Digital summit

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The Digital Summit ( national IT summit until 2016 ) is a congress organized annually by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy since 2006, which, together with its annual process, serves as a central platform for shaping digitization and the digital transformation of business, state and society in to serve the Federal Republic of Germany .

The summit process

The digital summit takes up the central fields of action of the digital transformation in ten thematic platforms. In these platforms and their focus groups, representatives from business, science and society develop projects, events and initiatives during the year that are intended to advance digitization in business and society. At the summit, the results of the work will be presented, trends will be presented and digital policy challenges and solutions will be discussed.

Platform 1: Digital networks and mobility

Platform 2: Innovative digitization of the economy

Platform 3: Industry 4.0

Platform 4: Learning Systems

Platform 5: Digital working world

Platform 6: Digital administration and public IT

Platform 7: Learning, Research, Knowledge

Platform 8: Culture and Media

Platform 9: Security, protection and trust for society and the economy

Platform 10: Consumer Policy in the Digital World

Chronology of the digital summits (currently until 2006)

2020 in Jena

The 14th Digital Summit will take place in Jena in 2020 .

2019 in Dortmund

The 13th summit took place on October 28 and 29, 2019 in Dortmund . The focus was on digital platforms in Germany and Europe and the creation of framework conditions for promoting digital business models in the platform economy . Under the motto "PLATFORM THE FUTURE", the so-called "Dortmund Declaration" addressed the following goals:

The focus of this digital summit was the GAIA-X project presented by Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier , the development of a networked European data infrastructure of the next generation. The chances of success of this initiative are largely viewed with skepticism in the media and the specialist public.

2018 in Nuremberg

The 12th summit took place on December 3 and 4, 2018 in Nuremberg with 1,100 representatives from the fields of politics, business, science, trade unions and society. The main topic was " Artificial intelligence - a key for growth and prosperity". From the political arena , Federal Economics Minister Peter Altmaier , Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel , Research Minister Anja Karliczek , Justice Minister Katarina Barley , Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer and Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder took part in the congress. The participants discussed the options for implementing the federal government's AI strategy. The aim of the federal government for artificial intelligence is to make Germany and Europe a leading location for AI and thus ensure Germany's competitiveness. Christiane Woopen , the spokeswoman for the Federal Government's Data Ethics Commission , pointed out in this context that the use of AI must be made ethical.

2017 in Ludwigshafen

The 11th summit took place on June 12 and 13, 2017 in Ludwigshafen in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region for the first time under the name of Digital Summit. The motto was "live better networked".

2016 in Saarbrücken

The 10th summit took place on November 16 and 17, 2016 in Saarbrücken . The motto was "Learning and doing in the digital world".

2015 in Berlin

The 9th summit took place on November 19th in Berlin . The motto was "Shaping the digital future - innovative_safe_ high-performance".

2014 in Hamburg

The 8th summit took place on October 21, 2014 in Hamburg . The motto was "Working and living in the digital world - together.innovative.self-determined".

2012 in Essen

The 7th summit took place on November 13, 2012 in the ThyssenKrupp Quarter in Essen .

2011 in Munich

The 6th summit took place on December 6th, 2011 in the Bavarian capital of Munich . The motto of the summit was “smart. mobile. networked ". The topics of the working groups and the discussions in the four forums “From the Social Web to the Business Web”, “Intelligent Networks and Technologies”, “ Cybersecurity ” and “ Digital World ” dealt mainly with the question of possible uses and expansion capabilities of current infrastructure and Internet offers . As in previous years, the IT summit blog conducted interviews and made recordings of the events, which are available online.

2010 in Dresden

The 5th summit took place on December 7, 2010 in Dresden . One of the topics was the comparison of Germany with other locations for information technology . According to a study presented by the Federal Ministry of Economics in 2009, Germany took 7th place with 59 percent of the maximum output behind South Korea , the United States, Japan , Denmark , Great Britain and Sweden . Further topics were data protection and data security as well as the demand of the IT industry for tax subsidies for research expenditure.

2009 in Stuttgart

The 4th summit took place on December 8, 2009 in Stuttgart .

2008 in Darmstadt

The 3rd summit took place on November 20, 2008 in Darmstadt . Political demands as part of the so-called Darmstadt Declaration are as follows:

  • world-leading ICT infrastructures
  • a globally competitive software and service industry
  • a modern and efficient public administration
  • international leading position in research
  • excellent skilled workforce
  • strong middle class.

The Green IT Action Plan is a political focus of the summit program and one of its results . There are u. a. defined the following goals: developing green ICT solutions in Germany, using ICT in an energy-efficient and resource-saving way, national competence network Green IT.

2007 in Hanover

The 2nd summit on December 10, 2007 with 500 participants in Hanover was dominated by the appointment of Hans Bernhard Beus as the Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology, also known as the “Federal CIO ”. This is to control the IT activities of the federal government centrally. Another central topic of the summit was the shortage of IT specialists and the discussion of a relaxation of the immigration law to make it easier to recruit specialists from abroad. The federal government took up the criticism of the immigration policy in the "Meseberg Decisions" on August 23, 2007 and eased the conditions for the immigration of highly qualified people with the action plan passed in the cabinet on July 16, 2008.

At the second summit, the Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar was invited and the aspect of citizen participation was taken into account at least in a passive form, in which the event could partly be followed on the Internet and an open IT summit blog was initiated. Nevertheless, there was criticism here too. Business was criticized for the fact that hardly anything tangible had happened since the first summit. The installation of a federal CIO was also viewed critically, as little authority was assigned to him.

2006 in Potsdam

The first summit took place on December 12, 2006 at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam . The Federal Government cited the increasing importance of the ICT industry for the German economy and the necessary strengthening of this sector in the context of globalization as the motivation for convening this summit . The summit was attended by 220 high-ranking representatives from politics (including Chancellor Angela Merkel ), business and science . As a result of the summit, a 12-point plan was drawn up (Potsdam Declaration), in which the importance of the IT industry for the German economy was underlined and in which the federal government in some places specifically supported research projects and the implementation of Online services obligated by the administration .

Representatives of the middle class complained that only representatives of large companies were invited. NGOs criticized that civil society was not involved and that the summit appeared aloof. Parties not involved in the federal government spoke of a PR event and criticized the fact that the Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar was not invited.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digital Summit. Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, accessed on August 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Platform 1 "Digital Networks and Mobility". Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Platform Digital Networks and Mobility - IT Summit. Retrieved August 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Platform 2 "Innovative digitization of the economy". Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Platform 3 "Industry 4.0". Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Platform 4 "Learning Systems - The Platform for Artificial Intelligence". Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Platform 5 "Digital Working World". Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Platform 6 "Digital Administration and Public IT". Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Platform 7 "Digital Future: Learning. Research. Knowledge." Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Platform 8 "Culture and Media". Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Platform 9 "Security, Protection and Trust for Society and Economy". Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Platform 10 "Consumer Policy in the Digital World". Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Speech by Chancellor Merkel at the Digital Summit on October 29, 2019 in Dortmund. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
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  15. ↑ Digital Summit 2019 Dortmund - Platform The Future. Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, 2019, accessed on October 28, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Dortmund Declaration: PLATFORM THE FUTURE. BMWI, October 28, 2019, accessed on November 1, 2019 .
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  38. ↑ IT summit blog: Records of the IT summit 2011
  39. ^ National IT Summit 2010 in Dresden. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  40. ^ Dresden Agreement. Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology 2010-12-07, December 7, 2010, accessed on August 4, 2019 .
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  43. ^ National IT Summit 2008 in Darmstadt. Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, accessed on August 5, 2019 .
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