Freie Wähler on digital affairs

The Free Voters want to digitize public administration throughout and offer government services electronically everywhere. A voluntary electronic citizen account is meant to spare people from entering the same data again and again.

The Free Voters want public offices to work digitally. People should be able to do things online. There should be a voluntary citizen account on the internet. Then people do not have to enter the same details many times.

According to the platform, processes should be improved first and digitized afterward. Municipalities would get help with digitization, long-term digital archiving, and livestreams of council and county assembly meetings. Open-data offerings would grow, and electronic access to information would be barrier-free. Artificial intelligence and blockchain would reduce data requests and red tape; electronic justice services would move ahead faster.

The Free Voters want to bring fiber-optic service to all of Bavaria, expand 5G and mobile coverage, and fully digitize public administration. Net neutrality is to be strictly enforced.

The Free Voters want fast internet everywhere in Bavaria. Every connection should get fiber-optic service. People should be able to file government forms fully online. All data on the internet should be treated equally.

Every private and business connection is to get fast internet, and the speed promised in the contract is to be guaranteed. Mobile internet is to be available along all Bavarian rail lines. Zero-rating, meaning preferential treatment of certain content in data plans, would be banned, and the Federal Network Agency would be strengthened as regulator. The platform also calls for an algorithm inspection for software-based decisions and a "digital permanent establishment" to counter tax avoidance by international corporations. Bavaria is to become a hub for artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, and the Digitalbonus grant for smaller companies would continue.