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DIGITALEUROPE
Formation1999;26 years ago (1999)
Type Trade association
Headquarters Brussels, Belgium.
Products Lobbying, logos, self-regulatory
Director General
Cecilia Bonefeld Dahl
Website www.digitaleurope.org
Formerly called
European Information and Communications Technology Industry Association (EICTA)

DIGITALEUROPE is a European trade association that represents the digital technology industry. It is led by the Director General.

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The members include 120 major technology companies [1] and 41 national trade associations. [2] It seeks to ensure industry participation in the development and implementation of EU policies" and has several working groups that focus on different aspects of policy—environment, trade, technical and regulatory and the digital economy. [3] [4] [5] Based in Brussels, Belgium, DIGITALEUROPE represents over 45,000 companies. [5]

History

DIGITALEUROPE was formed in 1999 as the European Information and Communications Technology Industry Association (EICTA) by consolidating two former European organisations, ECTEL and EUROBIT, which represented the information and telecommunications industries. [6] EICTA expanded its scope to include the consumer electronics industry; on October 1, 2001, the association merged with the European Association of Consumer Electronics Manufacturers (EACEM). The new joint association changed its name to the European Information, Communications and Consumer Electronics Technology Industry Association (but kept its original acronym, EICTA). [7]

On March 12, 2009, EICTA rebranded as DIGITALEUROPE. [6] [8] Overtime, its membership has expanded to include vertical industries such as healthcare, finance and manufacturing.

Logos

DIGITALEUROPE previously developed the industry standards related to high-definition televisions.

On September 5, 2014, DIGITALEUROPE released an Ultra HD TV logo to certify companies that meet their technical requirements. [9] [10] The technical requirements for the Ultra HD logo is that the display must have a resolution of at least 3840×2160, a video signal path that does not reduce the resolution, a minimum color space of Rec. 709, and HDMI input that supports HDCP 2.2 content protection. [11]

Policy positions

In November 2014, it published a paper called "Law Enforcement Access to Data in the European Cloud" that asks the European Commission to "consider filing an amicus brief" with a U.S. appellate court regarding Microsoft's legal challenge of a U.S. warrant for a Microsoft user's private emails. As DIGITALEUROPE sees it, the fact that the data requested is stored on servers located in Dublin, Ireland, means that U.S. authorities should use mutual legal assistance treaties rather than strong-arming a U.S. multinational, which raises concerns about national sovereignty. [12] [13]

In anticipation to the publication of Neelie Kroes's Digital Agenda, [14] DigitalEurope released a paper in May 2010 about Europe's digital future which was called A Transformational Agenda for the Digital Age DigitalEurope's Vision 2020.

Members

Source: "Corporate Members". DigitalEurope. Retrieved September 1, 2024.

National trade associations

National AssociationsCountry
Internet Offensive Österreich Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
AGORIA Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Hrvatska Gospodarska Komora (HGK)Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia
Cyprus Information Enterprises Association (CITEA)Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus
Association for Applied Research in IT (AAVIT)Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic
Dansk Erhverv Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
IT Branchen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
DI Digital [ permanent dead link ]Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
ITL Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia
TIF Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
AFNUM Flag of France.svg  France
Numeum Flag of France.svg  France
Secimavi Flag of France.svg  France
BITKOM Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
ZVEI Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
SEPE Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
IVSZ Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Technology Ireland Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland
Anitec-Assinform Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
INFOBALT Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania
APSI Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg
Moldovan Association of ICT Companies Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova
FIAR Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
NLdigital Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Abelia Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
KIGEIT Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
PIIT Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
ZIPSEE Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
AGEFE Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
ANIS Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
ITAS Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia
GZS Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia
AMETIC Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Adigital Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Teknikföretagen Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
TechSverige Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
SWICO Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Digital Turkey Platform Archived August 4, 2015, at the Wayback Machine Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
ECID Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
IT UKRAINE Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
TechUK Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom

References

  1. "Corporate members".
  2. "About us". DigitalEurope. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
  3. "Working Groups". DigitalEurope. Archived from the original on November 20, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
  4. "About us". DigitalEurope. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Global Industry Approves Revision of Supply Chain Communication Guide on Declarable Substance Content in Electrotechnical Products". Consumer Electronics Association. May 22, 2012. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  6. 1 2 "EICTA rebrands itself as 'DIGITALEUROPE'". European Broadcasting Union. March 12, 2009. Archived from the original on September 7, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  7. "DIGITALEUROPE". Digital Video Broadcasting . Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  8. "DigitalEurope Statutes" (PDF). DigitalEurope. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 7, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  9. "DIGITALEUROPE launches Ultra High Definition logo for new generation of screens on 5 September at IFA". DigitalEurope. September 5, 2014. Archived from the original on March 11, 2015. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  10. "DIGITALEUROPE launches Ultra High Definition logo for new generation of screens". DTG. September 5, 2014. Archived from the original on September 7, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  11. "Technical Requirements". DigitalEurope. Archived from the original on March 26, 2015. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  12. "Law Enforcement Access to Data in the European Cloud". Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
  13. Baker, Jennifer (November 14, 2014). "Oi, Europe! Tell US feds to GTFO of our servers, say Microsoft and pals". The Register.
  14. "Digital Agenda: Commission outlines action plan to boost Europe's prosperity and well-being". europa.eu. European Commission. May 19, 2010. Retrieved September 6, 2014.