Grüne on digital affairs

The Greens want to expand digital equipment in daycare centers and write a state framework for it into the daycare law. This is meant to ease documentation, communication with parents and media education.

Daycare centers should get better digital tools. Then writing things down goes faster. Daycare staff and parents can talk more easily. The state should make a plan for this. The plan should be part of the daycare law.

According to the platform, digital infrastructure simplifies documentation duties and improves cooperation with parents. It is also meant to enable media education suited to the children's age. The framework is to give guidance to the providers that run the facilities.

The Greens want everyone in the state to be able to use digital services and to learn how to deal with media critically. Digital guides are to help people, libraries are to be expanded, and educational institutions are to be better equipped.

The Greens want everyone to be able to use the internet. Helpers will support older people and people with little money. Libraries will become places to learn and try things out. Daycare centers and schools will get enough money and technology for this.

Digital guides are to support people with low incomes, without a fixed address, or who struggle with devices. A statewide network of volunteer media guides is planned for seniors. Funding for the "Digitale Knotenpunkte" (digital hubs) is to continue, and rural libraries are to become media literacy centers along Danish lines, together with municipalities. The state's media education plan is to be modernized, and media literacy is to become mandatory in training for teaching and childcare professions. The state commissioner for civic education is to make media literacy a focus.

The Greens want fiber connections in every region by 2025 and any remaining gaps closed quickly. The state funding program is to continue and in the future also cover cities. For mobile service, dead zones are to disappear and carriers would be required to offer national roaming.

The Greens want fast internet everywhere in the state. The state should keep paying to help build it, also in cities. Cell phone service should be good everywhere. Customers should be able to use other carriers' networks too.

The platform calls for fiber and 5G even in remote areas and sees this as a chance for jobs in rural regions. Mobile expansion should aim at good reception for customers of all carriers; to that end the Greens back mandatory "national roaming agreements." Modern mobile standards are to be funded especially along rail lines and transport corridors. The programs "Schulen ans Netz" (schools online) and SH-WLAN (public Wi-Fi) would continue, with higher bandwidth for school connections. Digitalization is to become climate neutral on the basis of renewable energy.

The Greens want every service of the state and municipalities to be available digitally and administrative processes redesigned beyond the requirements of the Online Access Act. The digitalization ministry is to be kept and given more powers. Investment in AI and other future technologies would continue.

The Greens want people to handle all government business online too. The digital ministry should stay and get more tasks. The state parliament should get its own committee for digital topics. The state should keep investing in artificial intelligence.

The platform cites tourism, government and volunteer services as examples, such as booking a time slot at a swimming pool online. State services are to be available digitally while respecting data protection. The state's digitalization program would be updated to bundle all major government digital projects. Responsibilities for digitizing the state administration are to be pooled further, and the state parliament is to get a separate digitalization committee. The special AI fund would continue, and public debate on the ethical limits of AI is to be advanced in the state.

The Greens want to switch the state administration to free and open-source software by the end of the 20th legislative term. Software the state develops itself is to be open to the public. An open data strategy would also make more non-personal data from public bodies accessible.

The Greens want state offices to use free software. Anyone may look at and use free software. The state should also write its own programs and share them with everyone. More government data should be public, but no data about individual people.

The platform names digital sovereignty and green IT as guiding principles; the Greens view the influence of large corporations critically. In-house developments would be published under the principle "Public Money, Public Code," and state employees are to be closely supported during the switch. The open data portal is to be developed further. An open data coordination office in the digitalization ministry and staff units in each ministry would ensure data quality and identify new data sets. At the federal level, the Greens support common standards and funding for open-source projects.

The Greens want all groups of the population to be able to use digital services. To that end, funding for the "Digitale Knotenpunkte" (digital hubs) is to continue, with hubs in every region. Analog options would remain for people who cannot or do not want to use digital services.

The Greens want everyone to be able to use digital services. Every region should have digital hubs. These are places that make it easier to use digital services. People who do not want to go online should still be able to deal with offices offline.

The platform holds that digitalization must be shaped democratically and include everyone. Digital services should be easy to reach and as barrier-free as possible. The state would keep funding the setup and operation of the hubs. The Greens place particular weight on the accessibility of the state's own digital services.

The Greens want to draw up a state strategy for environmentally and climate-friendly information technology. They point to the growing energy and resource demand caused by digitalization.

Computers and data centers need a lot of power and raw materials. So the Greens want a plan for the state. The plan is called Green IT. That means computer technology that is good for the environment.

The strategy is to include guidelines and make the rules more binding. It should also encourage actors outside the state administration to take part. Together with municipalities and the IT industry, an initiative is planned that involves the public and promotes climate-friendly buying and usage habits. The platform cites the state's mid-sized digital industry, open-source scene and renewable energy as good conditions.

The Greens want to bring new data centers specifically to Schleswig-Holstein. Their reasoning is that energy in the north is already climate-neutral.

Data centers need a lot of power. The north has a lot of wind power. So the Greens want new data centers to come to Schleswig-Holstein. The heat from the data centers should be put to use.

A campaign to attract environmentally friendly data centers is planned. The Greens support ecological quality certificates for IT providers. At the federal level they want to push for energy-market rules that make the location more attractive. Waste heat from the facilities is to be used, and smart cooling is to be examined.