SPD on digital affairs

The SPD supports stricter rules on children's and teenagers' access to social media, graded by age. In schools, digital learning tools and media literacy are to be expanded without replacing the relationship between teacher and child.

The SPD wants stricter rules for social media. The rules should depend on a child's age. The platforms should have fixed duties. At school, children should learn more about media.

The aim is a model with protection levels by age and binding rules for platforms. In schools, digital learning materials, media literacy and accessible systems are to keep growing, with media literacy anchored in every subject. Digital tools are meant to ease teachers' workload and allow individual support. The platform names data protection, teaching quality and accessibility as the benchmarks.

The SPD wants the state to develop digital administrative services as centrally as possible and provide them to municipalities. This is meant to relieve cities and towns of implementation work. According to the program, the goals are better service, faster procedures and more transparency.

Local offices should become more digital. The state should develop the software itself. Towns can then simply use it. Citizens should have to give their data only once.

Local administrations are to be connected to fiber-optic networks more quickly. The digital services are to follow the once-only principle, under which citizens have to give their data to the administration just one time. Solutions that have proven themselves in other German states are to be adopted. The SPD wants practical tools that municipalities can actually use.

The SPD wants administrative procedures to be handled fully digitally and wants the state administration to use open-source software in place of non-European programs. Artificial intelligence should assist but not make decisions in individual cases; the party rejects software such as Palantir.

The SPD wants public office procedures to be fully digital. This covers everything from the application to the decision. The state should use open-source software. With open-source software, anyone can look at the program code. The SPD does not want programs like Palantir.

The platform justifies the move to open source with cyberattacks and the goal of European data sovereignty, and sees it as an opportunity for local IT companies. The state is to get better at preventing, detecting and handling cyber incidents and help municipalities protect their IT. A platform with uniform modules and binding standards is meant to cut costs and avoid stand-alone solutions. For AI, transparency, data protection and legal clarity are the benchmarks. Digital services are to be offered where they make sense, while in-person advice remains available.