SPD on digital affairs

The SPD wants to help companies find and train workers with IT skills. Education capacity is to grow, and universities are to work more closely with the dual vocational training system. The program sees a growing shortage of such workers as digitalization advances.

Many companies need people who know about computers. There are too few of them. The SPD wants more places for training and further education. Universities and companies should work together more closely.

The program calls support for recruiting and training IT specialists a key task of Bremen's policy. The SPD regards digitalization as a precondition for competitiveness and for companies moving away from fossil energy. Companies in both cities are also to receive help with digitalizing their business processes.

The SPD wants to make Bremen a model region for the 6G mobile standard and keep it at the forefront of digital network expansion. The state's AI strategy is meant to move research results into business more quickly. Public administration is also to work more digitally, for example with building applications.

Bremen should have very good internet and mobile networks. The SPD wants to test the new 6G technology early in Bremen. Companies should be able to use artificial intelligence from research. Public offices should work digitally. People should be able to file building applications fully online.

According to the program, gaps in fiber-optic and 5G coverage are currently being closed; the SPD wants early experience with 6G and expects it to spur a smart city strategy. The state's academic strengths in artificial intelligence are to be applied more widely in business. As an urgent step in administration, the program names fully digital building applications that work in practice. Small and medium-sized software companies from Bremen are not to face structural disadvantages in public contracts.

The SPD wants to connect every commercial area in Bremen to the broadband network. It also wants comprehensive infrastructure for the 5G and 6G mobile standards to be built as quickly as possible.

The SPD wants fast internet in all commercial areas in Bremen. The mobile network should also get better. For this, the 5G and 6G networks should be expanded.

The platform treats digitalization as an important part of land policy. The goal is high-quality digital standards in commercial areas. The rollout of fifth- and sixth-generation mobile networks is to move ahead as fast as possible.

The SPD wants to establish Bremen as a leading location for artificial intelligence. It plans to fund top-level research and push its use in business.

The SPD wants Bremen to be strong in artificial intelligence. This is called AI for short. AI means computer programs that learn by themselves. Research on AI should get money. Companies should use the results.

The platform calls artificial intelligence a cornerstone of its science policy. The state's existing AI strategy is to be carried out and developed further in a targeted way. Besides research, the focus is on commercial application. The exchange between science, business, culture, and politics is also to be strengthened and used for transformation and sustainable development.

The SPD wants to expand legally binding digital communication between the courts and the public and enable video calls at court filing offices. Justice staff are to receive mobile devices and be able to work from home.

The justice system should become more digital. People should be able to write to courts online in a secure way. Some offices should offer video calls. Staff should also be able to work from home.

The citizen accounts of the states' administrative portals are to be connected to the justice system's technical infrastructure. Video conferencing is planned at the court filing offices (Rechtsantragstellen) to lower barriers, especially for people in distress. As electronic case files are rolled out, all staff are to receive mobile work devices. The platform specifically mentions mid-level staff, who should be able to work from home; this is meant to keep the justice system attractive as an employer.

The SPD wants to continue existing projects for older people's digital participation and consolidate them into one permanent system. A focus is on disadvantaged neighborhoods, where neighborhood helpers are also to work as digital guides.

Many older people use the internet. Others are not yet familiar with it. The SPD wants to help them. Advice and laptop loans should continue. In poorer neighborhoods, local helpers should explain the internet.

The platform argues that computers and the internet enable contact and are becoming more important in home care, for example through video consultations and digital care applications. Advice services, laptop lending and the Digitalambulanzen network are described as proven and are to be developed further. The SPD considers older people in disadvantaged neighborhoods to be more digitally left behind. Digital guides are to be deployed there, for example in the service centers.

The SPD wants to make digital sovereignty the guiding principle of the administration, relying on open source and open standards. Paper files are to end, and encryption and IT security are to become the default.

The administration should depend less on outside companies for computers and programs. The SPD wants to use open software for this. That is software whose code anyone can look at. Paper files should end. Messages should always be securely encrypted.

"Digital First" is to become the rule, with the electronic file as the authoritative record. The Bremen-based coordination office for IT standards (KoSIT) is to be strengthened; end-to-end encryption should be standard in all communication, and security should be built into IT systems from the start. Bremen wants to be among the first states to use the dPhoenix suite for a sovereign government workplace and to expand its role in the IT Planning Council. The party will examine giving open source priority in tenders, with a duty to justify not choosing it, and releasing software developed by the administration under free licenses. Regional IT providers are to be included in nationwide projects, and mobile work with remote signatures should become possible.

The SPD wants to provide administrative services digitally, based on secure electronic identities. Information should be collected only once, and some services should arrive without any application.

People should be able to deal with public offices online. They can use the online ID card for that. They should give each piece of information only once. Some services should come without an application. Citizens and companies should get a simple account.

The basis is the online ID card and the Smart-eID on a smartphone. Under the "once only" principle, data are to be exchanged between authorities through a network of all registers instead of citizens submitting them repeatedly. Application-free procedures are to be introduced as a new service, along with partnerships with sectors that have widely used online services, such as banks and savings banks, following the Scandinavian and Baltic model. A nationally compatible user account and the business account developed with Bavaria are to serve as the gateway to the administration. Messages are to be secured through the OSCI standard, and important digital documents stored long-term in a form that holds up as evidence.