CDU on digital affairs

The CDU wants to set up a central artificial intelligence hub modeled on North Rhine-Westphalia and create a parliamentary inquiry commission on AI. Research, academia and business are to work more closely together so that, in the program's view, Brandenburg does not fall behind in the digital transformation.

The CDU wants to set up an office for artificial intelligence. Experts should connect there. The state parliament should study the effects of AI. Research and companies should work together better.

The inquiry commission is to examine AI's impact on society, the economy and work in Brandenburg. Existing funding programs are to be bundled into an innovation program supporting ideas from basic research to market readiness and transfer to businesses. Non-university research institutes are to get better conditions. The CDU also wants to support nuclear fusion research programs.

The CDU wants a digital overhaul of public administration. All public services should be available online, and digital processes should make up for staff shortages. The aim is for agencies to be equally accessible and more efficient across the state.

The CDU wants government offices to go digital. All applications should work online. Computers should fill in for missing staff. People should give their data to offices only once.

Responsibility for digitization, including the DigitalAgentur, would be concentrated in one ministry. Municipalities and counties would get support mainly through the DIKOM association (Digitale Kommunen Brandenburg) as a central service provider. A statewide once-only principle would mean residents give personal data to authorities just once. Public datasets would be released as machine-readable open data for free reuse. The plan also includes regular digital checks of municipalities and faster, digitized tax audits of businesses.