Federal Administration: Details on digital sovereignty requested
Berlin. In its final meeting of the year, the Bundestag’s Digital Agenda Committee heard information from the Federal Government on the current status of the implementation of the digital sovereignty strategy. The federal government’s goal is to make Germany and Europe more independent from technology giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon.
In March 2023, the Federal Cabinet adopted a strategy for the digital sovereignty of Germany and Europe. It contains 45 measures designed to ensure that Germany and Europe can shape digital transformation independently and responsibly.
Specifically, this involves promoting open source solutions, establishing open data spaces, and reducing dependencies on individual providers. In addition, the federal government wants to strengthen research and development in the field of digital technologies and to train more IT specialists.
In the digital agenda committee, the members of parliament wanted to know, among other things, how the federal government planned to counter the market dominance of US companies, how open source projects could be promoted and what measures were planned to strengthen research and development.
The federal government stated that it wanted to rely on cooperation with companies, science and civil society in the implementation of the strategy. In addition, the EU Commission’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) would be used to ensure fair competition in the digital market.
In the future, the Digital Agenda Committee intends to deal with the topic of digital sovereignty in more detail. An expert hearing is planned for the beginning of next year.
Bundesverwaltung: Details zur digitalen Souveränität erfragt
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