On the occasion of International Children's Day, eco – Association of the Internet Industry is calling on governments to resolutely advance the teaching of core knowledge in information technologies and skills in the area of IT security.

The key to maintaining the energy and innovation of digitalization, and ensuring societal safeguards, is industry self-regulation. dotmagazine explores the value of the multi-stakeholder model for complex interconnected ecosystems.

On 13th September, the eco Association e-Commerce and Online Marketing Competence Groups led an expert discussion in Frankfurt on how online retailers and shops can signal their trustworthiness and reliability – with factors such as professional design and functionalities, customer ratings, and quality seals.

The worst marketing email is one that doesn’t even make it to the recipient.  And every so often, recipients will reject your emails for no apparent reason - in the worst case you, as a sender, could even end up on a so-called blacklist. So, for online marketers, learning more about bounces, blacklists, and spam traps is essential.

Alexandra Koch-Skiba, Head of the eco Complaints Office, on how self-regulation is not just the best way for swiftly removing illegal content from the Internet, but can also help to prevent it from getting up there in the first place.

Prevention is better than cure: DMARC offers protection against phishing attacks, saving brands from the headache and cost of reputation damage, as Julia-Janssen Holldiek, Director of the Certified Senders Alliance, explains.

The key to maintaining the energy and innovation of digitalization, and ensuring societal safeguards, is industry self-regulation. The issues of trust, integrity, and privacy are now taking center stage – and the solution is that of socially responsible self-regulation, says Lars Steffen, Director of eco International.

The EU Parliament's decision on copyright reform has well and truly kicked copyright back into the stone age. At the same time, it is ignoring the entire potential of the digital economy, and is inhibiting the digitalization of society and the development of new innovative business models throughout Europe.

The eco Internet Association award in six main categories: ISP/Interconnection, Datacenter Infrastructure, Hosting, Security, Domains, and Cloud. Applications close on 30th September.

Michael Rotert explores the variety of measures for governing the global Internet – and how laws can’t keep up with technological development.

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The EU Commission's regulatory initiative in the fight against terrorist content on the Internet is inexplicable – especially given the significant progress made by platform providers in a short space of time in the fight against illegal content.