According to a Civey survey commissioned by eco – Association of the Internet Industry, 29.8 percent of respondents move their workplace outdoors, with 13.2 percent occasionally working away from home and 16.6 percent doing so frequently.

Registration for this year’s ICANN78 General Annual Meeting from 21 - 25 October in Hamburg is now open. Together with DENIC eG and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, eco –Association of the Internet Industry is hosting the 25th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Patrick Koetter, Leader of the Email and Anti-Abuse Competence Groups at eco Association explains how to achieve this in an interview and in a two-day German-language DNSSEC hands-on workshop in September 2023.

On 10 July, the EU Commission determined that the Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework is in line with the requirements of European data protection. eco's Managing Director Alexander Rabe comments: "[The TDPF is] an important building block for a successful digital transformation and the basis for further regulations such as the EU-US e-Evidence Agreement."

According to a representative survey conducted by the opinion research institute Civey on behalf of eco – Association of the Internet Industry, every fourth person (26.4 percent) has personally registered a domain name (e.g., example.de) on the Internet.

Through technological cooperation and collaborative development of innovation, we will overcome the challenges of the future, says UNIBERG CEO Andreas Möller in an eco member interview.

Online-based technologies for outdoor activities have become popular summer companions for nearly half of the population in Germany. At 27.3 percent, the most popular applications include smartphones with holiday apps for hiking tours, for example.

Dr Béla Waldhauser, spokesperson for the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures in Germany comments on this week's last minute amendments to the German federal government’s draft bill for the planned Energy Efficiency Act.

The Gigabit Strategy, which was adopted by the German federal government a year ago, is intended to be a compass for fibre-optic and mobile expansion in Germany.

eco supports the European initiative for an ID Wallet in principle; a reliable and secure ecosystem of digital identities lays the foundation for the realisation of the Single Market and a multitude of digital business models. At the same time, the association addresses important aspects that should be taken into account.

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy launched its call for expressions of interest for this summer’s European Twinning process. Interested partners with a permanent establishment or branch in Germany can apply until 21 July. On 12 July from 9:30 till 11:00 a.m., the eco  Association invites its interested members to a virtual networking meeting to collect questions about the funding call.

eco Chair of the Board Oliver Süme: “Sustainability and digitalisation are two sides of the same coin – digital technologies and applications are part of the solution to achieve the climate goals.” The study conducted by eco and Arthur D. Little examines the impacts of digital transformation on resource efficiency...

Only one in four Germans currently uses digital public transport tickets on a smartphone. In urban areas and among younger people, they are much more widespread. These are the results of a Civey survey commissioned by eco – Association of the Internet Industry.

Today, Tuesday, the Council, Commission and Parliament will meet for the third trilogue of the planned EU Data Act. The Data Act will fundamentally change the data economy in Europe and is intended to facilitate the accessibility of non-personal data in order to promote innovation and fairness in the digital environment and to better exploit the potential of the constantly increasing amounts of data.

The Rhine-Main Infrastructure Network highlights challenges and solutions in the energy supply and provides corresponding solutions.

As Director eco International, Lars Steffen coordinates the international activities of the eco Association and is the contact person for member companies from the domain industry. In this interview with the eco #LiT – Ladies in Tech Initiative, he talks about his daily work, ICANN78, and highlights what’s great about his international team.

The administration of registers by the German federal government, federal states and municipalities has so far been seriously inadequate. After months of discussions, the coalition parties have now reached an agreement on the modernisation of registers. Open questions about data protection should also be answered quickly, eco urges.

Only every second meeting (53.4 per cent) is considered a “good use of working time”. 36.5 per cent of meetings are simply unnecessary. To work more efficiently online, Lucia Falkenberg gives 5 concrete tips.

eco – Association of the Internet Industry & ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers held a joint ICANN77 Readout to summarise and discuss selected topics from the recent Policy Forum in Washington, D.C.

ICANN78 is bringing the domain industry to Hamburg in autumn. In a short interview, Thomas Rickert, Attorney-at-Law, talks about what this involves. Thomas is Director Names & Numbers at eco – Association of the Internet Industry.

Almost every fifth person uses apps for planning hiking tours (22.8 per cent). Just over one out of ten people (11.4 per cent) now also use their mobile phone or smartwatch to pay while on holiday. These are the results of a representative Civey survey commissioned by eco – Association of the Internet Industry at the beginning of the summer holidays in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Energy transition, regulatory requirements and growing demands from artificial intelligence and digital ecosystems – and all this against the backdrop of skilled shortages. The challenges facing the data centre industry have increased rather than decreased over the past year. The Data Centre Expert Summit 2023 brought the data centre industry together in Dreieich near Frankfurt on 14-15 June.

The final vote on the German federal government’s planned Energy Efficiency Act is expected to take place on 22 and 23 June. The Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures, considers the draft act in this form to be detrimental to Germany as a digital location and appeals to all members of the Bundestag to intensively scrutinise the Energy Efficiency Act and to take the concerns of the data centre industry seriously.

The German federal government yesterday published its evaluation report on the take-down of child sexual abuse material on the Internet in the year 2022. In that year, the German Federal Criminal Police Office received 15,309 reports on child sexual abuse material, with 98.77 per cent of all reports coming from the German hotlines.

In an eco interview, we talked to Michael Nicolai, Head of Sales Business Unit IT, Rittal, about digital ecosystems, smart factories and the challenges of transformation processes.

The “e-Evidence Regulation”, which is finally to be adopted today by the European Parliament, is to regulate production and preservation orders for electronic evidence in criminal matters in the EU-wide cross-border exchange of data between providers and authorities.

Health apps are helping an increasing number of people to achieve this goal – through more exercise, improved nutrition, better sleep and more self-care. Almost every third person (31.6 per cent) uses health apps, according to a representative survey of 2,500 Germans conducted by the market and opinion research institute Civey on behalf of eco – Association of the Internet Industry.

Public Interest Registry (PIR), Realtime Register & eco's topDNS Initiative invite you to the first in a series of topDNS best practice webinars to showcase what the domain name industry is doing to fight DNS abuse. In 2019, Public Interest Registry (PIR), the registry for the .ORG top level domain, launched an incentive...

Scalable hosting and server solutions help to provide products and services faster and more effectively. In this interview, creoline Marketing Manager Kadir Asci talks about the challenges that need to be overcome and how companies can benefit.

In an eco interview, Prof. Sandra Thomas talks about the influence of the data centre and telecommunications industry on the present business models and about the future of data processing.