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Oliver Süme, Chair of the Board at eco – Association of the Internet Industry, comments on the collapse of Germany’s three-way “traffic light” coalition: “The collapse of the ‘traffic light’ coalition creates uncertainty at a time of global challenges and transatlantic realignment following the US election....

AI is not a cure – using it merely for trend reasons can quickly drain resources. What is needed are concrete, solution-orientated applications that can solve real business problems.

In our eco member interview, Marcel Rieger, Managing Director at JAMORIE Consulting, explains what the central challenges of digital transformation are today and how modern consulting approaches look.

Tomorrow, EU President Ursula von der Leyen is set to present her new European Commission. In anticipation of this, eco Association is calling for a stronger focus on digital policy and the expansion of Europe’s digital infrastructure

The fundamental rights enshrined in the German Basic Law also apply in virtual space – in spite of the fact that the Internet did not yet exist when the Basic Law was proclaimed in 1949. However, many people feel that their civil rights are jeopardised in the virtual space. eco Association calls for a comprehensive repeal of data retention and highlights that there must be no restrictions on the encryption of electronic communication or stored data in the future.

How is AI changing our security world? This is the question raised by the eco Security Competence Group on 21 February. Three questions for Head of the eco competence group, Oliver Dehning.

eco Chair Oliver Süme on how SMEs can realise the productivity potential of AI in 2024. How can IT security, productivity and competitiveness be increased?

After two years since the formation of the current German "traffic light" coalition, eco provides a mixed assessment of the progress in digital policy. In the Traffic Light Coalition Check, the association analysed twelve areas of Internet policy action and compared them with the goals of the coalition agreement. The conclusion reached by eco Chair of the Board Oliver Süme. “Instead of an ambitious digital policy, after two years of the current German coalition government, we are experiencing at best a stop-and-go.”

AI is a key technology of the future with a wide range of possible applications and the potential to transform the economy, science and society. Nevertheless, there are still major reservations about AI-based technologies in large parts of the German population, as displayed through an eco/Civey survey. eco calls for a broad debate in order to boost societal acceptance.

In September 2023, the Internet Security Days (ISDs) once again attracted IT security experts, security managers and user companies to meet together at Phantasialand near Cologne, Germany.  Around 250 participants on each day of the event had a choice of 40 exciting presentations and panel discussions. There were two parallel presentation tracks on four main topics: Achieving the State of the Art, Future Security, Digital Supply Chain Security and Connected Security.