Bitkom President Achim Berg explains
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 9:26 am
digitization billions from Brussels
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin today to present her with the Commission's assessment of the German recovery and resilience plan. In total, the EU is making 750 billion euros available to the countries, with around 26 billion euros to go to Germany. More than half of this is available for digitization measures and digital technologies, which are to be invested primarily in the digitization of public administration.
"Europe has rarely been so united, so pragmatic and so quick as when it made billions iran gambling data available to deal with the Corona crisis. The funds offer a historic opportunity to accelerate digitization in Germany too. Experience during the pandemic has clearly shown that digitization in Germany must be driven forward both quickly and sustainably. It cannot be that in 2021, for example, employees of health authorities and administrations cannot work from home all the time . The German recovery and resilience plan has what it takes to become a blueprint for future digitization programs, including national ones. On the one hand, it does not rely on a scattergun approach; instead, the funds are invested in a targeted manner, especially in the digitization of public administration. On the other hand, the money flows in a results-oriented manner and therefore only if the self-imposed goals are achieved.
The German recovery and resilience plan is a real digitization plan, with more than half of the funds to be used for measures that contribute to digital change. The target value set by the EU is significantly lower at 20 percent digitization. In order for the implementation to be a success, we must not simply transfer existing, analogue processes one-to-one into the digital world. Digitization is more than hardware and software; digitization is above all a mindset. On the other hand, we should make sure that we really think ahead when it comes to digitizing administration - and that means getting startups and innovative medium-sized companies on board and letting them have a say in the implementation."
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin today to present her with the Commission's assessment of the German recovery and resilience plan. In total, the EU is making 750 billion euros available to the countries, with around 26 billion euros to go to Germany. More than half of this is available for digitization measures and digital technologies, which are to be invested primarily in the digitization of public administration.
"Europe has rarely been so united, so pragmatic and so quick as when it made billions iran gambling data available to deal with the Corona crisis. The funds offer a historic opportunity to accelerate digitization in Germany too. Experience during the pandemic has clearly shown that digitization in Germany must be driven forward both quickly and sustainably. It cannot be that in 2021, for example, employees of health authorities and administrations cannot work from home all the time . The German recovery and resilience plan has what it takes to become a blueprint for future digitization programs, including national ones. On the one hand, it does not rely on a scattergun approach; instead, the funds are invested in a targeted manner, especially in the digitization of public administration. On the other hand, the money flows in a results-oriented manner and therefore only if the self-imposed goals are achieved.
The German recovery and resilience plan is a real digitization plan, with more than half of the funds to be used for measures that contribute to digital change. The target value set by the EU is significantly lower at 20 percent digitization. In order for the implementation to be a success, we must not simply transfer existing, analogue processes one-to-one into the digital world. Digitization is more than hardware and software; digitization is above all a mindset. On the other hand, we should make sure that we really think ahead when it comes to digitizing administration - and that means getting startups and innovative medium-sized companies on board and letting them have a say in the implementation."