What do the parties in Bremen say on digital affairs?

The CDU wants to digitalize the ports of Bremen and automate them more. It expects higher productivity, more cargo, and additional jobs behind the quay as a result.

The CDU wants to make the ports more digital. Machines should do more of the work themselves. The computer systems in the port should work together better. Workers should get training for this.

The CDU wants to create a separate government department for digitalization in the next legislative term. A central, independent unit is to plan, steer, and carry out the digitalization of the administration.

The CDU wants to create a separate department for digital matters. It should plan and guide the digital work of government offices. Bremen should lead in Germany in this area. The offices should work together better.

The CDU wants to introduce a digital citizen service through which all government services are available online around the clock. Printed forms, waiting numbers, and correspondence by mail are to be eliminated.

The CDU wants to offer all government services online. Examples are parental allowance, housing benefit, or a new ID card. Citizens should be able to do this at any time. No one should have to print forms or wait at an office.

The CDU wants to do away with paper files in all of Bremen's government agencies except for unavoidable exceptions and to enforce the electronic record-keeping already required by law. Invoices are to be handled digitally from start to finish.

Many offices in Bremen still work with paper files. The CDU wants to end this. All files should be digital. Offices should also handle invoices only digitally. Good ideas from staff should win a prize.

The CDU wants to make Bremen a leading location for artificial intelligence in Germany. To that end, research, training of skilled workers and support for small and medium-sized businesses are to be expanded. In the program's view, data protection must not stand in the way of innovation.

The CDU wants Bremen to be strong in artificial intelligence. These are computer programs that learn on their own. There should be more research and more experts. Small companies should get help. Data protection should not slow down new ideas.

The CDU wants to make the state a pioneer in data and open up public data widely. The program treats data as a factor of production and a competitive advantage from which new business models should emerge.

The CDU wants to open government data to everyone. This means data on traffic, climate and maps, for example. Data about individual people is not included. Companies should use the data for new business ideas.

The CDU wants to use artificial intelligence across the board in routine government procedures. This is meant to make public offices more efficient and more citizen-friendly.

The CDU wants to use smart computer programs in public offices. The programs should do simple tasks on their own. This should make the offices faster. It should help people.

The CDU wants to close the remaining gaps in high-performance internet connections for businesses, private households and educational institutions. The program treats broadband as a public infrastructure task like roads or utility lines.

The CDU wants fast internet everywhere. This applies to companies, homes and schools. The state should take care of it like it does roads. Schools should get good Wi-Fi in classrooms.

The FDP wants to set up an AI cluster at Bremen's universities and also create a cybersecurity cluster. Both are meant to connect academia, business, and public agencies and strengthen Bremen as a location for these technologies.

AI is short for artificial intelligence. These are computer programs that learn by themselves. The FDP wants to strengthen AI research in Bremen. Universities and companies should work together more closely. The same goes for protection against attacks from the internet.

The FDP wants contact with government offices to run digitally through a citizen account. Internal agency workflows are also to be digital from end to end and automated as far as possible. In the medium term, paper-based procedures would be dropped entirely to avoid duplicate work.

The FDP wants people to handle all official business online. There should be a digital citizen account for this. The offices themselves should also work without paper. Later, the old paper methods should end.

The FDP wants agencies to share existing data with each other more easily so that citizens and businesses do not have to submit it repeatedly. Those affected would have to approve each transfer for a specific purpose. The platform also calls for uniform digital interfaces with public offices.

Public offices should share data with each other more easily. Then people do not have to give the same information again. People should agree first. There should also be the same digital access points for all offices.

The FDP wants to repeal the 2022 law that assigns application development for Bremen's agencies exclusively to the IT provider Dataport. Instead, public offices would work more closely with digital companies from Bremen and Bremerhaven. This is meant to secure local jobs.

A law lets only one company build software for Bremen's public offices. The company is called Dataport and is based in Kiel. The FDP wants to end this law. Companies from Bremen and Bremerhaven should be able to get contracts too.

The FDP wants at least 90 percent of households and businesses in the state to have fiber to the home by 2030. Public Wi-Fi hotspots are also to be set up in city buildings, on public squares, and in public transit. The platform treats fast internet as a precondition for digital innovation.

The FDP wants fast internet for almost everyone. By 2030, 90 percent of homes and companies should have fiber. Fiber is a very fast internet line. There should also be more free Wi-Fi, including in buses and trains.

The FDP wants to expand the unit investigating cybercrime in both staff and technology. Networks and IT systems in the state are to be protected against sabotage and hacking according to a recognized security standard.

There is more and more crime on the internet. The FDP wants more experts for this in the police. The police should get modern technology. The computer systems of the cities should also be better protected.

