Trust in digital has become business critical, Lars Steffen, Director of eco International, says - because bad user experience does not induce customers to buy. Read more on dotmagazine.

Worldwide, artificial intelligence (AI) is the uppermost digitalization topic of the future, and is one with which policy-makers must also get to grips with on a consistent basis.  eco – Association of the Internet Industry is driving forward the political dialogue on the responsible handling of data for new innovative AI business models.

Member of the eco Association Presidency Committee Stefanie Kemp reports on the state of trust in online services and its impact on business. Read more on dotmagazine.

Kevin Wittek from if(is) outlines the possibilities for creating a federated blockchain operated by infrastructure providers who are eco members. Read more on dotmagazine.

Digital economist Holger Schmidt explains the three waves of digital transformation and how platform-based business models evolve. Read more on dotmagazine.

Volker Zinser from Ubisecure looks at how best to implement customer ID management sustainably and how to leverage the process for greater business success. Read more on dotmagazine.

Sebastian Beyer from CERTIVATION GmbH explains how digital identities and blockchain could make our lives easier. Read more on dotmagazine.

dotmagazine explores the interplay between online and offline identities, identity management & authentication, and compliance with eIDas & the GDPR.

Katrin Ohlmer from DOTZON explains how a city can develop and exploit a stable digital identity through a GeoTLD. Read more on dotmagazine.

eco – Association of the Internet Industry are delighted to welcome their new team member Sebastian Kluth, Technical Lead with the Certified Senders Alliance (CSA). In a brief interview, Sebastian gives us an insight into his background – and what this can contribute to the CSA.

Our #LiT Ladies in Tech interview series features outstanding and inspiring female professionals and executives from the Internet industry. This time: Katja Tietze, Blockchain Consulting and Business Development at T-Systems Multimedia Solutions.

Magnus Eén from Westwing and Dr. Conny Junghans from 1&1 spoke to Julia Janssen-Holldiek (CSA) about introducing schema.org to enhance commercial emails. Read more on dotmagazine.

Tobias Herkula from Cyren explains to Julia Janssen-Holldiek (CSA) why marketers need computational trust to protect their brand online. Read more on dotmagazine.

Mark Robbins from Salesforce explains how interactivity is breathing new life into email, and its impact on conversions, spend, & customer relationships. Read more on dotmagazine.

Email has become a vital e-commerce tool, and new initiatives are set to improve security, user experience, and ROI, say Marcel Becker from Verizon Media Group and Seth Blank from Valimail. Read more on dotmagazine.

Leonie Jonker from Paula’s Choice Skincare, on email’s power to retain customers and improve communication and interaction through customer feedback. Read more on dotmagazine.

Julia Janssen-Holldiek, Director of the CSA, on the exciting future of individualized email, and why marketers should find email standards sexy. Read more on dotmagazine.

A broad alliance from politics, industry, academia, and society advocates for a mutual and comprehensive understanding of education in the digital world. The German Society for Informatics (Gesellschaft für Informatik – GI) launched a charter to this effect on 14 August. The charter, which eco has also signed, expresses the mutual understanding of the signatories of education in a world shaped by digitalization.

Call for contributions from eco member companies and specialists on the topics of New Work and Digital Communications Read more on dotmagazine.

Blockchains have not yet developed a unified naming convention, and it’s time they did, argues Christa Taylor from Minds + Machines.

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Patrick Ben Koetter from the eco Association explores blockchain solutions for email and the need to bring the whole email ecosystem to the table.

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Data protection plays a major role in many blockchain-based project ideas, and presents issues which are not always easy to resolve, as Stephan Zimprich, Leader of the eco Competence Group Blockchain, explains.

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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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The digitalization of public administration: blockchain applications for e-government & governance models for blockchains - event report.

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.

Public administration offers and requires the same properties as blockchain: transparency, trust, and immutability. But does this predestine blockchain to be suitable for all e-government processes? Volker Skwarek explores potential use cases.

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Blockchain offers governments the opportunity to revolutionize their handling of citizen data and the allocation of rights in secure e-government scenarios. Dieter Rehfeld argues for the development of a European public-sector blockchain infrastructure, establishing Europe as a leader in the area.

Digitalizing government services requires the entire process of storing and handling the data of citizens to be revolutionized. Taavi Kotka, former Chief Information Officer of the Estonian Government, explains the value of e-government services to a country, and how blockchain helps to overcome the hurdles to transformation.

With more and more people and IoT devices connecting to the Internet, solutions are needed to authenticate unique digital identities. The eco Association looks at ways to alleviate the digital identity crisis and to offer users a secure online ID on the basis of blockchain.

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In a world where smart contracts are executed by a network of mutually distrusting nodes without a central authoritative entity, security plays a pivotal role. However, security matters are often neglected – with dire consequences, as Dr. André Kudra points out.

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