Grüne on digital affairs

The Greens want to speed up the rollout of fiber and mobile networks in Hesse so that digital participation does not depend on income or location. The party sees fast networks in rural areas, too, as part of basic public services.

Everyone in Hesse should have fast internet. This should also be true in the countryside. So the Greens want more fiber lines and better cell phone coverage. The party sees good networks as a basic service.

The state's existing gigabit strategy is to remain the roadmap. New technology such as the upcoming 6G mobile standard and new methods for laying fiber are to be supported wherever possible. As a reason, the platform cites the experience of online learning and working during the Covid pandemic.

The Greens want everyone to be able to move safely online and stay in control of their own data. Illegal trade on the internet is to be fought while anonymity for legal use is preserved. The party also wants to counter fake news, hate and incitement online.

The Greens want to make the internet safer. Everyone should control their own data. People who do nothing illegal should be able to stay anonymous. The party wants to act against criminals online. It also wants to act against hate and lies on the internet.

The aim is the highest possible standards in data protection and IT security. Protection of minors in the digital sphere is to be improved without undermining these standards. The state of Hesse is also to be more present on independent, decentralized social networks.

The Greens want to launch a media literacy campaign offering affordable learning opportunities to people of all ages. No one is to be excluded from the digital world, regardless of gender, age, origin or money.

Everyone should be able to use digital media. The Greens want low-cost courses for all ages. Older people should get more help. More women should also work in tech jobs.

Media education is to be offered as cheaply as possible through a range of education providers. Information and support services for older people are to be expanded. The party wants to promote more women in the digital sector and more diversity in how technology is designed. Critical and ethical debate about the costs and benefits of digitalization, and research on it, are also to be supported.

The Greens want to promote freely available knowledge, for example through open access, open data and free licenses. Software paid for with public money is to be open under the principle "public money, public code." Hesse's artworks, monuments and archives are to be digitized and made freely accessible online.

Knowledge should be free for everyone. If the state pays for software, its code should be open. The Greens also want to digitize art and old documents. Then everyone can see them online.

The principle of open software is to be advanced at the state's own institutions. Copyright is to be respected in open access. University projects building self-managed open-access journals will be supported. Cultural assets are to be placed online in the public domain and presented so that they can be experienced on the web and open new opportunities for research.

The Greens want to modernize the state administration so that it works faster, more efficiently and more transparently. Digital services are to be accessible and easy to use. Smaller municipalities are to get help with digital infrastructure through a "Pakt für die Verwaltung" (pact for public administration).

Public offices should work faster and more simply. Many things should be possible online. The services should be easy to use, also for old and disabled people. Small towns should get help from the state.

Centrally coordinated management is to digitize internal processes, create uniform interfaces and avoid breaks between paper and digital steps. Administrative procedures are to be systematically reviewed for simplification and laws adjusted where needed; new laws are to take digital implementation into account from the start. The eGov-Campus for staff training is to be developed further. The state is to depend less on individual vendors and use open-source software where possible, which is also to be written into procurement rules. The cybersecurity strategy is to be advanced.

In response to growing cyberattacks, the Greens want more training for specialists and more support for Hesse's cybersecurity institutions. At the same time, public research on artificial intelligence is to receive more funding so that Hesse takes a leading position among the German states.

There are more and more attacks on computer systems. The Greens want better training for experts. Hesse should also do more research on artificial intelligence. These are computer programs that learn by themselves. The research should serve people.

The cybersecurity measures are to be implemented independently and across all ministries. The ATHENE research center is to make Hesse a hub for digital security and build knowledge on protecting critical infrastructure. The AI center hessian.AI and the Zentrum verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung (Center for Responsible Digitalization) are to be strengthened. Research at universities and public institutes is to help understand the algorithms of large platforms and make its findings publicly available.