Yesterday, the coalition put together an economic stimulus package totalling 130 billion euros. Some of this funding will also be channelled into the digitalisation of public administration.
It is emphasised that the Online Access Act is to be implemented swiftly and comprehensively; the federal states and local authorities will therefore receive an additional 3 billion euros. A prerequisite for this is that they implement the joint architectural concept (“one for all”) across the board. This concept stipulates that federal states which develop digital services for a particular area must make these available to other states.
Investment in artificial intelligence (AI) will be increased from 3 to 5 billion euros. Funding for existing programmes will be increased and additional supercomputers will be purchased. The latter are intended to meet the growing demand for computing capacity and to enable the “systematic digital provision of data” from data pools that were previously inaccessible.
The modernisation of registers, which is of enormous importance for the digitalisation of the entire public administration, will be supported with funding of 0.3 billion euros.
We will also be addressing the topics of the digitalisation of public administration, artificial intelligence and register modernisation at our Future Congress – Digital. Further information can be found in our programme: https://www.zukunftskongress.info/de/node/5/program_digital
In our online journal https://www.verwaltung-der-zukunft.org/ we are covering the Future Congress in words and pictures.