What do the parties in Hesse say on digital affairs?

The AfD wants to strengthen Hesse's data protection commissioner and secure the office's independence. The commissioner should oversee business and public administration alike without instructions and get enough staff and funding to do so. The party also wants to support IT security research.

Everyone should decide about their own data. So the AfD wants to strengthen the data protection commissioner in Hesse. The commissioner should check companies and agencies independently. The office should get enough staff and money. The AfD also wants to fund research on computer security.

The AfD wants to focus mobile network subsidies on rural areas and quickly provide broadband for everyone, over copper lines if necessary. State-funded vouchers are meant to lower connection costs and boost private demand.

Internet in the countryside is often poor. The AfD wants to spend the subsidy money there. Everyone should get good internet quickly. Vouchers from the state should make a connection cheaper.

The AfD wants to allow interference with online content only in cases of serious crimes. Users whose posts are removed by large platforms should be able to turn to independent ombudspersons acting as arbitration bodies. It rejects anonymous state reporting portals.

The AfD wants little to be deleted on the internet. Deleting should only be allowed for serious crimes. Large platforms should pay for arbitration offices. Users can complain there when their posts are deleted.

The AfD wants to standardize administrative procedures and forms on the basis of the Onlinezugangsgesetz (Online Access Act) and handle them fully digitally. This is meant to ease the burden on citizens and municipalities.

The AfD wants government offices to work digitally. Citizens should be able to handle requests fully online. The forms should be the same everywhere. This should save work for citizens and towns.

The AfD wants esports recognized as an official sport. Streamers who live and broadcast in Hesse should no longer need a broadcasting license, so that young creators are not held back.

Esports means competing in computer games. The AfD wants esports to count as a sport. Streamers show live videos on the internet. They should no longer need a broadcasting license in Hesse.

The CDU wants to make the subject 'Digitale Welt' (Digital World) a regular subject in grades 5 and 6 statewide and to strengthen computer science in lower secondary school. From grade 7, children are to be able to learn with a digital device, and schools' technical equipment is to grow.

Grades 5 and 6 everywhere should have the subject Digital World. From grade 7, children should be able to learn with a digital device. Schools should get better Wi-Fi. Experts should take care of the technology.

The CDU wants gigabit-capable connections everywhere in Hesse by 2025 and fiber-optic access everywhere by 2030. Public subsidies are meant to flow only where companies do not build networks themselves, especially in rural areas.

The CDU wants fast internet in all of Hesse. By 2030, fiber should be available everywhere. Fiber is a very fast cable for the internet. Companies should build the networks first. The state pays where companies do not build.

The CDU wants to close the remaining mobile dead zones in Hesse and make 5G available statewide. It plans a new subsidy program for poorly covered areas and shorter permitting procedures.

The CDU wants good cell phone coverage everywhere in Hesse. Dead zones should disappear. The fast 5G network should cover the whole state. Many new cell towers should be built for this. The state pays where building does not pay off for companies.

The CDU wants to expand Hesse's digital ministry into a "ministry of the future" that brings together digitalization, research, and technology. In addition, the state is to test new technologies itself and make digital services accessible to everyone.

Hesse has its own ministry for digital topics. The CDU wants to make it bigger. It should also handle research and technology. The state should try out new technology itself. Everyone should be able to use digital services.

The CDU wants to build up Hesse as a location for digital companies and names Silicon Valley as its model. This includes venture capital with private partners, more data centers, a regulated Web3 environment, and help for small and medium-sized businesses going digital.

The CDU wants to bring more digital companies to Hesse. Young companies should get money more easily. Hesse should get more data centers. These are buildings with many large computers. Small businesses should get advice on going digital.

The CDU wants to expand funding for artificial intelligence and set up a Hessian agency for breakthrough innovations. The state is also to support the creation of a center for applied quantum computing.

The CDU wants to spend more money on artificial intelligence. The state should set up a new agency for big inventions. The agency should be able to give money to young companies. Hesse should also help build very fast quantum computers.

The CDU wants to strengthen IT security in Hesse's public administration and conclude a cybersecurity pact with municipalities. Binding minimum standards are to apply to state agencies. The program sees information security as a precondition for the state and government remaining able to act.

The CDU wants to protect public offices better from online attacks. State offices should have fixed security rules. The state should help towns and cities with this. A joint pact is planned for that.

The CDU wants to roll out electronic case files in the judiciary quickly and make greater use of artificial intelligence as support. A human is always to make the final decision. Citizens are to get easier access to the courts through digital services.

