Digitalization: Get with the digital boss!

Union and SPD do not want the office, start-ups and industry associations already: In a petition you request a minister or a secretary of digital. Good luck!

Digitalization: Get with the digital boss!

If entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs start einePetition to demand a new government, n y must be notonly very desperate, but also quite perplexed. In same way, DerAppell reads on page digitalministerium. org, which Federal association German startups launched last night with support of a large number of or digital associations. Headline: "We demand dieParteivorsitzenden from CDU, CSU and SPD to Zuernennen a digital minister."

The petition is not 24 hours old, Dahab you already signed about 2,000 people – goal is 50,000. This number requires petitions in order to be dealt with in a public meeting of Committee on Petitions in Bundestag. Mandarf hope that it will be even more.

Because demand is right – and it isttraurig that it needs a public outcry to remind angehendenKoalitionäre of this. The Union parties had finally written in ir electoral programme: "Digitisation is priority. That is why position of ' Minister of state FürDigitalpolitik ' is being re-established in Federal Chancellery. " The SPD had not null so clearly, but Social Democrats have already spoken out for it – Weshalbdie petition now takes it to duty. "It is incomprehensible how dieKoalitionsparteien could fall behind this consensus," says Esdarin.

Why does a digital minister need it? Weilviele and for mselves sensible digitisation projects of last großenKoalition have remained on track. Guilt was certainly also jumble of responsibilities: Ministry of Economy, for example, takes care of DieDigitalisierung of industry and digital platforms, Ministry of Interior Redata policy and IT and cyber, Ministry of Transport to Digitale Infrastructure and Ministry of Education for Digital education. Aberso right priority had not been given to respective issues in ministries; none of ministers was known as a digital head, and where Borders DerZuständigkeiten lost, it was often not clear.

The Dobrindt Trap

Of course, it is now a truism that all areas of life are affected by digitisation and cannot close Institutiondie eyes before it. So it is not primarily a matter of taking away ministries. But it would be good, threads would run toger at EinerMinisterin. It would be conceivable, for example, that n – as DerDigitalverband Bitkom demands – examines new legislative projects for ir "digital compatibility". Or that he seineKabinettskollegens toger and sometimes kicks m in butt, Wennwichtige digital projects are threatening to fall behind. So that NeueRegierung does not fall back into Dobrindt trap.

Alexander Dobrindt is politician who derzuletzt most publicity for post of a digital minister – probably without wanting it. The CSU politician was from 2013 to 2017Bundesminister for transport and digital infrastructure – a WichtigerTeilbereich of digitisation was thus located in his portfolio. When Dobrindt2014 with n Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) UndNoch Minister of Interior Thomas de Maizière (CDU) presented Digitale Agenda 2014 – 2017, he emphasized that Germany is one of drivers of digitisation people, "in order to continue to prosper, Growth and competitiveness '. His me, digital infrastructure, was n also first place on agenda.

Dobrindts term, however, was overshadowed by or issues, in which he seldom made a good figure, such as DemStreit about so-called foreigners ' toll, diesel scandal or Problemenbei of privatisation of motorways. It is annoying, but not surprisingly, that Dobrindts big digital pledge re in Hintertreffengerieten: just first Bavarian radio reported, "WieAlexander Dobrindt failed in broadband expansion".

The example Dobrindt also shows: Wennjemand is responsible for digital mes, n he must also know about it. If, with your petition and increasing pressure of digital industry, entrepreneurs still succeed in Bundesregierungdurchzusetzen a digital boss in Federal chancellery or as Ministerinmit own ministry, n a Important debate first: about who would be appropriate head.

Date Of Update: 15 February 2018, 12:04
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