Criticism of the dual role of the planned Digital Agency
Berlin. Criticism has been raised of the planned establishment of a Digital Agency as a special federal authority. The Independent Commission for Digital Policy had recommended that the agency be responsible for both the operation and promotion of digital government and administration as well as being an implementation agency for digital projects. The federal government wants to merge the agencies of the Federal Commissioner for Digital Affairs and the IT planning council into the digital agency. This would create a “mega-authority,” the Federal Association of Medium-Sized Enterprises (BVMW) criticized on Friday in Berlin. In addition, there is a high risk of conflicts of interest. Technical projects could be promoted by the agency at the expense of the operational task of expanding digital administration, the BVMW fears. Norbert Walter-Borjans, the digital policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group, also sees a risk of “conflicts of interest” if the agency takes on “additional tasks”. “The focus must be on the development and expansion of a holistic digital strategy for the 21st century,” he told the newspapers of the Funke media group.
According to the federal government, however, the merger is intended to ensure that both duties can be carried out more effectively. This will lead to a “significant improvement in the digitization of administration”, it said in a draft law. The agency should also bundle digital expertise across the federal government and provide support to other federal ministries. The agency is to be set up under the Federal Ministry of the Interior and headed by the Federal Commissioner for Digital Affairs, currently State Minister of State Dorothee Bär (CSU).
Kritik an Doppelrolle der geplanten Digitalagentur
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