The year 2021 offers an opportunity for a strategic reorientation of German and European digital policy. Oliver Süme, Chair of the eco Association, calls for a more sustainable digital policy that sees digitalisation as part of the solution to many global challenges and uses existing innovation potential more consistently than before.

Odix CEO & former commander of the IDF cyber defense unit, Dr. (col) Oren Eytan will provide an overview of emerging cyber threats. Cyber-attacks become a major threat for every company regardless if it is small, medium or a large enterprise.

We should not sit back and relax. When eco, 25 years after its foundation, chose “Internet with responsibility” as our motto, we did not do so lightly. We are aware of the scope of our responsibility – and we believe in making a difference. We know that digital infrastructure is often critical infrastructure and that critical infrastructure is always a potential target for attack. If, in the middle of the pandemic, the IT systems of a major hospital were to be paralyzed by a (possibly even wrongly addressed) hacker attack, the damage will affect human lives.

2020 has been a year dominated by market volatility and uncertainty. Amid all of these challenging macro headwinds, the ability for investors to produce a steady stream of returns has been badly eroded, and this is prompting a growing number of institutions to seek out alpha from digital asset classes such as crypto-currencies. Although digital assets are still fairly nascent, financial market infrastructures (FMIs) and global custodians have recognized that client demand for these instruments is accelerating. How will the market evolve in the next years? And which solutions are already in place that will support the development of the digital assets marketplace?

Are European data centres ready for the climate targets of the EU Green Deal, to strengthen climate and environmental protection through digitalisation? A new study with best practices in the field of energy-efficient data centres formulates technological development potentials as well as policy recommendations.

Following on from the lawsuit in the jurisdiction of the ECJ in the case of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner versus Facebook Ireland and Max Schrems, the EDPB has published a set of recommendations which, from the Board’s perspective, are to be observed when conducting data transfers with third countries.

Conclusions for sustainable digitalisation were adopted at last week’s meeting of the EU Environment Council. Among other things, these stipulate that data centres should become climate-neutral by 2030.

 

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The Service-Meister Consortium announces it will unveil its 2020-developed platform architecture at the end of the year.  Service-Meister is developing innovations using AI to improve the service processes of SMEs.