DISCOUNT eco Members receive a special 15% discount on the conference tickets of the ANGA COM! Please get in touch under events@eco.de to receive your promo code or have a look in the members+ area!

ANGA COM 2018 is Europe's leading business platform for broadband and content providers. In 2017, the congress trade fair for broadband, cable & satellite registered a total of 460 exhibitors and 19,000 participants from 80 countries. With a 50% share of international visitors, ANGA COM offers network operators, equipment suppliers and content providers a marketplace focused on broadband and audio-visual media for the whole of Europe.

Frank Zachmann from innovIT360 explains the infrastructure challenges for developing the innovative power of the Internet of Things and offers a solution for the future of digital infrastructure.

Read more on dotmagazine

The EU Commission's proposal on platform regulation for commercial business is regarded by the eco Association as representing an encroachment on contractual freedom and as introducing unequal treatment for platform operators and search engine providers.

Whereas the Internet industry offers very good career opportunities for women, the industry's workforce is still predominantly male. On the occasion of Girls' Day in Germany, Lucia Falkenberg, CPO of eco and Leader of the eco Competence Group New Work, talks about the benefits to companies of hiring female specialists and the importance to the industry of having female role models.

Maik Morgenstern, CTO at AV-Test, offers advice on what to look for in e-health gadgets and services in order to benefit from innovations without giving away too much sensitive data.

Read more on dotmagazine

70 per cent of German companies would like public authorities to offer the option of exchanging data via blockchain: That is the main finding of a survey undertaken amongst companies by eco and YouGov. Effectively, the business sector in Germany are looking to administrative authorities to act as blockchain pioneers.

An open letter issued by a broad alliance of stakeholders calls for a move away from plans to introduce a European ancillary copyright law for press publishers. The signatories of the letter, who include representatives of quality media, argue that the ancillary copyright law is absolutely unnecessary for press publishers and completely contradicts the basic idea of free access to opinions and information on the Internet.

Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. The Group employs more than 13,000 personnel across the globe, generating net sales of over 2.2 billion euros in 2017.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has presented several data models to its contracted parties regarding their contractual arrangements with ICANN and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). They have gathered and presented some of the legal analysis and turned to the community for feedback and alternatives.

A key ruling made by the Administrative Court of Cologne on a suit taken by SpaceNet AG and supported by the eco Association has determined that blanket data retention infringes fundamental European rights.