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DIGITALEUROPE
Formation1999; 27 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 (stylized as DIGITALEUROPE) is a European trade association located in Brussels, Belgium, that represents the information technology industry.

Members include 120 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]

History

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The organization was founded in 1999 as the European Information and Communications Technology Industry Association (EICTA) by consolidating two former European organizations, 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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It 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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National trade associations

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

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