The CDU wants to make courts more digital. Files should be electronic. Artificial intelligence should help with the work. But a human always decides in the end. People should also be able to file requests online.

The CDU wants every dealing with state and municipal authorities to be possible online by 2030 in order to speed up procedures. At the same time, offices are to remain reachable in person and be relocated more widely across the state.

By 2030, people should be able to handle all government business online. This should be faster and easier. But people should still be able to go to the office in person. More offices should move to the countryside.

The CDU wants to make the state administration more digitally self-reliant and secure. The state's own IT provider is to be expanded, specialists trained in-house, and the Hessen3C cyber competence center developed further.

The CDU wants better technology in government offices. The state should train its own computer experts. It should be able to build its own software. A center should protect better against attacks from the internet.

The CDU wants to weigh data protection and data use against each other more evenly. Data protection should not block digitalization projects, and small businesses and associations should face less red tape. At the same time, citizens are to have more say over their data.

The CDU wants to protect data. But it also wants to use data better. Data protection should not always come first. Small firms and clubs should have less paperwork. People should decide more about their own data.

The FDP wants to make government data that does not relate to individuals or companies freely available in machine-readable form. According to the platform, this would bring more transparency and participation and benefit both businesses and the administration.

Government offices hold a lot of data. The FDP wants to make such data free for everyone to use. Data about single people or firms is not included. Companies can plan better with the data. The administration also has less work.

The FDP sees data centers as a locational advantage and wants to enable their growth through faster grid expansion in the Rhine-Main area. Because land is scarce and energy demand is high, new sites should be actively guided by planning. Waste heat from the facilities should be fed into local heating networks.

Data centers are large buildings full of computers. The FDP wants more of them to be built in Hesse. For that, power grids should grow faster. Heat from the data centers should warm nearby homes.

The FDP demands that people control their personal data much as they control property. On social networks, default settings are to offer the highest protection, and users are to actively decide who may see their data. The party also wants to reconcile data protection with technological progress.

The FDP says: My data belongs to me. Everyone should decide about their own data. On social networks, protection should be highest at the start. Users then decide who may see their data.

The FDP wants people to remain able to act anonymously or under a pseudonym on the internet. It rejects sweeping monitoring of private chats. Violations of the law are still to be prosecutable.

The FDP wants this: People may stay anonymous on the internet. Everyone decides whether to give their name. The state should not broadly monitor private chats. Crimes should still be prosecuted.

The FDP wants to give Hesse's digital ministry considerably more responsibilities. Areas such as IT security and digitalization of the administration are to move there from the interior ministry, as is the state's central data processing agency (HZD). In the party's view, the current ministry has too few tasks and too little influence.

Hesse has a ministry for digital matters. The FDP says it has too few tasks. It should take over more tasks from the interior ministry. This includes computer security for the state. It should also steer digital government offices.

For fiber rollout, the FDP relies primarily on private companies and wants to use public money only where rollout is not commercially viable. Gigabit vouchers for households, businesses and institutions are planned for this. By the end of the legislative term, fiber and 5G should be available everywhere in Hesse.

The FDP wants fast internet everywhere in Hesse. Companies should mostly build the lines themselves. The state only helps where it does not pay off for companies. Then people and businesses get a voucher for the connection. The voucher pays part of the cost.

The FDP wants to advance mobile network rollout through faster permits and new technology. Cell sites are to count as approved automatically once a deadline has passed. The party also wants to promote OpenRAN technology and support national roaming organized by the private sector.

The FDP wants better cell phone coverage in Hesse. Offices should decide faster on new cell towers. If an office takes too long, the tower counts as allowed. Applications should be handled digitally. Old towers should stay usable with new software.

The FDP calls for a 6G research center in Hesse where business and academia work together. It also wants to fund communications infrastructure for the Internet of Things and make Hesse a model state for this technology. Municipal services are meant to improve as a result.

The FDP wants a research center for 6G in Hesse. 6G is the next technology for cell phone networks. Companies and researchers should work together there. The FDP also wants to fund networks for connected sensors. Sensors can measure free parking spots or the air, for example.

The FDP wants everyone in Hesse to be able to use a digital identity (eID), for example for payments, health applications and online contracts. The eID is to offer strong data protection, and each person is to decide which data to release.

The FDP wants a digital ID for everyone in Hesse. It is called eID. People can use it to pay and sign contracts online. They can also use it for prescriptions from the doctor. Each person decides which data others may see.

The FDP wants the state, counties, cities and towns to be more closely connected digitally. Under the name "smartHessen," existing smart city and smart region projects would be brought together.

