The competence groups Infrastructure and Efficiency of the Datacenter Expert Group deal with the increasing spread of broadband connections, support the outsourcing of data and computing time in data centers and deal with the topics of IT performance and data center energy efficiency.

The E-Commerce competence group represents one of the traditional core thematic areas of the association's goals: commercial use of the Internet. The abbreviation "eco" stood for "electronic commerce" when the eco association was founded in the summer of 1995 in Bonn.

The Internet of Things (IoT) competence group deals with current developments and business trends in the networked world.

The Competence Group New Work sees itself as a digital working companion and focuses, among other things, on the automation and globalization of workplaces, employee recruitment and virtual cooperation.

Data protection, data retention, copyright: Where politics meets Internet topics, the Policy & Law business unit of eco is actively involved and advocates the network policy interests of the member companies.

On the basis of digitalisation, we're experiencing structural transformation and disruption in which traditional industrial and economic sectors are changing, new business models are emerging on a daily basis, and existing digital applications are being optimised. We identify key technologies for digital transformation and investigate the potential of technologies for new types of business models.

The E-Mail competence group deals with current developments in the field of e-mail. In addition to general topics, the focus is on technical content which is of crucial importance for the sender and recipient, or which influences the respective daily business.

The eco Names & Numbers Forum and its competence group unite more than 120 companies from the domain name industry worldwide. In addition to topics that are important for the entire industry, the intensive exchange with industry experts is promoted.

The Network Competence Group deals with all aspects of networks and promotes dialogue between, for example, developers and representatives of ISPs, hosters and carriers.