What do the parties in Rhineland-Palatinate say on digital affairs?

The AfD wants to create a central digital platform for the skilled trades in the state. Businesses would upload documents only once and forward them to every authority involved. This is meant to save them paperwork, time and money.

The AfD wants an online platform for craft businesses. Businesses upload their papers there only once. Then they send them to the offices with one click. This means less paperwork for craft workers.

The AfD wants to actively promote artificial intelligence in the state and make Kaiserslautern Germany's AI hub. The technical university there would get more money for AI. The platform argues that AI boosts productivity and that Germany must not miss out on the development.

The AfD wants to support artificial intelligence. These are computer programs that learn by themselves. Kaiserslautern should become the main AI center in Germany. The university there should get more money.

The AfD wants to launch a state program that closes gaps in mobile coverage and provides fast internet everywhere. This is meant to help businesses, make working from home easier and make rural areas more attractive.

Some places have no cell phone signal. Some places have slow internet. The AfD wants to change that with a program. The whole state should get fast internet. This helps companies and people in the countryside.

The AfD wants to simplify administrative processes in municipalities so they can be handled fully digitally. A right to non-digital access to public offices is to remain. In addition, cooperation between municipalities is to be strengthened through simpler rules and funding.

Many public offices still work with paper. The AfD wants people to be able to apply from home on a computer. People who prefer it should still be able to go to the office without a computer. Towns should also be able to work together more easily.

The CDU wants to better protect municipalities, state institutions and utilities against cyberattacks. It plans statewide IT security advice, binding standards and more digital specialists in the police.

Hackers attack towns and utilities more and more often. The CDU wants to protect them better. There should be fixed rules for IT security. The police should get experts for online crime. Power and water should be especially safe.

The CDU wants to make Rhineland-Palatinate a location for data centers, which it counts as critical infrastructure. It also relies on digital traffic management using artificial intelligence and on open data platforms.

The CDU wants more data centers in the state. These are big buildings with many computers. They should waste little power and pass on their heat. Computers should also guide traffic. This should mean fewer traffic jams.

The CDU wants fast internet and mobile coverage across the state and plans a binding timetable for it. Training and accessible services are meant to ensure everyone can take part in digital life.

The CDU wants fast internet in every village. There should be a fixed timetable for this. People should be able to learn how to use the internet. Courses could take place in libraries, for example. The state's online services should be easy for everyone to use.

The CDU wants all important dealings with authorities to be possible online and plans a statewide service portal with a digital mailbox. In-person advice is to remain available alongside it.

The CDU wants people to handle government business online. There should be one website for the whole state. Everyone gets a digital mailbox there. People should only have to give their data once. In-person help should still exist.

The Greens want every household and business in urban and rural areas to have fiber internet and reliable mobile coverage, with 5G as the statewide standard. Where companies do not build networks on their own, the state would continue targeted subsidies. According to the platform, digital access should not depend on income or location.

The Greens want fast internet for everyone. Fiber and good cell service should reach every place. Sometimes companies do not build the network on their own. Then the state should help pay for it.

The Greens want to make the state's digital infrastructure more independent and resilient. They rely on open source, independent cloud services and open standards to reduce dependence on large international tech companies and to safeguard data protection. A state open-source strategy would define responsibilities and goals.

The Greens want the state to be more independent with its computers. It should rely less on big tech companies. So the state should use open software. With open software, anyone can see the program code.

The Greens want all government services to be available centrally and, where possible, digitally. To that end, the state's service portal is to be strengthened, electronic files introduced everywhere, and a shared IT infrastructure built for the state and municipalities.

The Greens want people to handle government matters online. There should be one portal for everything. The services should be barrier-free and in several languages. Offices should work with digital files.

The Greens want above all to enable children and teenagers to use digital media in a self-determined and critical way, while also creating safeguards. At the federal level, platforms are to face stronger obligations and effective age checks are to be introduced.

Children should learn to use the internet well. For the Greens, a phone ban alone is not enough. Platforms like Instagram should check users' age. There should be networks against sexual violence online.

The Greens want to equip schools with digital infrastructure, devices and technical support and aim for free digital learning materials. Instead of blanket cell phone bans, students are to learn to deal critically with media and AI.

Schools should get good technology and devices. There should be help when problems come up. Teachers should be trained to use digital tools. Children should learn to spot fakes online. The Greens do not want a general phone ban.

The SPD wants to make all social benefits available online step by step and introduce a digital Soziallotse (social benefits guide) with an AI assistant. In-person advice and local service points are to remain so that no one is left out.

The SPD wants people to apply for all social benefits online. A digital guide should give advice. It is a computer program with artificial intelligence. In-person advice should still exist.

The SPD wants all administrative services in Rhineland-Palatinate to be usable digitally in the future, from application to decision. Data should only have to be provided once; there are to be alternatives for people without digital access.

The SPD wants to offer all government office services digitally. People should be able to apply entirely online. They only have to give their data once. Anyone who cannot do this digitally gets another way.

The SPD wants to make public administration less dependent on vendors of proprietary software. To do so, it relies on sovereign cloud structures and an open-source strategy under which software developed by the state is also released under free licenses.

The SPD wants the state to stay independent in its computer systems. Government offices should use more free software. Free software means anyone can see the program code. Software the state develops should also be free.

The SPD wants to use artificial intelligence in public administration to simplify processes and ease the workload of staff, with humans remaining responsible. It also wants to promote open data and secure high-performance networks statewide through its gigabit strategy and mobile coverage pact.

The SPD wants to use artificial intelligence in government offices. This should make work easier. But people should remain responsible. There should also be fast internet and good cell coverage everywhere.

The SPD wants to digitize the state administration end to end and review regulations systematically. The requirement for written, signed paper forms is to be dropped in many procedures or replaced by electronic options. Artificial intelligence is meant to ease the workload of staff.

The SPD wants to make state offices more digital. Many requests should work without a signature on paper. Programs with artificial intelligence should help the staff. Rules should become simpler.