What do the parties in Schleswig-Holstein say on digital affairs?

The CDU wants to give all schools a learning management system and a digital classroom for learning at home. Students whose families cannot provide a device are to receive one.

All schools will get an online learning platform. Students can use it to learn at home too. Some families cannot buy a device. Those students will be given one.

The CDU wants to expand schools' digital infrastructure as a high priority and secure its funding for the long term. At the federal level, it will push for a second Digitalpakt (digital pact for schools) that starts in 2025 and becomes permanent.

The CDU wants to keep expanding technology in schools. All schools should get fast internet. The federal government should keep paying for this after 2025. The state and towns should agree on who pays for what.

The CDU wants to keep artificial intelligence a priority of digitalization and expand the state's AI cluster. Small and medium-sized companies are to be able to try out AI applications easily. In the platform's view, data protection must not become an obstacle to innovation.

AI means artificial intelligence. The CDU wants to strongly support AI in the state. Small companies should be able to test AI without risk. There should be a new degree for further training in AI. The CDU says overly strict data protection must not slow new ideas.

The CDU wants to make more public data available because it regards data as a factor of production and a locational advantage. It plans to discuss with business how unused private-sector data could be included as well. Data infrastructure and data skills are to be expanded.

The CDU wants to open up more government data. Companies and researchers should be able to use this data. The technology for data should get better. Students should learn how to handle data. Small companies should get advice on this.

The CDU wants to further develop the state's digital strategy and continue the fiber-optic broadband rollout, especially in rural areas. Artificial intelligence is to remain a priority, and digitalization is to become a guiding principle in all policy areas.

The CDU wants to make the state more digital. There should be fast fiber internet everywhere. This matters most in rural areas. Artificial intelligence should stay an important topic. Schools should teach computer science.

The CDU wants to help all groups in society use digital technology confidently and thereby ease fears about the transition. It plans new services, digital counseling, and better use of data while maintaining data protection.

Some people are afraid of digital change. The CDU wants to help everyone use computers and the internet. There should be new services for this. State counseling should also be available online. Protecting data stays important.

The CDU wants to keep promoting gaming and e-sports as part of youth culture and as an economic factor. It plans an e-sports academy and major events in the state, accompanied by addiction and violence prevention.

The CDU wants to support video games and e-sports. E-sports means people compete against each other in video games. There should be an academy for e-sports. Big events should take place in the state. There should also be protection against addiction.

The CDU wants to fully digitize public administration at every level and make it reachable around the clock. The state administration is to lead the way in using artificial intelligence and base its decisions more strongly on data.

The CDU wants all public offices to work digitally. People should be able to reach them at any time. The offices should also use artificial intelligence. These are computer programs that solve tasks on their own. In-person advice should still be available.

The CDU wants to continue the fiber-optic rollout and achieve complete mobile coverage in the state. The platform regards digital infrastructure as just as important for rural areas as a highway connection, in order to prevent people from moving away.

The CDU wants fast internet across the whole state. Cell phone service should work everywhere too. Places with no fast internet come first. This should make people want to live and work in the countryside.

The CDU wants to develop the state's Green IT strategy further so that digital technology uses less energy and fewer resources. It also backs a rule requiring that phone and laptop batteries be user-replaceable and that spare parts stay available for five years.

Computers and networks need a lot of power. The CDU wants digital technology to be easier on the environment. Data centers should save energy and pass on their heat. People should be able to swap phone and laptop batteries themselves.

The FDP wants to make Schleswig-Holstein a digital model region and make administrative processes fully digital. To that end, written-form requirements would be dropped as a rule, pilot projects funded and municipalities supported with a special program.

The FDP wants public offices to work digitally. People should be able to apply without paper or a signature. The state should give towns money to help with this. Good example projects should get funding.

The FDP wants to create a ministry with clear responsibilities for digitalization. In addition, the state parliament would get its own digitalization committee to pool parliament's digital expertise.

The FDP wants a separate ministry for digital matters. It should steer the government's digital work. The state parliament should also get its own group for this topic.

The FDP wants to continue the fiber rollout so that almost all households can get a gigabit connection by 2025. Mobile dead zones would be closed, 5G networks built and public Wi-Fi expanded. Chinese suppliers such as Huawei and ZTE would be excluded from building the networks.

The FDP wants very fast internet for almost all households by 2025. Cell phone service should also work everywhere. Public offices should offer free Wi-Fi. Companies close to China's government should not help build the networks.

The FDP wants to make the public IT service provider Dataport more competitive and open it to third-party providers and small IT firms. Public applications should be based on open standards and interfaces, and open-source software should be used where it makes economic and technical sense.

Dataport runs the computer systems for public offices. The FDP wants Dataport to become faster and more open. Small IT firms should also be able to get government contracts. Software in public offices should work well together and not depend on one supplier.

The FDP wants to update the state's AI strategy and push the practical use of artificial intelligence through pilot projects. It also plans numerous digital trial projects together with municipalities, universities and the IT industry. The platform sees AI as a major opportunity for research and business in the state.

The FDP wants to support artificial intelligence in the state. The short name is AI. AI means computer programs that learn on their own. The state should test many new digital ideas in projects. Towns, universities and companies should take part.

The FDP wants to set up a data protection cockpit where citizens and businesses can see what data the public administration holds on them and how it is used. It also plans an easy-to-read data protection traffic-light label for public-sector applications and a stronger state data protection center. The platform says trust in how data is handled is essential.

The FDP wants a data protection cockpit. There, people can see what data public offices hold about them. They can also see what the offices use it for. A traffic-light label should show how well an app protects data. This should help people trust digital services.

The FDP wants public offices and services to stay reachable for everyone, including people without suitable devices or technical skills. The administration is to remain available in person, while digital services become easier to use and accessible.

