A direct connection to the world's largest Internet Exchange is the basis for many enterprises to achieve the best quality. A new project from DE-CIX and GasLINE will create fast direct connections from public utilities and data centers to the DE-CIX sites. Read more on dotmagazine.

The shock of the new still makes some organizations shy away from digitalization. Roland Broch from the eco Association looks at how the German Mittelstand and SMEs in general can embrace the potential of digital transformation to compete in the digital economy of the future. Read more on dotmagazine.

Data centers come in all shapes and sizes and with difference service and business models. dotmagazine asked Dr. Béla Waldhauser, from the Alliance for Strengthening Digital Infrastructures in Germany, to explain what kind of customer business cases are most appropriate for what kind of data center. Read more on dotmagazine.

Digital infrastructure is the bedrock of the digital society, and it is both having a transformative impact on markets, while in turn needing itself to respond to changing market needs. This month, dotmagazine looks at building and navigating the roads, railways, & bridges of the digital economy. Read more on dotmagazine.

Those who have already bought groceries over the Internet are generally happy and want to order again online, with online grocery-shopping proving particularly popular amongst households with children.  Room for improvement exists in the areas of sustainable and organic products.

On 11th December, around 100 experts met at the Blockchain Masters in Cologne, where it was agreed that, with the initial hype now behind us, more and more IT applications are now using blockchain technology as a given. In the future, this technology will even present alternatives to platform monopolies. Meanwhile, a focal point in 2019 will be asset tokenization.

Honorary President of the eco Association Michael Rotert reports on the global discussions of the Internet Governance Forum 2018, how important ethics are for the future of the Internet, and how states need to work together. Read more on dotmagazine.

The promotion of broadband in Germany is enabling us to enter the digital age, with all its opportunities: a smart infrastructure and the transformation of the economy. What role does convergence play in this and what challenges must be overcome? Read more on dotmagazine.

An analysis by Delfos Research, commissioned by Interxion and DE-CIX, reveals that an investment of 500 million Euros in digital infrastructure would create more than 1,800 jobs, inject 6 billion Euros into the local economy, and would allow Madrid to become a competitive digital hub in the face of the growing need for interconnection in Southern Europe. Theresa Bobis explains. Read more on dotmagazine.

The European CATALYST innovation project has launched a toolkit that helps data centers to self-assess their environmental impact, as Robbert Hoeffnagel from Green IT Amsterdam explains. Read more on dotmagazine.

Dr. Bela Waldhauser, CEO of Telehouse Deutschland GmbH and KDDI Deutschland GmbH, as well as Leader of the eco Competence Group Datacenter Infrastructure, looks at finding the right infrastructure for your needs, the impact of the 5G rollout, and why digital infrastructure is as important to a country as physical infrastructure. Read more on dotmagazine.

Digital infrastructure is the bedrock of the digital society, and it is both having a transformative impact on markets, while in turn needing itself to respond to changing market needs. This month, dotmagazine looks at building and navigating the roads, railways, & bridges of the digital economy. Read more on dotmagazine.

"The plans of the EU Commission for a digital tax explicitly discriminate against the digital industry. We need a coherent tax system that applies the same fair and comprehensible rules to all market participants."

The main topic of the Digital Summit taking place in Nuremberg on 3 and 4 December is  that of artificial intelligence. AI is a decisive future technology and represents a crucial market for Germany as a digital location. In order to conquer this important technology field, the Alliance to Strengthen Digital Infrastructures in Germany argues that an integrated AI strategy is needed, with high-performance digital infrastructures being a crucial pillar of such a strategy.

The eco Association is handing over the reins for the ongoing design and implementation of the botfrei.de safety campaign to its member company eyeo GmbH. eco will continue to support the project and will remain a partner in the project’s strategic delivery.

Yesterday, with the eco://award, the eco Association honored outstanding ideas and solutions of the Internet industry in 7 categories. A special prize was awarded to Tim Cole for his life's work.

The vast majority of decision-makers in German companies support digitalization, according to a current eco Association survey undertaken by YouGov. This finding, presented by the eco Association today as part of the eco://kongress in Cologne, is crystal clear.

Within the space of one year, the French government position around cloud computing totally changed towards building a real Cloud First policy to support the digital transformation of the entirety of state policies.

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So you’ve got a brilliant idea for a new IoT product? Sebastian Floss, Managing Director at ImagineOn, explains what’s involved in prototyping it to get it right.

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Jutta Horstmann from eyeo explains how companies can implement a Privacy by Design approach in product development, and how this can support rather than hinder innovation.

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Dr. Judith Nink from eyeo, on developing data-protection compliant software, and the relationship between data protection and IT security.

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Génica Schäfgen from ecosia offers insight into social business, and how an Internet search can fuel the planting of trees.

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Digital ecosystems are redefining how companies interact and generate value. Andreas Weiss from the eco Association looks at how to become part of a smart ecosystem in order to find your place in the digital economy.

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Lucia Falkenberg, CPO of the eco Association, explores the opportunities and challenges of the new digital working culture.

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How commerce, administration, and culture are evolving in response to digital opportunities.

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Did you know that images of sexual violence against children are disseminated online every day? The complaints offices cooperate with law enforement agencies and support the prosecution of the perpetrators and identification of the victims. Watch the short video explaining their work.

For the “European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse”, the German Internet complaints offices inform about the spread of images of sexualized violence in the Internet, & about the cooperation of hotlines at national and international levels.

The digitalization of the working world makes it easier to balance work and family life – this is the opinion of around half of the people in Germany, according to a recent eco survey. In particular, Germans expect more flexibility in their work thanks to integrated phone and data lines via the Internet. All-IP solutions from the cloud increase companies’ international competitiveness.

Blockchain technology offers massive potential for state administration. Stephan Zimprich, Leader of the eco Competence Group Blockchain, looks at how this foundational technology could transform e-government.

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There is still a lack of a holistic understanding of the decisive factors and interrelationships of the digitization ecosystem in the papers on artificial intelligence and a digital implementation strategy currently being discussed within the framework of the German federal government's digital hearing.