digital transformation
Scholz: Lack of understanding for the lack of digitization of the authorities
Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) at the “FAZ” Congress 2023 in the casino on the campus of the Goethe University in Frankfurt. photo
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Celebrities from politics and culture at the “FAZ” congress: It was about economy and space travel, about the “crime scene” and digitization. Chancellor Olaf Scholz also had a clear opinion on this.
Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz has expressed his incomprehension for the lack of digitization of the immigration authorities in the federal states. “I wonder where we actually live,” said the SPD politician at a congress of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (FAZ) in Frankfurt. Almost ten years after the last refugee crisis, perhaps a quarter of the immigration authorities have been digitized. “That can’t be true,” said Scholz indignantly. “Why can’t we just send electronic files from immigration office to immigration office?”
File folders are currently being scanned in the authorities. If the person concerned then leaves the federal state, everything has to be printed out because the other immigration authorities cannot receive the data digitally. “In 2023! I think this work has to be done,” emphasized Scholz.
Previously, the “FAZ” congress was about the meaning of the “crime scene”, about fashion and business, about utopias, optimism and the cosmic view of the earth. “Ban less, improve more,” demanded the Hessian Prime Minister Boris Rhein (CDU) in view of the discussion about regulations for energy saving and other measures. It makes him uneasy that the belief in progress is being lost more and more, he said in the panel on “How we can still achieve great things – and why it is necessary”.
The fact that Hessen has its own space strategy and that around 50 chairs in the state deal with space issues was the connecting element to ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer in the panel. Maurer was deployed on the International Space Station ISS last year and spoke about the contributions made by research, for example in the observation and documentation of the consequences of climate change from space. “We have to be careful that space doesn’t get as polluted as the world’s oceans,” he appealed in view of tourism in space.