The FDP wants everyone to be able to reach public offices. This should work without a computer and without tech skills. People should still be able to talk to an office in person. Digital services should work well on phones. People with disabilities should be able to use them too.

The FDP wants to continue the fiber-optic rollout and declare it a basic service. Municipalities are also to get support with digitalization, medical care, volunteering, mobility and local development so that rural life stays attractive.

The FDP wants fast fiber internet everywhere. It should count as a basic service. Towns should also get help with doctors and transport. This should keep life in the countryside good.

The FDP wants to turn administrations into service-oriented centers and offer a wide range of electronic government services. Procedures are to become leaner and responsibilities clearer; it does not want to push mergers of local administrative offices or counties.

The FDP wants public offices to offer more online. Forms should be simple and clear. People should see online how far their request has come. Offices and counties should not be merged.

The FDP wants to switch every court and prosecutor's office in the state to electronic case files by the end of the next legislative term. Court hearings by video conference are to be strengthened.

The FDP wants to make the courts digital. Files should no longer be on paper but on computers. This should be done within the next term. Hearings should be possible by video more often.

The Greens want to expand digital equipment in daycare centers and write a state framework for it into the daycare law. This is meant to ease documentation, communication with parents and media education.

Daycare centers should get better digital tools. Then writing things down goes faster. Daycare staff and parents can talk more easily. The state should make a plan for this. The plan should be part of the daycare law.

The Greens want everyone in the state to be able to use digital services and to learn how to deal with media critically. Digital guides are to help people, libraries are to be expanded, and educational institutions are to be better equipped.

The Greens want everyone to be able to use the internet. Helpers will support older people and people with little money. Libraries will become places to learn and try things out. Daycare centers and schools will get enough money and technology for this.

The Greens want fiber connections in every region by 2025 and any remaining gaps closed quickly. The state funding program is to continue and in the future also cover cities. For mobile service, dead zones are to disappear and carriers would be required to offer national roaming.

The Greens want fast internet everywhere in the state. The state should keep paying to help build it, also in cities. Cell phone service should be good everywhere. Customers should be able to use other carriers' networks too.

The Greens want every service of the state and municipalities to be available digitally and administrative processes redesigned beyond the requirements of the Online Access Act. The digitalization ministry is to be kept and given more powers. Investment in AI and other future technologies would continue.

The Greens want people to handle all government business online too. The digital ministry should stay and get more tasks. The state parliament should get its own committee for digital topics. The state should keep investing in artificial intelligence.

The Greens want to switch the state administration to free and open-source software by the end of the 20th legislative term. Software the state develops itself is to be open to the public. An open data strategy would also make more non-personal data from public bodies accessible.

The Greens want state offices to use free software. Anyone may look at and use free software. The state should also write its own programs and share them with everyone. More government data should be public, but no data about individual people.

The Greens want all groups of the population to be able to use digital services. To that end, funding for the "Digitale Knotenpunkte" (digital hubs) is to continue, with hubs in every region. Analog options would remain for people who cannot or do not want to use digital services.

The Greens want everyone to be able to use digital services. Every region should have digital hubs. These are places that make it easier to use digital services. People who do not want to go online should still be able to deal with offices offline.

The Greens want to draw up a state strategy for environmentally and climate-friendly information technology. They point to the growing energy and resource demand caused by digitalization.

Computers and data centers need a lot of power and raw materials. So the Greens want a plan for the state. The plan is called Green IT. That means computer technology that is good for the environment.

The Greens want to bring new data centers specifically to Schleswig-Holstein. Their reasoning is that energy in the north is already climate-neutral.

Data centers need a lot of power. The north has a lot of wind power. So the Greens want new data centers to come to Schleswig-Holstein. The heat from the data centers should be put to use.

The SPD wants to support workers through digital change with further training and stronger employee co-determination. In rural areas it wants to promote coworking spaces, which state and municipal employees should also use.

Work is becoming more digital. The SPD wants to help workers with training. There should be more coworking spaces in rural areas. These are shared offices close to home. This saves people long commutes.

The SPD wants to make digital processing the rule without exception in state administration and change the legal basis to do so. A Chief Digital Officer in the State Chancellery is to coordinate digitalization, while agencies stay reachable in person and in writing.

The SPD wants government offices to work digitally. One person in the State Chancellery should lead this. Each ministry gets such a person too. People should still be able to visit offices or write letters. Experts in citizen offices should help with applications.

The SPD wants the state to run its own digital infrastructure and be independent of private providers. Public IT service providers are to be strengthened, and joint platforms and centers are to be built with Hamburg, the northern German states and Denmark.

The state should have its own digital technology. It should not depend on private companies. The SPD wants to build a public data platform with its neighbors. It should first manage traffic better. Everyone should have access to the digital world.

The SPD wants the state to protect consumers' rights on the internet as well and to make existing law enforceable there. Digital tools used at work, in schools and at universities are to be secured against sexual harassment.

The same rules should apply online as in daily life. The state should protect consumers' rights on the internet. Digital tools for work and school should be safe. Nobody should be sexually harassed there.

The SPD sees digital infrastructure as a responsibility of the state. Together with municipalities, it wants to provide fiber, 5G and free Wi-Fi statewide and to offer everyone a public cloud with office software.

The SPD wants fast internet everywhere in the state. The state and the towns should pay for it. There should be fiber, 5G and free Wi-Fi everywhere. Everyone should also be able to get their own online storage.

The SPD wants to expand media counseling for young people, parents and professionals and to develop media literacy training starting with daycare and elementary school children. The state is also to build active digital youth protection to shield children from online risks.

Children and teenagers use the internet every day. There are dangers there too, such as bullying. The SPD wants to offer more advice about media. Children should learn early how to use media well.

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 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 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 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.