Digital Agenda 2014–2017
The Digital Agenda 2014–2017 is a paper from the German Federal Government from 2014 that contains declarations of intent on network policy issues that were first included in the 2013 coalition agreement . The Digital Agenda was published on August 23, 2014; it is jointly responsible for the interior, economic and transport departments of the federal government. On the part of the German Bundestag , it is flanked by the Digital Agenda Committee .
content
The digital agenda formulates “principles” of “ digital policy ” from which development opportunities for individual policy fields are derived ( digital infrastructure , digital world , economy, public administration, digital participation, education, European and international development).
background
The European Union had already set out its digital strategy in 2010 in the Digital Agenda for Europe - Driving European growth digitally (COM (2010) 245).
The background to the Digital Agenda at national level was primarily the Internet and Digital Society Enquete Commission , which existed from 2010 to 2013 and had made recommendations on further political developments in its final report.
From a technical point of view, u. a. to regulate the distribution of the terrestrially broadcast radio frequencies, which are to be re-allocated as part of the so-called digital dividend II by switching off DVB-T television channels (channels 49 to 60) in Germany by 2017 at the latest. The Federal Network Agency is responsible for the implementation.
criticism
The digital agenda met with criticism from the network policy side. In the blog Netzpolitik.org , the journalist Lorenz Matzat spoke of a “null text” that was also “ten years too late”. Falk Steiner commented on Heise online that the digital agenda is “primarily” about “an inventory of the problem situation and the possibilities that could arise in the room. Only a few of the problems are specifically provided with proposed solutions. Some of the ideas in it are even mutually exclusive - such as more anonymity and the desire for irrefutable prosecution. ”He also criticized the fragmentation of tasks between three ministries (interior, economy, transport) and left the Chancellor up to“ but again to think whether a single Internet minister would not be a better choice in the end than the three who today embarrassed themselves with empty phrases. "
Web links
- Digital Agenda 2014–2017. Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, 2014, accessed on August 5, 2019 .
- Information from the Federal Government: Legislature Report Digital Agenda 2014 to 2017. BT-Drs. 18/12130. German Bundestag, April 27, 2017, accessed May 30, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Falk Steiner: Digital Agenda: Federal Government presents specifications for the digital society . In: Heise online. August 23, 2014. Accessed March 22, 2015.
- ↑ Digital Agenda for Europe website (ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda, English)
- ↑ Göttrik Wewer, et al .: Digital Agenda 2013–2017. Network policy in the new German Bundestag. (No longer available online.) German Institute for Trust and Security on the Internet , Hamburg, November 7, 2013, archived from the original on October 30, 2014 ; accessed on October 30, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Thorsten Neuhetzki: 700 MHz DVB-T frequency auction. That is what the BNetzA is planning. teltarif.de, October 24, 2014, accessed October 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Markus Wilmsmann: Digital dividend 2nd Federal Network Agency wants to auction frequencies as early as 2015. eventelevator.de, June 24, 2013, accessed October 30, 2014 .
- ↑ Lorenz Matzat: Comment: The digital agenda has nothing to say about the future of work . Netzpolitik.org. August 25, 2014. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
- ↑ Falk Steiner: Commentary on the Digital Agenda: Empty Phrases Instead of Political Decisions . Heise Online. August 20, 2014. Accessed March 22, 2015.
