Bitkom

Bitkom e. V. is a German technology industry association. It describes itself as the most important digital association and the largest European think tank on digital topics, bringing the digital economy into exchange with politics, media, science and society. Its membership includes more than 2,200 companies, among them more than 1,000 strong SMEs, around 700 innovative tech startups, half of the 40 DAX companies and many other global players. Bitkom has more than 100 employees and works on positions and recommendations for politics and business. Its overarching goal is to make Germany a leading digital location, advance the digital transformation of business and administration, strengthen digital sovereignty and achieve broad societal participation in digital developments.

Bitkom's own story page presents a timeline from 2000 to 2026. In 2025 Bitkom celebrated its 25th anniversary; the digital association said it was looking forward with a new strategy, "Bitkom 2035", positioning Bitkom more strongly as a think tank and trusted advisor and expanding research activities, with the goal of a digitally sovereign Germany in business, state and society. Also in 2025, Bitkom launched Bitkom-Dataverse, described as the largest free online portal with statistics on digital Germany, with over 11 million data points. In 2025 Bitkom developed the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which had been collected by the EU Commission until 2022, further monitoring and assessing the digital performance and digitalisation progress of EU member states. In 2025 Bitkom published a transparency report and, by signing the ITZ self-commitment, committed itself to comprehensible structures, clear decision-making processes and open communication toward the public. In 2026 Bitkom published the Monitor Staatsmodernisierung, which makes measurable the progress of 222 central projects of the modernisation agenda of the federal government and the federal states, from digital legislation to modern administrative services and bureaucracy reduction, updated semi-annually.

Most important digital association and largest European think tank on digital topics.

1. 1Startseite Bitkom e. V.bitkom.org
2. 2Die Bitkom Story | Bitkom e. V.bitkom.org
3. 3Über uns | Bitkom e. V.bitkom.org
4. 4Bitkom Themen von A - Z | Bitkom e. V.bitkom.org
5. 5bitkomwikidata.org