What's New in eco November 2017
News from the eco Association
Date: 23 Nov. 2017
Location: Cologne
Date: 12 Dec. 2017
Location: Cologne
Date: 21 Nov. 2017
Location: Stockholm
Date: 28 Nov. 2017
Location: Frankfurt
DE-CIX Summit 2017 - Madrid
Date: 23 Nov. 2017
Location: Madrid
Date: 5 Dec. 2017
Location: New York
Report: The 60th ICANN Meeting
The Annual General Meeting ICANN60, with around 1,900 participants, took place this year from 28 October to 3 November in Abu Dhabi. Anyone who thought that the ICANN Community would simply resume their normal business after the successful IANA transition has been proven wrong.
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10 Years: eco Datacenter Expert Group
The eco Datacenter Expert Group can now look back on ten extremely successful years. Established as the Datacenter Working Group on 8 November 2007 by Patrick Pulvermüller, SVP Head of GoDaddy EMEA, the committee set itself the goal of promoting an open and confidential exchange of information between data center operators, planners, and manufacturers.
eco Warns: EU Website Blocking is Not an Appropriate Form of Consumer Protection
The eco Association strongly criticizes the fact that website blocking has once again been instituted at EU level. On Tuesday, the EU Parliament endorsed a regulation allowing European consumer protection agencies to impose website blocking. In the purported interests of consumer protection, this will allow them to remove offers from the Internet without requiring judicial approval.
YouGov Survey: Avert a Crisis in Care with Smart Assistance Systems
In order to be able to live independently for a longer period of time within their own four walls, 72 percent of Germans would avail of technical assistance systems. This is the finding of a representative survey conducted by eco – Association of the Internet Industry, alongside the market and opinion research institute YouGov*. “The crisis in care will not be resolved by robots, as often suggested, but rather to a large extent by technical assistance systems,” says Dr. Bettina Horster, CEO of VIVAI AG and Director of IoT at eco.
Predictive Targeting Increases Competitiveness
Knowledge is power. When you know a lot about your customers, you can address them in a more targeted way. For example, shopping portals offer suitable product recommendations to customers, based on their purchasing behavior. Today, when surfing the Internet, interested customers are targeted on all websites. This type of predictive targeting reduces advertising wastage and is already well established in e-commerce. “In particular, large US providers have gained a competitive advantage by collecting and intelligently analyzing huge amounts of data from their customers,” says Dr. Torsten Schwarz, Head of Online Marketing at eco – Association of the Internet industry.
Blockchain Technology and Application Examples
The technology behind the cryptocurrency blockchain is the subject of numerous myths, which will be addressed at the Blockchain PreMasters event on 12 December 2017 in Cologne.
