monitoring obligations, Internet blocking and chat controls implemented. From the perspective of eco, the planned regulation fails to take into account the legitimate fight against illegal Internet content.

The Digital Ministers of the G7 countries are now meeting in Dusseldorf, with the protection of digital infrastructure and cybersecurity being key focal points due to the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine. In a guidelines paper, eco defines how these topics can be strengthened in a sustainable manner.

In recent times, the topDNS initiative has been a key factor which has enabled eco to apply a special weight to meeting the goal of protecting the “telephone book of the Internet”. The EU Commission has also just published a Study on Domain Name System (DNS) Abuse, which eco regards as having very good insights - but also some flaws.  

What contribution does digitalisation make to smart and safe buildings? Jens Möller, Head of Business Development at e-shelter security GmbH, talks about this in an interview.

Dr. Béla Waldhauser, spokesperson for the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures in Germany, founded under the umbrella of eco – Association of the Internet Industry, is a new member of the Board of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, a European self-regulatory initiative under whose umbrella leading data centre operators and associations joined forces last year.

This course will discuss the best practices in handling DNS abuse and various tools to identify such abuses related to DNS. The course also covers how law enforcement authorities can engage with ICANN. The target audience for this training are Law Enforcement personnel who are involved in handling abuses related to Internet...

An interview with Christopher Schmelter, Managing Director at adesso as a service GmbH.

IT service providers and data centres are enablers of digitalisation in SMEs, says Matthias Blatz, Managing Director of Heidelberg iT. In this interview, he answers questions about the resulting trust and IT security requirements.

On 9 and 10 May 2022, registries, registrars, resellers, service providers and investors from the domain industry will come together in Stockholm for the Nordic Domain Days 2022. The eco initiative topDNS is a partner of the conference and is involved in the programme in several respects.