digitalization Traffic light partner to Faeser: More pressure with digital administration Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) could still improve the proposed law on digitization, her coalition partners believe. photo © Sebastian Gollnow/dpa In many European countries, citizens can deal with a large part of their contacts with the authorities online. Germany still has a lot of catching up to do. In the future, citizens should be able to use more services from authorities online - but the...
digital transformation Survey: No boost in digitization by traffic light government At the end of 2021, shortly after the federal elections, 82 percent of the decision-makers still believed in a digitization push by the traffic light government. photo © Marijan Murat/dpa Digitization can make going to the authorities or going to the doctor much easier. However, much is still analog in Germany. This is also due to the inaction of politicians, as many people think. According to decision-makers, the governing...
Status: 01/24/2023 5:30 p.m In 2018, the grand coalition should have explained in more detail why the parties needed more money, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled. Simply pointing to increased costs is not enough. Now there should be a new regulation quickly. By Klaus Hempel, ARD legal department In 2018, the grand coalition of the Union and the SPD justified the increase in state subsidies by saying that the parties' expenses had increased significantly. Digitization has led to higher costs....
comment by Mike SzymanskiMost would like to live in the Germany that the SPD leadership described at their board meeting: Visits to the authorities could be done "from the sofa", dead spots were a thing of the past, trains would "run punctually and reliably". You can drive "across Germany without any worries" in an e-car. The only problem is: Unfortunately, this Germany still doesn't exist. source site
Exaggerated data protection, insufficient data collection and, above all, a lack of will: what has to happen for Germany to become more digital.comment by Helmut Martin-JungA marathon is 42.195 kilometers long. You don't just run them like that as an untrained person, otherwise it becomes dangerous. It's actually quite clear: there's no marathon without training. In this respect, it is not surprising that the state has not even come close to completing its marathon, the digitization of almost 600 administrative...
digitalization Federal government wants to facilitate data evaluations Volker Wissing (FDP), Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Affairs, speaks at the Digital Summit 2022. Photo © Kay Nietfeld/dpa The traffic light coalition wants to make digital data better and more easily available. This should also strengthen Germany's competitiveness in the future. The first pilot projects are being planned. In the future, the federal government wants to make more data more available and usable in order to enable innovation projects in...
digitalization Civil society representatives criticize digital summits Participants at the Federal Government's Digital Summit 2022. photo © Britta Pedersen/dpa "Far too often, economic interests are in the foreground," is just one criticism of the federal government's digital summit. A well-known online journalist describes the format as out of date. Representatives of digital civil society have criticized the content and composition of the digital summit of the federal government. Christian Humborg, CEO of Wikimedia Germany, said that what can be observed...
information technology What slows down or drives digitization forward An employee of the Stuttgart High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) walks between the computer cabinets of a mainframe computer with the project name "Hawk". photo © Marijan Murat/dpa The traffic light government alliance had agreed on a "digital awakening" in the coalition agreement. So far, however, not much has happened. Where else is there a problem? And where is it going well? Actually, the traffic light coalition had firmly resolved to...
Status: 05.12.2022 6:00 p.m Across Germany, student unions are struggling with the failed digitization of BAföG applications. Students have to wait a long time for their money. New applications are only approved after months. By Jan-Henrik Wiebe, radio Students have to wait months for government support money to land in their accounts after an initial application. The reasons for this are a failed digitization of the applications, always new rules and thus revised offices. In addition, there is a high...
FDP - really now? Many did not expect that many young voters would cross the Liberals in the 2021 federal election. But was that really that surprising? The CDU/CSU in particular did not necessarily convey the impression that they had arrived in a world in which the younger generation had been living for some time. And this world is digital. Advancing digitization was an important campaign issue for all three parties, who later got together at the traffic light. In...
