Associations in Germany are calling for improvements in the conditions for network rollout. Today the Gigabit Symposium – organised by ANGA, Bitkom, BREKO, BUGLAS, eco and VATM – is reviewing the situation together with politicians and the industry, with the current German federal government now two years in action. The important EU level groundwork is also under discussion.

AI is a key technology of the future with a wide range of possible applications and the potential to transform the economy, science and society. Nevertheless, there are still major reservations about AI-based technologies in large parts of the German population, as displayed through an eco/Civey survey. eco calls for a broad debate in order to boost societal acceptance.

eco expressly welcomes the fact that the key theme of “digitalisation” is receiving its own federal state body at ministerial level for the first time, thereby aligning with the conferences of ministers of other established departments.

Sunita Ute Saxena is responsible for Public Safety, Governance and Critical Infrastructure at Deutsche Telekom Security GmbH. On 29 November, she will be speaking at the KRITIS Competence Group meeting in Cologne regarding the KRITIS Umbrella Act and the status of NIS2 transposition in Germany. She covers three questions about what this will entail.

The online brand protection industry has faced some unique challenges in 2023. How has the industry responded? What are the main issues and outcomes? And what can we expect in the near future? Join eco member DomainCrawler on December 5th at 16:00 CET and find answers to these and other questions.

In late October this year, more than 2,500 international participants from all over the world took part in the ICANN78 meeting in Hamburg. The shared goal was to ensure that the Internet continues to be securely usable for everyone according to clear rules. What is also increasingly evident to ICANN is that gender equality is a core factor for upgrading the innovative and secure Internet. One topic therefore pursued at the ICANN78 conference was entitled, “DNS Women – Expanding Our Impact”, a session in which eco Association had the privilege to take part in.

Join eco and the DNS Abuse Institute to hear more about the latest element of the DNSAI Compass: Dashboards. These Dashboards provide registries and registrars with access to individualized data on phishing and malware in their zone.

With the advent of the Internet, email began its triumphant advance as a means of communication. A representative survey conducted by the opinion research institute Civey on behalf of eco – Association of the Internet Industry shows that email is still very important tool to many people.

German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) Robert Habeck recently presented a strategy paper that, in particular, provides for a so-called bridge electricity price to relieve energy-intensive companies of the burden of rising electricity prices.