The FDP wants people to be able to see the data stored about them, including raw data held by companies. Private addresses from the residents' register should only be released when someone proves a special interest.

Everyone should be able to see what data is stored about them. This should also apply to companies. Anyone asking an office for another person's address should need a good reason. The office should tell the person concerned about it.

The FDP commits to a right to anonymity online and in public spaces and to a right to encryption. It rejects camera surveillance without cause, blanket data retention, a real-name requirement and so-called state trojans.

The FDP wants people to be able to stay anonymous online and outdoors. The state should not watch people without a reason. Nobody should have to use their real name online. People should be allowed to encrypt their messages.

The FDP wants to advance the digitalization of the justice system and make digital communication the norm. By the end of the next legislative term, all courts and prosecutors' offices in Bremen are to work with electronic files.

The FDP wants to make the justice system digital. Courts should keep their files on computers. This should be done by the end of the next term. Online hearings should also be possible more often.

The FDP favors more digitalization in medicine to ease the workload of staff. It welcomes digital prescriptions, digital patient records and the digitalization of health insurers.

The FDP wants more digital technology in medicine. Programs should fill in forms automatically. That saves staff work. The FDP also likes digital prescriptions and digital patient records.

The Greens want to promote digital and media literacy from daycare to old age and anchor it across all government departments. In the program's view, handling media critically and safely is now a prerequisite for staying informed, participating and taking part in society.

Many things happen online today. The Greens want everyone to be able to use media well. This should apply to children and to older people too. Schools should prepare young people for topics like fake news. There should also be programs outside of school.

The Greens want to offer more services of the state and its two cities online and to simplify administrative procedures. Citizen services are to be built around users' needs and offer appointments within two weeks.

The Greens want to put more government services online. People should have to fill out fewer forms. You should get an appointment within two weeks. Offices should write clearly and in several languages.

The Greens want to equip public agencies with open-source software wherever possible and make more non-personal data publicly available. One reason given is a critical view of the influence of large corporations. The state is also to inform the public more clearly and openly.

The Greens want government offices to use open-source software. That is software whose code anyone can look at. Government data that is not about individual people should be public. Forms should also come in plain language.

The Greens want an IT security strategy for the state of Bremen that takes threats from cybercrime into account. In addition, a "responsible disclosure" program is to be created through which security flaws in government IT can be reported with legal certainty. In the Greens' view, finding and reporting such flaws should not be a crime.

The Greens want to make government computers safer. There should be a plan for the state of Bremen. People should be able to report security gaps. A safe reporting platform is planned for this. Anyone who reports a gap should not be punished.

The Greens want to review how well digitalization support for small and mid-sized companies works and adjust it quickly where needed. According to the platform, these firms often lack the staff, time and money to digitize their processes.

Small firms often have little time and money for going digital. The Greens want to check the help for this. If needed, the help should get better fast. More firms should learn about the help.

The Greens want to quickly draw up a digitalization strategy for the ports and carry it out together with businesses. The platform justifies this with the lead that Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg have gained. At the same time, workers are to gain digital skills to secure their career prospects.

The Greens want a plan for more digital technology in the ports. Other ports like Rotterdam or Hamburg are already ahead. The government and companies should carry out the plan together. Workers should learn how to use digital tools. This should keep their job chances good.

The Left sees the internet as a basic right and wants freely accessible Wi-Fi in public spaces. The rollout of 5G and fiber is to speed up without neglecting disadvantaged neighborhoods.

The Left wants free Wi-Fi in public places. That way everyone can go online, even with little money. Fast internet should be available everywhere, including poorer neighborhoods. Local trains should have Wi-Fi.

The Left wants to create a fund that helps people with low incomes buy digital devices. Education on digital skills and data protection is to be supported in order to narrow the digital divide.

Some people cannot afford a computer or a phone. The Left wants to help them with money from a fund. There should be courses on using digital technology. All classrooms should get Wi-Fi.

The Left wants dealings with government offices to be possible online and fax machines abolished in the administration. Software built with public money should be freely available as open source, and the administration should become less dependent on Microsoft products.

The Left wants people to be able to reach government offices online. Offices should send each other emails instead of faxes. Software paid for by the state should be free for all to use. The administration should depend less on big software companies.

The Left rejects upload filters, data retention and the EU's planned chat control. It wants to anchor net neutrality in law through a Bundesrat initiative and strengthen the state data protection authority.

The Left is against storing everyone's connection data. It is also against scanning private chats. On the internet, all data should travel at the same speed. This should be written into law. Bremen's data protection office should become stronger.

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 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.

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 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 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 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 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.

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.