The new Federal Minister of the Interior and for Home Affairs, Nancy Faeser, has confirmed her attendance at the Zukunftskongress-digital (Work-from-Home Edition). As part of the opening ceremony on 14 December 2021, starting at 9.30 am, she will deliver a keynote speech outlining the key points regarding the modernisation and digitalisation of public administration.
The coalition partners – the SPD, the Greens and the FDP – have agreed to drive forward the digitalisation of public administration. The importance this holds for the coalition parties is evident from the fact that it is already set out in the preamble to the coalition agreement. Under the slogan ‘Dare to make more progress’, the coalition agreement sets out key measures designed to make the state and public administration more digital.
These include, for example, adequate follow-up funding for the OZG and the removal of barriers to digitalisation. Trustworthy identity management and the modernisation of registers are cited as priorities. Development contracts are to be awarded on an open-source basis, and a public administration cloud will be established on the basis of a multi-cloud strategy.
Details of the programme and registration for the congress can be found here.