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<title>Bundestag Election 2021: Demands for a Digitally Sovereign Society</title>
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<h1>Bundestag Election 2021: Demands for a Digitally Sovereign Society</h1>
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<p>Digital civil society organisations make four demands for a digitally sovereign society to politicians for the 2021 federal election. Among them is the
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Free Software Foundation Europe, which works to ensure that software developed with public money shall be published under a Free Software licence.</p>
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<p>On 1 April 2020, civil society organisations working for an independent digital infrastructure and free access to knowledge called on politicians:
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<a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/press-release-de/2020q2/000323.html">Learn from the crisis - strengthen digital civil society!</a> (German)
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In an open letter, the undersigned organisations also made concrete recommendations for action. However, far too little has happened since then.
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The past year has made it clear that politics and public administration are overwhelmed with their own digital transformation and are setting priorities
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in digital policy that do not meet the needs of society. We are far from a digitally sovereign society.</p>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/big/0c44c5022b8c5cef50b89793b6b7c90f.jpg" alt="PMPC"/>
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<figcaption>Public Money? Public Code!</figcaption>
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<p>That is why a broad spectrum of organisations, including the Free Software Foundation Europe, has once again come together at
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<a href="https://digitalezivilgesellschaft.org/">digitalezivilgesellschaft.org</a> to support politics with their expertise. With four demands,
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the network shows how digitisation can succeed for a digitally sovereign society - and calls on the parties in light of the federal elections
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to make digitisation for the common good a central topic.</p>
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<h3>Four demands to the federal government</h3>
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<ol><li>Digital Sovereignty: politicians must anchor the digital sovereignty of society as the highest maxim in digital policy. Instead of a
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digital ministry, we need a mission for the coming legislative period that elevates digital sovereignty to a guiding principle and is drafted
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and evaluated together with representatives from civil society, science and business.</li>
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<li>Participation and Transparency: civil society must finally be given the same opportunities as business and science to contribute its expertise.
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This is achieved through a civil society quota in political advisory bodies, communication and transparency on procedures of political
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decision-making processes, legally defined deadlines for consultations as well as machine-readable documentation.</li>
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<li>Public Money, Public Good: publicly funded solutions must be accessible to all under a free licence so that no knowledge is lost or problems are solved twice.
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This concerns software: We want legal foundations that require software developed with public money for public administrations to be published under a
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Free Software Licence (also know as Open Source). If public money is involved, the code should also be
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public! <a href="https://publiccode.eu/">(Public Money? Public Code!)</a>. But also public administration data (Open Data) as well as free
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knowledge and open educational materials (Open Educational Resources).</li>
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<li>Sustainable Digitisation: digitisation can only succeed if the development of digital infrastructure is economically and socially viable.
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To this end, diversity in digitisation and the development and maintenance of secure, decentralised digital infrastructure for society must be promoted in the long term.</li></ol>
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<h2>Launch event on 5 May 2021</h2>
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<p>At the launch event, Julia Reda (former member of the EU Parliament), Henning Tillmann (software developer and co-chair of D64) and Julia Kloiber
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(co-founder Superrr Lab) will discuss these four demands on 5 May 2021 from 18:00 to 19:30. The panel will be moderated by Katja Jäger (betterplace lab).
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Afterwards, all participants will have the opportunity to exchange ideas on solutions, measures and calls for action in four thematic rooms. FSFE's Alexander
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Sander will moderate the room on "Public Money? Public Code!". Further information and registration for the launch event will be available
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soon on <a href="https://digitalezivilgesellschaft.org/">digitalezivilgesellschaft.org</a>.</p>
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<p>Signatory organisations of digitalezivilgesellschaft.org: Free Software Foundation Europe, Superrr Lab, gut.org, betterplace lab, Social Entrepreneurship Netzwerk Deutschland e.V. (SEND), Open Knowledge Foundation
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Deutschland e.V., Liquid Democracy e.V., iRights.Lab, Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung e.V. (FIfF), Chaos Computer Club,
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Bundesverband Smart City e.V., mediale pfade, Stiftung Erneuerbare Freiheit, Center for the Cultivation of Technology, neuland21 e.V.,
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Arbeitskreis Digitalisierung der BUNDjugend, Verstehbahnhof, Bundesnetzwerk Bürgerschaftliches Engagement, Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.,
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Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, D64, epicenter.works e.V., Digitale Gesellschaft e.V., Ashoka Deutschland e. V., Progressives Zentrum e. V.</p>
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<description>BTW21 Public Code</description>
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