Grüne on digital affairs

The Greens want to continue and expand the "Urban Digital Twin," a digital model of Hamburg used for planning and public participation. More agencies and partners are to be connected, and the work is to be coordinated centrally.

Hamburg has a digital model of the city. It helps with planning the city and traffic. The Greens want to expand this model. More city offices should work with it.

According to the platform, the tool serves urban and transport development, environmental and climate protection, and public participation. Through the funded project "Connected Urban Twins," agencies, universities, and public companies are already linked. The partnerships created this way are to become permanent and be pooled at the Office for IT and Digitalization. The aim is to strengthen Hamburg's position as a national pioneer.

The Greens want to offer all government services digitally as quickly as possible and design them from the citizen's point of view. In the long run, the administration is to tell people on its own initiative which benefits they are entitled to; those who do not go online are still to get help in person.

The Greens want to put all city services online. Later, the city offices should contact people on their own. People must agree to this first. People who do not use the internet still get help in person.

Automation and artificial intelligence are to relieve staff of routine work such as entering data multiple times, leaving more time for difficult cases. Proactive information about services requires prior consent, and applications are to be possible online or in person with data protection ensured. Ongoing customer surveys like those at "Hamburg Service vor Ort" are to be extended to other parts of the administration. A permanent service center in the city center, also open on Saturdays, is planned. The civil registry offices are to be reformed through digitalization, a review of procedures, and bundling of services.

The Greens want to tie schools' technical equipment to the social index and assign every school a specialist for network support. A legally sound framework for the use of artificial intelligence is to be drawn up quickly.

Schools should get good technology. Schools in poorer areas should get special attention. Every school should get an expert for its computer networks. There should be clear rules for artificial intelligence.

Alongside the KMK guideline on learning in the digital world, the platform calls for dedicated contact persons who relieve teachers when technical problems arise and help children whose parents are less tech-savvy. Digital teaching content is to be stored across schools and made findable through a search and rating system. A training drive for inclusive and individualized digital learning is planned. Schools should be able to try out self-directed and hybrid learning formats. The opportunities and risks of AI are to be researched.

The Greens want to tighten the rules protecting children's privacy and intimate sphere on social media. For children who earn money as influencers, youth employment protection is to be adapted to digital work.

The Greens want to protect children better online. The rules for social media should become stricter. Some children earn money with online videos. There should be clear protection rules for this work.

Besides tighter legal rules, parents, children and young people are to get more information about the dangers. Social media providers are to effectively meet deletion duties when posts violate personal rights. According to the platform, the work of child influencers and in family and parent blogs is often hard work that the Youth Employment Protection Act does not yet cover well enough. The party therefore wants to press the federal government for changes to that law.

The Greens want to strengthen artificial intelligence research in Hamburg and set up an AI service center. A high-performance computing cluster for the metropolitan region is also planned. The platform justifies this with the growing role of AI and data science in all disciplines and in business.

The Greens want to strengthen research on artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is called AI for short. A new center should help everyone use AI. There should also be very fast computers for the region.

The research fields of machine learning and cognitive systems are to be strengthened, as is computer science as a bridging discipline. Digitalization of teaching and research is to continue. The Artificial Intelligence Center (ARIC) is to be strengthened and linked with data science research at the universities. An interdisciplinary high-performance computing cluster is meant to process large amounts of data efficiently.

The Greens want to push ahead with fiber and 5G rollout and close remaining coverage gaps. Digitalizing administrative procedures is to be a priority. The platform sees digital infrastructure as a prerequisite for business, work and less red tape.

The Greens want fast internet all over Hamburg. Places without a good network should get it too. Government offices should work more digitally. This should happen quickly.

Network expansion is to be merged with the central management of the city's digitalization activities. Areas without adequate coverage are to receive particular support. The party wants the change brought by artificial intelligence to be debated in society and steered politically so that opportunities are used and risks limited.

The Greens want to set up a data protection competence center that advises the administration, companies and citizens. The Bürgerschaft (Hamburg's state parliament) is to get its own committee for digitalization and data protection. The party wants data protection to become a matter of course rather than being seen as an obstacle.

The Greens want to found a center for data protection. Government offices, companies and citizens can get advice there. Hamburg's parliament should get its own committee. It deals with digital issues and data protection.

The center is to pool existing expertise and serve as a point of contact. The new parliamentary committee is to be independent and reflect the cross-sector importance of both topics. The platform stresses that digitalization and the protection of personal data belong together.

The Greens want the software and hardware of public bodies to be independent and sovereign. To that end, open source, open standards and matching procurement are to be promoted and a long-term strategy drawn up. Critical digital infrastructure is to be protected.

The government should be independent when it comes to computers and software. The Greens want to use more open software. Anyone can check and change open software. There should be a long-term plan for this. Important digital systems should be well protected.

Besides open source and open standards, matching procurement and IT cooperation across administrations and state borders are to be promoted. The planned strategy for digital sovereignty and open source is not to be limited to the administration. The platform calls this independence both useful and necessary.

The Greens want to make it easier for victims of digital violence to enforce their rights. At the federal level, they push for a statutory cease-and-desist form and lower costs for victims.

Some people are insulted or threatened online. They should be able to defend themselves more easily. The Greens want a simple form set out in law. With it, victims can send a formal warning themselves. Costs for victims should also go down.

In the platform's view, the existing duties for platform operators under EU and federal law do not go far enough. Business models and algorithms should not reward criminal or hateful content with reach. For clear cases of violations of personal rights and threats, a legally defined cease-and-desist form is to be introduced so that victims can act on their own. The financial hurdles to enforcing rights are to be lowered.

The Greens want to close gaps in consumer protection online. They call for stricter rules on in-app and in-game purchases, consumer-focused implementation of the AI Act, and a ban on AI-based facial recognition in public spaces that also applies to private actors.

The Greens want to protect people better online. Purchases in games and apps should have a spending limit. Private companies should also not be allowed to recognize faces in public with AI. AI means artificial intelligence.

The platform describes in-app and in-game purchases as a cost trap, especially for children, because the total possible cost is not visible. It calls for more transparency, a third-party billing block switched on by default, and a cap on purchase amounts. The party sees the EU's AI Act as progress but not as sufficient. The federal government and parliament are to prohibit AI-driven facial recognition in public spaces for private actors as well. The platform also names unsolicited contracts, fake shops, and manipulative website design as problems.