SSW on digital affairs

The SSW wants to add rules for digital teaching to the school act and include digital devices in free learning materials. Media educators and community media are to promote media literacy.

Schools work more and more with computers. The SSW wants clear rules for this in the school law. Students should get tablets or laptops for free. Experts should teach how to use media well.

The school act is to be amended to include a rulebook for digital learning. Free learning materials means schools provide materials at no cost; this is to cover devices in the future. The SSW calls for a targeted drive to recruit trained media educators for education teams. Public-access TV channels and independent radio stations are to get adequate funding for media literacy programs.

The SSW counts fast internet as a basic public service and wants a legal right to it. The fiber optic rollout should be pushed forward, aiming for statewide coverage by 2028. The party sees large gaps remaining, especially in rural areas.

The SSW wants fast internet for everyone. People should have a right to it. By 2028 there should be fiber optic everywhere. Fiber optic is a very fast internet line. The federal government should help towns with the rollout.

The federal government should keep supporting the rollout in the coming years and help municipalities find local solutions. The platform calls fast internet a decisive factor in whether communities remain viable as places to live and do business. It justifies the expansion with the growing digitalization of the economy and society.

The SSW wants every dealing with public authorities to be possible online as well. People should remain able to encrypt private data and communication, and net neutrality should be preserved.

The SSW wants people to handle all government paperwork online too. People may keep encrypting private data. That means strangers cannot read it. All data on the internet should be treated the same.

The federal government, the state and municipalities are to make digital access possible for all administrative matters. According to the platform, the right to decide about one's own data must not be undermined. The SSW defines net neutrality as data transmission without discrimination. The platform regards equal digital opportunity as a condition for innovation and personal development.

The SSW wants administrative processes at all levels of government to be largely digitalized in order to improve service and transparency. Handling of personal data for public tasks is not to be handed over to private actors.

Government offices should do more online. That should make service better. People's data must stay protected. Private companies should not handle this data for the government.

Digitalization of public administration is to cover the federal, state and local levels. The SSW insists that data protection must not be neglected in the process. Collecting, processing and using personal data for public tasks is to remain a government responsibility. The platform counts reliable data protection as part of basic digital public services.