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Not to be confused with Digital Europe Programme.

DIGITALEUROPE
Formation1999; 25 years ago (1999)
TypeTrade association
HeadquartersBrussels, Belgium.
ProductsLobbying, logos, self-regulatory
Director General
Cecilia Bonefeld Dahl
Websitewww.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.

The members include 105 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

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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

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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

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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

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

National trade associations

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

References

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  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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "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.
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