The FDP wants public offices in Hesse to be better connected. The state, counties and cities should work together digitally. The project is called smartHessen. A report every two years should show the progress.

The FDP wants Hesse's public administration to work fully digitally and without paper by 2028. Not only citizens' applications but also the agencies' internal processes are to be digitized and redesigned.

The FDP wants government offices to work without paper. This should happen by 2028. Applying for something should be as easy as ordering online. The work inside the offices should also become digital.

The FDP wants to strengthen Frankfurt's internet exchange and make Hesse Germany's leading location for data centers. In addition, a Hessian data protection seal would let companies demonstrate how they handle data.

The FDP wants more data centers in Hesse. These are big halls with many computers for the internet. The heat from the data centers should be put to use. Companies should be able to get a seal for good data protection.

The FDP wants to create on-demand digital services in rural areas for health care, security, education and retail in order to ensure equal living conditions. Municipalities would get help with their digital strategies.

The FDP wants more digital services in the countryside. For example, doctor visits by video and online marketplaces for local products. This should keep the countryside attractive for young families. Towns should get help with going digital.

The Greens want to speed up the rollout of fiber and mobile networks in Hesse so that digital participation does not depend on income or location. The party sees fast networks in rural areas, too, as part of basic public services.

Everyone in Hesse should have fast internet. This should also be true in the countryside. So the Greens want more fiber lines and better cell phone coverage. The party sees good networks as a basic service.

The Greens want everyone to be able to move safely online and stay in control of their own data. Illegal trade on the internet is to be fought while anonymity for legal use is preserved. The party also wants to counter fake news, hate and incitement online.

The Greens want to make the internet safer. Everyone should control their own data. People who do nothing illegal should be able to stay anonymous. The party wants to act against criminals online. It also wants to act against hate and lies on the internet.

The Greens want to launch a media literacy campaign offering affordable learning opportunities to people of all ages. No one is to be excluded from the digital world, regardless of gender, age, origin or money.

Everyone should be able to use digital media. The Greens want low-cost courses for all ages. Older people should get more help. More women should also work in tech jobs.

The Greens want to promote freely available knowledge, for example through open access, open data and free licenses. Software paid for with public money is to be open under the principle "public money, public code." Hesse's artworks, monuments and archives are to be digitized and made freely accessible online.

Knowledge should be free for everyone. If the state pays for software, its code should be open. The Greens also want to digitize art and old documents. Then everyone can see them online.

The Greens want to modernize the state administration so that it works faster, more efficiently and more transparently. Digital services are to be accessible and easy to use. Smaller municipalities are to get help with digital infrastructure through a "Pakt für die Verwaltung" (pact for public administration).

Public offices should work faster and more simply. Many things should be possible online. The services should be easy to use, also for old and disabled people. Small towns should get help from the state.

In response to growing cyberattacks, the Greens want more training for specialists and more support for Hesse's cybersecurity institutions. At the same time, public research on artificial intelligence is to receive more funding so that Hesse takes a leading position among the German states.

There are more and more attacks on computer systems. The Greens want better training for experts. Hesse should also do more research on artificial intelligence. These are computer programs that learn by themselves. The research should serve people.

The SPD wants to supply all of Hesse with fiber-optic internet and eliminate mobile dead zones. To do so, municipalities are to receive support and permits are to become simpler and faster.

The SPD wants fast internet all over Hesse. There should be fiber-optic lines everywhere. Mobile dead zones should disappear. Permits for cell towers should come faster.

The SPD wants to conduct a fundamental survey of how secure public IT systems are and permanently strengthen the state's ability to fend off cyberattacks. Municipalities in particular are to benefit. Cooperation with other security agencies is also to improve.

The SPD wants to protect the state's computer systems better. The state should spot and stop internet attacks faster. This should also help towns and cities. Citizens should get help with using digital technology.

The SPD wants people to have an overview of and control over their personal data. At the same time, government data is to become freely accessible in order to build trust and benefit researchers and start-ups. The data protection authority is to get more staff for advice.

The SPD wants to protect personal data better. Everyone should know what happens with their data. Government offices should publish their data openly. Personal data stays private. The data protection office should get more staff to advise small companies and clubs.

The SPD wants every government service to be available online by the end of the legislative term. Visiting an office in person is to remain possible but no longer necessary. To that end, signature and written-form requirements are to be largely dropped.

The SPD wants people to do all government paperwork online. This should be done within five years. Anyone who wants can still go to the office in person. A signature should only rarely be needed.