Germany Country Report - Enisa - Europa

Germany Country Report
Industry organisations active in network and information security
Academic Organisations Role and responsibilities Website
28. Bundesverband
Informationswirtschaf
t, Telekommunikation
und neue Medien
(BITKOM) – German
Association for
Information
Technology,
Telecommunications,
and New Media
29. eco (Verband der
deutschen
Internetwirtschaft
e.V.)
30. VATM (Association of
Telecommunications
and Value-Added
Service Providers)
31. VDE (Verband der
Elektrotechnik,
Elektronik und
Informations-technik
e.V.)
Bitkom is the voice of the IT, telecommunications
and new media industry in Germany. The
organisation represents more than 1200
companies, 900 of which are members.
Bitkom has a seat on the executive board of
EICTA (European Information, Communications
and Consumer Electronics Technology Industry
Associations).
� Education and the training of IT and
telecommunications specialists,
� green ICT, e-government,
� e-health,
� economic policy, copyright and patent law,
� security and privacy
� issues,
� software technologies,
� consumer electronics,
� climate protection,
� sustainability
It provides a new legal framework for
telecommunications and the media.
eco – the German Internet Business Association
represents and supports all enterprises that make
commercial use of the Internet. It represents
companies in the political process, encourages
communication among market participants and
supports the marketing of their products.
eco‟s main activities are clustered around topics
such as: infrastructure and technology, content,
applications, as well as legal and regulatory
matters, each of which is assigned to an
individual member of the board.
The Association of Telecommunications and
Value-Added Service Providers (VATM) represents
more than 70 telecommunications and
multimedia companies active in the German
market. The majority of VATM members are
subsidiaries of, or affiliated with European and
overseas service providers.
VATM supports a working group on safety and
data protection.
The Association for Electrical, Electronic and
Information Technologies (VDE) represents over
33 000 individual members, including a broad
spectrum of engineers, scientists, technicians and
some 5 000 students. In addition, 1 250
corporate and institutional members represent
major German enterprises of the electrical,
electronic and information technology industry,
electrical utilities, federal authorities and
institutions.
Their goal is to ensure the ongoing development
of various technologies and encourage their
www.bitkom.org
www.eco.de
www.vatm.de
www.vde.com
37