CDU on digital affairs

The CDU wants to make the rollout of high-capacity data networks such as fiber and 5G a priority with firm deadlines. Businesses should also get more help against cyberattacks.

The CDU wants to expand fast internet in Hamburg. That includes fiber and 5G. There should be clear deadlines for the rollout. The police should give companies more help against attacks from the internet.

The program justifies the rollout by pointing to the growing number of connected devices in industry, logistics, traffic and homes, and to uses like autonomous driving that need powerful networks. The state criminal police unit responsible for cybercrime, LKA 54, is to get more capacity. Advisory services on preventing cybercrime are to grow. The CDU also sees a reliable 5G and fiber network as a precondition for industry.

The CDU wants to offer every government service digitally by 2030 and, where data protection law allows, handle it automatically without an application. Artificial intelligence is to support high-volume procedures and relieve staff, and legal hurdles to this are to be removed.

By 2030, people should be able to do all government errands online. Some things should happen automatically, without an application. Artificial intelligence should help the administration. This is a computer program that does tasks by itself. But a person always makes the final decision.

All administrative services are to sit on one central platform, with BundID (the federal digital ID account) as the citizen account; portals of city-owned companies such as HVV, Hamburg Wasser and the sanitation service are to be integrated. The city's service portal is to become an app that informs people about roadworks, traffic jams and closures, for example. AI is to sort files, check documents for completeness and prepare cases. A digital index is to measure progress on e-government and broadband publicly. The CDU wants to speed up fiber-optic rollout across the whole city.