Since 2015, Dana Heide has been a correspondent for the Handelsblatt in Berlin, with reporting focusing on: the German Federal Ministry for the Economy, digital policy, cyber-security, SMEs, and the FDP. In 2016, she became an Arthur F. Burns-Fellow at The Wall Street Journal in San Francisco. Prior to this, she was...

The draft for an immigration act introduced by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior last week could entice more specialists to move to Germany.

Hessian state government appoints Harald Summa, DE-CIX CEO and CEO of eco, to its newly-founded Council for Digital Ethics. As voice of the Internet industry, eco Association takes on social responsibility for an ethically-oriented digitalization.

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Frankfurt has one of the densest data networks in the world and is an established location hub for Data Centers and Connectivity. While Germany as a whole, has rapidly modernised with advanced technology driving its place as one of Europe’s largest telecom markets. These merging sectors coupled with high demand from our top-level clients e.g. DCs, Network Operators, Service Providers and ICT players who wish to explore new opportunities in the region has resulted in the Draleo Group returning to Frankfurt for its second annual event in the city.

Whilst welcoming the German federal government's new Digital Council's first meeting today, Chair of eco Oliver Süme also emphasizes that: “The time for talking is over. The government must now provide long overdue answers to pressing questions about the future of Germany as a digital location.”

Klaus Dudda has been at home in the media and publication industry since his time as an advertising specialist. With Medienhaus Verlag, arising from a management buyout in the nineties, he started the development of IT journals and successively expanded this target market. Today, Medienhaus, with its print, digital and...

Andreas Gauger has been heavily involved in the shaping of the cloud and hosting market in Germany since the 1990s. As early as his time at school, he founded his first software company. In 1995, he was co-founder of the German hosting pioneer Schlund+Partner. From 2000 to 2008, as the board spokesperson, Gauger drove forward...

Ali Sunyaev is Professor for Applied Informatics and Director of the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT). Prior to this, he was Director of the Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG) at the University of Kassel. Further posts...

Monika Ermert has worked for more than 20 years as a freelance journalist. She researches a broad spectrum of topics related to the areas of internet governance and standardization for Heise, Intellectual Property Watch, die Neue Züricher Zeitung, and the Economist. She studied sinology and media studies at the University...